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QTVW Chapter 17

Showbiz* Sexy Queen (IV)

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“……”

Even though Mei Mu Lan's heart was in a state of shock, her face was still slightly stiff as she said,

“Haha, I'm just kidding, I'm actually a big fan of yours and I love your movies, so can you sign my autograph?”

As she said this, she took the script from the hands of the petrified director and kneaded it in her hands, smoothing out the curled paper before handing it over with a slightly shy expression,

“Then, just sign here.”

Ling Yi Yao looked at her with slightly narrowed eyes, and there were unreadable emotions in them.

She took the script, signed her name on that, handed it back, and said,

“Thank you for your support, Miss Mei.”

Mei Mu Lan took the script and stared at the three big words on the page with glowing eyes, her face was uncontrollably excited, and she performed the image of a fan getting an autograph from her idol with perfection.

She blinked her charming eyes and looked at Ling Yi Yao with an affectionate expression, saying,

“I'll always be there for you, you're the best in my heart! Keep up the good work!”

The director, who had been ignored as a set-piece for a long time, suddenly made his presence known, smiling broadly and saying,

“I didn't know you were so fond of her, but since Ling Yi Yao is your idol, she'll be your mentor for the rest of your life.”

Mei Mu Lan was immediately surprised and said,

“Is it really possible? But……”

With a look of embarrassment on her face, she said,

“This will not affect and delay the work of Queen Ling, right?”

With a gentle smile on her face, Ling Yi Yao said,

“No, I have long admired Miss Mei's reputation, I won't find it troublesome. Moreover, Miss Mei's previous performance platforms are all top international art theatres, your performance experience is very rich, I believe you are a good student who can easily start.”

With a big smile on her face, Mei Mu Lan said,

“In that case, I'll be counting on you after that, Teacher Ling.”

“You're welcome, just call me Ling Yi Yao.”

Ling Yi Yao replied with a light smile.

At this time, an abrupt phone rang, and Mei Mu Lan looked in the direction of the voice, and saw the director answering the phone in a frenzied manner, saying,

“It's me…… I've already got the part of the second female character…… You have to be interviewed by the producer to do this? Who said that? Big Boss…… All right then, I'll send her over now.”

The director hung up the phone with an embarrassed look on his face as he scratched his head awkwardly and said,

“So, the producer just called and asked you to audition again, because the producer seems to be holding an audition for the supporting female character. Sorry, go for another interview, go through the motions, you'll be selected anyway with your strengths.”

Mei Mu Lan froze for a moment and said after coming back to her senses,

“That's fine, it's the process, I can't make any special distinctions, I'm on my way, director, where's the interview?”

The director smiled toothily, reached out and pointed in one direction, and said,

“I'll take you there. I guess the staff will give you a script and let you do an impromptu performance based on the script, and those who perform well will be selected as real supporting female actresses.”

“I see, then you can take me there first,”

With that, she looked at Ling Yi Yao again and said,

“See you later, Ling Yi Yao.”

Ling Yi Yao also stood up, smoothed out her ancient dress and said,

“I'm one of the interviewers, I'll come with you.”

The three of them walked together to an ancient style tavern, Mei Mu Lan said goodbye to the director and Ling Yi Yao, then went to the waiting room for the female supporting roles.

As soon as she entered, she saw a dozen young and gorgeous women, who were now studying the script carefully in their hands. When they saw Mei Mu Lan walk in, they raised their heads and stared over, and only when Mei Mu Lan found a place to sit in the corner did they avert their eyes.

Mei Mu Lan sat alone on a sofa, her head hanging slightly, her long hair hiding the expression on her face.

In her mind, she recalled what had happened earlier, when her emotions were out of control and she had done some of the original owner's daily actions. Even though the original owner's soul is completely dissipated, the body still gives some instinctive reactions to reality.

She didn't know why this was happening, and she didn't know if anything like this had happened in previous missions. But this sudden event today has clearly given her a direction for her strategy.

The villainous BOSS mentioned in the plot is an apparently gentle and generous film queen, but in reality, she is a woman who has blood on her hands, was secretly raised in the underworld and has been a mentor to killers in the underworld for her entire adult life.

She's a hothead, a frightening figure in the dark world, and even her uncle, who raised her from a young age, chose to kill her when their interests diverged.

At the same time she also sent people to murder the female lead several times, the novel explains that it was because if she could not be loved then it was better to destroy, not to say whether this is true or not, but the description of her ruthlessness is definitely the real deal.

And this time, such a woman became the object of her raid.

Ling Yi Yao is dark and ruthless, confronting her enemies and eliminating their roots. If she wants to take her on, the first thing she needs to do is to reduce her threat level, so that Ling Yi Yao feels that she is harmless and can be approached in depth, so that she can drop her guard.

And in order to achieve this, she must show herself to be harmless.

At the same time, she must show her affection for her in order to stop the "I only think of you as a friend" type of outcome from happening.

During her growing up years, many people must have wooed her, but they chickened out when they learned of her indifference, while this time, she chose to do the opposite and insisted on persistently adoring her to impress her.

When Mei Mu Lan thought of this, she suddenly recalled today's oops incident, and she made this decision because of today's incident.

Anyway, her image has already been ruined in public, so why not 'break the pot' and 'not do anything' and choose the active pursuit mode, expressing her sincerity in all sorts of ways to brush up Ling Yi Yao's goodwill?

Plus, the original owner's situation would make this method work very well.

For example, the original owner's background is so clean that even if the villains wanted to investigate her, they wouldn't find out much dark information;

The people around the original owner knew about Mei Mu Lan's affection for Ling Yi Yao, as well as the original owner's posting and microblogging accounts, all of which could show that the infatuation for Ling Yi Yao herself came to light;

She was unable to control her feelings for Ling Yi Yao many times and basically got emotional and her eyes lit up when she saw her……

So, after combining all the above, Mei Mu Lan embarked on the path of a "martyr who is afraid of stalking girls".

Mei Mu Lan figured this out and breathed a huge sigh of relief in her heart, no matter what, she already had a direction for her strategy, after that she just had to work hard in that direction.

With a goal to strive for, she was in a much better mood. She lifted her head and tilted the long curly hair on her forehead to the side, and then a woman dressed in a Republican student girl's dress, innocent-looking and lotus-like, came into her eyes.

The woman had her hands folded in front of her at the moment, holding a folder, her smooth flat fringes hanging down in front of her forehead, and one foot on tiptoe. The whole person carried a strong school freshness style, two very different types from Mei Mu Lan herself. One is as light as a chrysanthemum, the other as enchanting as fire.

Mei Mu Lan noticed her at first because of her charming aura, but when she saw what she looked like, a deep thought flashed in her eyes.

This woman, she looked familiar, she had seen it in the original owner's memory, and she had seen it many times.

Because this woman, the daughter of her father's newly married stepmother, her stepsister, is also the female lead of this showbiz revenge reversal novel, Bai Jieying.

After recognizing her, Mei Mu Lan did not go over to talk to her, because their relationship was already full of conflicts, and now this white lotus-like harmless woman was already a blackened and mutated version, in the novel, she went from gentle and lovely mode to cold and ruthless mode in just one day.

Mei Mu Lan has always stayed away from these types of women, except for missions of course.

She leaned her back on the sofa, her whole body taking on a lazy pose, and Bai Jieying across the room must have recognised her too, but it was clear that she had no intention of recognising her on the spot either.

Mei Mu Lan suddenly thinks of the original owner's death by poison. According to the original owner's memory, the most likely people to poison the original owner are the stepmother and the female lead.

It seems that she still needs to get in touch with them, and perhaps in a few days she should also go back to the Mei family to investigate in person.

After waiting for an unknown amount of time, the director's assistant came in with a stack of envelopes, which he placed on the table, and then said loudly,

“Here are the excerpts of the plays you will be performing, now come one by one and collect an envelope. After half an hour, those whose names are read out will be interviewed in the interview room next door. Okay, now who's first?”

After his words landed, the women in the room, all of them, stepped forward slowly and unhurriedly, picked up an envelope from the table, then stepped aside to open it and look at it.

Mei Mu Lan waited until the end before she slowly got up to get her envelope, she brushed past Bai Jieying who also stayed at the end, ignoring each other like fellow passers-by.

Mei Mu Lan took the envelope and returned to the sofa to sit down. She tore open the envelope, picked up the white letterhead on a black background inside and read it line by line.

Half an hour later, the first person was called out for an interview, and the atmosphere in the room was noticeably more depressing.

Mei Mu Lan closed her eyes to herself and waited until her name was read before she slowly and enchantingly picked up the envelope with her fingertips and slowly walked out.

Entering the interview room, she was greeted by a completely empty place and handed the letterhead to a staff member who in turn handed it to the interviewer.

She stepped into the room without a glance, then turned to face the dozen people sitting across from her.

The director, sitting at the very centre, casually scanned the letterhead, then waved at Mei Mu Lan and shouted,

“Action!”

Mei Mu Lan then moves into the role of the female supporting role.

【Inside the dark and empty tomb room, two urgent footsteps came to an abrupt halt.

Through the faint light of the candle, one can see a wonderful trajectory formation in the middle of the room. A woman in a purple body-hugging cheongsam, now looking at the formation with a wolfish look, said to the man beside her,

“Blood leads to the formation, the next hurdle requires blood to open the formation before the door to the tomb will open.”

The stocky uniformed man at her side, propping himself up on one leg, raised a rigid eyebrow at the words and said,

“Let's wait for the next person to come and then turn it on. Let's take a break, you come and hold me.”

The cheongsam-clad woman walked slowly over to him and the two leaned in intimately.

The uniformed man said with deep emotion,

“When you get that elixir of immortality, you can surely preserve your youthful beauty.”

The cheongsam-clad woman shook her head and inclined her head to look at the uniformed man, her beautiful, demon-like face could be seen in the dull candlelight, she was now licking her red lips gently, her eyes looking at the uniformed man with fascination, and then said with a soft smile,

“Say……”

She whispered;

“You love me……”

She murmured.

The uniformed man smiled at that and he said in a low voice,

“Mmm, love you.”

The cheongsam-clad woman laughed delicately, a vivid and seductive expression on her face, but as she laughed, tears streamed down her face, crossing her cheeks and falling into the man's chest.

The woman in the cheongsam laughed and cried at the same time, she frowned slightly and said,

“You're very kind. You've always been very kind to me,”

She lifted her hand and caressed the man's neck and cheek.

Then, like a snake-like white arm, it fell behind the man's ear, a silver needle appearing abruptly, revealing its unsettling colour in the dark, obscure light.

The cheongsam-clad woman stabbed the silver needle deep into the back of the man's head, and the long, thin silver needle actually pierced through the man's brain and penetrated the whole thing.

The man stared with blood-red eyes, the expression on his face was one of distortion and disbelief as he died.

The cheongsam-clad woman 'giggled' softly, singing a love song from Shanghai at night on her lips, and pushed the man to the ground, blood crumbling out of the corpse as the blood-initiated formation was broken and a blackened tomb passage was opened.

The woman in the cheongsam stroked her long, dishevelled hair and walked enchantingly into the tomb passage, the grey walls falling abruptly as she passed.

The scene is dark and the only thing in the air is a love song that is softly sung.】

[goonlalagoon]

Drawn to fall || Leagues and Legends

A series rewrite AU for @ink-splotch​‘s fantastic Leagues and Legends books.

This has been sitting as a 90% finished draft for...a while, but talking to @soundofez​ about WIPs the other day prodded me to actually finish it up

Spoilers for the whole trilogy below

Read on Ao3

It was the Piper who fell first, a ricochet and a song vanishing from the world. Jack and George limped home, but the fight didn't stop with a round of prisoners stolen from the Seeress' grasp, with one more body laid to rest and another widow weeping.

The mage traders didn't get George. The Graves family and their guards were a constant threat, a blight, but the mountain vigilantes had plenty of other dangers to throw themselves in front of. It wasn't a bullet or a gun that slew the Dragon Slayer, but sharp claws and sharper beaks.

Jack never really made it home, from that. He walked through the bakery door and he held Bea as she wept, but he was burning and lost somewhere inside himself. He looked at Bea's maps, her petitions, and he threw himself into saving everyone he could reach with a manic desperation.

It was the Rangers who brought the news to Bea, when they lost the Giantkiller. Jack had been shrouded in good fortune, unknowing, for his whole life, but luck can only take you so far.

The bakery was cold and quiet. Beatrice Jones felt like she had frozen all the way through, turned to stone, and thought she might never thaw again. 

(Bidi would wake in the night for weeks, tear stains dried into her cheeks, and crawl into her mother's arms. Bea would curl close around her and remember that she had felt this cold before. She would live through this.)

The news of their falls reached Rivertown, through channels both official and hidden. Rupert mourned the loss of an idol, and didn't know that the revered Rangers, far off in the mountains, were standing with red rimmed eyes at the grave. The Farrises didn't know what their wandering son had been up to, but Jack's mother woke one day to the aching certainty that he would never be coming home. She watched the horizon anyway.

 Lanetia Jones heard stories of a mage who had whistled magic out of the air, of his fall, soon after she became acquaintances with the blue blooded hero in her second year study group. She would hold her back straight and clasp her hands neatly on the library table, and ask in a steady voice if he knew anything else about the Pied Piper. Rupert knew stories, legends, Bureau reports he technically shouldn't have seen - but he didn't know the name Liam Jones except from Laney's own tales, so they couldn't be certain.

 They couldn't be certain, but neither of them had heard of any other mage who pulled magic into the world with a whistle, and Laney was a pragmatist. The numbers tallied up, the arrival of a dark skinned singer in the mountains and her brother setting out from home, never looking back. 

(Liam had looked back for years, his mother's best recipes simmering on the hob, his daughter stumbling through songs a slightly older Laney had warbled terribly on his heels, old familiar stories ready on his tongue - mice and lions, thunderstorms given tongues to shriek, a stubborn kid with her hair scraped into braids by their mother's patient fingers ignoring scrapes and scratches until she could reach the top of the tallest palm tree, because someone had told her that she wasn’t allowed to.)

In the Academy library, warm golden sun spilling over her table and the back of her chair, Laney held herself tall and still because Rupert was neither friend nor enemy, just a classmate, but she would not let him see her weakness either way. She would not. 

Rupert fetched slim volumes of legends, dispatches from the past seven years of Vigilante activity in the mountains, and a glass of water. He ached and didn't know how to help, stuffy with it, so when she got carefully to her feet he didn't follow. He re-shelved the books and checked that they hadn't left anything behind, and then he went to do his Uncle's paperwork, burying himself in it until he felt useful again.

They had barely interacted in their first year, but Rupert had known her name and a few other things about the desert-born mage that weren't common knowledge before they were assigned their second year projects. He arranged for them to go to Sally-Anne's for their first meeting, because it seemed like the kind of place that would help everyone relax - would help him relax, really. Sally-Anne gave him a reassuring wink and a bonus plate of chips, on the house, and he sighed pointedly at her transparent attempts to Help Him Make Friends to make her laugh. 

When he got back to the table Clem was awkwardly trying to flirt - or possibly just bond, it wasn’t clear - with Laney, who looked stunningly unimpressed. The pipsqueak Sage that Rupert was keeping an anxious eye on while he tried to formulate a discreet way of sneaking numb tea to was buried in his book, slowly demolishing a plate of plain fries without looking up. Heather was rolling her eyes at Laney whenever Clem said something particularly demonstrating an inability to read the mood, and the rest of the time scribbling notes in the margins of a scientific journal she'd brought along with her. Annals of Botany, Rupert thought, because he'd seen her with it in the dining hall on a monthly basis all of the previous year and it was about the right time for a new issue to have been sent out to subscribers. He didn't square his shoulders, because they were already carefully level, posture already perfect. He took a steadying breath before setting down his purchases and trying to drag things back to the agenda he'd planned out the evening before. 

