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Complete, First published Jun 02, 2018
Drax is hired to find something that has been stolen from the Great Lor of the planet Azurine - something so secret not even the one looking for it is allowed to know what it is.

* About the format * This story is made of tweets and it started when I decided to try my hand at longer twitter fiction using #vss365 prompts (a creative writing challenge on twitter). That's the reason why chapters/parts are so short (less that 280 characters) and there are hashtags within the text.

* About the plot * 
This is the first part of a soft Sci-Fi / Space Opera short story. The plot and the storytelling were influenced by the daily #vss365 word prompt on Twitter. Hope you'll enjoy reading it - at least as much as I enjoyed writing it.

All parts published here have been previously posted on twitter @authoreliaslobo
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