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Chapter 6: The Toymaker’s Workshop The long weeks began to take their toll on the toymaker as he sought an ever elusive safe haven for himself and his Nutcracker nephew.  The kingdom he’d once lived in chased the two of them out almost immediately.  Even if it was the once great Drosselmeyer and his apprentice, the king’s orders were absolute and a human and a cursed toy had no welcome. Next they tried to seek shelter amongst the dolls.  That was before the mice came seeking them out.  Some of the dolls would occasionally grant them shelter, but it was always brief.  The ferocity of the revenge-seeking mice would eventuall

Regions of Takara: The West author: sen'Narati Selah Please check the description for pronunciation and side notes. The Western region, or the Delta as only those of Western blood would dare say, is the home of magic. Well over one-third of all the magicians in the country dwell within these regional borders. This is hardly surprising, though, once it is considered that the West is also the most densely populated of the five regions of Takara. Now, I don't exactly have census records in front of me as I say this, but when one looks at the country as a whole this fact becomes exceedingly obvious. The West is probably the only region truly sui

----Chapter 25: Across the Dunes of Gerudo Mesa As night turned to day, rock soon became splattered specks, pebbles of brown spread across the path as if the heavens had dusted their clouds.  The mountains fell away, crumbled into bits of rock that instead rose in dunes, particles of their sides floating away with light and strong winds alike.  The sands of the Gerudo Desert had at last greeted Link and Midna.  However, with sparse clouds dotting the sky, the gleaming mass above was free to heat the pebbles to a high degree.  The warmth radiating from the sand burned at Link's face, and already he felt