The Fire
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Ongoing13m
Last published Wed, Dec 27, 2017
" I have come to realize that when I cannot move, I've gone as deep as I can go."
Mercy Jane fought through the nausea long enough to look in the face in the mirror and say the words.
When she couldn't take it anymore, she wretched into the toilet, and put her face to the cool tile on the unfamiliar bathroom floor. She didn't care if it was clean; it just felt good at the moment.
She went back, and couldn't tell if it was memory, or travel.
Mercy Jane Carrington Elder was time traveling through the space and time of her descendants.
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