The sky was almost painfully blue and bright when Kaz and the others emerged into the open. The platform had come to rest in a long, narrow room in the back of a building not unlike those the x...
2024-09-27 02:17:37 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m going to kill them,” Bella said. Over the last few hours, it had gone from a scream of fury to a simple statement of fact. Eve had laughed it off in the beginning, but even the giant bar...
2024-09-25 21:45:07 +0000 UTC View PostRaff carefully stacked another jar containing exactly one hundred of the pills the members of Squad E were concocting. He didn’t know what the things were supposed to do, but everyone inside the ...
2024-09-24 21:10:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe building where Raff should have been waiting was empty. The door was closed but unlocked, and Raff’s scent mingled with that of all the others, leading back into the cavern where the dragons ...
2024-09-23 20:53:30 +0000 UTC View PostCaptain Reedsley’s home was surprisingly nice, until Pandy remembered that he was Lord Captain Reedsley. She didn’t know what kind of lord, but whatever he was, it was good enough...
2024-09-22 04:56:30 +0000 UTC View PostBattle raged around Kaz. Xiyi died, and Kaz cut rune-stones from the necks of humans one after another, barely adding to the gory trail they left behind. The gaunt males were first an...
2024-09-20 19:18:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe last building was slightly larger than the others. There were no guards left outside, and the only fighting Kaz could hear came from distant parts of the cavern. Had Chi Yincang, Yingtao, and L...
2024-09-19 23:13:34 +0000 UTC View PostAs Reina tried to pull herself together enough to explain, Kaz looked around at the females, most of whom huddled behind beds and against the walls. A few had their fists balled up, and one even he...
2024-09-18 21:32:08 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Snen and Li made their way back, Kaz used his own silence rune and told everyone else the bare outline of what had happened. He wasn’t sure why he didn’t tell them about Kus Ukark’s apo...
2024-09-17 20:59:29 +0000 UTC View PostTo say that everyone was surprised when they returned without Raff was an understatement. Once Kaz explained, however, everyone except Kyla and Jinn seemed to agree he’d made the right decision.<...
2024-09-17 01:54:09 +0000 UTC View PostEventually, Thaniel fell asleep, tears still staining his face. When Lian tried to move away, Thaniel partially woke, and began crying again. The same happened when anyone tried to take Pandy, whic...
2024-09-15 04:21:01 +0000 UTC View PostLi’s power fell around her and Kaz, making them vanish. Chi Yincang stepped up into the air, disappearing just as effectively. Mei leapt into Kyla’s arms, after which the two of them faded into...
2024-09-14 01:36:51 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as the rune-stone began to move, the xiyi closed its eyes, body tensed as it waited for something. Something that apparently didn’t come, because as the stone melted into bl...
2024-09-13 01:35:51 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone spread out, looking through the building, and while Kaz was glad for the help, in a way he also missed being alone with his cousin, Li, and Mei. Though he was beginning to suspect that the...
2024-09-12 01:10:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe fuergar lay half-in, half-out of a hole she’d chewed into the side of a crate. Her tail was limp, but she was still squeaking as they ran toward her. There was something very st...
2024-09-11 01:40:16 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Kaz and the human females watched the people below work until they vanished into a tunnel, Chi Yincang, Kyla, Mei, and Li explored the tunnels. Kaz didn’t want to let Li go off without him,...
2024-09-09 22:49:29 +0000 UTC View PostLoud footsteps echoed up the stairs, and Thaniel whirled, closing the door. The sound of it was too loud, and if their pursuers hadn’t known where they were before, now they did. But Thaniel was ...
2024-09-08 21:48:01 +0000 UTC View PostThaniel was snuggling Pandy so tightly that she was surprised she hadn’t lost any LF. Even if she had, she wouldn’t have cared, because she was fairly certain that the only reason she was still...
2024-09-08 21:40:04 +0000 UTC View PostEven if the lizard-people were lying, and they planned to kill the humans they’d captured, it didn’t seem like they were going to do it that day. Raff continued carrying the heavy little jars, ...
2024-09-07 02:18:32 +0000 UTC View PostLi was the best dragon. If she had ever doubted, now she knew. Because there was something wrong with the other dragons, and Li was going to fix it. If that didn’t make her the best dragon, she d...
2024-09-06 02:14:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe looks of incomprehension following this outburst must have convinced the female that they had no idea what she was talking about, because she closed her mouth with a click, stepping back. Rubbi...
2024-09-04 23:36:31 +0000 UTC View PostKaz stared out over the enormous underground… Was it a city? There were buildings, but the people hurrying in and out looked harried and exhausted, not like they were looking forward to resting o...
2024-09-04 01:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostChi Yincang had waited long enough. He’d listened to Li-xiao and Yingying fruitlessly attempt to interrogate the captive for a solid forty-nine minutes, and the kobolds had been gone for almost h...
2024-09-03 03:12:46 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time Raff reached the stadium, he was exhausted, and his chest burned like someone ran him through with a hot knife. He’d had close calls before, but seeing pieces of his own bones on the ...
2024-08-31 00:39:27 +0000 UTC View PostKaz flicked a glance back at the humans, who were still trying to get more information from Doran. When he looked back at Kyla, however, she shook her head firmly. No, she didn’t want to tell the...
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Six faces turned toward him as the door opened, and Kaz was glad to see that they all looked better than they had when he saw them last. Adara must have provided them with some way to wash themselv...
2024-08-28 23:58:49 +0000 UTC View PostIn the end, Kaz left Li watching over Doran, who had fallen into a semi-conscious state. They had a feeling the human had already told them everything he knew about the dragons anyway, and Kaz desp...
2024-08-28 03:21:20 +0000 UTC View PostTogether, they managed to heave the dead body up onto the roof of one of the nearby buildings, where he would be hidden until he began to smell or scavengers came for him. Then they dressed the unc...
2024-08-26 23:31:11 +0000 UTC View PostPandy and Thaniel crouched, hidden in the shadow of the tower, as strange men went through the manor. There was quite a ruckus when they discovered that Thaniel’s room was empty, and Cassie was t...
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