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  • Essay / Stella Archer Chapter 4.5: Fire Element - 613

    I walked into our basement, my parents built a fully functional laboratory there, we even had our own telescope. We had three, actually, from different countries. It was a spacious room, with white walls covered mostly in maps of all the places we had traveled to, I walked over to my favorite, it was an enlarged version of the one in the book my parents and I had drawn together. “My very excellent mother just made us nine pizzas,” I said. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Pluto. I thought. It's something I took away from that school where I went to an acronym for the planets. I noticed a little post-it note outside Pluto in the corner that said "Asguard" Asguard which is in one of my mythology books. Why is he on our board when he doesn't exist, right? I looked at the note, perplexed. I shrugged and turned to a door with a keypad and camera inside. I grabbed my backpack and headed to the door and banged a note on the door. “Identify yourself,” said the door. Tight security on this one, eh, “Stella Louise Archer,” I said at the door. Then the keyboard came to...