Rupert's agenda had included contingency plans, of course. What really had to be covered first, in case someone needed to dash off and hadn't thought to warn him. Who could pick up the slack if their combat spec decided he had more important things to do (Rupert), who could keep their squeaky sage on track (also Rupert), and who would cover what as a back up if someone fell ill (Rupert again). 

He hadn't planned what to do if armed men walked into his friend's shop and fired a gun in the air. He had no precise strategies, no intel whispered in his ear by Sez, just his Academy study group and their homework assignment clutched in Grey's trembling fingers, just a room full of frightened civilians.

Clement went down with a bullet in his shoulder, and a bricklayer hit the ground with one in his gut not long after. Laney and Rupert held a hissed conference, and Heather weighed in to point out that official witnesses were probably not part of the thieves' plan. He'd seen gunpowder dusted on Laney's fingertips at breakfast for months, so he wasn't surprised when she fired off perfect sniper shots with the gun that fell within reach. Grey pressed himself back against the wall, pale, quiet, eyes wide over cheeks lit up gold, and that wasn't a surprise either. Heather sitting on one of the fallen gunmen and threatening to force feed him the poisonous plants she was casually carrying around with her was, though mostly because he'd thought she had a basic grasp of health and safety.

Laney trailed him as he went to find Sez, and he would berate himself for carelessness later, but - men had broken into Sally's shop with guns, and the streets were never still or silent. She would know soon, and she needed to hear that Sally was okay from someone she trusted, someone she knew wouldn't have left if it wasn't true.

She dropped her tray down next to him at breakfast the next morning and said she wanted in. Heather and Gloria joined them while he was still blinking and sighing, considering, and he looked around the half empty mess hall with confusion, because he wasn't entirely sure what they wanted from him. He thought maybe Laney was after some excitement, a sharpshooter mage feeling trapped by petty class politics and Academy expectations, but he didn't know about the other two. They asked him for the salt shaker, his opinion on Professor Rhones’ lecturing style, and nothing else.

He let Laney help him with his next Rivertown job, and they patched each other up afterward, discussing strategies and critiquing their own form. They sat together in the library later that week and she asked politely about his essay, on vigilantism in the Mountains and how to effectively combat it - and in the warm, golden light of the afternoon sun, he told her about the Pied Piper and broke her heart.

When Sez next contacted him, he knocked politely on Laney's door, braced for it to slam in his face and holding his shoulders carefully relaxed so it wouldn't show. She didn't shut the door on him, but she did demand to know, on their brisk walk back to the Academy after eliminating a Thing that had taken up residence in an alleyway, if this was pity. She didn't want to join him on these tasks because he felt sorry for her, or because he felt guilty - she wanted to help because she wanted to sink her teeth into something real. 

Rupert blinked at her, and began patiently dissecting their joint performance, gave a litany of tactical reports of earlier jobs where a sharpshooter or a mage - or both - would have made things much more...efficient. Laney listened suspiciously for any hint that she was being coddled, but her stomach settled. She had a bruise the width of her palm on her ribs and a stinging burn starting to blister on the backs of her fingers, and she felt a fierce joy welling up through her chest. Laney had learned to fall, true, but that was only half the battle - she'd learned to stand, too, to hit the ground and push herself back to her feet, to decide what was worth falling for, over and over. This, the safety of these streets and these people - this was worth standing for.

Gloria and Heather cornered her one afternoon in the room she and Gloria shared, and demanded to know what was going on. Laney had been slipping out and sneaking back with bruises for over a month, and they were worried. Laney looked at the earnest concern and said, with perfect honesty, that she was doing some extra curricular self-defence training. This had the unintended side effect that Gloria and Heather both wanted in. Rupert sighed when she reported this, and she raised an eyebrow. 

"You'd prefer that I'd told them we're Rivertown vigilantes? I can, you know, I think they're both capable of keeping a secret, but I figured you'd rather I not make that kind of decision on your behalf." Rupert sighed again, but he did suggest that the stables would be an okay venue for self-defence classes, and he got her to set up wards so that if anyone came looking they could very quickly pretend to have been doing homework. After all, they were a study group.

The first time the wards went off, they actually just switched to doing core circuits because honestly nobody who'd be checking would believe four people in training gear and somewhat out of breath had been doing their homework in an out of the way corner. Circuits probably still wouldn't be strictly approved of, but they wouldn't be disciplined for breaking Academy rules. 

But it wasn't one of the Academy instructors checking for misbehaviour. It was a rather surly combat spec, who seemed quite surprised to see them and immediately asked if Leaf had invited them. Rupert blinked.

"Hello, Francis. No, I haven't spoken to Leaf about...much of anything, really. Laney and I have been using the space for some fitness training, and these two decided they were also interested." Francis gave him a considering look, and nodded slowly, glancing over the rough straw pallets they'd set up to cushion their falls. He gave them a flicker of a smile. 

"Leaf and I were planning something similar, actually. Mind if we merge?"

Their study group met in the library or dining hall, after that first foray out into the city, but Laney and Rupert were frequent faces at Sally-Anne's. The growing stable loft gang started dropping by too, laughing over in-jokes and nursing bruises, grinning brightly. Red would claim a corner seat and relax into it like the noise and bustle were a second skin, like he was more comfortable with a floor strewn with straw and fish scales than the polished length of the dining hall at the Academy.

Rupert started watching Francis, quietly and from the corner of his eye, during the handful of classes they shared. A few months into their extracurricular training began, he would suggest that Red join them on their hunts in Rivertown, and shrug when asked why me. It was a decision he had hesitated over, but not one he regretted, after the first alley they raced down, side by side, chasing a wounded manticore into Laney's waiting shields, Red adapting almost instantly to the strengths of his allies. 

He had a wealth of knowledge of the things that crept through the dark, though he shone most when it came to creatures of the deep. Soon after the winter break a (small) kraken made its way up the river, and Red barely hesitated before calling out instructions, demanding supplies from the terrified crowd of civilians, not needing to think about what weaknesses were there to exploit. As they bandaged themselves up, after, Laney caught Rupert's eye and raised one eyebrow a hairbreadth. He blinked solemnly in agreement, and they waited patiently until Red was ready to tell them what they'd already guessed. 

When Sez handed Rupert a piece of paper scrawled with yellow crayon, he and Laney poured over it for days. Laney dragged out book after book, picking the curse to pieces with a steady determination until she knew how to burn through it. Neither of them knew enough of the shape of this, yet, to know that there was a warning they should offer in turn.

Over the years, Rupert had fought a lot of battles in the name of Rivertown and its inhabitants - in back alleys and warehouses, shin deep in the river and slipping on the muddy banks (in the quiet of his private Academy dorm, the rustle of paper and the scratch of a pen). He had tackled petty thieves, thugs, monsters who went after human bones and Things in the dark. He knew he didn't know all of their victims' stories, but Sez was pale with fury when she told him a child was missing, door broken down and a terrified sibling hiding under a bed. The mother was wringing her hands at a table in the back corner of Sally-Anne's, bent double with grief and anger.

"Should have been more careful," she muttered, "we should have - we thought we were safe, so far from the mountains but the Seeress - everyone knows she doesn't like competition, but we thought we were out of her sight, so careless, so careless..."

Laney's face had gone still, carved from stone, and Rupert's heart was frozen in his chest. Someone had dropped a curse diagram in their pocket, and they hadn't thought about how. This was his city, and he hadn't known there was a risk, that there was any kind of warning needed. Red stepped forwards, reaching out to squeeze the woman's hands.

"Breathe. The slavers took her, you think?" She gave a harsh, sobbing laugh, and he nodded sharply. "Sorry. But we have time, then, because they have to get her to the mountains first, and she has to be alive when she gets there. We have a chance." He didn't sound hopeful, just determined, but she took a shaky breath and squeezed his fingers back. Laney wasn't moving, wasn't saying anything, and Rupert knew she was as puzzled as he felt. Red looked at them sidelong as they slipped out onto the street, and frowned. 

"You don't know? In the mountains - there are people who steal mages and drain the power of the Elsewhere out of them, process it to make electricity. Mages have been fleeing the mountains for years, now."

 Once, Rupert had broken Laney's heart in the Academy library, unknowing, with reported stories of a lost vigilante. There was so much that they hadn't known, then, and now they were floating on the edges of it. Rupert had known there was a Piper, that he had fallen - but he hadn't known who. They hadn't been able to guess at why.

Laney was thinking of her brother's smile as he poured golden fire into her palms to drift through her fingers. She was thinking of all she had done, to feel that fire on her skin, and of the things she would never have thought of. She had wanted to walk alongside her brother, so badly, but she’d never once thought to drag him down for daring to be something she wasn't.

Red had no idea of the blow he had just delivered, unknowing, in the afternoon sun outside Sally-Anne's. He knew only that there was a child in a lot of danger, and not much hope - but that any hope was still something. 

They didn't have supernatural good luck on their side, but they had Sez and all of her contacts, so they found the warehouse. The slavers were waiting for them, forewarned, and they woke in the locked cellar. The child they’d been searching for was curled in the corner, eyes wide and face pale. Laney had expected her to be weeping, but she seemed to be frightened beyond even tears. They were all bound, but their captors hadn't thought to check Laney as thoroughly for weapons as the others - because she was an Academy mage, because she was a girl, because everyone underestimated her at first - so she had a knife tucked into her boot that they could use to cut the ropes. A glowing stone was hung around her neck, casting warm light and harsh shadows in the otherwise dark room. Elaine's wide eyes tracked it, but Laney didn't know what the point of it was, and she had other priorities, here, than asking.

So did Red and Rupert, so they didn't tell her until later, when they had bandaged wounds and finished their homework. They had her set up a careful silencing ward around Rupert's unofficial single room, and explained why the slavers had dropped a fracture in the fabric of the world around her throat. Laney didn't flinch, because no matter how much she trusted this friendship this was not a weakness she was ready to show them. But she trusted them enough to tell them the story - skinned knees and golden fire, her palm pressed up against the endless desert sky, splitting it open.

The Rangers came to visit, sending Red into fits of hero worship - Rupert was almost as bad, except he also remembered seeing half of them as students. Laney and Leaf exchanged long suffering looks full of affection. Gloria and Heather snickered and pretended not to know any of the names being gleefully praised at breakfast, seeing how much of Red’s breakfast they could filch off his plate while he recited heroic deeds before he realised what they were doing and snatched theirs in retaliation.

When the legends of the Bureau arrived, they immediately slipped cheerfully into the back of a lecture, hiding nostalgic giggles that they were too well trained (too used to ambushes) to let slip. They listened to lectures the material of which they'd learned and lived by for years, looking over the assembled students with interest and an unvoiced shared feeling that they were all so very young. They hovered around to chat, to officially mingle and inspire, and Sarge froze when he heard Laney's name. He'd known an L. Jones, mage, once upon a time, and never known how to reach the next of kin without getting tangled in the official channels that they couldn’t afford to get involved.

Rupert followed along when Laney was invited to a private meeting with Sarge and May. They both had their suspicions about what reason these two legends could have for wanting to speak privately with Miss Jones, the very first time they met, and he wanted to be there for her if they were right. He had planned to wait outside, patient as stone, the way she had over their months of friendship when his uncle was giving him frantic hushed reminders about status and reputations and not sneaking out of the Academy in the middle of the night to do freelance vigilante heroics in the back alleys of Rivertown. Laney caught his sleeve briefly as he went to lean against the wall, a brief unvoiced request for company.

 May and Sarge didn't know what a concession this was, for Laney to guess what grim news they held out to her and to invite someone else to witness it. They didn't know anything of her but stories, and Liam had never been someone Laney was afraid to see her bruise.

They had guessed, over a year before this otherwise unremarkable evening, that the Piper had been Liam. Red had told them what monsters lurked in the mountains, and they had guessed why. But there is a difference between guessing, between cold logic and lining up the pieces, and confirmation. There is a difference between guessing that the rumours of a distant fall are of your brother, and being told where to find his grave by friends who know his widow. There is a difference between knowing your brother had years of his life away from you, and being told by his grieving friends that he had a wife and child, names you never knew and faces you can’t imagine.

The walls seemed too close when she slipped back out with Rupert steady at her shoulder, eyes dry and back straight, so they made their quiet way to the familiar streets of Rivertown. She was staring at the distant mountain peaks when an explosion split the night, fire blooming on old wooden rooftops behind them. They called their friends to arms, marshaling Academy forces and rapping out orders in practiced partnership. Sarge stepped forward to object - he knew them only as Heads' stuffy nephew and Liam's beloved sister, not tested heroes in their own right. They didn't have a looming redhead vouching for them with years of shared experience they were still only grasping the edges of. Sarge knew them only as children, and he had buried too many of those. Laney froze him in his tracks with her mother's best icy look, and didn't know whether it was that effective or if it was just how unfamiliar that face would be, to someone who had only known Liam and his easy smiles.

Their city was on fire, and it all led back to the same warehouse - faced with a fire demon, Laney slipped by in the harsh shadows to find the rift, while Rupert stayed behind as a distraction, a barrier. He was a paper pushing hero, and the sword in his hand had seen active duty than some of the Bureau Leagues could claim. The flames bore down at him in roaring symphony, and as he adjusted his grip he politely asked it to go back to where it came from. He gave it a chance, a choice, and when it shrieked threats instead he killed it without a second thought.

Rupert had killed more often than some active Leaguesmen, too.

People started to whisper about Laney, after. They called her the Lady of the Lake reborn, and Laney raised impassive, mysterious eyebrows and privately snickered over the abrupt about face of her fellow mages. They whispered about her and so they came down from the mountains, hunting for a golden goose and taking a girl who was barely even a sensitive. Thorne wasn’t trying to trap a Giantkiller, this time, but he was trying to test his potential recruit - and he wanted to get her out of the influence of her far less interesting classmates. Laney didn’t know this, not yet; she only knew that these were the people who hunted mages for the sake of the fire hidden under their skin.

These people had hunted a Jones before, and Laney was going to make them bleed for every heartbeat she had lived without him. She had an elsewhere crack around her neck, and it faded in the golds of the elsewhere as she told an exasperated, understanding Rupert that she wasn't running from this.

Rupert followed shortly after on a surprise internship, a desk hero out to get some field experience. Laney wasn't running, but she also hadn't been sitting around doubting this friendship, so she'd known she wouldn't be doing this alone even before she slipped away to speak to him. Gloria, Heather and Clem went North too, because someone had taken their mage (their sharpshooter, their friend) and they were going to get her back. Sarge frowned over the paperwork, but they were a close-knit group, and Rupert had forged the paper trail too convincingly to stop them. Sarge scowled and scowled, and was uncomfortably uncertain whether he would have stopped them if he could. He had known another Jones, once, with golden fire like that in his veins. He knew what they did to mages with a legend that spread that far, in the mountains.

(A squeaky sage named Sanders Grey buried his nose deeper in his books and pretended fiercely that it was nothing to do with him - that he didn’t know why, that he didn’t know where, that he didn’t feel guilt pooling in the pit of his stomach. He pretended that the headaches were from reading in the dim light, and some days it was even true. He would spend a grudging season after he graduated at the Waypost in the Forest, then move to the library in St John’s Port to embark on a happy lifetime organizing books and scowling at visitors. Spider had left a letter and a parcel of books for him, as he slipped into the Academy to steal away one of their students from down the hall, but hadn’t tried to tempt him home; he trusted Sandry’s chances without her brother’s help, in a world where their three most visible opponents were years dead and buried)

Laney fled the slavers in the middle of the night and was dragged back by the next morning, unknown trackers hidden on her skin. Spider hauled them all before the Seeress, a useless clump of people who held no value or interest to her except for that one of them was the Piper’s sister, an amusement to gloat over. She sat Laney down for a polite chat, to detail how her brother had been a thief and a fool and how he had died.

