The Twilight Twenty-Five
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Prompt: 16. Kingdom
Main Character: Paul Lahote
Rating: M
Word Count: 100
Paul's standing in the kitchen, surveying his new apartment over Ateara's General Store.
It's small, and cluttered with paint and canvasses, but it's his.
Bella knocks, holding out a tiny terracotta pot with a cactus.
He takes it, frowning, unsure where to put it.
"I brought housewarming gifts," she leans on the 's', unloading a broom, salt shaker, and loaf of bread. "It's tradition. The broom will sweep away the bad fortune and sweep in the good, the salt is for protection and safe-keeping, and the bread is so you may never know hunger as long as you live here."