Tarragon
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  • Reads 261
  • Votes 8
  • Parts 30
  • Time 9h 19m
Ongoing, First published Jan 12, 2024
DISCLAIMER!  This is unfinished, and won't ever be finished.

Mantis, a young, aspiring lightning mage has his family torn apart by a hostile dragon attack.  He kills the child of one of the attacking dragons in self defense, and she never forgives him for it.  She slaughters everyone around him, destroying his friends, family, and will to do everything he had always wished for.

[I explicitly do not give permission for any part of this story to be used for training generative AI.  This applies to everything within the story, and the cover, as well as all side stories that may later be written.]
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