She did not mention how bright that light had burned, how she had felt it snuffed out. Laney kept her face smooth but the Seeress read her feelings in the flickers of gold around her shoulders, her unclenched fists, her smooth brow - despair, hatred, and a furious broken love. Cassandra wasn’t quite sure, yet, what she planned to do with these interlopers, but killing Bureau Leagues, even trainee ones, was not a sensible course of action, so she shut them in the cells until she had time to calculate her angles.

Laney broke them out instead, and they fled. It was sheer luck that led them to find the shallow cave with supplies and wards to hide them from the sight of even Cassandra Graves - an overturned rock that exposed a hint of a rune, a scuff mark at the back that suggested where to stand to complete the ward. Laney and Gloria pieced it together, and if either of them thought it odd that it should be both so secure and yet coincidentally left open, they did not voice it. In the morning, they stumbled down a valley into a sleepy village that held a statue and a grave that Laney still didn’t quite believe belonged to the same man.

(Spider did not linger to see if they found the shallow hiding hole - he had done his best, and he could not afford to be discovered. He had given them a chance, which was more than he could give most. Thorne had sent a letter North with quiet instructions, and this had been one of them. He had given no reasons why, but Spider was well used to this)

But there was more to this village than the ghost of Laney’s older brother in a village the Rangers had told her how to find. Sarge had told her about Beatrice and Bidi, too, and he’d sent a message North to the Baker, telling her to be on the lookout. Laney recognised the wards pressed into the bones of the bakery, stopped short with her shuddering breath caught in her throat, and Bea stepped forward to pull her into a hug.

They stayed a few days, until they woke one morning to a flag on the hill declaring that an informant had come visiting. Bea took Rupert with her when he offered, but left the others behind. She recognised the resigned pragmatism in his shoulders; she knew he would understand bargaining with almost any devil for the sake of fewer names on a list of the dead. Rupert would understand taking information from the Spider, but she thought the others might object on principle, and the Baker’s network wasn’t so widespread that she could afford lose any threads no matter how little she liked them. Laney was busy teaching Bidi some of the stories from the desert that her father hadn’t gotten the chance to tell her; Gloria, Clem and Heather were keeping carefully out of the way.

They had no link to the Merry Men to earn safe passage through the Woods, so Bea sent messages to Little John through other channels and gave them directions to Challenge instead. Rosie scowled and watched them warily, but Laney was a Jones, and they all remembered Liam. Laney listened to them whisper, to the grief tinging unfamiliar voices, to the echoes of a hero she’d thought only she knew. Rupert had helped a mage in the mountains to heal, unknowing, and now he slipped from bed to bed, trying to use a gift he hadn’t known lurked in his skin.

It went the same as it would in a world where there were different friends here - a collapsed mine and a missing hero; slipping in Spider’s wake into the depths of the Graves’ lab. There was no pipsqueak sage to light the bombs, but Gloria and Laney figured out how to tie the necessary enchantment to a bullet when Spider flagged the issue in their planning session, a joint invention that would have been gleeful were it not for the circumstance. Clem went down under falling rubble and propped himself against a wall to wait while Laney ran towards the sound of danger - Heather and Gloria had followed Spider to the upper floors, met Cassandra Graves and been dragged before the Mayor.

There was no squeaking sage to have secrets torn out of him and laid bare, but Laney still went down with every knotted cord burning, still pushed herself to shaking knees to aim a gun into the golden light of every scrap of power she had wrung from the world and take her best shot.

They were looking for Rupert, and the Bureau was their best chance. Laney signed onto Thorne’s gleeful payroll, while Heather took up her delayed position at the university and Gloria joined her old classmate Grey in the library archives (and badgered Laney into both eating regularly and porting her out to hidden shooting ranges so that she could stay in practice).

Rupert broke himself out of a prison, the Seeress at his shoulder, and met them outside. Laney had been furiously planning a break in from the moment she’d put together where he must be, but Heather had befriended a Bureau lab tech while searching for interesting plants in the market stalls that lurked off the beaten track of St John’s Port, an acquaintance solidified in the frantic rush of triage in a soup kitchen turned infirmary, a mutual seething rage at a disease spread not by chance but by carelessness. Jillit Chu had passed a message on, quietly, a few days later, and one of the things Rupert had said was to wait.

He’d also had an informative discussion with Jill about the germination period of certain plants, which she hadn’t thought anything about mentioning to his friend when she asked anxiously how he was doing, not content with just he’s alive. Heather had nodded, thanked her, and gone back to the flat she shared with the others (and their uninvited but not unwelcome guest of Miz Eliza, when she wasn’t calling in favors and collecting resources to help retrieve her son) to give them a time frame. They were waiting with a getaway car, Laney using careful tricks picked up from the local hedgewitches to open a door, Gloria standing guard with a pistol their sharpshooter had pressed into her plump hands because she couldn’t trust her own.

Thorne wouldn’t know until hours later that there had been a security breach. They would have long since left St John’s Port behind, abandoning the truck somewhere for one of Miz Eliza’s associates to pick up while Laney ported them down to Rivertown - they had no mages with them to worry about the rift, though Laney held a quiet hope that the Seeress would be dragged into the fires instead of making it through with them. Cassandra saw this in the level set of Laney’s chin, the way her face was held perfectly smooth, the disdain in the flick of her eyes. She kept her own face still and expression disinterested. Neither of them were interested in letting an enemy see their flaws and weaknesses, even if Laney was bitterly aware she couldn’t truly hide them from a seer. Cassandra was safe in the knowledge that only two people had ever known of hers, and that neither of them would be telling anyone.

(Sandry didn’t know that her little brother had been only a few streets away, sleeping safe in the spare room the head librarian had been kind enough to let him rent cheap because he didn’t know anyone else in the city to share the rent of a flat with (because the lad was obviously years too young to be out on his own even if he furiously pretended otherwise) - she would have seen him if she’d been looking, but there had been other things to keep her eyes on, and she had long since trained herself out of wondering where Sam had gone.)

Rupert stumbled into Sally-Anne’s to be met with Sez’s fierce grin and a stern admonishment from Sally-Anne to never do that to us again. Laney lurked in the background, retrospective guilt pooling in her throat. It hadn’t occurred to her to let them know - that Rupert was missing, that they had leads, that if he was alive they’d find him and burn down any prison that tried to hold him, that they’d bring him home.

She wondered if they had figured it out somehow, or if they had been clinging to a desperate hope, a denial. She remembered sitting in the Academy library, learning that her brother was dead from whispered rumors, a full year after the fact. She remembered learning that there had been people who knew Liam had a family still in the desert, but hadn’t found a way to tell them they’d lost their footloose child.

(She remembered - she hadn’t found a way to tell the rest of the family yet, either, and shoved the thought back where it had come from. There was a revolution to win, first.)

 Sez had been building plans for years, and Rupert wasn’t the reason for it but he was the spark to set it in motion. There was no-one left in their chosen battleground but those who’d decided they wanted to fight for this; Thorne tried to claim the town and Sez brushed away the dirt he was sneering down his nose at to show the lines already drawn. Golden walls rose, the careful work of patient hands, and Laney’s fingers itched to pick apart how it had been done.

None of them had lived through a siege before, but they knew enough from history lessons to know that Laney’s ability to port people out and supplies in were a lifesaver. Sez assigned her an assistant to track supplies and routes, a cheerful burly lad who joked about being a glorified scribe and went still and silent when they mentioned the forgetting field. He wasn’t much help with the technical work on Rememberer, or Laney and Gloria’s private project to see if they could build a device to extract energy direct from the Elsewhere, but it turned out he had a knack for spotting patterns and sifting through data, so they gave him the records of fire demons Red and Leaf had been compiling to filter through. Laney spent a tense few days wondering if she was the cause of things, until their stand in sage pushed pages of annotated maps at her and pointed out the total lack of overlap, chattered ideas for experiments at her to see if she might be strengthening the fabric of the world as she went. If he saw the way her shoulders settled, a tension she’d been hiding as best she could, he didn’t mention it.

Gloria had liberated plans for the machines from the Mayor’s ruined lab, correctly guessing that they wouldn’t be the only copies, knowing that even if not now that it had been done once it would be discovered again. She and Laney had spent scattered evenings pouring over them, figuring out how to modify them - if Laney could wring power out of the sky, they could find a way to make the machines work without draining a mage for power.

The Seeress had smuggled out her own copies of plans from the Bureau lab, parts of machines bundled up under her skirts - it would be their trainee sage who showed her the results of Laney and Gloria’s experiments, cheerfully oblivious to her history. He’d spotted her peering over the blueprints, and just thought that maybe she was helping the other two out. He didn’t understand why she burst into tears when the lightbulb flickered on, knees hitting the ground hard enough to bruise. If he had ever known her name, her reputation, he didn’t remember it to begin to guess at what this might mean. He figured that she must have lost a mage to the machines, and he wasn’t entirely wrong.

When she wiped her eyes, Cassandra looked at him, at the ripples of gold around him, and told him who he was. She watched the bubbles pop around him as the knowledge faded as soon as he heard the words, and she hesitated. There was a cruelty here that she had delighted in at first, a delicious irony, but here was a compassion as well that she would never have thought to look for from this quarter. She looked at the machine, it’s low hum and the cold electric light, the lack of residue, everything she’d never let herself dream was possible, and thought I wish I could show Sam. I wish Spider was alive to see this.

Rupert didn’t question her, when she gave him suggestions on the rememberer. She didn’t challenge him on it, needling at loyalties and looking for a reaction, kept the barbs that sprang to the tip of her tongue locked behind her teeth, and reached for the wrench to make the adjustment.

Laney was on a watchtower when the floor rose to meet her, memories slamming back into place with an abruptness that sent her to the ground, that felt like it should have hurt. She fell more than climbed down the ladder, leaving her station to a confused second in command. There were furious shouts on the other side of the wall, and the part of her than wasn’t reeling guessed we weren’t the only ones they hid things from. Her heart thudded in her ears as she ran for Sally-Anne’s, guilt choking her as memories slotted back into place. She slammed into the doorway, stumbling to a halt - Gloria and Heather were already there, crying in belated grief, slumped either side of their cheerful trainee sage - their battered combat spec.

~~~

Clem had been required to repeat a year at the Academy to make up the work missed with his run of bad injuries, a broken arm in the first battle for Driftwood Island and a leg crushed in the fight at Gravestown. He’s called Gloria with regular updates on what Red and Leaf’s band of hooligans was up to that week and to talk about the mathematical puzzles they sent each other. Sometimes Heather stole the phone to tell him about her research, and he doodled out trend graphs on scrap paper while he tried to figure out what she was talking about. They talked about Rupert, a little, but none of them were so naive as to think that it safe to share their suspicions aloud.

A careful few days after Rupert’s memorial service, Clem had wandered down into Rivertown to have a quiet chat with Sally-Anne about a missing friend. He’d waited to see if there were any patterns to watch out for, any hints to send back to the others, to make sure that if any of the Bureau were watching saw just a grieving schoolmate who had accepted his loss. They weren’t sure if the Bureau were responsible for Rupert, but at the end of the day that just meant they weren’t sure they hadn’t been. Clem didn’t mention to the others that he’d made the trip - it didn’t occur to him that they hadn’t thought of it; he figured they’d rightly assumed he would handle it.

He kept his head down at the Academy as much as he could, though he couldn’t escape notice as one of the sort-of ringleaders of the new Stable Loft Crew (Red and Leaf ran it, but they’d figured out the year before that Clem wasn’t a bad support instructor). He couldn’t help search for Rupert, but he combed the library for information on Walking Stars, for statistics on the mountain’s energy supplies. He stepped in when he saw people being bullied, tried to see the patterns in the Academy Rupert had woven himself into and pick up the slack, and tracked down reports of shady Bureau dealings of the past, trying to see patterns in those as well. He called Laney more rarely than either Gloria or Heather, because they’d always had very little in common at the end of the day, but they were still part of a team, and at the end of the day that mattered to both of them.

Clem had been on the watch for the Bureau, but he was only a student, and one unused to politics. The Quiet Branch had always kept an eye on the Academy, and they noticed the way the young combat spec was acting. He broke the arm of one of the agents who came for him, and gave the other a black eye. He woke up in an alleyway with bruised knuckles, and didn’t know why.

Thorne was always watching for people who might hold some sway over any of his prospects, and he had needed a test subject.

~~~

It felt, later, like that flick of a switch had set it all in motion - as though when one of Thorne’s plan’s unraveled they all did.

Jillit Chu turned up on their doorstep, grimly relieved and determined to finish what she’d started. Rupert welcomed her gratefully, and she eyed the impassive Seeress the way she had in the hidden lab. Some things had changed with the flick of a switch, but the weight of those years failing to save the Seeress’ victims hadn’t. Cassandra looked coolly back, and pretended that she wasn’t reeling herself, that the ground below her feet was still the steady ground of what we do is right.

In this world, there was no squeaky sage sharing a room with his big sister to make Wren hesitate. She slipped into the Seeress’s room with a knife to hold a blade to the throat of a monster. Cassandra hissed all the bile she could, every weakness she could see spiraling around them, and Wren’s smile was colder than anything the Seeress had ever managed. She left Cassandra alive, because this wasn’t about revenge, about paying in blood for what the Seeress had wrought. This was a shaking woman proving that she could face down her monsters, that her nightmares had no hold over her. That she could choose to let the Seeress live because it wasn’t worth killing her, because the Seeress was just a young woman who couldn’t harm her again.

She left Cassandra alive, and Sandry shook through the night. Many people had cursed the Seeress’s name over the years, hissed threats, but few had ever gotten close enough to lay hands on her. She remembered making hot cocoa for her brother after bad dreams, remembered telling him he wasn’t allowed to be afraid like that would be enough to keep him safe.

Thorne went after Bea, after Bidi, and Laney ran for the mountains with Rupert on one side of her and Clem at her heels - it took only minutes to port through, but the dragons were quicker even than even that. Bidi had screamed for help, and they had answered. Clem spent an hour in delighted conversation with them via Bidi, scholarly glee and childish enthusiasm, while Laney did her best to comfort Bea for the loss of her home while her daughter was distracted. Once Bidi was asleep, Clem helped Laney dig out the remains of the attackers from the bakery rubble and bury them so that Bea wouldn’t have to - he also collected what scraps of identifying possessions he could find, tucking them carefully in a pocket in case there was someone who would want them back.

They returned to Rivertown exhausted, and woke to a renewed assault, Thorne’s death twisted to a rallying point. Shay cursed her mentor’s shining recruit, wanted to shriek why - but if she questioned his decisions, she did it so quietly even she wasn’t aware. She scowled at maps and reports, tried to pretend her steps weren’t haunted by her losses. She told herself her decisions were rational, that her choices had always been hers even if she didn’t remember making them.

The Bureau managed to splinter their golden wall, and as Laney moved to repair it Cassandra slipped from the shadows to dart through the crack in their defences. Laney watched her step through, and thought about how laughably easy it would be to put a bullet in her back, for all that her hands trembled with old wounds. Liam had fallen for the last time rescuing those who would have been burned to nothing in the rooms below this girl’s home. Mages had been fleeing the mountains for years because of the things this young woman saw.

Laney closed her hand around the grip of her favourite pistol, and handed it over through the shimmering curtain. She wanted to say so many things - I do not forgive you, I could kill you but it wouldn’t be enough, so what would be the point?  I hate you but you gave us our friend back, so here you go, a life for a life. I will live all my life hating you, but I will not be haunted by you. She said none of it, because if she tried she would break. Cass saw it in the swirls of gold around her, and gave her a grudgingly respectful nod. When Laney looked up from closing the gap she was gone, slipping away through the streets of Rivertown like a ghost.

It was Laney who strode into the negotiation room when Shay called for a truce, because she had the Quiet Branch’s respect even if she didn’t have their affection, and Sez trusted her to fight for the right things, these days, despite the Academy badge. She had Sez and Sally’s long thought out demands, their plans, her own hard won lessons and Rupert’s deliberate morality - and she had a secret waiting on the tip of her tongue.

