Lake Lewisia #1114

He had long resisted seeking emancipation from his family of origin, on the grounds that slipping away through secret underground passages into another world ought to make him immune to such mundane considerations. But he had to go outside in search of trade goods and inspiration, and unclaimed teenagers tended to have adventures with social workers and truancy officers instead of Lilliputian mad scientists and tunnel folk. So he filled out forms and forged documents, accepting that sometimes the foe to be vanquished is called "bureaucracy."

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LL#1114