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    To Prevent New Allies
    To Prevent New Allies
    To Prevent New Allies
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    To Prevent New Allies

    By Emily Martha Sorensen

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    Florence is supposed to recruit three magical girls to help her create something that will help the entire world. That should be easy, right?

    Well . . . one of them wants to be bribed.

    One of them doesn't speak English.

    And one of them disagrees with her entire purpose.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEmily Martha Sorensen
    Release dateMar 12, 2019
    To Prevent New Allies
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    Emily Martha Sorensen

    Books were my first love and best friends growing up, which I did in five states and four countries. My love of storytelling has never waned, and I've always wanted to write -- and share -- my own stories.I love fantasy, especially fairy tale retellings, fascinating magic systems, humor, and clean paranormal romance. I like science fiction too, but the more magic in a story, the more pleased I'm likely to be.I have two comics, the first of them complete, the second ongoing. I enjoy reading, writing, drawing, crafts, editing, and I occasionally play videogames.

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      To Prevent New Allies - Emily Martha Sorensen

      Chapter 1: The Bribe

      Flakes of snow swirled through the frigid air.  Snowbelle danced through them with a total disregard for temperature.

      She was a magie with snow powers, a Snowy in Tarc.  To the uninitiated, that meant she was a magical girl who had been born in Snow City, Antarctica.  But to a Tarcie, HA HA, being so formal would be insane!  Most Tarcies’ parents had come from Australia, and almost everybody here used abbreviations for things.

      Snowbelle giggled as she twirled through the flurries.  She wasn’t quite as graceful as Fay, her friend with ice skating powers, but she enjoyed being outside just as much.  When you didn’t have to worry about the temperature, there was something about the crisp, clear air of the Antarctican wilderness that was appealing.

      Tarc was the prettiest place in the world.  It was also her home.  And given that she was popular, her life was great fun in every way.

      Footsteps were crunching on the snow towards her.

      Raul!  Snowbelle panicked.

      Okay, it wasn’t great fun in every way.  Her manager kept bugging her to do the ads she’d agreed to film today.  But TV ads were so boring, and her parents wouldn’t let her spend the money from her sponsorships until she was eighteen, anyway!

      She couldn’t let Raul catch up with her.  He’d make her go in.

      Acting like she hadn’t heard the footsteps, Snowbelle summoned a blizzard and pranced off as fast as she could go.  She couldn’t move as quickly as somebody in snowshoes, but maybe she could get away if she confused him about which way to go.

      Snowbelle? a muffled voice called through the searing winds and floods of flakes.

      Her ice slide!  Maybe she could use that to get away!  It was the fastest way to travel long distances, so she used it all the time to get people between Snow City, Ice City, and Frost City.  She’d sometimes even helped magies commute to Chill City, the new one that was currently being set up!

      But if she used that, Raul would know for sure that she was trying to avoid him.  Then he’d lecture her about responsibility as soon as she got back home, and her parents would probably take his side like they always did, and that would be so boriiiiiiiing!

      On the other hand, maybe she could claim she’d always meant to go to Ice City today to see Fay, who was an Icy, and she just hadn’t heard Raul because of the sudden blizzard that had come up for no reason, certainly not because she’d summoned it.  Yes!  That could work!  Blizzos were notoriously unpredictable, right?

      Snowbelle spun and shoved her hand out, creating a torrent of flakes to crystallize into ice.  Just a few more seconds, and —

      "Snowbelle?" the voice called again.  There was an edge of panic to it.

      Snowbelle paused.  That’s not Raul, is it?

      She didn’t recognize the voice at all.  Which meant it wasn’t her manager here to lecture her.  It was probably either a brand new magie who wanted training from the strongest magie in Tarc, or a sponsor who wanted to pay her, maybe for ads that were more interesting this time.

      Hm? Snowbelle dropped the blizzard and spun around.

      Frozen flakes still gusted around, perhaps because wind didn’t die immediately after you summoned it.  But now that it was possible to see further than her face, she could see there were three people in snowshoes standing several meters away from her, wearing thick coats and hats and scarves and still shivering.  Behind them were tracks walking from Snow City.

      Snowbelle felt a bit bad.  She hadn’t meant to make normies suffer.  It was clear none of them were magies, because two of them were way too old, and the third . . . okay, the one in front could be a magie, but in that case, why hadn’t she transformed?

      We’re, um . . .  The brown-skinned teenage girl in the front gulped, looking nervous.  I’m Florence Atkins, and these are my parents.  The mayor of Snow City said we’d find you out here.

      Snowbelle snorted and rolled her eyes. 

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