Aspirations

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Challenge #04987-M238: I Wanna Be Just Like You

"I want to be a Hellkin."

Why?

"Because they're the only ones who ever showed what real kindness is." -- BKF

Everyone thinks 'Hellkin' when they hear the phrase "Unwelcome People". The thing is, they're not the only Unwelcome People. It alters according to realm, politics, and local prejudice. But you can rely on Hellkin being among that number[1].

They accrete in ghettos or spend their years wandering from one locale to another. Trying for the most part to find somewhere that life is at least tolerable. Some form into circuses worth of traveling entertainers out of self-defence. Medicine shows, strolling players, actual circuses... they arrived, they stayed a while, and they left before their welcome wore out.

Sometimes, they picked up additional members of the troop.

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Challenge #02413-F223: Forbidden Prize

My soul longs for it, craves for it. I want- no need it! -- Anon Guest

It's always out of reach. Beyond my grasp. Close enough to see. Too far away to touch. Tempting. Always tempting. I want it, I need it, I love it from afar, but I cannot even hope to touch it. It is beyond my means. I know this, yet I try anyway.

There are a thousand plans. Deception and trickery. Argument and debate. Ingenuity and engineering with

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