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Chapter 22 - Cycle Three

Mirian awoke with that raw scream still on her lips, and stopped.

Someone groaned. Selesia, she thought. She’s wounded, but we can still—but no. It was Lily, saying, “...

Chapter 21 - Extermination

They were, Mirian knew, fucked. Even if they did want to rely on ‘we’re innocent, don’t shoot us,’ which the Akanans clearly didn’t give a bog lion’s ass about, they’d just become a m...

Chapter 20 - Exodus

“So what in the five hells is going on?” Mirian asked. Selesia looked nervous, while Xipuatl looked surprisingly calm.

Lily said, “You were right. I… don’t believe it, but there rea...

Chapter 19 - Predicament

The interrogation room was surprisingly spacious and well decorated. A copy of the letter sat on the table. A man wearing the pauldrons and striped tabard of a captain was reading a copy of another...

Chapter 18 - Predictions

In the dream, there was nothing to hold on to. Indescribable colors burst around her, shifting formlessly. They seemed to writhe about, lunging out to snap at her. Eventually, they did become thing...

Chapter 17 - Preparations

The rest of the day went about the same as it had. Geoarcanology reminded her she needed to go look up those maps she’d found in Bainrose again, and Artifice Physics was the same combination of h...

Chapter 16 - New Quarter, Again

Mirian didn’t have to wait long in the Myrvite Studies building before Valen met her in the hallway.

“Did you go by maintenance?” Mirian asked.

She nodded.

Mirian accepted t...

Chapter 15 - A Plan

Step one of the plan involved starting rumors. This was something Mirian had, funnily enough, almost no experience doing. Lily was a lot better at it. On Seventh day when they visited the dining ha...

Chapter 14 - Letters

Lily was still out when Mirian went to sleep, and when she woke, Lily was asleep, and she didn’t have the heart to wake her. She left a note saying she’d gone to the library.

Mirian had s...

Chapter 13 - Small Changes

Mirian had a plan for finding out where to send the letters. She would visit Bainrose Castle and get the librarians to help her. However, there was a problem: She’d seen the librarian who had cha...

Chapter 12 - Small Fixes

It was a bit awkward to walk across campus with two bags, one clanging about, but she felt quite satisfied with how things had turned out. If she could get maintenance, or some guards that weren’...

Chapter 11 - Begin Again

Mirian sat straight up, gasping for air, heart pounding. She looked around, tears falling from her eyes as she remembered. She’d been shot. She’d died. Gods, she’d died horribly!

Chapter 10 - …And Then It Ends

Mirian didn’t scream, but plenty of other people did. Instead, she crouched down and got ready to run. For a fraction of a second, a brief memory surfaced. Something like this had happened before...

Chapter 9 - Life Goes On...

The rest of Mirian’s week went smoothly. Each day she went to her classes, each night she studied. Fourthday, she met Xipuatl and Nicolus again who split their time between debate and study, whil...

Chapter 8 - New Quarter

The break passed far too quickly, and soon enough, Mirian found herself walking to class with Lily. By now, the weather had finally turned, so a light snowfall had coated Torrviol in a beautiful bl...

Chapter 7 - The Quarter Ends

Mirian spent four hours of Sixthday, which was supposed to be a day off, harassing the staff at Housing, then another two hours in Maintenance. She could not begin to fathom why it was so hard to g...

Chapter 6 - What A Mess

There was a lot to be done after that, but doing it all did little. Housing services was closed, maintenance was closed, and none of the custodians could be found. The sheets needed to be washed to...

Chapter 5 - Nightmare

She awoke to Lily shaking her, saying “wake up! Wake up!”

Mirian clutched her chest, hand trembling.

“Gods above,” Lily said, shaking slightly herself. “I hope the whole dorm ...

Chapter 4 - Study Session

True to his word, Nicolus was standing under the gatehouse arch, uniform crisp and clean as it always was, his cloak draped over one arm. The rain was still coming down lightly. There was another f...

Chapter 3 - Academic Life II

Professor Viridian nodded along as Mirian and Valen reported what they had seen. “How strange,” he agreed. “I’ll look into it.”

When they left, though, Valen said, “He didn’t be...

Chapter 2 - Academic Life

Mirian stood for a moment, trying to decide what to do about the shadowy figure she’d just seen. She spotted one of the Torrviol guards in the plaza. He stood out amid the dark cloaks moving abou...

Chapter 1 - It Begins

Mirian woke abruptly, and then lay there, trying to figure out why. She had woken with a start, like she had heard someone scream, or like she’d been experiencing a vivid nightmare. Only, she cou...

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