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Title: The Hedge Witch
Fandom: Original
Characters: Lilith, her cat Moon
Word count: 434
Rating: G
Prompt: Witch, Black Cat, Apples, Owl
Summary: Lilith has a delivery to make…
Author’s Note: This fic uses all 4 prompts.
Author’s Note 2: This fic was written for Madrona Project and allbingo’s Fall Fest.

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Title: Laurel’s Birthday
Author: kira
Can borrow: no
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Word Count: 853

For Vexed with love... Happy bday!

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Title: Autumn
Author: kira
Prompts: Grass, Forest, Moss, Green
Medium: original ficcage
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Word Count: 100
Author’s Note: Written for allbingo’s Red and Green Fest. Posted there and at Madrona Project.

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Title: Spring
Author: kira
Prompts: Peony, Fern, Raspberry, Lawn
Medium: original ficcage
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Word Count: 100
Author’s Note: Written for allbingo’s Red and Green Fest. Posted there and at Madrona Project.

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Africa was awesome! We landed in Cape Town and the whole getting off the plane and immigration was QUICK compared to here. We then found our driver and headed to the Radison Red hotel. It's a nice hotel, very minimalist modern (except the AC wasn't working right and had to be fixed) and we overlooked the drydock in the harbor. Sealions are everywhere on the docks and in the harbor. We were very close to the Victoria and Alfred (the Queen and son) waterfront and mall of the same name. We explored the area the next day. It's full of little boutique style shops leading to the mall as well as several restaurants. We ate curry at one place, and German style food at the restaurant next to it. We also ate at Wimpy Burger, like a slightly fancier McDonald's. The food was really good where we ate. We also visited the aquarium, which is just outside the V & A waterfront. Next to it was the bus station for the on and off buses, which we toured around the area in our last two days there. Before that, we hired a guide to take us around. We went to Table Mountain and rode the cable car up and down the mountain (you can hike up and down as well). Up on top, you can walk around. We saw an adorable furry potato also known as the rock hyrax. Believe it or not, this small cat sized animal that looks like a rabbit and a guinea pig had a baby (small piggy ears) is related to the elephant! We went to Bo Kop, where they used to have a slave market, but now it's a colorful Muslim neighborhood. We also went to Boulder Beach to see the penguins on the beach-too cute! We also drove around, saw an ostrich farm (didn't get out of the car) and some baboons on the side of the road, where Dad lost the lens hood on his camera. He got of the car to get it to the amazement of us and the baboons! During our guided tour, we ate lunch at a nice seafood place on the beach, and went to the southernmost point in Cape Town. The on and off busses were fun too! We got out at various places along the way and you can easily pick up again from the special bus stops.

Then we flew to Johannesburg, where we stayed at the Intercontinental Hotel, which is across the street from the airport. It was overnight, so we could make our flight to Medikwe. We flew out of a tiny airport next to the O.R. Tambo International Airport. We flew on a tiny bush plane and landed on a dirt airstrip. We were picked up by our guide from Rhulani Lodge, named Donald. We were very excited to see elephants and zebras, and impalas! The lodge was nice, we had a "hut" to ourselves. It had a plunge pool, which was too deep for me! I slid off the ledge and went under! 🫢After which, I was done with the pool! I sat on the edge and watched the bush buck family in the bush surrounding us. We had a game drive that night and the net morning started with the first of 2 daily drives. The highlights of the drives were the wild dogs and the start of their hunt! They came so close I could have reached down and petted them as they went by! The two lions, who were brothers from different mothers, that dug a warthog out of an old aardvark burrow and killed it for food! Poor piggy! I can still hear its squeals! 🙁And the cheetah boys! They're a group of 5 cheetahs that formed a group and they hang out together. It's sooo nice in Medikwe! You can clearly see tons of stars at night! And because you're in the bush, there's a guide named Michael, who takes you to and from your room at night as well as in the morning, to keep you safe from the wildlife. The rest of the staff was also excellent! The night before I got sick, we ate in the boma under the stars. It was a buffet/bbq of African food! The staff also sang to us several African songs! The next day I was SICK with stomach issues and a fever. Little did I know, I had come down with C-diff, an intestinal bacterial infection. You DO NOT want to get sick with it-EVER!! Apparently that bacteria lives in your gut and causes no problems unless it multiplies. You are so sick you want to die! I somehow got through things with the help of Imodium. The only downside to being sick, was I missed saying goodbye to a little girl who went home that day. We were friends while there and entertained each other at the boma dinner with pics on our phones. 😄

All too soon, it was time to go home. We went back to the dirt airstrip to wait for the plane. While waiting, we had fun chasing zebras off the airstrip with the game truck! 😄Then it was time to board the tiny bush plane for the flight back. We had an afternoon stay at the hotel, before heading back across the street to the airport. Jo-burg's terminal was nice, but disorganized compared to Cape Town's. Add rowdy foreign football/soccer fans (I fight broke out in the lines for security!), who pushed their way through to cut the lines, sang football chants loudly and badly, and were generally obnoxious to everyone around them and it just added to the stress of flying. Once past them, there was MORE security?! And lines before boarding the plane. I spent about half of the 17 hour flight in the bathroom. 🙁 I never slept and was exhausted by the time I got home. Things cleared up slightly, before I woke up weak and was taken to Urgicare. They said it was dehydration and a UTI. The next day, I was so weak, I couldn't really walk and I slid onto the floor and couldn't get up. Dad called an ambulance and I spent the next 3 weeks in the hospital, where I was tested for everything to explain the weakness. The C-diff was diagnosed by smell (it has a unique smell) and sample. A week later I was transferred to the rehab floor, where they figured out; I also have Guillum-Barre syndrome. They gave me IV-globulin, which took away my weakness. Apparently, my recovery was so dramatic, they called it a miracle. I'm still a bit weak and need a fancy walker to get around, but I should be back to my old self. Best part of being sick? Losing 22 pounds!

(I can't believe I totally forgot to post this yesterday!)