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Chapter 35 - Family History

“What?”

Archie’s heart and stomach met somewhere in the middle. The twig walls of the nest became dizzying, seeming to swirl behind Sutton.

“I…you really didn’t know?”

Chapter 34 - Crashout

“Archie. Archie, you need to calm down. Breathe. Just breathe.”

Archie turned from Nori’s touch. He had balled up in the corner of the railing overlooking the pond. He had barely manage...

Chapter 33 - Speak Sweetly

“Out!” Julienne yelled.

Prince Waldorf recoiled. “How dare you—”

“Out!” Julienne’s voice resonated through the kitchen, causing everyone to flinch. He slammed his palm o...

Chapter 32 - First Courses

Julienne was two steps into Cafe Julienne and his plan had already gone wrong.

Mindy had taken it upon herself to serve the previous night’s leftover bread to the Gluttons, wh...

Chapter 31 - Arrival of the Guests

Julienne waited at the steps of Cafe Julienne, finding it difficult to focus on his posture and not on the possibility that his team was back in the kitchen burning things. He had been sla...

Chapter 30 - Feeling Julienned

Sleep didn’t come easy for Julienne. And when it did, it was a fickle, fleeting thing. His first nightmare was a particularly cruel one. He dreamt that he had slept through the entire day, missin...

Chapter 29 - Cafe Julienne

To call Cafe Julienne a restaurant would be to call the world’s greatest painting a doodle.

Nicknamed “The Grand Restaurant,” Cafe Julienne was nestled in th...

Chapter 28 - And Up Again

All eyes fell on Archie as he set up his stove in Pomona’s kitchen. They had seen all sorts of magic in their first semester at the Academy, but Archie’s rotten stink bomb was a first. He tried...

Chapter 27 - Back Down

What goes up must come down.

And Archie came down.

Hard.

A discordant, pulsing beat filled his ears, giving him a crashing headache as he threw up his second helping of The Groove...