Book 4: Afterword: Of Systems and Bad Actors
"Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets."
— W. Edwards Deming, Don Berwick, and/or Dr. Paul Batalden
The first time ...
2025-11-16 19:57:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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Book 4: Chapter 57: The Shattering of Purpose
I patted the back of my head awkwardly as Nora made her way to the center of the chamber. “I only meant that any alternative showing up would be far worse. I don’t think this is the place to ge...
2025-11-15 14:25:48 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 56: Behind the Goddess’s Curtain
Locked in darkness long after the vision ended, I could only stand in the void, unshed tears burning at the corners of my eyes. A scream of frustration swirled from somewhere before fading into sil...
2025-11-14 17:51:04 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 55: The True Origin of Evil
“As I told you,” I growled at Aina, “Nora is my best friend and not a threat! She’s literally half the reason I’m here!”
Well, half rounded up, anyway.
Aina flicker...
2025-11-08 02:16:28 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 54: Awe, Alarms, and All Alone
This time, there was no feeling of tearing through space. It was as if the world rendered a small, dark, and digital airlock around us, complete with runes floating in the air as if they were suspe...
2025-11-03 22:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 53: Two Tickets to Paradise
Before I could put together any initial talking points to defend my decision to let Sparkles decide her own fate, the shallow stone basin beneath Relias and me rang out with another quake. Unlike t...
2025-10-28 22:56:40 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 52: Consulting the Heavens
With a bright flash of starlight white, Sparkles shifted from her grand draconic form into that of an older woman cloaked in simple white robes. Her hair was a fine, fiber-optic gray, with faint ra...
2025-10-19 23:48:51 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 51: Playing with Fire
The sheer slope of the mountain turned from rock to glass about halfway through my stumbling descent. It wasn’t the slick, tempered kind; it was a scratchy, hastily hardened layer of bubbly slag ...
2025-10-18 18:01:15 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 50: Prayer to Pyre
Before Morin was even out of earshot, Relias insisted that we stop by the church. The abandoned buildings of southern Atramentis were silent save for the crunch of our boots on ice, and I was alrea...
2025-10-05 21:45:48 +0000 UTC View PostBook 2: Chapter 49: Orders Obeyed
As Captain Morin predicted, the temperature plunged that night, from cold to unbearable. Ice formed along the rigging, with small shards snapping off and shattering on the deck above. The deck itse...
2025-10-03 17:49:32 +0000 UTC View PostBilling Paused Until November 1st
Hello:
I re-paused for one more month.
I'm currently in the midst of developmental edits for Book 2. Tess Irondale will be narrating Book 2 in her Discord sometime in March (more detail...
2025-10-01 16:25:51 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 48: Urbane Pretenses
To be honest, I don’t know if concern or guilt was the primary driver that led me to seek out Relias next. There was always a vague discomfort about how I had been handling our relationship, but ...
2025-09-27 19:09:53 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 47: Situationship
Morin stomped, his boot ringing metal. “Sneak aboard my ship in borrowed skins, will you? To what end? I told Procul plain! No clergy meddling in my rigging!”
“I suppose his
Book 4: Chapter 46: Two Heads Are (Sometimes) Better Than One
While the rising sea monster summoned more of its long and barbed tentacles, I armed myself with sword, shield, and aura.
“I’ll admit it’s no kraken, but a sea anemone? That’s stretch...
2025-09-21 18:59:55 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 45: Never Trust Ann
Our first few hours at sea were filled with vague tension. Relias made it quite clear he would brook no nonsense from the twin princes, only for Morin to assign them the very task of keeping a clos...
2025-09-14 17:00:35 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 44: Investiture and Divestiture
Translocation from Fort Turri was bumpier than our last few sojourns, with magical turbulence a mere footnoted phenomenon seldom discussed. Apparently, it has to do with poor attunement of...
2025-09-13 23:42:08 +0000 UTC View PostBilling Paused
Hi all,
Today I made the decision to pause billing for the next calendar month. I’m currently managing a family medical emergency as a primary caregiver and am unable to maintain a comforta...
2025-09-06 04:37:42 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 43: Terms of Passage
Relias lifted his chin, and a rather sly smirk crossed his face. “There is only one dragon. Find comfort in the knowledge that Sparkles is a faithful servant to our Goddess.”
I guess ...
2025-09-02 19:25:53 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 42: All That Glitters
While I tried not to look too giddy at the thought of finally learning what the rest of the Order of Gold was up to, Nora turned a bit icy.
“Our time would be better spent gathering intel f...
2025-08-30 22:20:36 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 41: Checkpoint
The next few days were lost in an oddly tense haze of shadowy monotony. The rural outskirts of Fort Turri were covered in a spiderweb of fracturing dirt paths, each branch aiming at a different den...
2025-08-22 03:34:25 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 40: Even Gods Can't Do It Alone
“Of course I didn’t say anything once I realized it,” Nora confirmed the following afternoon. “What was I supposed to do? Alert! Something is majorly wrong with the night sky, and there’s...
2025-08-15 16:56:05 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 39: Fixed in Finality
“How—” I paused, feeling Nora’s and Relias’s eyes on me. “Thoughtful… Yes. That’s exactly what I was looking for. We can put your brother’s eye in—”
“Explain something...
2025-08-11 00:48:27 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Update
Hello!
Can you believe it's August already?
No? Neither can I.
I'm currently working on the final arc within Book 4 of The Last Rae of Hope. Progress slowed a little these past tw...
2025-08-08 14:55:33 +0000 UTC View PostChibi and Emoji Gallery - The Last Rae of Hope
Please enjoy these high-resolution chibi and emoji images commissioned from https://www.fiverr.com/ayaakemi
Thank you f...
2025-08-08 14:28:58 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 38: Leverage Is in the Eye of the Beholder
“I’ve had no contact with your brother,” the feathered demon stammered from the ground. “I-I don’t know what lies Corporal Belgaldi has told you, General, but he’s had it out for me eve...
2025-08-06 21:05:03 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 37: Sanctioned by Someone Else
“The Order of Blue here in Turri would be working in coordination with White and Silver,” Relias murmured with a slight frown. “This civilian armament under your name may be a response to fea...
2025-07-26 19:50:15 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 36: On Concealment and Context
Despite my best efforts, Oliver refused to engage in anything resembling meaningful conversation.
“Haven’t we talked enough today already?” he said at one point. “With words coming ou...
2025-07-20 18:41:04 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4 Chapter 35: Have Your Cake (Because You Can’t Take It With You)
Nora adjusted her robes several times as Master Landon continued shouting for Headmaster Jasper, his voice growing more exasperated with every call.
“Like I was saying…” she murmured wi...
2025-07-15 22:23:53 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 34: Misrepresentative of the Whole
After flicking the last remnants of the hazelnut onto the sanctuary floor, Oliver tucked his arms behind his shoulders and settled further into his defiant slouch.
Who just turned up his ...
2025-07-11 23:27:45 +0000 UTC View PostBook 4: Chapter 33: A Clean Slate
Nora led the way through the maze of hallways with confidence, as if she had navigated them a hundred times before. I lagged behind, unintentionally scuffing my feet every time the floor decided to...
2025-07-10 20:15:36 +0000 UTC View Post