(metrics) A long day’s night….

Lots of words today.

Starting Count: 68515
Ending Count: 71757
Net Gain: +3242
Current NaNo count: 4783
Current Word YTD count: 5889
Val’s Tea Fund: $4

Starting line:
There was no arguing with that voice. Diana turned and carefully pulled herself up onto Malattia’s back, settling into the ornate saddle and picking up the reins. “Do you know how to get to Nikki’s?”

Ending line:
And what she was going to do with Alex. Once again, he’d circumnavigated her carefully arranged plans and thrown, whether he meant to or not, another monkey wrench into the gears. Alex Masterson was, she decided, far too independent for his own good.

Darling:
A long tentacle shot out from a creature she’d overlooked, one that she might have stabbed already; Nikki couldn’t tell, but it obviously wasn’t dead. The tentacle, tipped with a wicked claw, slammed into her armpit, nearly knocking her off Kore in a shower of blood. Nikki shrieked in pain, and in a fury aimed a bolt of Shadow energy at the creature. It exploded as her spell and Rick’s shotgun blast hit it at the same time, and Cleo folded over her saddlehorn.

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