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Rusty Quill presents The Magnus Archives.

The Iron Gate by Kaelin to me.

The Elder I get. The more I realize how much I've forgotten.

Do you remember being a kid on a long car ride? How the road would stretch on and on,

and your grandparents' house was only 20 minutes away, but it felt more like two hours.

Some kids would watch a movie or play a game on some half-broken old tablet.

But I get carsec, so sometimes all I could do was look out of the window and imagine.

It was easiest to play the game at night. Do you know the game I'm talking about?

I don't know if it has an actual name, but I just used to call it the car chase a game.

When I first started playing it on car trips, I felt like the smartest kid alive.

I would imagine the chase a little differently every time, but no matter what it was,

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