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Issue: 979 | 24th day of Running, Y25 |
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Short Stories
 | I Fought Jhudora on Illusen Day and Lost"It was a sunny day in Meridell as the morning mist finally cleared. The sky was blue, the Draiks were hatching, and the cheese was rolling..."
by chesschocolate |  | A Spring Day in the Glade"One early spring morning, you decide to take a stroll through the Faerieland forest..."
by iwonder |  | A Missing Invitation"A sour, noxious smell followed the purple and green clouds that rolled like fog into Illusen’s Glade..."
by emma_manatee |  | Illusen’s RequestIllusen Day is not the same when it’s raining. Nothing that a good story can’t fix.
by greencheese79 |  | Illusen's New Quest"It was peaceful. Except, of course, for the piles of items scattered around her."
by saqo |  | Breaking Illusions"Surprisingly, though, Cehani had never met Illusen. Never meet your heroes. This phrase she had heard stuck with her."
by candylandtheonomy |  | A Symol MatterHow do you handle Symols at the farm?
by kadface |  | Bright Glade, Shadowed Forest"She hadn’t been offering quests at her glade for very long; she’d started relatively recently, after hearing that Jhudora had started out giving quests back in Faerieland."
by cookybananas324 |
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"Bright Glade, Shadowed Forest" by cookybananas324
Illusen sat at her table, studying a vase of blue flowers.
She hadn’t been offering quests at her glade for very long; she’d started relatively recently, after hearing that Jhudora had started out giving quests back in Faerieland. But Illusen was already feeling so… tired.
That afternoon, a little Kougra girl had come to the glade with her big sister. She’d been adorable—maybe four or five years old—and she’d brought Illusen a gift: a big bouquet of freshly-picked blue flowers.
And Illusen had smiled politely, and thanked her, because she was so young, and she couldn’t have known that Illusen had personally planted those flowers and had been planning to harvest them later, on the full moon—but they’d been torn from the earth too soon and were now useless for the potion she’d been planning. It was Illusen’s fault, really, for planting them too close to the path to her cabin, where a child might see them and be tempted.
If she’d built a garden bed, with a fence around it, perhaps her sister would have stopped her. But Illusen hadn’t wanted little wooden boxes with neat rows of plants. She’d had plenty of that growing up in her mother’s house in Faerieland. Her mother’s garden was beautiful, without doubt, but it was also very much a garden.
The girl had seen a patch of wildflowers, had picked them because they were pretty and blue, and she’d given them to Illusen because she wanted to be kind, and that was a good thing, surely.
Other Stories
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 Six Ways to Decorate Your Home for Illusen Day
"And as the sun breaks, it finally arrives – Illusen Day! As ever, it’s an exciting time for the entire Neopian community, as this day is dedicated to celebrating the kindness and generosity of the beloved freckled Faerie, Illusen."
by daschuffita |
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 The Ecology of Neopia
"The land of Neopia is vast and wondrous, with countless mysteries waiting to be solved and incredible discoveries happening every day. Welcome to another edition of “Science with the Seekers,” where scientists from around Neopia share their expertise with the world."
by parody_ham |
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