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Try as he might, young Akshan could never manage to let bad deeds go unnoticed and was often quick to intervene when he saw someone being mistreated. 
The Gambler’s Woe
Anthony Reynolds
And then I started losin’ big. That made me double-down, go for broke, all-or-nothin’, looking for the big stakes to put me back on top.
For Those Who Have Fallen
I rise with them, not as a god, but as a man. My pantheon, all who have fallen, earning me another moment. All who have lived, and all who have died facing a moment of truth where they must decide why they fight. 
Caravan North
Rayla Heide
“How many arrows do we have?” Ojan asked.
“About forty,” Zyama said, looking into the quiver.
The Garden of Dreaming
David Slagle
I hope her dream hears me, too.
I let go of the girl and lay her down gently. With her sighs, she releases all that’s been trapping her dream.
The Voices of the Dead
David Slagle
He had managed to pass the torch, then… his relic stone was not lost.
“We have to get out of here,” the girl said with a shudder. “We have to get the villagers out of here.
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The Lucky Kraken
Anthony Reynolds
Alright, alright, just one ‘afore bed. Gather round. But I don’t wanna hear no cryin’ or whimperin’ this time. This is Bilgewater, after all, and even our bedtime tales have more’n a little darkness in ‘em.
Veigar
His eyes blazed. Even his voice had become a sneer of malice. Fleeing from his ensorcelled cage, the wretched creature had no interest in the wars of succession that inevitably followed. 
From The Ashes
Aaron Dembski-Bowden
“You don’t know what you’re talking about, Kegan. I heal because I have the power to do it, and we stay because we have to stay.”
Blood in the Water
Gangplank’s black and gold teeth gritted in suppressed pain – the Noxian had almost bested him. Nevertheless, he refused to let his crew see his weakness, forcing his lips into a wicked smile.
An Explorer's Journey
Matt Dunn
With the benefit of hindsight, my gauntlet blast may have been too much for the support columns. Gotta go. No one remembers explorers who get smooshed.
Taliyah
What felt like eons stretched between Taliyah’s hammering heartbeats. She heard gravel shift as her father stood. Next to him, her mother stood. Babajan and the dye mistress and the master spinner stood. 
The Cage
Odin Austin Shafer
The muscles and bones struggle, tear, and protest the abomination I have become.
I take a breath.
“No, Aatrox,” I say, my voice wet and echoing off the dead that surround me.
Nocturne
It was in pain, and that pain made it cruel, but it quickly acquired a taste for mortal fear. 
Remember Me
Dana Luery Shaw
The Lasting Altar, home to Karma. She hadn’t expected to find herself back here after all this time. The trip had been painful in many ways, not least because her knees had been giving her trouble. 
A Smoldering Coal
Roy Graham
“We couldn’t hold.”
Speech would not come to me. I should have been there, I thought. If I hadn’t oathed myself to another, I could have.
The Despoiler of Havenfall
Michael Haugen Wieske
Jonath could not place the accent, but he had heard its mocking tone before. A sting of old spite made him raise his head. 
The Slumber Party Summoning
Ariel Lawrence
Could this get any worse?
“Is that why she and Syndra didn’t come? They have something better to do?”
Ezreal
They must still be out there, somewhere…
Abandoning his reluctant studies, the budding explorer would strike out on his own. He knew, if he was ever to find his mother and father, he had to start with the final resting place of Ne’Zuk.
Morgana
Though their destination did not yet have a name, it would become known as a haven from magic and persecution: the kingdom of Demacia.