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Chapter One hundred ninety-seven

Kaz was only half right. He was in trouble, but Li was not.

He woke in a pool of unclean water. Someone had taken the tent down without waking him, and the water that was held o...

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Chapter One hundred ninety-six

The story didn’t take long once he started, but soon Lianhua had her face buried in her hands. “Which princess?” she muttered. “If it was the youngest, she’s what, barely eighteen?” Her...

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Chapter One hundred ninety-five

The rain still hadn’t stopped by the time the humans decided to camp for the night. He couldn’t see the moon and stars, but Kaz could feel the sun set, as damp shadows deepened into darkness, a...

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No chapter today

We have a whole series of appointments queued up today, so I'm not going to be able to sit down long enough to write a chapter. Sorry, everyone! I'll be back to work tomorrow 😊

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Chapter One hundred ninety-four

Kaz hurried down a narrow street, the buildings that seemed to lean in toward him blocking much of the rain. Lianhua was right behind him, but of course Chi Yincang was nowhere to be seen. Not by h...

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Chapter One hundred ninety-three

Kaz was ‘shopping’ with Lianhua, Kyla was sleeping, and Li was bored. Li had never actually met another dragon, but her instincts told her that dragons didn’t like being bored. Li definit...

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Chapter One hundred ninety-two

Once Raff saw his charges settled into their rooms, he let Lianhua know that he would go find some horses. There were a few stables in town, and though there weren’t a lot of extra horses around,...

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Chapter One hundred ninety-one

Raff kept a close eye on the people around them as his ragtag little group entered Wheldrake. The little pink puppy - Kyla - was holding the dragon beneath her cloak. And how was that for a kick in...

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Chapter One hundred ninety

Kaz woke after a long, dreamless sleep, finding that at some point during the night Kyla had curled up next to him, and Mei and Li were tangled together between Kaz and Kyla. It was the smell of me...

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Chapter One hundred eighty-nine

Kaz rolled to his side, reaching for the little dragon, but she was already climbing to her feet, her eyes blinking sleepily. She had worn herself out doing… something. But what?

<You we...

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Chapter One hundred eighty-eight

It took another three hours of walking to reach the spot where Raff wanted to camp. Kaz knew because Raff explained that both the sun and moon actually moved across the sky during their designated ...

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Chapter One hundred eighty-seven

“We came a good bit further west than we should’ve,” Raff said, drawing an X next to the long, winding line he claimed was meant to represent the river. “We’re close to the Grimgar Wilds ...

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Chapter One hundred eighty-six

When Kaz opened his eyes to a scaly face and flickering tongue, he thought at first that Li had found him. Then his eyes focused, vision much clearer than it had been since they were damaged, and h...

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Chapter One hundred eighty-five

The last time Kaz looked at his core, he’d seen marked improvement, even over how it looked when Nucai first repaired it. Now, it was even better, and he could see that both his blue and his gold...

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Chapter One hundred eighty-four

There were few bushes and trees breaking up the grass for several yards ahead of them. After that, water roared and tumbled, more of it than Kaz had ever seen in one place except a few of the great...

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Chapter One hundred eighty-three

Kaz slept well that night, curled up on the soft ground with Kyla pressed against his back and Li snuggled against his belly. The three humans each watched for a while, though nothing else approach...

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Chapter One hundred eighty-two

Tentatively, Kaz reached out and touched the fuergar’s side, noting the faint thud of its heart still racing inside its chest. Ribs rose and fell beneath his hand in a single shallow bre...

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Chapter One hundred eighty-one

Kaz knew they had been followed before Raff and Lianhua could even set his paws on the ground. He took a moment to be astonished by the way it squished up between his toes, soft and warm, and not a...

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Chapter One hundred eighty (begin book Four)

She remembered the time from before she knew she was different. Curled up beside her mother, warm and full of milk, she lived in safety and darkness, filled with the squeaks and gentle breathing of...

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Chapter One hundred seventy-nine (END Book 3)

Kaz wished he could have seen the plaza properly before it was filled with the remains of the shiyan. In Li’s eyes, the patterns formed by the bricks were complex and beautiful, though t...

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Chapter One hundred seventy-eight

Once he started, Kaz didn’t stop until he reached one of the massive rib bones buried within the beast’s torso. His knife slid through bone almost as easily as the spongy flesh, but he shifted ...

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Chapter One hundred seventy-seven

“If that thing comes down on the city, it’ll crush us all,” Lianhua called. “We need to either get it to land in the plaza, or chop it into small enough pieces that it can’t do as much da...

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Chapter One hundred seventy-six

Their destination was indeed quite a bit closer to the center of the city, and while the road leading from the Mithrilblades entrance was to their right, a gleaming stream of clear black water mark...

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Chapter One hundred seventy-five

“Oi,” Raff said. “These belong to you?” He shook the dangling kobolds, his voice as genial as ever, but his eyes were calculating as they watched Avli.

To Kaz’s surprise, Dett start...

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Chapter One hundred seventy-four

The city was huge, but sprawling in a way the mosui city hadn’t been. All of the buildings there were tall, to the point that all you could see while standing in the street was the ...

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Quick rules (just two)

I don't have much in the way of rules here, but I've never really codified what there are. I'm still pondering making a Discord channel, and my husband asked what my rules were going to be, so I th...

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Chapter One hundred seventy-three

Kaz sat on a low stone, watching as Gram selected the members of his new tribe, with a great deal of input from Ija. It turned out that Gram’s father had been another of Vega’s pups, but he and...

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Late chapter today

I had some things I had to do this morning, and it threw my schedule all cattywampus. I will get a chapter done this evening, but it'll be a while yet. Sorry!

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Chapter One hundred seventy-two

Kaz turned to see everyone staring at him, some of the kobolds looking cautiously hopeful, while others seemed quietly hostile. Strangely, these emotions seemed to be equally mixed among all the ko...

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Chapter One hundred seventy-one

<-up!> The voice echoed through Kaz’s mind as something was pulled from his hands. It fell, landing hard on his toe before rolling away. It didn’t get far, since one side of the dull orb ...

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