Drisson

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Drisson

n.
an unexpected twinge of attraction for a friend; a flutter of desire you don’t necessarily want to feel, that didn’t even seem possible up until this point, when it suddenly becomes a problem you have to deal with.

From frisson, a shiver of excitement + dribber, an inaccurate archer. Pronounced “dree-sawn.”

Solysium

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On Tenderhooks

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Indosentia

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Mcfeely

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Zysia

a kite soaring above an empty landscape

O’Erpine

a person looking at a grave