Merry Jinglemas! If you enjoyed my entry in the exchange, you may want to take a look at the epilogue I've posted in Dueling Keyboards. As noted there, I felt it didn't merit inclusion in the story proper, but I did like it enough to preserve it in the shorts collection.

Also, whether or not you celebrate today's other notable holiday, I hope you and yours are having a good day.

"I'm telling you, Lyra, there have been multiple credible eyewitness accounts of the Arimaspi in the Hyperboreans."

"I thought I was supposed to be the crazy one in this relationship."

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