Blame the prompt jar and several silly ideas tossed about on the blog for this. My friend is encouraging me to write a second chapter of this. He’s winning.
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Beryl Jones crossed her legs and sulked outside the Gravity Falls elementary.
When her parents had announced they were moving to Gravity Falls, she’d thought there would be more excitement. This was where The Transcendence happened, where magic was reborn, it should be more…magical than this.
It was supposed to be the home of Alcor the Dreambender, and the Pines family, and everything else magic, and so far the most magical thing she’d seen had been the gnomes by the edge of the forest, who admittedly were much better groomed and bolder than the ones in their old city.
And now she was stuck picking up her annoying little brother, just like always. She sighed again and kicked a pebble across the playground. He was late, probably to annoy her, like usual.
Finally he came bursting out of the school, chattering rapidly with three other kids – taller than him, red headed, looked like they were siblings.
Brian caught her eye and waved, saying a cheerful goodbye to his new friends and rushing over.
He started chattering almost before he was close enough for her to hear him, and she rolled her eyes as they started walking toward her car (it was a piece of crap but it was the best she could afford on her part time job) but despite her disinterest she caught a few words – ‘Pines’, ‘triplets’, and ‘Uncle’.
She glanced back in time to see the kids lay a piece of paper down on the ground and chant something while standing around it, and she froze as black smoke billowed out of the paper.
A Chance Encounter
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