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An Accountant and Too Few Fir
Trees
The world was a pall of white, snow blanketing the earth and
hanging thickly from branches bent under its weight. A second
shroud of white hung in dense clouds above, though the sun broke
through to set the frosty scape aglitter. Otherworldly in its beauty, the
picturesque wonderland stretched for as far as one could see in every
direction, and, gods, was it fucking cold.
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Kol was only half made for traipsing through frozen forests, and he
wasn’t even really sure about the frozen part. He pulled his coat tighter
around hunched shoulders, which helped, and he grimaced harder, which
didn’t help, but he had convinced himself long ago that indulging in feeling
bad made one feel better, so he did it anyway. But Kol still shivered, his feet
went numb in his boots, and his back ached in a way that definitely wasn’t
supposed to happen until after turning thirty, and because he wasn’t feeling
at one with the world around him at all, he silently cursed his half-elven
ancestry for failing him so spectacularly yet again.
The human half of Kol was no better—in fact, it was probably much
worse—and as he tugged his skullcap down over ears that were pointed
both too much and not enough, he let his irritation shift from the magical to
the mundane. He’d inherited a human constitution and fortitude, both of
which were significantly weaker than an elf’s, yet all the responsibilities
that came with protecting the charmed way of life. The worst of both
worlds, and into neither did he fit.
You are simply different, he could hear his mother’s voice in his mind
over the whipping winds. He wasn’t meant for toiling directly with the earth
alongside those that were full-blooded—twelve broken bones in a hydra
incident, a nearly fatal bout of cockatrice pox, and a manager who had a
mental breakdown trying to keep him alive proved that—but he was an
exceptional counter. At least coordinating expeditions to enchanted
locations and turning scribbled elven field notes into legible reports were
much easier expectations to live up to, and they could be done from the
relative comfort and safety of an indoor seat behind a computer screen.
Usually.
Beneath Kol, a fehszar lumbered along, bothered by neither the
temperature nor the crossed blood of its rider. The charmed creature’s lanky
legs and coarse fur were made for harsh winters, and it took him toward
Everroot Grove on instinct—a good thing since only creatures who were
born there could find the way. Even if Kol had any idea where he was
headed, he couldn’t see past her antlers which was just as well surrounded
by nothing but white.
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