Ebraxas: A Short Story

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Paisley had learned a great deal these first eight weeks:

monsters with capricious and violent means, jealous and vengeful forces, demigods and mystical councilors. Every one of them lightened her imagination to a flame, and then some. From the mere notion that the myths do exist to reconciling it as shear fact, this newfound realm captured her mind in a way that little else has yet been able to.

Left to her own devices, the young botanist decided to explore the finer elements that the gods' domain had to offer. At first, she was overwhelmed with the possibilities, Ebraxas or Axis Mundi? Both places held something that she had not seen before.

It was decided. She'd never been to Vegas.

Spreading the broads, Paisley imbued herself in gambling

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