n everyone,” Pinkili ordered. “Let's just take turns okay! Right Dea?”

“Y-yeah, we'll do that. You all can pick the order in which you'll take turns coming out to help when summoned. I'll be casting that spell the moment I return so please decide quickly... okay.”

The group all nodded their heads in agreement and began a fierce battle of rocks, paper, scissors. Kilijoy jumped up and down in cheer while the others all grumped about losing before starting another round to see who would go second.

“Are you going right now?” Kilijoy asked excitedly.

“Ah... that's right,” Demora said, looking at the grimoire in her arms. She really wanted to sit down and read it but knew she couldn't since she had to hurry and return to her body to face an angry Kresh. “Hmm, since I'll be heading off to battle again, is it alright if I leave my grimoire in your care?”

“Of course you can!” Cylem said, having won second place as the rest started another round for third place. With a big smile on her face, Cylem received the grimoire and hugged it close to her body. “We wish you luck in your battle ahead... and look forward to your summons!”

Demora stood there for a moment, her thoughts filled with wanting to return to her body but unsure of how to do so when suddenly the ground opened up beneath her feet and she felt herself... drop!

“Aaiieee!”

She felt as if she was on a roller coaster going down a long steep slope as her stomach rose and the rushing wind caused her eyes to close.

She came to a sudden stop as the sound of a counting Kresh reaching “Tree” informed her that she was back in her real body.

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With her grimoire mission completed and spells in mind Koko... or rather, Demora is ready for her showdown against Kresh! A room filled with loot awaits her, should she win. Coming up next in The Puppet Asylum Part 5.

Side Notes: Sorry for taking so long to write again. Had some issues that were quite unexpected. Anyways, I'll be spending the next two weeks writing at least 4 hours per day to do my best to catch up to where I wanted to be at this point and time in the summer.

I also wanted to share a couple of rough draft sketches of Ceri that my niece sent me this weekend. There are some changes that will be made for the final illustrations (i.e. making her mouth more dragonesque, having her spiln fur on the upper half of her body a bit longer/fluffier, and such.) But overall, she came out very cute :) And now for the links to the Ceri Illustrations: Ceri 1 ? and?? Ceri 2 (this rough draft was made with starry stripes on her body.)

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Chapter Revised on 9-11-2020