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You Heard It Here First!

In honor of Slumrat rising to the top of Rising Stars, I have written the first Side Story!  All new characters! Foreshadowing! Ominous Pronunciations by the ethically dubious! 

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Chapter 45- A Self Made Man

Truth floated, dead at the bottom of the well.  No strange dreams, no spiritual journeys.  Dead.  Unquestionably and irretrievably.  If the observer had brows, they probably wou...

Chapter 44- The Big Brother Type

“Comms!  Is the bird down?!”  Truth bellowed.  His ears were ringing from all the explosions.  He hoped the Comms operators were still alive.

“The Redhawk is perched...

Chapter 43- What's In The Box?

The carriages raced for the secondary airstrip, the backup identified by Plan C.  The only reason Truth had any hope whatsoever that their enemies did not already hold it was that the “airst...

Chapter 42- A Dust up

The mission was simple- escort the package from the pickup at the dock in the fishing village of Itum, County Hostfa, in the Ressilaud Free State, to the hand-off at an airstrip three hundred kilom...

Chapter 40- The Intricacies of Guarding Bodies

It was the double whammy- a miserable teenage child wailing about luxury Truth couldn’t have imagined two years ago, throwing an absolute fit, and then, when she got him alone, inviting him to…...

Chapter 41- A Change Of Pace Is As Good As A Rest

Truth ran out into the club.  Club staff were running over to the VIP booth with large sheets hanging from curtain rods.  In seconds, they had the whole booth cordoned off.  Truth bu...

Chapter 39- Body Cultivation For The Thrifty

He collapsed on his sofa at the apartment.  The apartment, in its entirety, wasn’t nearly as nice as the private cabin on the flight home.  Should he invest in an upgrade?  But Har...

Chapter 38- Promotion and a Brand New You!

Captain Clavegaugh looked her usual collected self.  She nodded at Truth (who had to control the instinct to salute) and then directed him to his seat.  “You have a lot of questions. &n...

Chapter 37- The Good Life

They landed at Lowi International, which served the world with spellbirds that could hold three hundred people in varying degrees of comfort.  He walked over to the ticket counter, directly ig...

Chapter 36- What Exactly Did You Think It Meant

Truth activated the body reinforcing enchantments on his armor, racing for the nearest oversized needler as the built-in cannon gathered energy.  He hacked at a howling bandit, still in agony ...

Chapter 35- Fort Leucre

Truth lay in bed that night, staring up at the ceiling.  He felt like he had all these words inside of him, but they were so jumbled together that he couldn’t possibly get them all out. &nbs...

Chapter 34- A Need To Decompress

Truth was in an odd mood as he walked into the PMC.  He was still thinking over the scene in the Vice Principal’s office.  The matter just… ended.  There would be no negative com...

Chapter 33- The State of the Sibs

The fastest way back to Jeon, specifically Harban, and even more specifically, the Sibs, was complicated.  There were no airfields near Chil Perdermo.  There was, however, a brilliant int...

Chapter 32- Stay For The People

Harsh lights lit the warehouse interior.  Whatever they were doing here, the outlaws wanted to make sure nothing got missed.  Truth could see his targets- the half-naked slaves, necks rub...

And we are launched!

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