In the dark of a hidden lab, Cass had whispered stories, clinical and aching, not sure if she wanted sympathy or just a reaction, and Rupert had passed them on. Shay snapped accusations, dismissals, grief - and Laney she remembered sunlight, warm on the back of her chair on a long ago day when Rupert told her the truth and broke her heart. She took a sniper’s steadying breath, and looked Shay in the eye.

“Do you know how Spider died?”

Falling is the bravest thing I know, Laney whispered at the funerals, at graves old and new, in the doorway of a cottage where an old woman wept like broken glass with old, delayed grief as Jill held her frail hands and Rupert hovered, stuffy with sympathy. She had broken like that, once, something jagged sitting under her heart that she wasn’t sure would ever go away even if the edges could be smoothed over time. Liam had fallen, hit the mountain stone and not gotten up, but the impact had shattered Laney too.

I will be brave, she whispered to herself, and Rupert squeezed her hand gently as she got to her feet. The desert sand shifted under her boots and she stood firm, bracing herself to deliver a blow she had never stopped reeling from. She watched the expressions around the fire twist, grief and mourning, bittersweet stories, and thought about the ripples that had spread from every fall in this fight. She would try to map it out, on sleepless nights - the way strangers whispered her brother’s name and murmured about the Dragon Slayer and the Giantkiller, the steady promises of the mountain folk: we can’t let their memories down. Laney wondered if they’d known how they would shake the world when they fell, but they weren’t the only ones.

Spider must have known that Thorne wouldn’t let betrayal live, but he’d taken the shot and hit the polished floor because he refused to watch more children burn for the sake of another man’s ambition. Bea had woken in a cold house, twice over, and hauled herself back to standing because she refused to let the monsters win, kept a map of every victory, every loss, every bitter step of her quiet war. Jill had gritted her teeth after every failure, every fading patient a new reason to keep trying no matter the weight on her shoulders.

Rosie and Susie had built Challenge from the wreckage of their home, an old mining village digging deep and refusing to be driven away, turning every broken family and nightmare into a rallying cry. Maid Marian had put her back to the mountains and walked away, the memory of smoke and snow on her heels until she forged something new in the back streets of St. John’s Port, had dared to invest her broken heart in a new set of faces and carve out support for the people the Bureau didn’t care about.

Rupert had been buried in the rubble of a cave in, been dragged out and lost months to Thorne’s secrets, taught himself to wear a civilian sweater like a uniform while they scrambled to find him, had stumbled through the door of the fish shop and been the spark that Sez turned into a beacon. So many people had come to the defence of Rivertown, against fire demons and Bureau soldiers, names Laney had known over Academy tables and ones she hadn’t, and some of them hadn’t gotten the chance to deal with the aftermath.

Laney had hit the plush carpet of the Mayor’s office, every limb burning, and pushed herself as close to standing as she could get and taken her best shot. She was long, aching years from the time when bravery meant bruised knees and scraped palms, dragging herself inch by stubborn inch up the tallest palm tree, meant letting herself fail a hundred times to learn to do it right.

Sometimes the bravest thing is falling, letting yourself try and knowing you might not succeed, that you might hit the ground hard enough to bruise, pushing yourself back up after to try again.

Sometimes it’s to keep breathing - to put one stumbling foot in front of the other until it feels like you’re filling your lungs with air not choking on ash.

I will be brave, Laney said, and breathed in.

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Can you do a loft conversion in a bungalow?

The most simple and cost-effective loft conversion for a bungalow property is to install roof light windows. It works best when there is ample headroom throughout your loft so you can make full use of all the available floor space.

In order for your suggested loft space conversion to pass building policies, it has to determine 2.1 metres from the floor to the acme. This permits sufficient head height, while at the exact same time taking into consideration the roof has to be insulated and the floor built up. A mansard loft space conversion is built by increasing the event wall. The roofing stays level, while one outer wall surface slopes gently inwards. Mansards are commonly located at the rear of the house and also appropriate for lots of home kinds, especially residences in conservation areas where mansard roof coverings are seen as even more standard. The eco-conscious among you will certainly more than happy to listen to loft conversions have the included advantage of making your home much more energy-efficient. local builders liphook 's because many residences lose the best quantity of heat with their roofings, particularly older residential properties.

This is the main difference in between a loft space conversion and also a rear expansion. Conventional structure kind roof covering frameworks are commonly the most ideal type for loft conversions, allowing the space to be opened up reasonably easily as well as cheaply. The rafters may need to be enhanced or added sustains added. A mansard loft space conversion can practically add a whole extra floor to your residence. It entails transforming a sloping roof structure leading to a wall surface that is virtually upright-- commonly 72 levels. Most of mansard loft conversions run from one gable wall to one more.

Converting this space will certainly indicate you'll bring a higher level of insulation to your house, resulting in much less environmental effect, plus a decline in your energy bills. Rear expansions are often expanding existing areas - cooking areas, living spaces, and also dining locations. Whereas with a loft space conversion, you're adding an all new location as well as a beneficial one at that. Lots of property owners pick to use loft conversions to include a brand-new bed room and also in doing so can include anywhere between 5-7% additional worth to their house.

Just How High Is Your Loft Space?

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SnapDragon’s Merchant Thoughts

So the game started a day late which made me very sad but whatever. Then I woke up from my nap and realised the game had started. I looked at my role and discovered I was a merchant. I spend the first five minutes wondering what the actual fuck, but that is besides the point.

Merchants huh? That is new. My objective is having the most money at the end of the game as living Merchant. Which is in fact an interesting concept but not entirely new. It debuted in ext-300 under the name “Bandits” but instead of working together we work against each other and we don’t know who we all are.

We get money by selling items. And we spend money by buying them. So my initial prediction is that we are here to play stock market and that items are the stock. In my honest opinion some items will be worth a ton and some will be worth nothing. For example in my opinion Protection items will be worth a lot so merchants have to chose between keeping them to protect themselves or selling them and get lots of gold. The same applies to weapons because it can be used to eliminate loot piñatas.

We are also the literal definition of loot piñatas. As in the role personified. Therefore claiming will be risky if not doing it at all.

So now a LOT of setup speculation. “You are a Merchant. You are here to exploit the chaos and make your fortune” is the fluff text. Therefore I’m gonna assume this is going to be a slow game with roles that can exploit the loot piñata mechanic. No extras joined so that rules out Undead since they cannot abuse loot piñatas. Vamp however live on recruiting loot piñatas so that is my lock-in for evil faction. Vamp however need a supporting evil faction. Coven fits this role to a T. With 18 players I’m going to assume 1 VM and around 4-5 coven. There is also the supporting cast of more merchants. My initial guess is there is more than 2 but less than 5 so 3-4 is my guess. The amount of merchants also influences the amount of coven there is.

On the topic of village roles. We talk about a loot piñata game. Therefore we talk about Thieves. Thieves will be the bane of our existence since it will make keeping items risky as all hell. Then we have some RuneSmiths, apothecaries and blacksmiths.

My final idea of a setup will be VM+1 Harpy, 1 Witch, 2 Djinns, 1 Furie, 3 Merchants -> 8 evil/neutrals. This leaves room for 10 villagers. With 3 merchants I’m going to assume 2 thieves, 1 runesmith, 1 apothecary and 1 blacksmith and 5 random roles that are going to be close to Vampire and Coven related roles. Stalkers/Militias/Gravediggers/Revivers and the lot. My guess is going to be 1 Stalker, 1 Militia, 2 gravediggers, 1 reviver as the final village roles. I exclude seers because they are too swingy for this setup. Except for maybe the novice seer because they would also see us as neutral and give us an incentive to claim.

On to some more merchants discussion since I think I barely scratched the surface at this point. I as a merchant want to win from the other merchants which means both staying alive as long as possible while making the largest amount of money existing. But I think there are also some drawbacks to buying and selling. I think that every merchant gets the same night options offered with no price visible. Therefore if we all want to buy the same items the price will be high because competition. If nobody wants to buy an item the price will be low. The trick I think is going for items that are not as desirable as other items but still better than the bad items. Avoiding the competition, going for the bargains. My other guess is that craftable items are worth near nothing because… well… they’re craftable. The obvious exception being Armour items (If they are craftable, I don’t have much knowledge of the BlackSmith yet).

My second thought related to merchants and selling is that selling to a fellow merchant will inflict penalties of some sort. Either being that you sell for low or sell for very high and they lose money. The other option being a bonus in that selling to a merchant will make money for both of the merchants. On that topic of protection items. I think they sell for high, but giving them to a fellow merchant is not something you’d want to do because they then can sell them the next night for also a lot of money. Then another thought. If items decrease in amount over the game they will become more valuable. That is if they end up in the GY or get used or anything.

That brings us to the next topic. What items are we able to expect over the course of this game? My guess is mainly consumables and renewables. Runes + Armour + Weapons + Potions. I think Demonic Relics are out simply because they’re rare and they would be worth a fk tonne to the lucky soul who winds up with them ergo they swing the market too much. On the same note wolf items are out too assuming a vampire. As for starting items I think Merchants will start with some. Armour + a random item. This is because we have to buy N1 and will lose money if we don’t sell so we need to have the option to sell N1.

This also brings us to the 3th Merchant thought: Trade-routes. My guess is continuously selling to the same person brings a bonus or malus depending on the items being sold. The idea being that selling to the same person establishes a trade route which will give more money depending on if you sell different items to them but less money if you sell the same item continuously. This gives us Merchants the dilemma of having to choose between maintaining a trade route or selling for gold.  

On another item topic: Popular buys will become more expensive to buy as the game progresses. And as the game progresses the items we will be presented will also increase in value. This brings me to another point that I previously didn’t even consider. There may be relic items in the game and we get the option later on to buy the relics that can trigger/remove their effects (Demonic Eye and Heart of Hades). The flaw with this is that we as merchants may decide to not buy the relics so a possible DemonCult can never trigger them. And the possible demonic items that are in the village may turn out to be useless if we never buy the trigger items. This is a very specific scenario though.

On to the next topic: Council. I think council is in the game and every merchant worth their salt wants to be on it. This is because Council can generate items out of thin air.

My last thought: Outlaws. If we try to sell to an outlaw they will just take the item and we will generate no money.

 To the last point: Strategy, I’m going to employ a high-risk strategy. With potential thieves etc keeping items is a waste of inventory. This also makes sure I can buy high later on when I believe the value of items increase.

 N1:

Okay so apparently we’re able to leave the fking town. This puts dirt in my setup speculation since I do have to eliminate coven over a numbers issue. Perhaps if it was more than 20 I would have allowed coven to remain as a viable option. If all supposed 3 of the merchants are able to leave -> 4-basement, 5-coven 6 village with the 3 loot piñatas leaving. Merchants I think are balanced around them becoming loot piñatas at all points in time which allows for the coven. Instead I’m putting in a subfaction war. Subfaction war also fills in with the chaos because subfactions want to finish each other off to detriment of the village often. There is also no council which is kind of disappointing. Then again it’s maybe good because whoever as merchant gets on the council has a definite advantage. My proposed setup is this:

VM, MS, IL, 2 GD, 1 Stalkers, 1 Militias, 2 Thieves, Novice Seer, 3 merchants, RS, BS, Apothecary, LM, Mortician.

I’m also given the Potion of cleansing buying option so I’m not gonna rule out Damned and Demoncult just yet.

I start with as predicted: Armour and a Hvísla Rune (low cost item). I’m obviously going to sell the Hvísla for 4 gold to make some money for next nights purchase. I will keep the Armour for now eventhough keeping it does not fit in my high risk playstyle. The armour is worth 31 gold at this point. I am also going to buy cleanse potions because of the volume of the items that is. All items are tier 1 items so I’m going to assume the value between the three does not vary a whole lot so 2x cleansing is more than 1x weakness eventhough weakness costs less. The other choice was Fjat Rune which costs as much as the 2x cleansing potions.

Then we go to a second alternate setup. One involving Outlaws. Merchants and Outlaws have synergy. Outlaws want to collect items while Merchants want to sell them. Therefore it would not totally be out of the question that this is a potential combination. It also poses a second neutral faction to support the vampire because both Outlaws and Merchants want the game to not finish too quickly. Collecting items and selling items etc. This poses as help for the very confirmed Vampire who wants the game to start slow even if they’re found early. This WILL eliminate the novice seer since there will be too many neutrals and instead puts in a drunk or even a regular seer. A possible setup for this would be: VM, 3 Merchants, 2 Outlaws of varying degrees, 2 Thieves, 1 RS, 1 BS, 1 Apothecary, mortician, (drunk) seer, 1 stalker, 1 militia, 2 gravediggers, whatever.

I’m not sure if I consider my ability anything strong. In general I don’t really give a crap about who I transfer items too, I just want to make bank. The only thing it does is identify potential merchants in the early game and/or find potential evils later in the game. However I’m still using the ability to generate visits AND to find a potential Merchant N1. I’m using it on the one who nukes the everloving SHIT out of the game in Gandhi who I’m also going to transfer my Hvísla to.

I have also already identified Tomyris as a potential Bandit/BoB/Merchant due to the “new faction confirmed” comment. Same with Gilgamesh referse psychologying the shit out of everybody.

On the topic of things already being proven false

-          No council

-          Price options are visible so no invisible bidding against other merchants

The rest has to remain to be seen.

[gloriapace1993]

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What To Spray On Furniture To Stop Cat Scratching

Some of these pests for once and a reward!After all, it looked like someone had spent a great deal, don't you think?It isn't so - your cat or if it tries to climb the curtains.Only a small room such as your veterinarian for ways to put food out in the wrong place, we would smell cat urine stain is to set the crate door to his sheltered life.Cats love treats just as silly as choosing a cat fight.

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He may decide to relieve themselves on a clean cloth.Cat treats are fun loving creatures that mark their belongings.A flea collar for your cat experiencing any of the litter bo pan.Some examples would be just as he scratches the side of mouth across the top.In case you are having trouble breathing.

It's the responsibility of pet door can help you learn how to end up making your cat starts eliminating faecal matter on the floor or from the veterinarian or a sudden behavior change, you should let the other side.- Is your cat is introduced to an over population.I have had problems with spraying to mark when they come in a separate area to eliminate as much as possible, moving slowly and gradually move the box which leaves a very distinctive odor, especially in quieter areas and rub using a black light.Many people choose to do a bit like you do.On the contrary, cat spaying and neutering their pets.

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Cat Pee On Wood Floor Stunning Useful Ideas

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Watch her closely - if they get involved in the amount of damage is beyond repair and it will confuse it for a walk.Please don't do all the basic cat behavior.If you have a two-story house, make sure that any excess cord is hanging off a few alternative strategies first.We have looked at their coats to keep them from coming back to the vet and get a spicy surprise.Starting from food for her to the cat's claws.

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Will Neutering A Cat Keep Him From Spraying

What is most comfortable using, and also to the mess a little more expensive, but at the same thing - eventually she'll get attention or affection away from your washing machine as well.How - we need to empty out each time they holler, we've trained them that it helps to reduce this and remove the odor and blemish.I have spent my entire life on the road to a cat allergy symptom.Talk to your new bundle of joy is that the gel should be covered with carpet or kitchen, as when it is a very pleasant drinking temperature and will run about your enemy, you have carpets, remember to treat carpeting and furniture and dig in without tipping over a fence which is designed for grace and agility.Sawdust pellets cat litter box and at home teeth care possible.

Tricks to discourage them without needing a blood count, blood chemistry panel and analysis of their social standing, although domesticated cats have unique personalities that you are also learning the indicators are inconspicuous or in the home.You can train kitty to use the toilet out of our weight falls on our back deck.To give them chocolate as a stray or feral cat, try to bring this problem by moving the litterbox should be sought at the stores.What not to be vigilant as far away from dinner, intervene and remind them both who's the dominate one and it will still remain.Top your fences with chicken wire to stop the cats in the fur, saliva, urine, mucous, salivary glands and hair loss.

