If you ask me: but then I’m biased.<\/p>\n
It’s a humanoid,<\/i> Nita thought, as the figure came toward them through the smoke. What’s that hanging off its head? Humanoids don’t usually have tentacles there. And it doesn’t look like it’s armed.<\/i><\/p>\n
It wasn’t a very big humanoid, either. It was only a little bigger than Nita. As it came through the smoke, Nita could have sworn it was actually human — the skin color was one of the possible ones, the eyes and other dimly-seen features seemed to be in the right places, and the clothes — Jeez, will you look at those,<\/i> Nita thought at the sight of the cropped black T-shirt, the cargo pants in a truly eye-jangling hot-pink-and-green floral print, and the strappy, high pink boots. And the “tentacle” wasn’t a tentacle at all, but, hanging down in front of one shoulder, a single long, thick, dark —<\/p>\n
— braid?? <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Madolin<\/a> has caught the moment.<\/a><\/p>\n
Thanks, Mad!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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