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SCIENCE FICTION | BATHED IN STARLIGHT #14 | 💯 STORY INSPIRATION CHALLENGE #15/100
Breakfast of Discoveries
Tasting beauty and making decisions…
This is #14 of “Bathed In Starlight”. If you have found this story and haven’t read the beginning, visit this list. Everything is listed in order, starting at the top. This story is also a part of the 💯 Story Inspiration Challenge, this one being inspired by Humble and Kind by Tim McGraw (listen to it at the end).
Check out the previous chapter in Dreams Upon Dreams.
I’ve always been one to trust my gut. That intuition had never steered me wrong as long as I listened, and recent events proved to be no different, as far as I was concerned. My BS meter, which I used as a radar to fend off unwanted and shameless parasites in life, didn’t warn me about anyone at the breakfast table. It didn’t tickle at the back of my mind and didn’t churn my stomach with worry. That was something I took seriously, and it was a peaceful comfort.
Bontaro, the Noriy-o who was fast becoming one of my favorite people just by existing in the universe and being willing to understand me at a deeper level, was a watchful observer. Now that I saw him more in his element as captain of the Nelnor guard, supervising a meeting between…