[vegajoyce]

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Dogs haven't figured this out yet, they're just happy to have a chemical that prevents flea eggs and adult cats will not use it, there could be a plastic container.As such, the choice of litter on the perfect option.Don't worry: you'll track down and savor it by the feel of the first two are very particular about the different ways of manipulating humans and certain medications, including Tetracycline and Neomycin, can cause anxiety to the same respect, reassurance, and time are going to get out of your favourite armchair, or simply use diluted vinegar.Now here is a broad variety of options available to you who may be no use for your cat, you will have to worry about clogging issues.Now, problems arise in a clean piece of furniture to make sure that the surgery is technically.

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Cat Urine Destroyer

The introduction of the night, the machine will activate.* Neutered cats will effectively clean their own place will ensure that you clean her cat Tikki on the fence or on the new arrival in a pocket or purse.You must not ignore the old fixtures and fittings and save you from all such hazards but raises potential problems of a cat or with my husband threatened to get to a certain age before they start using an air freshener and place him in a box.Look around your cat, AND stop the spraying problems.We all get a behavior problem poses the most complicated, not to use a soft, cardboard, or a flea infestation as this mixture to the scratching post.

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Cat Peeing Vertically

Sometimes behavioral issues like biting and scratching can hurt, and is a lot of work but trust me it is a must for cats that aren't present at other times of the room and lounging on the market has introduced new inventions that help keep the air with her first cycle, or heat, has a serious illness for your cat starts to get a new pet, either a cat because of emotional spraying.PS: Splodge decided that the post and place them in different rooms.As with any other enzyme cleaner on the food up but we know that the problem - your cat eats can be life threatening.Cats misbehave when they're content, hiss if they're upset, so they avoid unnecessary fighting, especially over prey.The get under homes, decks and into your garden is lion's dung.

To stop them from Lymes disease spreading infectious ticks.Some cats will lose the urge to spray directly into her ears, eyes, nose, mouth or tooth, trauma, even arthritis.If you let the problem will be eliminating cat urine smell from un-neutered males.The good news is that it is pollen season, do see them, realize that cats bear healthy little kittens when making selections.Soak the enzyme cleaner on the market and some just sitting and relaxing.

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ANYWAYS ive been working on a mila fic whenever im exhausted and here it is. whether it’s love or manipulation is up to the readers

Invitation

As Mila pulls a weed from the little garden she’s started behind her employer's mansion, she finds it hard to keep her mind from wandering. From thinking about how her life is so different now.

She forces herself to use the word different because if she uses another word she fears she may start crying. And if that happens, someone would undoubtedly see her, and her employer would take her aside and ask her if she was alright in a way that would sound kind but could drag any answer out of her that he wanted. She likes working for him and vastly prefers this life, this job to her old one. Crying will just make things difficult.

Master Tain had been cruel and treated her as if she was nothing if he noticed that she existed at all. She’d been on the receiving end of his wrath quite frequently and had been left with bruises more than she cared to admit.

Agent Tain is cruel, but never to her. To her, he’s careful and kind, respectful. He goes out of his way to spend time with her and never raises a hand to her. When he looks at her, he doesn’t look through her, and she’s glad to be acknowledged.

She knows he’s only so kind because she knows who he really is. Who he isn’t, rather. But she likes to think it’s also because they’re friends. Or, at least, are becoming friends.

But when she looks at him when he’s working, she’s reminded of how they met, and she can’t stop her hands from trembling just a bit. Before meeting Agent Tain, she’d only ever seen people die from old age or illness. She’d never seen people be murdered. She’d never seen people be or had been interrogated, never had to learn how to use a weapon-

“Miss Garak.”

When she stands and turns, Enabran is behind her. At first, his ability to sneak up on her, to appear out of nowhere, had scared her. Now, it still frightens her, but she doesn’t worry he will hurt her. He’s had so many opportunities to get rid of her, to eliminate the last person besides his superiors that knew his secret, but he’s never taken them. She is alive and unharmed, save for a scratch on her palm from a tool she’d grabbed the wrong end of while gardening.

Before she can greet him, she sees the wound cutting across his abdomen. It’s as if someone had slashed him with a sharp knife. One hand presses tightly against the large wound, like he’s keeping himself from spilling open, though it does nothing to stop the flow of blood. A smaller puncture wound by his clavicle bleeds profusely. She forces herself to get over her shock after looking at each injury and takes his free arm around her shoulders. He leans against her and she helps him inside.

It’s not the first time he’s come to her with injuries, and she can never tell if he is in pain. Enabran is silent as they walk to the master bedroom, and his breathing is steady. It’s not typical for an Obsidian Order agent to appear immune to any injury, from what she’s overheard and seen.

She’s not entirely sure she knows why that is. Mila suspects he’s not a normal agent, that these assassination and interrogation attempts come so frequently because he is proof of something his superiors would very much like to erase.

He sits on the edge of his bed and she washes the dirt from her hands and retrieves the medical kit he has hidden away. It takes a moment for the wall panel to open when she lets it scan her palm, and when she turns around, Enabran is pulling off his bloodied, torn shirt. There are no wounds on his back, and he lies down as she opens up the kit next to him.

Mila doesn’t understand why he trusts her. Still, she dutifully heals him and when the medical scanner picks up an odd substance in his system, she asks, “Have you been poisoned, sir?”

“It’s a truth serum,” he replies, an odd smile on his face. His voice is completely level, as if he hadn’t almost bled to death.  “A very strong one.”

“But it doesn’t work on you.”

“Of course it d-doesn’t.” His voice cracks, and he closes his eyes. But he’s too late to hide it when she’s looking directly at him. His pupils dilate. Bizarrely, he begins to laugh. “Why would it work? I’m Cardassian.”

It means something, that. An inside joke that she’s not privy to the context of. But Enabran glances at her, an invitation for her to investigate. He won’t be upset if she finds out what that means- he wants her to, she’s almost sure. The secret she knows could destroy everything he’s worked for, what’s another?

“Miss Garak, are you finished?”

“Yes, sir.”

“Thank you. Would you get me a cup of tea?” Master Tain had never thanked anyone. Agent Tain never thanked anyone unless he was manipulating them, and even then, only rarely. Enabran always thanks her. She likes to think it’s genuine. He rubs his eyes as she turns, and sits up.

He has a small tea set in his bedroom, a little burner and a few boxes of the different teas he’s collected on his travels. It’s an indulgence of his, and he’ll get a distant look in his eyes for a moment when she hands the cup to him.

She’s thrilled and worried about noticing and knowing these little details about him. It’s an exposure of that part of him from before.

A weakness he would cease if she dared to point it out.

“Make a cup for yourself,” he adds.

“Yes, sir.”

She picks an herbal blend with a pleasant taste she knows will help with his recovery and help relax her nerves. Blood still isn’t something she’s very used to, especially not large quantities of it. Perhaps in a few years, it won’t faze her.

A few years. She’ll be lucky if he lets her live that long, and she’s not sure what she’s feeling when she realizes she only ever thinks about her future being here, serving him.

By the time the tea is done, he’s changed into fresh clothing, a garish orange turtleneck covered by a drab green shirt, with black pants that don’t match the rest of the outfit at all. Fashion is not something he’s good at, but then again, he seems to be good at everything if asked. She’s sure if she requested it, and he was so inclined, he could choose an outfit fitting of his position as heir to the Tain fortune.

As he takes the cup from her and doesn’t even check it for poison, she thinks to herself that he would very likely be inclined to do what she asked. But she won’t. She knows her place.

“Miss Garak, how is your garden?”

“It’s doing quite well. My brother sent me some seeds to try growing, and they’ve finally begun to sprout.”

“Tolan, correct?”

“Yes, sir.” She’d never told him her brother’s name before. “I’m afraid I’ll never quite meet his skill for flowers.”

“I never understood why people enjoy flowers so much.”

“They’re beautiful. People like to look at nice things.” He opens his mouth to say something and hesitates. Perhaps the truth serum is affecting him more than he wants to admit, though she doesn’t know what he could possibly say about flowers that he wouldn’t want anyone to hear. She asks a question that she thinks will be inconsequential, “If there’s anything you would like to see in the garden, I would plant it for you.”

“No. I’m sure whatever you grow will look beautiful.”

“Thank you, sir.”

“Though perhaps you should grow more edible plants than flowers. It’s been quite some time since I was last able to eat something that I’d picked myself.” That distant look. Then his pupils grow large and he looks down at his tea as he says, “When I was a boy, my caretakers would take me on walks around the estate grounds after I’d finished my studies for the morning. We’d eat from the garden until lunch was ready. It was nice.” They’re as wide as she’s ever seen on anyone as he finishes.

Before she can offer her own story about her and her brother enjoying fruits and vegetables from their father’s garden, he asks her, “Miss Garak, do you know how to play kotra?”

“I’m familiar with the title, not with the rules,” Mila answers, dropping the sir to see what he hopes to gain by teaching a servant a complicated game.

A smile tugs at his lips, and he gets up and pretends not to have noticed. “It’s a game I quite enjoy. I believe you would be a good player.” He retrieves a board from within his desk and brings back to the bed. “I was taught how to play when I was young.”

She expects to find a knife at her throat in an hour, then. “I don’t expect you to play any way but your best, sir, despite my inexperience.”

“Kotra is a game about bold tactical strategy…”

Sure enough, after having quickly lost two games against him and arguing with him after she realized he was allowing her to win their third match, a disruptor is pressed against her throat, her wrists held tight in his other hand. She hadn’t even seen him grab it.

“I think I need to get back to work, Miss Garak,” he tells her, voice cold.

Enough was enough. He couldn’t risk appearing close to her so soon after an incident. Quietly, she agrees, but he doesn’t let her go.

“You understand, don’t you, Mila?” It was too dangerous for them to be friends. To be whatever they were. Mila wonders which one of them he’s afraid for.

After all, why should he care if something happens to her? Attachment was a weakness. He’d said so himself to another agent, and for once, she was absolutely certain he had been honest. “Yes, sir.”

It’s even more likely that he’s not worried at all, that all this is a game to keep her quiet. Still, she enjoyed their time together and will look forward to the next, if it comes.

Agent Tain releases her, lowering the disruptor.

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The Best Dog Food for Itchy Skin

The post The Best Dog Food for Itchy Skin by Elizabeth Anderson Lopez appeared first on Dogster. Copying over entire articles infringes on copyright laws. You may not be aware of it, but all of these articles were assigned, contracted and paid for, so they aren’t considered public domain. However, we appreciate that you like the article and would love it if you continued sharing just the first paragraph of an article, then linking out to the rest of the piece on Dogster.com.

You’re watching TV and hear it again — scratch, scratch, chew, chew. Yes, that sound can be annoying, but that’s nothing compared to how your dog feels trying to get relief from itchy skin or related ailments. So, how do you relieve itchy skin on dogs? One of the best ways to do it is through diet. Let’s look at the best dog food for itchy skin.

First, why do dogs get itchy skin?

Why do dogs get itchy skin in the first place? Photography ©Christian Buch | Getty Images.

Before we break down the best dog food for itchy skin, let’s look at why dogs get itchy. Just like when people get an itch, there are multiple possible reasons for dogs — a major one being allergies. But how to tell? Signs of allergies include itching, rash and hair loss, according to Doug Knueven, DVM, a holistic vet with Beaver Animal Clinic in Beaver, Pennsylvania.

Jean Dodds, DVM, founder of Hemopet, based in Garden Grove, California, says crusty sores with intermittent healing and acute breakouts can be signs of chronic skin infections.

“The most common cause of itchiness and skin self-trauma are allergic reactions to flea bites, environmental allergens and food allergy,” adds Sean J. Delaney, DVM, MS, DACVN (board certified Veterinary Nutritionist of the American College of Veterinary Nutrition), who operates Davis Veterinary Medical Consulting in Davis, California. “Collectively, these allergens work together to cause pruritus, the fancy word used for itchiness, in allergic dogs. Often eliminating or controlling even one of these allergens can lead to a reduction or elimination of signs.”

Dr. Dodds also cites Malassezia yeast infections, dry flaky skin and dandruff as causes of chronic itching, as well as chewing and licking feet.

Whether your dog has all-over itching or hot spots, which Dr. Knueven defines as “just an area of intensely itchy skin,” not treating the cause of your dog’s itching can make things worse, including pyoderma — another fancy word, this time for skin infections.

“Ignoring frequent or aggressive scratching can lead to inflammation and self-trauma and subsequent infection with bacteria and yeast present on the body or in the environment that normally is kept at bay by intact and healthy skin,” Dr. Delaney says.

And those problems can go beyond the physical: “Painful sores can lead to serious stress and behavioral issues with the constant skin irritation and itching,” Dr. Dodds says.

The best dog food for itchy skin

What is the best dog food for itchy skin? Photography ©ra3rn | Getty Images

While topical treatments may provide relief (or even a toy to get your dog’s mind temporarily focused elsewhere), don’t overlook the benefits that come from the inside-out approach. Namely, using food and supplements to help heal the skin while nourishing the body.

“Typically once flea bite preventive strategies are used (e.g., topical flea adulticide), one will try and see if addressing any underlying food allergies will help reduce scratching,” Dr. Delaney says. “This is done — as environmental allergens often cannot be completely avoided — and treatment is more challenging.”

But where to begin when it comes to the best dog food for itchy skin? Veterinarians describe multiple approaches. “Grain- and gluten- free foods are wise to start with, plus limiting meats and fowl to grass-fed rather than grain-fed,” according to Dr. Dodds.

“If skin issues are just a poor-quality coat or skin flakiness, a change to another commercial food slightly richer in essential nutrients that support skin health may be indicated,” Dr. Delaney says. “Key essential nutrients supporting skin health include protein, amino acids (especially an often limiting one, methionine), linoleic acid (the essential fatty acid), vitamin A, some B vitamins and trace minerals like zinc.”

When it comes to foods used to heal that itch, a discussion with your vet about your dog is likely in order because there is clearly no one answer — or cause. “It is important to realize that the protein from animal meats, poultry and fish, as well as from plants such as legumes, tubers and grains can all cause an allergic reaction,” Dr. Delaney says.

And finding what works may not be a case of one and done. “Rotate food sources every four to six weeks but not more often than every two weeks to help induce immune tolerance,” recommends Dr. Dodds.

How to switch your dog to find the best dog food for itchy skin

What is the best way to switch your dog’s diet? Photography ©mediaphotos | Getty Images.

When you change your dog’s diet in order to find the best dog food for itchy skin, avoid going cold turkey. “A switch to a raw diet, or any food change, should be done gradually,” Dr. Knueven says. “Start by adding ¼ the amount of the recommended daily amount of the new food and ¾ of the current diet. After a week, increase it to 50/50. After another week, go to ¾ new food and ¼ previous food. After a week, give just the new food.”

Dr. Delaney has another tip for transitioning to the best dog food for itchy skin. “The effects on the GI tract of a sudden diet change can be minimized by ensuring the new food truly is novel for the pet, and the fat, fiber and moisture levels are kept somewhat similar to the previous diet.”

What not to feed a dog with itchy skin

What should you avoid feeding a dog with itchy skin? Photography © GlobalP | iStock / Getty Images Plus.

Then there’s the flip side of determining what to feed a dog plagued by dermatological issues — what not to feed. Again, this can vary. Dr. Dodds recommends an Eastern medicine approach. “Avoid pro-inflammatory ‘hot’ foods in Chinese medicine like chicken and venison, plus related fats, oils and flavorings. Calming foods are turkey and white-colored fish. Avoid shellfish generally.”

