In every generation there are some late bloomers, but Linda sort of tops them all, as she discovered her magic at age 64. She knows that young people learn faster, that’s why she created the spell “Second Youth”. She’s now at “sixteenth youth” and still learning.
Codex - Gold Miscellany
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Edited because DIAN is a better acronym
Callen Hargrave, the Golden Age villain Cataclysmo, reformed and made a fortune off his weather control technology. He is now the primary patron of the Dual Identity Action Network (DIAN), the most powerful public interest group in the nation’s capital. DIAN pours money into high-powered lawsuits, public relations campaigns, and political donations in pursuit of limiting government registration of superhumans, banning power nullification technology, and a Constitutional amendment securing the right to a secret identity.
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Marta ran Vigil Creek Nature Preserve for 50 years. She stayed even while her back gave out and her health failed her, until the day she went to check the fence around the boundary and never came back. The land was soon sold, but every construction project went wrong. Sinkholes, floods, broken equipment… Workers talked of a silent, stooped old woman with bark skin and Spanish moss hair. The land is still as wild as ever, but they call it Marta’s Woods now.
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You need to marry your blade to a target, you go to the Strop. He’ll sit with you and ask all kinds of questions. Childhood dreams, first love, favourite thing you lost, he’ll ask it all and more. Little crinkles around his eyes and that shake in his hands. Eventually he’ll nod and wave you to the door. Next day it’s ready, wrapped in plain brown paper. An edge sharper than memory and tang stronger than truth.
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Did you ever hear a whistle like old Auntie Jean? She’ll tell you that she learned it from her Auntie to bring in the winds and call Emu to the dance. And then she’ll laugh and get icecream or rustle about in the shed. But that night a howler will roll in and drum on the roof and all you’ll dream is Auntie Jean’s shrill whistle.
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Thieves broke in to the Temple of the Moon the other night, intending to steal the silver font where the Goddess turns water into potions of healing. It turns out that they needed its holy magic. For while Father Actios may be pushing 70, he still can swing that enchanted mace as well as he did in back his adventuring days.
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Terrified, the bandits wheeled their horses in the desert sun, galloping out of town. One of them turned to fire a pot-shot at the black-masked stranger, but she won the draw with her silver pistol, shooting the gun right out of the bandit’s hand. “All right, citizens! Bert Greene and his men won’t be bothering you again!” She pulled the reins and her black horse reared as she shouted “HEY-YA MIDNIGHT!!” She rode into the sunset, long silver hair streaming behind her. Someone asked, “Who was that masked woman?” An old-timer replied, “I ain’t seen her in 30 years, but the Lone Rider is back again!”
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Me and Luis work in the same garage. I’m pushing 40, and he’s gotta have like 20 years on me. Nice guy, don’t know him well. There was that one time when a weird-looking lady brought in a vintage VW Beetle with no plates, and she asked speficifally for Luis. Before he shooed me away, I swear I heard him whistle and say something like, “A QX-48 Timerider! What a beauty!” After I came back from my smoke break, the car and the lady were gone. When I asked, Luis just smiled and shrugged.
Don’t let her grandmotherly little-old-lady demenanor get you to drop your guard. Minnie Cho is tough as nails and is the most brilliant litigator any courtroom in this city has ever seen! She’s been at this game since before your mother was born, and believe me: She knows how to play it better than you do. If you’re up against her, I would advise you to settle.
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And that’s it! Thanks everyone, it’s been a lot of fun sourcing the Miscellany with you every month (and for exactly 13 issues now 
). I’m stepping down from the Codex team, but I hope to see you all around 
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Good luck, and have fun 