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Note: This story is an entry for the 2025 Shortys, takes place near the end of both Operation Heathrow and Haunted Park, and the following prompts are in use:
Prompt 4: A witch and a fae walk into a bar
Prompt 30: We should rendezvous sometime mon chéri
Arc 1: As war rages between the living and the damned, Hell is on the losing end. In an attempt to secure peace with the living, Hell sends Doluna, a fae envoy, to the living to make the damned's intentions to make peace known to them. But little does Doluna know is that she's but a pawn in a cross-world game of thrones that must end if their own world is to be at peace again...
Arc 2: After Adèle's guild gets disbanded, she's in for a most unpleasant surprise after a prospective guild turns her away
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