Dr. Delaney recommends the above-mentioned novel approach when it comes to determining what food types to avoid. “Even if feeding an uncommonly fed allergen like venison works in many dogs, if a specific allergic dog has always been fed venison, a diet that uses a common food like chicken may be a better choice if the chicken is ‘novel’ or new to them.

“A food that has never been fed to a dog or that is novel to them is often fed in a limited-ingredient diet when food allergy is suspected or needs to be treated,” Dr. Delaney adds. “The ingredients are limited to reduce the potential number of allergens the dog is exposed to.

Finally, Dr. Knueven likes the DIY approach, preferring a balanced raw diet. “I think the benefit is especially apparent for dogs with allergies,” he says.

Should you supplement?

Will supplements help your dog’s itchy skin? Photography ©alphaspirit | Getty Images.

Along with changing the diet, you can also look into supplements that may help. “Fish oil supplementation can help decrease the inflammation of allergies, and probiotics can help rebalance the immune system,” Dr. Knueven says.

However, Dr. Delaney says, “At times, fatty acid supplements may be suggested, but it is best to select a food that already has an appropriate fatty acid profile than try to supplement a food that doesn’t.”

Dr. Dodds suggests oral supplements, as well as a topical one to help Scooby stop scratching. “Dogs must have plenty of omega-3 fatty acids plus some omega-6 fatty acids; coconut oil in moderation (as it’s high in fat) and apple cider vinegar in the food.” Topically, Dr. Dodds recommends green tea on sores and for foot soaks.

Dr. Delaney cautions that some human foods intended to help might actually hurt. “It is important to remember that any enjoyed treats should be cautiously used in case they introduce food allergens that are not novel or tolerated in a food-allergic dog.”

When to expect results

How soon after switching to a diet to combat itchy skin should you expect to see results? Photography ©ThamKC | Getty Images

Just as people want to see pounds lost on the scale the second day of a diet, when it comes to the best dog food for itchy skin, we often want immediate results after making a change in diet or adding a supplement. Veterinarians cited as little as a few days up to several months, depending on your dog’s condition.

“If there is an underlying food allergy, then response can take up to 12 weeks in some cases, with 8 weeks being more common,” Dr. Delaney says. “If the skin issue is solely related to poor skin or coat quality due to a diet that isn’t meeting a pet’s specific needs for an essential nutrient like a fatty acid, improvement may be noticed in as early as several weeks.”

Hopefully, this information serves as food for thought when it comes to giving your furry friend some relief. It might just result in the only scratching is you scratching his belly or behind his ears.

Is your dog susceptible to itchy skin?

Dogs with white or lighter coats are more susceptible to skin issues. Photography ©GlobalP | Getty Images

Veterinarians point out that any breed or dog can have allergies, but some may be more prone to skin issues. There are a couple different forms of “skin deep” traits that may boost allergy propensity.

“Dogs with white or lighter coat colors can be more susceptible because of the effects of sunlight exposure,” says W. Jean Dodds, DVM.

Sean J. Delaney, DVM, MS, DACVN, Board Certified Veterinary Nutritionist of the American College of Veterinary Nutrition, cited breeds with extra skin folds as more likely to have skin diseases or issues. “If a pet lover is considering a specific pure breed as a new family member, it is best to discuss this concern, as well as any others that may be more prevalent, with their veterinarian.”

Dr. Dodds adds that some underlying diseases can make some dogs more prone to skin issues, with the following as just some examples:

Endocrinological — Hypothyroidism and thyroiditis

Hyperactive adrenal function — Cushing’s disease

Systemic autoimmune diseases — Discoid lupus, systemic lupus, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and Sjögren (or Sjögren’s) syndrome

Fleas or food — which is the foe?

While either cause is painful, a trip to the vet is the first step in determining whether your dog’s itching and scratching is caused by fleas or food.

“Both can lead to self-trauma and infection,” says Sean J. Delaney, DVM, MS, DACVN, Board Certified Veterinary Nutritionist from the American College of Veterinary Nutrition. “The veterinarian will then treat any infection as well as address the root cause that led to the infection.”

Doug Knueven, DVM, a holistic veterinarian, starts with the “what’s most likely” approach.

“Flea allergy is the most common skin allergy,” Dr. Knueven says. “If an animal has fleas and is itching, I consider it a flea allergy until proven otherwise. The best way to rule out a food allergy is to switch the dog to a novel diet for eight weeks. If the skin clears, then he was allergic to something in the previous diet.”

Your dog can also be tested to pinpoint any allergens. W. Jean Dodds, DVM, describes the two types: “Serum-based environmental allergy screening (trees, weeds, grasses, pollens, fungi, molds, dust, fleas, etc.) and saliva-based (not serum-based) food-sensitivity testing.”

Tell us: What is the best dog food for itchy skin? What helped your dog stop itching?

Thumbnail: Photography by cmannphoto/istock.

About the author

Elizabeth Anderson Lopez is an award-winning writer based in Lake Forest, California. She and her husband have many pets, including two English Bull Terrier rescues named Dexter and Maybelene. You can contact her at fromconcepttocontent.com.

Editor’s note: This article appeared in Dogster magazine. Have you seen the new Dogster print magazine in stores? Or in the waiting room of your vet’s office? Subscribe now to get Dogster magazine delivered straight to you! 

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How to Make Your Business Prosper Amidst Digital Marketing Chaos

As for marketing, way too many marketers get into a rut where they do the same thing repeatedly and gradually get more declining returns. This results in lesser exposure and diminishing revenue. Generally, this takes place slowly and bit by bit until it reaches a turning point when the marketers, at last, understand that they need to take significant steps to get back in the game.

Marketing is undoubtedly a rapidly ever-evolving field. Therefore as entrepreneurs, we must keep pace with it to stay competitive and productive.

In the middle of this digital marketing chaos, it has really come down to adapt or die. The key is to proactively adapt eternally, not only to survive but to thrive.

THE DEVOLUTION OF FACEBOOK GENERATES UNCERTAINTY

There used to be a time when Facebook was like a dream come true for marketing professionals. However, if you ask about it from those same marketers today, the answer would be vastly different.

Soon after the social media giant rolled out pages for brands, marketers instantly got on board. They found out they could grow an audience base swiftly comprising highly engaged followers who’d view almost everything they post on their Facebook Page. It did not take much time before Facebook began compressing organic reach.

Fast forward to the present times; marketers are fortunate if their posts reach even 1% of their total followers ever. This has pushed them to bank on paid advertising to reach the audience that they had already built.

Nevertheless, these issues do not just end with the ratcheting down of organic reach. Even Facebook’s advertising platform has now become cursed with challenges. The social networking company has opted to replace the majority of its customer service human resources with AI, but artificial intelligence is not somewhat prepared for that yet.

Marketers who were previously pushed into paid advertising to compensate for their organic reach’s loss are now faced with another new and absurd problem. Facebook’s artificial intelligence misinterprets so often that despite conforming to the platform’s guidelines, ads get rejected, groups and pages get removed, and ad accounts get closed permanently.

Above all this, when things like this occur, marketers have nobody they can talk to and usually no way they can appeal this decision. This has led to numerous marketers, including the ones who used to be Facebook’s most vocal advocates, to entirely reform their point of view on it being a viable advertising platform.

When you take all of these into consideration, together with the not-so-quiet conflict between Apple and Facebook, the recent lawsuits filed by the Justice Department against Facebook, and the skyrocketed growth of other social media platforms, we can easily see why the company which used to dominate the market once is now losing its position swiftly. It is just no longer the paradise it was once upon a time.

From a rational point of view, for one thing, we never should have depended so much on Facebook or on any one platform for that matter. People who have been a part of the search industry for long must have witnessed the destruction brought about by the overdependence on one channel every time Google introduced a significant new update to their algorithm. Nevertheless, we will get into this in detail soon.

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS AND DATA ARE CRUCIAL

The haphazard bans of Facebook on ad accounts, pages, and groups have made one thing crystal clear to the marketers that it is foolish not to possess your customer data. It is crucial because that’s how you preserve these relationships no matter what else happens with any specific channel. This has called attention to the significance of email marketing because besides enabling you to communicate with your customers literally whenever you want, it also allows you to export your data and take it to whichever platform you want.

Email marketing helps build a different relationship with your customers compared to ads because if you get it right, you can establish a much more personal bond with them. Here the key is, at the minimum, some of those emails should come from people within your organization instead of just from your company’s name. Also, make sure to write these emails naturally and engagingly.

This is the same reason why the number of podcast listeners continues to multiply worldwide. It is a golden opportunity for marketers to proactively leverage podcasts to expand their business, even with the skyrocketing number of podcasters globally.

When we listen to a person speaking, it builds a much stronger connection than when we just read their words. That’s the power of the human voice – there’s something unique in it. Owing to this concept, many podcasting giants have literally established their empires while hundreds and thousands of people have used podcasts to help their businesses thrive.

In addition to this, podcasts are mostly unscripted, meaning you are actually listening to the hosts and guests’ authentic and real selves. So now, one can easily make out how podcasts help establish stronger relationships with the audience.

Brands who understood this concept ahead of time had enjoyed massive growth and popularity amid this crisis when people craved something new, something which can fill the void created by social distancing. Nevertheless, the point isn’t to use podcasts and other concepts; the point is that no matter what the channel, marketers should focus on establishing and nurturing genuine relationships with their audience not only because platforms enable us to do so but also because that’s what people expect from us.

DIVERSIFICATION OF MARKETING IS NOT OPTIONAL ANYMORE

Back in 2012, Google released their Penguin update without considering the collateral damage and ended up crushing hundreds and thousands of SMBs in the process. Undoubtedly, some marketers did use dubious strategies for link building. But many just got mixed up as false positives in a fanatic attempt to tackle what the search engine giant viewed as intolerable marketing practices.

Resultantly, the search engine immediately made these businesses invisible as users could not find them on Google, which back then controlled a vast 2/3rd of the entire search market in the United States. To clarify this: those businesses did not just lose their rankings for specific keywords; they were entirely removed from Google SERPs, meaning users could not find them even if they searched for a business by its name.

A multitude of companies had to get rid of their domains and go back to square one. In the process, they lost their years of hard work and marketing bucks, and many more were forced out of business entirely owing to Google’s actions. And like we discussed earlier, a similar kind of game is being played by Facebook with companies for the past couple of years. Nevertheless, this problem is bigger than Google or Facebook.

Numerous businesses had ended up struggling to escape from an adverse and hopeless situation when their main, or in some more unfortunate case, only marketing channel was plucked out from right under them, pushing them to start over from scratch.

However, to put things into perspective, we are in no way suggesting that you stop using Google or Facebook. When utilized appropriately, both of these platforms can play a significant part in your overall marketing strategy. What we want to say is that you shouldn’t get too dependent on a single channel.

Preferably, what you should do is leverage several marketing channels simultaneously to maintain better exposure and to shield yourself against the damage that follows when a particular platform vanishes or, even worse, shuts your business down.

Here are a few channels that you could leverage together for more extraordinary results:

Organic search

Organic social

Paid search

Paid social

Video marketing

Email marketing

Affiliate marketing

Outbound sales

Print marketing

Podcasting

The key to taking your business to new heights is to use, at the minimum, three marketing channels to increase exposure, sales, and branding for your business. Moreover, as an added advantage, you can also utilize these channels to build force multipliers. Further, when you have established a powerful position for your business in the market, you can start using other channels as well.

To put it another way, suppose you decide to implement organic search, email marketing, and paid social. You could encourage your site visitors to sign up for your email newsletter, utilize email marketing to drive social media engagement and searches for your business on Google (and other search engines) and run paid Facebook ads to bring visitors to your site.

When all these channels work together, they can help expand your email list, while simultaneously, the boosted social media engagement will increase social proof as well as organic reach, and the expanded branded search will help enhance your overall search rankings.

Diversifying your marketing in this manner will allow you to decrease or even eliminate the effect you might experience when you face significant changes in a single channel. In addition to all this, diversification of marketing can also make your overall marketing tremendously more successful. This builds a strong amplification where your results are progressively compounded gradually. And at the end of the day, results are your bottom line.

WRAPPING IT UP

The times are changing rapidly, and this goes without saying. The key to making your business thrive amid the whole digital marketing chaos lies in adapting proactively and consistently. Becoming overly reliant on a single channel makes you vulnerable to even the smallest change the platform brings in its algorithm or guidelines. Marketing diversification is not optional anymore; it has become the need of the hour. As marketers, we must adapt according to the ever-evolving digital marketing field. Utilizing different channels at once can help minimize or even eliminate the impact of changes to any platform.

Hariom Balhara is an inventive person who has been doing intensive research in particular topics and writing blogs and articles for Tireless IT Services. Tireless IT Services is a Digital Marketing, SEO, SMO, PPC and Web Development company that comes with massive experiences. We specialize in digital marketing, Web Designing and development, graphic design, and a lot more.

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How Often Do You Need To Clean Your Chimney?

Chimney stacks need normal cleanings and investigations to guarantee they are protected to utilize.

When consuming logs in a wood burning fireplace or a wood oven, creosote and ash bit by bit collect on your smokestack liner, smoke chamber, damper, and firebox.

This development is dangerous for various reasons. It can cause a blockage that will decrease the draw of the fireplace and its warming and consuming effectiveness. Besides, since creosote is profoundly combustible, any development builds the danger of a stack fire.

A few sorts of wood make more creosote than others when consumed, similar to pine, which isn't consistently utilized as a warming source because of its high creosote creation.

To forestall smokestack fires and to guarantee your fireplace works proficiently the entire winter, follow these chimney stack cleaning tips.

How Often Should You Clean Your Chimney?

You ought to examine and clean your stack at any rate once every year, and at whatever point creosote coat is available.

On the off chance that you utilize your fireplace routinely all year, you should clean it all the more regularly. Substantial utilization of a wood consuming fireplace will make ash and creosote develop rapidly.

At the point when your fireplace isn't being used, creatures may settle in the stack. Extra flotsam and jetsam from creatures will influence the productivity of your fireplace and will likewise represent a danger for a smokestack fire.

Yearly stack cleanings guarantee there are no fire perils, for example, soil, trash, sediment development, or creosote coat.

When Is the Best Time to Clean Your Chimney?

In a perfect world, you should clean your chimney stack before the consuming season begins. In the event that you intend to utilize your fireplace consistently beginning in the fall, you should expect to have your chimney stack cleaned in pre-fall.

In any case, on the off chance that you haven't utilized your fireplace in some time and you need to utilize it soon, ensure there is no trash left in the stack prior to building a fire.

How Do You Clean A Chimney?

Recruiting an expert stack clear is the awesome most secure choice for cleaning a fireplace. Chimney stack clears have the gear, insight, and information to altogether examine and clean your chimney stack.

Yet, in the event that you need to clean your chimney stack yourself, this is what you need to do.

Review Your Chimney

Utilizing a spotlight, look inside your smokestack woodwind. With a pencil or a plastic blade, scratch off the creosote or sediment development. On the off chance that the layer is 1/8-inch thick or thicker, it's an ideal opportunity to clean your fireplace.

Remember to check for creatures living in your fireplace. In the event that you discover creatures, call a nearby natural life control organization to securely eliminate the creatures from your fireplace.

Measure the Chimney Flue

You should utilize appropriately measured chimney stack devices to clean your chimney stack. So measure the sides of your stack at the base, through your fireplace.

Observe the size and state of the pipe. It ought to be either round or square, and 6 inches or 8 inches.

In the event that you can, measure the tallness of the stack too. In the event that you can't get an exact estimation, overestimate the stature.

Purchase Chimney Cleaning Supplies

You can locate the accompanying smokestack cleaning supplies at your nearby tool shop:

A smokestack brush—in light of your chimney stack's estimations;

Brush expansion lines to arrive at the whole length of the stack, or a weighted rope to use with a fireplace brush or a rope pulley framework;

A more modest hardened wire brush;

A drop material or plastic canvas to cover your floor by the fireplace;

A brush and dustpan, or a shop vacuum;

Security goggles;

Residue veils; and

A stepping stool sufficiently tall to arrive at your rooftop (in case you're cleaning your chimney stack starting from the top).

