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Book 5 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 04 - Court Order

Ma’s main room sat in tense silence as Zalan’s eyes darted across the scene. Oshrad rotated to Ma, looking for instruction. Ma’s fury ebbed away slowly, and her lips gradually turned upward. ...

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Book 5 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 03 - Living At The Docks

Zalan stared up at the clouds as they walked through Oriton. Scanning every entity floating in the sky, Zalan scrutinized to see if anything resembled a city. He knew it was a silly plan to search ...

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Book 5 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 02 - Reading

Zalan quickly ran to catch up with Rep who was moving to the guild with his head down. His eyes were glued to the ground, and he was nibbling away at his lower lip anxiously. Zalan tried to think o...

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Book 5 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 01 - Proposition

Rep and Zalan strode back to the Journey House guild, carrying two small books between them. Zalan looked around Oriton with completely new eyes. The wooden buildings looked more vibrant, and the s...

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Book 4 - Afterword

Another book, another afterword. 4 books down, one to go! Hey, thanks for being here and reading this far. Really, I appreciate you. 

Thanks for reading The Homeseeker Book 4...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 43 - Answers of Hikma

Rep and Zalan took their seats across from Madam Hikma. Rep breathed deeply, seeming nervous to Zalan. Zalan was mostly at ease. He could accept whatever kinds of answers he would get. He just hope...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 42 - Degraded

Zalan watched closely as the Homeseeker deteriorated away in his hand, its fleeting life finally having ended. Rep jumped up from his cot and rushed over to Zalan. 

“What do we do?”...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 41 - Well Rested

Zalan stretched himself out luxuriously on the bed. He felt well-rested and alive for the first time in what felt like ages. He opened his eyes and looked around the room. He half expected to be in...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 40 - The Five Monsters of the Mindscape

Finnegan dragged Zalan with all his might, pulling him to the entrance of the Depths of Despair. Rep was able to limp once helped to his feet, and followed close behind. With a wave of his hand, Re...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 39 - Chaotic End

Zalan nibbled pensively at his cooked eye-monster tentacle. It tasted like canned tuna that had been warmed up in a microwave. Rep tore at his share of the food ravenously. Whether it was because h...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 38 - Starved and Dehydrated

“And then, Zalan told me to throw rocks at the monster spiders!” Finnegan said to Rep, gesticulating wildly. “I thought he had gone mad, but then again I always thought he was somewhat off. S...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 37 - New Toys

Zalan ran his arm under his cheek, wiping away a final tear from his face. Rep helped him to his feet and watched him closely. Finnegan approached, finally feeling like it was appropriate to join t...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 36 - Living On

Finnegan fell to the ground and immediately scrambled away from the Mind of Madness on hands and feet. Whimpering as he escaped, he moved to Zalan as fast as possible. For the first time, the Mind ...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 35 - Out of Sight, Out of Mind

“Rep!” Zalan screamed, reaching his arm out for his friend. 

On the floor, Rep’s eyes drifted with a glazed-over look. Everything twitching at unexpected intervals, his limbs were ...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 34 - Explosion

Zalan rolled backward and crashed into a rock formation behind him, grunting in pain. The flame-web explosion’s resulting blast damaged Zalan in ways he wasn’t lucid enough to understand. Zalan...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 33 - Mind Games

The Mind of Madness filled the immediate area with a foreboding sensation of death, dread, and despair. The monster’s form was uncanny enough on its own to send shivers down Zalan’s spine. Floa...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 32 - Overturned

“We are going to die here,” Finnegan whispered, looking upon the growing number of Arachulas before them. 

“Definitely not,” Zalan said firmly. “I have to get home.”

Wi...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 31 - Big Bug

“Dear Lord,” Rep said, staring upward in shock and horror.

“Get me down! Get me down!” Finnegan panicked, kicking frantically as he slid upward toward the hungry monster. 

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 30 - Finding a Way

Rep, Zalan, and Finnegan ran until they could no longer see the Obsidian Earthenbeast in the light that emitted from Zalan’s hands. They took a short break, catching their breath for a moment. A ...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 29 - Beasts of Rare Earth

Rep, Finnegan, and Zalan all searched the immediate area for signs of an Emerald Earthenbeast. Zalan watched for green gashes in the rock, or anything that looked like an Earthenbeast sleeping with...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 28 - The Search

With a deep inhale, Zalan decreased the brightness of his Elemental Light until it was just the power of a flashlight in the darkness. He had used a lot of energy in the attack against the Gloomsta...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 27 - The Past Comes Present

“No,” Zalan whispered, looking at the disfigured form of his own mother. 

“It took you so long to visit, I decided to come myself, Zalan,” the Gloomstalker spoke. 

The...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 26 - Bright Ideas

The giant spiders backed away in shock and fear as the Bright Elemental filled the mines with its light. The Depths of Despair’s darkness had no effect on the light like it did with Rep’s flame...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 25 - A Reason To Live

Zalan listened intently as he tried to get a grip over his rapid breath. He was almost certain he heard a voice. But he believed it was too implausible to hear something familiar like a human this ...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 24 - Lost

Zalan ran for his life, but was constantly obstructed by the mine’s terrain or walls appearing seemingly out of nowhere in front of him. He was completely sightless, hardly able to tell one direc...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 23 - Sacrifice

Rep and Zalan spun in place, Rep’s dim flame illuminating the ghastly monsters looming over them. The light danced to a terrifying tune as each Earthenbeast closed in. Rep began rummaging in his ...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 22 - Eating Away The Mind

Rep and Zalan’s feet were heavy as they walked. The floor was scattered with more globs of webbing, increasing the deeper they went within. They had a putrid smell, often being entangled with the...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 21 - Web of Shadows

Rep held a small flame in front of him as they proceeded further into the mines. No matter what size Rep increased the flame to, the amount of light and warmth always remained the same. The Depths ...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 20 - Painted Black

Gray Zalan sprinted forward, charging at Rep. Zalan ran in to protect his friend. He slashed his sword horizontal, trying to cut his darker version in half. Gray read his moves like they were his o...

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Book 4 - The Homeseeker - Chapter 19 - The Depths of Despair

The further away from Nightfall Rep and Zalan walked, the more Zalan felt like he was being watched. It was an eerie, but somehow familiar feeling. Like a nightmare he was experiencing déjà vu ov...

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