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  - Within and Without: A Tindin Journey With Erotica

  RYST

  When I got back to my casita after giving Peydran my manuscript, I paced, restless. I knew why, of course. There were two more copies of Within and Without sitting by my printer, and I had to do something with them. I knew I would do it.

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  “Yuuuarrrhg!” I groaned. I sat on my shiki cushion and rocked with my arms around my torso. The pressure feeling; something was pushing on me. Something was coming that I could not see. All those tangled threads. Years of tangled thoughts. It was just right outside my reach. I wouldn’t calm down until I made a decision. I requested a courier and packaged up the manuscripts.

  Ryst: Courier is bringing you a manuscript. Please do not show it to anyone and do not leave it lying about—not appropriate for children. I'd like honest feedback when you’re ready.

  Sorchen: I hear and obey.

  I sent a similar message to Denten, and finally, finally, I felt calm. It was time to finish the project I’d started this morning.

  On the table near me lay a thin, pale wooden box. It was also from Carina Galaxy, and it was designed to hold this book.

  I lifted the lid from the box, and slid my ribbon-bound copy of Within and Without inside. I replaced the lid, and ran my fingertips over the sigil burned into the top: an ankh. Then I slid the box onto a bookshelf next to my copies of Chaludra: Warrior Priestess of Lone Rock Mountain.

  Ahtah, something is coming. Get ready.