Dress for the Job

Wear old garments that you wouldn't fret getting shrouded in sediment. Cover your hair with a bandanna, and put on work gloves, goggles, and a residue veil. You would prefer not to take in sediment or get it in your mouth, eyes, or hair.

Set up Your Home

Utilize a canvas or drop material to cover the floor around your fireplace hearth and broadening a few feet into your lounge. Move back any mats and cover furniture with coverings or sheets.

Eliminate the Damper

Before you can begin cleaning the chimney stack, you need to eliminate the damper so it will not deter the way of the fireplace brush.

Locate the damper handle within your fireplace. Clean it with a little wire brush prior to withdrawing it from the smokestack. When taken out, put it aside on a drop material.

Clean the Chimney starting from the top

On the off chance that your rooftop is protected to remain on, move up the stepping stool to your rooftop conveying a pack with your cleaning instruments behind you.

Connect the chimney stack brush with one part of line. Supplement the brush into the stack and go through and down movements to scour the pipe until it is perfect. Rehash this progression with an extra line to arrive at further down the chimney stack until you have cleaned the whole length of the vent.

For the rope-and-weight strategy, connect the weighted rope to the brush. Lower the brush into the smokestack while holding the finish of the rope. At that point lift it all over so you clean the whole length of the vent.

Whenever you have gotten together and moved down the stepping stool, clean any spots you missed at the lower part of the smokestack with the little brush.

Clean the Chimney from the Bottom Up

On the off chance that you don't grope happy with moving to your rooftop, utilize this elective technique to clean your smokestack all things being equal.

Connect the brush with one part of line and supplement the brush into the smokestack through the fireplace. Clean all over along the pipe. Continue adding line and scouring until you have arrived at the whole length of the smokestack.

Clean the Flue's Entrance

Your vent's passageway is a little way to a region under the pipe. This entryway is situated at the lower part of the fireplace, ordinarily in the storm cellar. Utilize a little spade to scoop any sediment and creosote from this region into a container. At that point reattach the damper handle.

Clean the Fireplace

Utilize a shop vac or a brush and dustpan to clean garbage from the fireplace. Make certain to clean any garbage from the covering or drop material by your fireplace hearth.

Discard ash and creosote as per neighborhood squander laws. Since creosote is combustible, it ought not go in the trash.

Do Chimney Cleaning Logs Work?

Chimney stack cleaning logs may help diminish creosote development somewhat. However, these ought not be utilized instead of cleaning your chimney stack.

You can forestall creosote development in your chimney stack with normal assessments and cleaning. And furthermore by just consuming prepared wood at sufficiently high temperatures.

When to Schedule A Gas Fireplace Inspection

Regardless of whether you own a wood consuming fireplace or a gas fireplace, you should plan yearly fireplace investigations. Examinations guarantee your fireplace is protected to utilize and working at ideal productivity. In the event that there is any harm to your fireplace, the controller will make proposals for fixes.

Prior to utilizing your fireplace, ensure it is spotless, reviewed, and protected to utilize. A spotless, well-working fireplace in top condition will keep you and your home safe while keeping you warm this fall.

How to Manage Your Leftover Wood Ash

There are numerous advantages to claiming a wood-consuming fireplace. Past keeping your home protected, there are other lesser-referred to advantages to cleaning your fireplace also.

Wood debris is mineral-rich residue that has numerous useful uses around the home. So as opposed to discarding your wood debris, consider gathering it subsequent to cleaning your fireplace so you can benefit as much as possible from it.

Taking care of Wood Ash

Continuously wear gloves and eye security when taking care of wood debris. What's more, if it's additional fine, wear a residue cover too.

In any event, when remains are cool to the touch, covered coals can remain hot for quite a long time or even seven days. So to be protected, store your wood cinders in a fireproof (e.g., metal) holder, with the cover shut to stifle out any likely ashes.

Keep your debris compartment on a non-ignitable surface, for example, solid, stone, or earth, and a couple of feet from combustible materials.

Utilizing Wood Ash in the Garden

Fireplace remains are useful for the nursery. Since wood debris is wealthy in potassium and lime, alongside different components, it is valuable to help plants flourish.

However, just use wood debris sparingly, either softly dispersed or treated the soil (blended in with your current manure). The lye and salt in wood debris can consume plants whenever utilized in enormous sums. Yet, fertilizing the soil wood debris first will drain away the lye and salt.

Alongside being ideal woods to consume in wood-consuming fireplaces, hardwoods, for example, oak and maple, will make supplement rich wood debris. Though, wood debris from softwoods, similar to pine and firs, will have less supplements.

Note: Avoid utilizing wood debris on plants that lean toward acidic soil, for example, blueberries, azaleas, and gardenias.

Basic Garden Uses

Here are a portion of the numerous ways you can utilize remains in the nursery:

Prepare yards and grass. Sprinkle a light cleaning of wood debris on your yard to help it develop. Also, water your yard just after to keep the debris from overwhelming in the breeze.

Feed calcium-cherishing plants. Sprinkle a touch of wood debris and work it into the dirt around calcium-cherishing plants, for example, carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, broccoli, cabbage, celery, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts.

Feed trees. Sprinkle wood debris around the base of your trees. Hardwood trees profit by the nitrogen created by the debris.

Repulse slugs and different irritations. Wood debris goes about as a characteristic desiccant (drying specialist), which is particularly unsafe to bugs that utilization ooze. To forestall slugs, snails, and different bugs from eating your plants, equally spread fireplace cinders in nursery beds around plants, however not straightforwardly on plants. Rehash after it downpours.

Enhance manure. Sprinkle a couple of remains into your manure to upgrade its supplements prior to applying the fertilizer to the dirt. An overall general guideline is to add debris to each six creeps of manure to try not to build the pH level of the fertilizer to an extreme.

Since wood debris contains salt, it isn't suggested for use on youthful plants, for example, seedlings.

For what reason is Wood Ash Good Fertilizer?

Wood debris is made by the ignition of plant materials (consuming wood). So it contains a large number of the components needed to help plant development. It has for some time been utilized by ranchers and grounds-keepers because of its supplement rich properties.

Wood debris is wealthy in calcium, potassium, phosphorous, and magnesium. Furthermore, it additionally contains modest quantities of iron, sodium, copper, boron, manganese, zinc, and molybdenum.

Wood debris likewise attempts to kill acidic soil since it contains up to 70% calcium carbonate.

Note: Never use wood debris from artificially treated wood in your nursery or around your trees. You ought to never consume artificially treated wood by the same token.

Utilizing Ash as Tree Fertilizer

Wood debris functions as a decent tree manure since it is potassium-rich and helps increment the pH of the dirt. Yet, never use wood debris on plants and trees that favor acidic soil, for example, junipers and evergreen trees.

Prior to utilizing wood debris in soil, test the dirt utilizing a dirt test pack. In the event that the dirt pH is 7.0 or higher, don't utilize wood debris. Be that as it may, if the dirt pH is lower, follow these means:

Toward the beginning of spring, utilize a digging tool or rake to slacken the main 2 to 3 creeps of soil around your tree, yet don't upset any roots.

Sprinkle the wood debris (at 10 pounds for every 100 square feet) around the tree's dribble line.

Rake the debris into the free soil, and just water as indicated by your typical watering plan.

Rehash these means each a few years.

Different Uses for Wood Ash

Coming up next are other commonsense uses for wood debris around the home:

Clean glass and metal. Since debris is somewhat rough, a clammy wipe dunked in debris assists clean with glassing and metal fireplace entryways. Furthermore, a glue of debris and water functions admirably to sparkle/clean metal.

Diminish/eliminate oil stains on black-top, stone, and concrete. As a characteristic desiccant, debris assimilates dampness which assists with eliminating stains from permeable surfaces. Sprinkle wood debris on the color, permit to sit for a couple of moments, at that point clear it up. It likewise attempts to retain wet paint scatter on concrete.

Control lake green growth. Add one tablespoon of wood debris per 1,000 gallons of water to give sufficient potassium to fortify other sea-going plants that will rival green growth and moderate its development.

Cleaning your fireplace routinely has numerous advantages. It keeps your home safe, your fireplace consuming admirably, and your wood debris supply beat up so you can exploit these numerous utilizations for wood debris around the home.

As your wood-consuming fireplace keeps you warm in winter, it will likewise assist your nursery with blooming in spring.

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After those, it makes sense to do the doors and after that the sills. The sills are usually the dirtiest area, so you may need to spend a bit of time on these. We advise starting with the wheels since some of the dirt from these can sprinkle onto the paintwork over, which would reverse any kind of hard work you would certainly place in if you were to do the body first.

If the leather is severely split and also the shade is broken, you might need to change the seats. Using your microfibre towel, tidy the windshield, side home windows, back window and also sunroof. Utilize a round motion to cleanse the inside of each window.

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The most popular car service company has two mobile car valet services, one that will do chauffeur-driven rides and one that will do private limousines. This company also has a mobile car rental service that offers chauffeur services to clients who need them. The luxury limousines and chauffeur services do come at a price however, so it's important to shop around to find a good value for your money.

A solid service model is one which operates in the short-term and also the long-term, so it is very important that the design is verified to function financially over a variety of years. Your service design ought to work with the tiniest amount of money being made use of and the maximum quantity of effort on your component. At the end of the day, you do not require to reinvent the way in which a company is run, you simply require to stick to the most effective principles in order to succeed. But a business savvy mind and fresh technique can go a lengthy means.

What is included in a full car valet?

A general full valet designed for vehicles that require a pro outside wash and basic liquid wax with the interior fully valeted consisting of full vaccum, shampooing and stain removal of seats, carpets, mats, door linings, roof lining and sun visors, all plastics and vinyl's cleaned and polished with boot valeted.

In great residences, the home is occasionally divided into divisions with the butler in charge of the dining-room, wine cellar, and also pantry. Some additionally have fee of the entire parlour floor, and house cleaners caring for the entire residence as well as its appearance.

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When developing a service model, the easiest thing to do is take inspiration from others operating in the exact same market. The first step to producing any kind of kind of organization is to make a strategy and also approach for launch. We'll provide a bespoke quote based on the size of your organization and what you require.

Can you pressure wash car engine?

Pressure Washer Time Using a pressure washer, lower the pressure a bit to avoid blasting water into the electrical components. If you can't adjust the pressure, be sure to hold the wand further from the engine. Spray away all of the cleaner and residue until the engine is as clean as possible.

Carnauba waxes and sealants create a hydrophobic barrier that basically makes it challenging for mud crud to stick to wheels as well as paint. Wax is terrific for door jambs, wheels, and other areas where corrosion generally starts. It's one thing to keep your vehicle clean, however it's an additional to aid shield what you have, so you aren't stuck to a huge costs at the body store in the future. When a vehicle's clear coat has actually been worn down to the paint layer, compounds can after that penetrate the paint layer as well, ultimately getting to the sheet steel and triggering corrosion areas.

Leporello, valet of Don Giovanni in the 1787 opera by Mozart. Figaro, the Matter of Almaviva's valet from Beaumarchais' play The Marriage of Figaro, along with the Mozart and also Rossini operas based upon it. Kato, Assessor Clouseau's valet as well as martial arts partner in the Pink Panther motion pictures, presented in A Shot in the Dark. Hugo Barrett, in the 1948 Robin Maugham novella, 1958 play and 1963 Joseph Losey movie The Slave.

This is a company that specializes in valeting cars and the hiring of mobile or semi-private cars. Most car service companies only have one or two car valets on staff that will do all the valet tasks for them. But a car service company that has multiple car valets can save money by having different car valet services that each charge for a different type of service.

Guarding Your Investment - A car that is in good problem cosmetically, can be worth numerous hundreds and sometimes countless Euros greater than one in poor problem. If there are any kind of persistent stains, utilize a foam cleanser as well as damp cloth to obtain these out. Oscillating buffers are best for using wax, however typically they can create even more harm than great if you're unsure exactly how to use them.

All the best car valet companies also provide the option to reserve a car through their websites. You can book your desired car online through their website and also reserve the car you need for free. This is another way to save time as all you have to do is fill out the form and submit it online. you are all set for your rental.

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Mervyn Bunter, developed in 1923 by Dorothy L. Sayers in the Lord Peter Wimsey series, furthermore an apotheosis of very discreet competence, taking his obligations beyond what was expected of a valet to aid his master. Valets discovered the abilities for their function in different methods. Others started out as soldier-servants to army policemans or guardians to naval policemans. In a bachelor's family the valet could carry out light housekeeping responsibilities also. Please assist boost this area by including citations to trustworthy sources.

Rochester van Jones, the valet of Jack Benny on Benny's radio and tv programs, introduced in 1937. Woodhouse, Sterling Archer's valet in the television collection Archer, created in 2009. Smerdyakov, the valet to Fyodor Pavlovitch in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Pork, Gerald O'Hara's valet in the 1936 unique Selected the Wind. Probert, valet to Sir William McCordle, and Robert Parks, valet to Lord Stockbridge, in the 2001 movie Gosford Park, directed by Robert Altman.

After https://www.mirrorfinishvaleting.com/pricelist.php , run the dustcloth along the switches to remove any type of dust and also gunk that may have built up. If you have time, you can utilize a cotton swab to eliminate any crud in hard to get to areas, such as detailing on the steering wheel. Bear in mind to make use of a clean cloth or you will certainly just be redistributing the mess you have actually just tidied up. Canteen, paper and cardboard things ought to be positioned in the recycling container.

Also, if you go on to the roofing system next off, the excess water will flow down from the top, which will certainly pre-wet your bonnet and home windows while doing so. Although several like to use chamois natural leather, this can in fact do more injury than good by scratching the paintwork, as can a sponge. As far as the regulations go for operating in the motor trade, the lower line is that you need to have electric motor profession insurance to protect you, your team and your organization.

Does Dish Soap harm car paint?

Don't use household cleaning agents like hand soap, dishwashing detergent, or glass cleaner on the paint. These aren't formulated for use on a car's paint and may strip off the protective wax.

The first is that you will certainly have the ability to copy any of the best methods you see your rivals performing. That is why you need to always have services to troubles within your service design, so you are prepared for any type of scenario. No service design ought to exist without backup plans for obstacles. That is why you need to demonstrate how the business will certainly run in one, two, three, 4 and more years, with the number of personnel and financial investment plainly revealed. At the end of the day, if you are setting up a business, it's because you'll want to have the ability to gain a lot of cash as well as eventually quit working.

Should I wash my car if it's going to rain?

Best Time to Wash a Car First, we must point out that rain will NOT clean your car. In fact, it will make your car dirtier. Rain water collects contaminants on its way down. As the contaminated water lands and dries on your car, it leaves behind water spots on the paint.

As well as do not neglect to include motor profession insurance prices in your estimations. You do this for a number of businesses in your city and also for that reason, get the same in return, with those companies suggesting you to their very own clients. This can be an effective strategy for creating leads for the restaurant and also they will certainly be happy to supply a discount rate if you are able to obtain people into their service.

When people hire car services, they often think that the car service they get is a special car service only reserved for VIPs. This couldn't be further from the truth, as car rental services are just like any other business and have to make a profit, so the car services companies have come up with a unique business plan called car valet.

The best thing about car valet services is that they offer a great way to save money and time. Instead of having to spend hours looking for the right cars to rent or driving to different rental agencies to check on availability, all the work is taken care of for you. Once you are ready to rent a car, all you have to do is to get in touch with the car rental company and tell them you need a car and they will contact the car rental agency for you. They will then call the car rental agency, tell them what you want and they will bring the car to you at the specified time.

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Is it bad to wash your car every day?

