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Koi Girl: -to Scrap Alley

Scallywag: That's not an alleyway.

Koi Girl: Yeah, but Scrap Under- Da-ridge wasn't as catchyy

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Chapter 3              

Chapter 4          

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

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Urchin: Why are you so nervous? Do you know her or something?

Scallywag: Listen kiddo, you don't just believe when people are randomly nice in Melding. I don't trust this one bit.

Urchin: When... Why are you following her?

Scallywag: ... You guys deserve a chance for something better than me-

Koi Girl: We're here, rebels!

Koi Girl: Welcome to the REAL heart of Melding City...

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Chapter 2                  

Chapter 3              

Chapter 4          

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

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Scallywag: You try anything funny, and I'm turnin' you into sashimi, kid.

Koi girl: Oh heck yeah! You're just as cool as everyone says you are!

Scallywag: ... Huh??

Koi girl: Follow me, we gotta reach the bridge before we lose sunlight!

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Chapter 3              

Chapter 4          

Chapter 5

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Koi Girl: Do you look fancy a safe bed tonight?

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Chapter 2                  

Chapter 3              

Chapter 4          

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

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Urchin: Wait, really? You were lost too?

Waif: Oui, in many ways. It's quite a long story but, had dear Scallywag not been there to save me then-

Scallywag: OKAY that's enough of that dumb story-

Ragamuffin: Waif's right though! Why, Scallywag all but saved my life when I was stuck on the roads outside of Melding-

Scallywag: Shut up.

Sweeper: She stopped that mean old train conductor from detaining me for having no tickets when I came to Melding-

Scallywag: SHUT UP.

Urchin: And... You were the first person to help me when I woke up in the middle of Mel-

Scallywag: If ye barnacles don't shut yer gobs, then we're not gonna wait for this poxy koi fish. So, which do ye fancy? Talk, or wait? ... Guess it's not like we've got a choice about it...

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???: Are you lot really them kids from the posters?

???: Right. Stay in there 'till sundown, I'll be back then. Don't do nothin' daft.

Urchin: She isn't turning us in to that guard? I wonder why she's helping us?

Scallywag: Don't be stupid, Urchin! She's just waiting' for that guard to offer her bigger coin then BANG, she turns us in! We gotta run!

Waif: Or iz it possible she iz, how you say, honest?

Scallywag: There ain't an honest should in Melding, Waif. You oughta know this by now.

Waif: Heh heh, ah, but mon amie, you know zis is not true!

Scallywag: And what's THAT supposed to mean, forest boy?

Waif: Was it not but a few years ago when I was lost in Melding, and you were kind enough to, ah, 'take in ze stray'?

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Chapter 3              

Chapter 4          

Chapter 5

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???: Well, girl? Is anyone down there?

Girl: Nah, s'just rats and a weird badger. You want some rants and a weird badger?

???: Bah, useless! No coin for you, girlie.

Girl: Aw, fair's fair mistah, much obliged mistah, you's well kind mistah.

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Sweeper: We WILL BE caught if we stay here! Why are you keeping us in the city? Nobody's looking for us in the countryside!

Scallywag: Cuz there ain't no food in the stinking grass. You wanna starve, idiot?

Ragamuffin: Sweeper has a point though... perhaps if we hide in smaller towns-

Scallywag: Oh yeah, LOADS of crowds in villages, sure the locals won't snitch non-

Waif: Quiet.

???: You saw the fugitives run down here?

???: No doubt about it.

???: Ugh, how disgusting... You there, girl, if you see the criminals on this poster down that alley, you'll get a shiny silver coin.

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Waif: Vell zey're at it again. Hopefully zis time zey'll tire zemselves out before zey start biting, eh?

Waif: Urchin, I may 'ave a way to 'help you see those 'blue ghosts' again.

Urchin: WHAT??!

Scallywag: Keep yer voices down! So you WANT to get caught?!

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Sweeper: So... Do we have a plan?

Scallywag: The plan is to keep not getting caught.

Ragamuffin: For how long?? We've been running for weeks and we're hardly surviving!

Scallywag: I'm AWARE, Rags. Look, just trust I'll figure something out-

Sweeper: How long are you gonna say that before you admit you can't think of anything!?

Scallwag: Well I don't see YOU fixing crap you skinny legged twerp!

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Chapter 1                        

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Ragamuffin: We probably could have done that WITHOUT destroying a Library!

Scallywag: They'll have a bakesale a rebuild- shut up and run!

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Royal Guard: We've had reports the fugitives entered this building.

Sweeper: Oh crap- how do we get out??

Scallywag: Like this.

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Scallywag: Hey! Where's the rest of it?

Ragamuffin: Oh dear, vandalism!

Urchin: B-But what about my bit>> The part on humans, it CAN'T be gone!

Sweeper: Maybe someone took em for notes?

Waif: Perhaps someone had something to hide?

Urchin: Hey , there's a little bit left I can read!

Book: test failure, terminate... Cohort Faith

Waif: Urchin, didn't you say you couldn't read before?

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Scallywag: Eh, it's a text book-

Ragamuffin: No Scally, these are scholars notes.

Urchin: What does it say?

Scallywag: It's all about Magic Pathways. There's Aquafolk, creaturborn- even fairies.

Sweeper: Oh cool! That one looks like-

Sweeper: Urchin...

Urchin: You... you told me humans don't HAVE magic pathways.

Scallywag: They don't.

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Scallywag: So it was like... you all grown up at different ages?

Urchin: And talking like they couldn't hear me!

Scallywag: We're CERTAIN this wasn't a dream?

Waif: they already said it wasn't.

Urchin: I know it sounds crazy, but it all felt too real to just be a dream.

Urchin: When I tried to get some answers, there was a scream, and suddenly this book is on me.

Scallywag: No title, but it says it belongs to someone named Yooperlite.

Scallywag: Let's see who this Yooper-shmuck is.

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Waif: They're trying to tell us something. Have the decency to listen before deciding you've got a good answer,

Sweeper: Oh, I'm sorry Urchin.

Ragamuffin: so am I, I didn't mean to speak over you.

Scallywag: Uhhh... Yeah what they all said.

Waif: Reading stories is boring.

Waif: I much prefer listening to them.

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Chapter 4          

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