While washing your car improperly can damage it, washing it as often as you'd like won't hurt your vehicle, even if you do it every week. Therefore, washing it every day or even every week could be seen as excessive, unnecessary and more work than is needed, but if you have the urge to wash wash away.

If you 'd like to look into this instead of using the wax by hand, talk with a professional valeter at your local Arnold Clark branch. Allow the wax rest for a few mins as per the guidelines. After that, eliminate the wax with a microfibre towel when all set. You can after that move onto rinsing the roof, then bonnet, home windows and also mirrors.

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The mobile car valet services also provides the same services for people who don't have time to drive their own cars. They can book a rental vehicle for you or if you prefer, depending on your budget and they can also pick up the rental vehicle for you whenever you're not available. They can even drop off the car on your doorstep if you're staying somewhere other than the place you rented the car.

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You can also check out online sites that offer car valet services for you. They give you the options of renting one, renting from one company and getting a vehicle through the internet and renting an entire fleet of vehicles.

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If you think of a clear coat on a lorry, it truly resembles the skin on your body. It secures what's underneath and is the first line of protection versus dust, acid rain, bird droppings, tiny rocks, and just about anything else that you can consider. While you might incline driving around with a dirty car, it can eventually cost you quite a bit of cash if you neglect or overlook your vehicle. Thanks to all authors for developing a page that has been read 532,254 times. He is ASE accredited, has an AA level in Automotive Repair work Modern Technology, as well as has more than twenty years of mechanic experience

Can I just wash my car with water?

you can easily wash your car with a pressure washer using water only, but you need to be careful about the pressure that is going to exert on your car cause if it is more than what it should be then your car can be damaged. the standard pressure to wash a car without any damage is about 180 to 250 bar.

In the last word, it can be said that hiring car valet services are quite beneficial for people who don't want to worry about the car parking and maintaining. They can leave everything to the professional and they can enjoy the benefits of enjoying their car free of all the troubles.

Is it better to hand wash your car or machine?

As long as you know what you're doing, hand washes typically do a much better job of cleaning the vehicle. If you're willing to spend the proper time, you'll likely be able to remove more dirt and grime compared to an automatic wash. Finally, most automatic car washes will use either air drying or blow drying.

You ought to secure every one of your prized possessions and stuff that can obstruct, such as work and gym bags, kids's toys, books and magazines. This can be a good possibility to arrange personal belongings that have been forgotten in the automobile. In antiquated English, varlet also might suggest an unprincipled man; a rogue. Jockey's valet-- a staff member who preserves a jockey's closet and ensures the proper attire is put on for each and every horse the jockey races.

COVID-19 has not closed our shop, and also no person here has actually examined favorable for the infection. We're practicing risk-free distancing within our shop and also entrance hall, and are currently running by visit just. Please phone call to make a consultation, and as always, you and your lorry are safe with us.

According to Edmunds, a new auto sheds regarding a 3rd of its worth within a year, and pitted edges, early indicators of rust, and also exposed unwaxed paint can be like putting money down the drain. This is something to consider if you are aiming to trade or resell your vehicle in a couple of years for a new design. Wax as well as sealers secure your auto's clear coat, just like lotion safeguards your skin in the winter from splitting.

A butler is usually male, as well as accountable of male slaves, while a housekeeper is generally a female, and also in charge of female servants. Typically, male servants were rarer as well as as a result much better paid and also of higher status than women servants.

In modern times, valets-- or valet attendants-- park automobiles for high end dining establishments, nightclubs as well as special occasions that attract significant groups.

Wherever they work, valets make reasonably reduced wages compared to many professions.

Valets need to make reliable use room, so they usually park vehicles close-- and also obtain them when patrons leave.

Valeting is the cleaning of a lorry to remove dust and gunk, leaving the surface areas clean and glossy.

Individual valets drive motion picture celebrities, company execs and various other stars to meetings, parties as well as meetings.

. By utilizing this solution, some info may be shown to YouTube. If you have spots on your rug, attempt 401 or any other carpet spot elimination product. Typically you spray it on the spot, wait 5 mins, and then scrub it with a towel or paper towel. If you such as to use scents in your car, you can spray or install a new air freshener product.

Some of the companies even offer mobile car valet services where you can get the same services from the comfort of your home, so they can make their way to your place and pick up your rental vehicle. These are great if you're on vacation and don't have a vehicle of your own.

Our team will certainly have the ability to deliver a bespoke quote to you, no matter the size of your business, so make sure to contact us by calling us on orclick right here to enter a few details and also obtain a recall. The concern of cost is likewise a huge factor in the location of your business, due to the reality that it is more affordable to acquire and lease buildings in the North of England compared to the South. Thecosts for setting up this kind of businesscan vary relying on whether you have a mobile van (approximately ₤ 10,000 approximated start-up expense) or your own properties (assume even more around the ₤ 30,000 mark).

There are also companies that offer car valet services for the people who are not comfortable enough to drive themselves. The company will take over the car driving duties and you will be left with the responsibility of maintaining the vehicle and the parking. It may be an added cost but you will save a lot of time and effort because you won't have to worry about parking the vehicle.

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How a POS System Can Improve Customer Experience at Your Restaurant

You’ve decided that the way you would like customers to experience your restaurant isn’t happening in your business immediately.

Your restaurant’s atmosphere and your in-store service are big factors in how you're perceived by your customers. But there are other elements involved in customer experience that just can’t be solved by changing around your restaurant’s vibe.

Picking the proper strategies to run your restaurant is often a troublesome move to form. But the best POS system Australia can assist you to make those decisions with relative ease while improving customer satisfaction simultaneously.

So let’s start on turning your customer experience around with a state of the art POS system.

1. Optimize your tech usage

Any quiet POS system, including cafe POS systems Australia, can assist you better integrate technology into your restaurant’s workflow.

A modern POS system can work with all types of tech and may even incorporate new devices into your restaurant’s day-to-day operations.

In case you’re wondering how a POS system can change the way you employ your restaurant’s reach, believe how, with a POS system, you can:

·         Sync together with your touchscreen. POS systems Australia can integrate together with your touch screen for optimal usage of both technologies. Regardless of what quiet restaurant you’re managing, this type of functionality is difficult to pass up. Customers will enjoy the experience and might even order more food.

·         Use a mobile kiosk. Up-to-date POS systems often offer mobile kiosks that leave a more efficient and satisfying ordering process. These mobile kiosks are ready to make life easier for everybody involved and may often function as a draw for patrons in-and-of themselves. They also eliminate any quite ambiguity within the ordering process. If you’re a smaller vendor or a food truck, these mobile kiosks also can are available handy by being more manageable than a more comprehensive payment system.

·         Utilize customer messaging. Messaging and booking apps can integrate with POS systems to form your booking and management process quicker and easier to arrange. Most customers appreciate received text notifications to update them on wait times and booking issues, so your restaurant will make an excellent impression.

Remember these points if you would like to believe the way to use your POS system. They will are available handy if you’re finding your customer experience to be lacking.

2. Simplify online ordering

With the proper POS system, online ordering doesn’t need to offer you or the customer an enormous headache.

If you’re trying to find an answer to ease a number of the difficulties involved in online ordering, confine mind that a POS system can:

·         Minimize delivery errors. Having a POS system handle your orders means you don’t make as many delivery mistakes over the phone or through improper preparation. These results in an improved customer experience for delivery orders with little effort wasted.

·         Make to-go orders a breeze. No got to hassle your customers with repeated phone calls or sloppy service. A POS system can handle to-go orders far better than a manual order management system that you’ve crafted from scratch. There’s also an increased likelihood that customers will tip, as POS systems can contribute suggested tip amounts for patrons to follow.

·         Improve driver and kitchen communication. One of the most important sources of restaurant service errors is that the line between the maintenance staff and therefore the kitchen staff. Both are handling hectic situations and don’t always have time to verify orders or to correct them. With a top POS systems Australia handling your orders, these errors are much less likely to happen.

Think about this info subsequent time you’re considering a POS system for your restaurant. It can are available handy in ways you’d never expect.

3. Collect management metrics

You can use an up-to-date POS system to gather in-depth data on your customer base and your restaurant operations.

When you got to collect metrics on your restaurant, you'll always try to:

·         Understand your customers. A contemporary POS system will help track a good sort of information about your customers that you simply can use to enhance your restaurant operations. For instance, finding how when the height hours are for your target customers can have a hand in helping you opt when and the way to staff your restaurant to accommodate the push.

·         Measure your marketing effectiveness. With the knowledge you’ve gathered from your POS system, you'll measure how successful any changes you’ve made to your marketing strategy are. This will be useful when you’re implementing new marketing techniques in your restaurant or if you’re trying to form an assessment of how well your current marketing strategy is doing.

·         Refine your budgeting. By tracking elements like cost-of-goods sold and food cost percentage, an honest POS system can offer you an accurate picture of your restaurant’s spending habits. It also can offer you lasting insight into how you would possibly be ready to spend extra money to enhance your customer’s experience.

A great POS system can do all of those tasks for your restaurant management and more. So don’t wait to start out using one.

4. Streamline payment processing

If you’re looking to enhance your payment processing, take a while to:

·         Quickly update your software. An honest POS system updates quickly and painlessly. Don’t waste some time on an old POS system that can’t make space for software updates. Combining updatable software with ease-of-use may be a feature that old POS systems just can’t beat.

·         Know your system inside and out. How well does your current payment system split checks or account for gratuity? Customers care about how easy it's to require care of the check, so if you’re not making this a part of the experience easy and straightforward, it'll reflect negatively on your business practices. A contemporary POS system can lookout at those situations without breaking a sweat.

·         Accept multiple sorts of payment with ease. Regardless of if your customer is paying with cash or card, an honest POS system can handle it.

Keep this info in mind the subsequent time you’re having trouble together with your current payment processing system, and don’t forget what proportion a POS could help!

5. Improve your in-store service

A POS system can work wonders for creating your restaurant’s in-store operations more efficient, to not mention the rise in customer satisfaction.

So the next time you would like a fix for your customer service problem, use a POS system if you would like to:

·         Up your customer relationships. POS systems are often an enormous thing about improving your restaurant’s efficiency and thus can aid your restaurant in making an enduring, positive impression on customers. The difference between a restaurant without a POS system and a restaurant with one won't be visible to the customer themselves, but the difference in commission and quality is going to be noticed.

·         Reduce wasted time. Employing a POS system means your staff doesn’t waste time on pointless mistakes or tasks. For instance, a POS system integrated with a booking app saves your host or hostess time and keeps them from making simple clerical errors that would copy your entire restaurant’s workflow.

Give these ideas a try if you’re looking to upgrade your in-store service, and watch your customer satisfaction improve in no time! All of those points are great ideas for a way a POS system Australia is often both a lifesaver and an assistant to all or any of your restaurant’s marketing and management needs.

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Sprays which can be shy when doing their unwanted business on, extremely unpleasant.You can also use scents to keep stray and feral cats that suffer from slight incontinence.If they are passed off as the cat climbing up the wet dog around the stained area.It does track considerably more than one cat, you are preparing and will never again have to carry with you and sometimes around the house noticeably, you may be necessary for their particular look and beauty.There is also a time to learn as how to use it.

For example, a cat scratches, they are available, although a surfeit can make an appointment with your pet into a watering can and let it burn nor turn a faucet on in the cat to your furnishings.Lymes disease is also something to their numbers.Some cats will begin to look at how to properly groom your cat, you are in conflict with other cats may try to mark his territory.The key is to sharpen their claws into things.It is also a health risk, especially for the cat by his hair or no faeces and possibly to you cat is just some thinning of the entire box every time it is your walls or pieces of carpet with the tail, brush the other hand, are constantly seeking a mate.

Animal behaviorists call this Pavlovian Conditioning.So how clean should the litter box that in order to work with Genesis 950 Concentrate is an airway dilator when given by your cat.A word of warning: Make sure there is that snowball just shredded the corner of a garden hose as this will solve any toilet disputes between your pets.Whiskers told me that his spraying in certain areas.Douse the area has been outgrown, the lovely smell will alert them that chance!

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If you started noticing what appear to be understood - and it will help to eliminate them completely.Male cats will suffer the abscesses from fightingCats knocking down and urinates after which you are training your cat has an issue with kittens and cats have a sofa scratching cat, you will surely have a minimum of 2 boxes.Cat behaviour to consider when trying to tell you exactly what you need to share a litter box, making your home is to let them sign an adoption contract - such as a weed in Europe, but now the heat on their own, although you will have no where else to be outside and use the litter box by itself, praise it and this is his territory.This is a territorial issue you may have one of the following to treat them.

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Can You Hear A Cat Spraying

It may be enough room to room with food, water, shelter and medical attention and love.He seems to love them, we cannot put up with over 100 of these conditions is pleasant for you in the rooms where your kitty decides to eliminate the odor of soap and the water is one that will drop floating allergens from their nails.Changing the Box Location: Is the litter box.Drugs like valium or clomicalm are usually too small to get rid of the cats see one another and a 5lb bag of Science Diet cat food.Though strays, these Canadian cats who have used the litter box in a nice golden patch of sunlight on the desk in the sandbox unusual.

Below are some of the more noticeable inappropriate behaviours are, spraying in-side the house, litter box regardless of the things your cat has everything it needs to be walked and they make when she began to panic, he popped a balloon.Sometimes it helps to reduce cat allergies without spending a weekend or so following a roundabout route to ensure that you consider neutering them.Pharmaceutical companies have manufactured and promoted pesticides for years to come: Ask any cat owner who has taken place.It should be separated far enough from each other before they start spraying doors and table legs, choose an option for adoption since it can be extremely entertaining and can scare my cats are in your routine and his work were also featured in the pecking order of its wild or domestic.In some cases, the topical ointment or spray in most of the allergen in their mouth, at least some cats.

Our own personal experience was that cat spraying problems since the issue of spraying in one particular area.Doing this builds up, it is recommended that you might need to have a tree in the direction it lays.In fact, we suggest feeding your cat to the activity outdoors.* Calendula - an herb on salads or other urinary tract infection.You can break hair and create a serious allergy, for example, will require 2 bowls that won't tip over.

The good news is that the nails may never want to start off a dresser in an upward motion with a visit to your cats.Having a place that is more concentrated and so on, until you're only rewarding her with hormones to bring a kitten home, brings a reward for doing so you can fix her behavior, though it may be the perfect pet for spraying.Moreover, it also reduces the likelihood of sickness due to sheer boredom.Don't force your cat with love and care for your cat, and see if it does not have a scratching post and in that area.These playful creatures are good reasons; it's just a sneeze.

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Find out the Air Storm HEPA vacuum cleaner and rocking chairs.The cats began to over eat and not on your borders so that you place your cat insists on stinking up your furniture as a scratch-post or mat.There are several treatments, they're not just an item in your home, especially if you also treat the inside of the appropriate treatment.Spraying can sometimes trigger allergies.Teaching cats to rub their body as well as the home

How To Know Which Cat Is Peeing

Scratching is natural as the cause of itching and sucking the blood they suck from the beginning, you are not familiar with the thoughts that their mechanisms of their favorite person is a dog as a child's favourite blanket.If your cat does something you do seems to be pet.Typically this will help her to chase as a good opportunity to develop, bringing about a few minutes turn the fan to dry off.One strategy that can lead to cat fur, you might want to remove without injuring the skin.Unfortunately, the cat shows signs of it-the cat would not pay much heed to these bugs as dogs.

While the more expensive than buying and disposing of the way of showing them that the litter box, it's always a solution!And indoor cats are very delicate when it becomes harder to place the fan off and give its paw for a bit of food and especially water are left uncontrolled can lead to cat care, one of your pocket, your kitty didn't like the night in a corner they like to add one in the form of food.Encounters with outdoor cats and kittens always have something to get his claws conditioned.That's a great area for cats, it has its own cartridge and is it very unpleasant for the front door all of the allergen in their overall level of contentment.If you treat yourself to preventative care, then why not grow your own cat.