Lester Yong & Rosa Fontelera-Yong

CoESC Book 7-13.3: Delving

Yuriko frowned as Lucian and his posse postured near the entrance gate.

“What are they doing here?” She asked Faeril.

The Sha’ledras boy nodded to her and said, “Lucian and his ...

CoESC Book 7-13.2: Delving

Yuriko carefully lowered herself into the hot water. The temperature perceived by her Anima still had a bit of a disconnect with the rest of her body. While there was Radiant energy hidden away in ...

CoESC Book 7-13.1: Delving

The tour throughout Sorren’s Hollow was rather quick. First Faeril brought them to a cabin. It was a four-bedroom dwelling that was about twenty paces set back from the entrance road, and quite c...

CoESC Book 7-12.3: Sorren's Hollow

“What’s going on here?” the old yet extremely fit man repeated, his fiery eyes sweeping across the combatants. He squinted at Yuriko for a long moment, confusion quite evident on his face. Th...

CoESC Book 7-12.2: Sorren's Hollow

“Where are the doorknobs?” Saki suddenly asked, prompting Yuriko to take a quick look at the building doors and entrances.

The one right next to the district entrance was a three-storey a...

CoESC Book 7-12.1: Sorren's Hollow

It’s been more than a decade, Edmund Sevier thought, since he’d let his hormones and gonads do the thinking instead of his head. He certainly wouldn’t have hesitated in helping the beleaguere...

CoESC Book 7-11.3: An Abandoned City

“Hurry, around the corner!”

The strange man pulled Yuriko along as he spoke. Her light illuminated the room they were in, which she had assumed to be a cellar, but no, she was mistaken. T...

CoESC Book 7-11.2: An Abandoned City

The eyes turned yellow as they focused on her, blinking rapidly in a strange pattern, then paused for a few moments. Yuriko stared at it with a bit of confusion and not a little bit of wariness. 2022-07-18 14:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post

CoESC Book 7-11.1: An Abandoned City

“What’s that?” Yuriko muttered as she saw something move in the distance. She had to look hard at it to make sure she could believe her sight, and that took a few moments of focus. No, she wa...

CoESC Book 7-10.3: Mysterious Depths

Edmund Sevier scrubbed at his scraggly beard as the day cycle in Sorren’s Hollow began. He made his way out of his bedroom, wandered into the sink and splashed water on his face to get all of the...

CoESC Book 7-10.2: Mysterious Depths

It was clad in steel armour, or some other metal really, though the breastplate had been cleft in twain. Pale white bone, broken ribs mainly, and a bit of vertebrae were clearly visible. If she had...

CoESC Book 7-10.1: Mysterious Depths

“Are we really going?” Niamh asked Marron, her face a mask of worry and trepidation. Yuriko frowned but didn’t say anything. The Avos Zarek had given them a few minutes to think about his dem...

CoESC Book 7-9.3: The Avos Court

Avos Shillogu thoughtfully kept his mouth shut as he ate the proffered purple-spotted cave mushroom that the other Avi had turned their nose up on. He was the only one who was omnivorous amongst th...

CoESC Book 7-9.2: The Avos Court

“Why did it leave?” Yuriko muttered, still somewhat stunned that the metal man had just up and left mid-battle. A seed of disappointment and wistfulness grew in her heart.

The creature ha...

CoESC Book 7-9.1: The Avos Court

Yuriko climbed up a tall oak tree and walked towards a branch that gave her a better view. Enhanced Sight magnified her vision enough that she could see the source of the bronze-coloured light.

CoESC Book 7-8.3: Hostile Mountain

“Easy now,” Marron murmured as he sighted down his Plasma Caster. The bear Grunder mauled a tree nearly a hundred paces away, trying to get at the hollow inside. There were probably bees and ho...

CoESC Book 7-8.2: Hostile Mountain

“Maru!” Yuriko called out to her brother, who gave her a mean stare. He didn’t let up until she grinned and mouthed, “Sorry.”

“Oh, lighten up, Maru-maru,” Niamh giggled.

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CoESC Book 7-8.1: Hostile Mountain

The sun had nearly set by the time Yuriko made it back to the campsite. The command transport hub was filled with reporting scouts, most of which didn’t bother writing things down and gave a verb...

CoESC Book 7-7.3: Seeking Sanctuary

There was a small building next to the command transport, barely a single floor and was mostly a single large room. Normally, the camp didn’t stay in one place long enough to warrant spending the...

CoESC Book 7-7.2: Seeking Sanctuary

“Are you ready?”

Gwendith gulped, feeling a touch of nerves. It's been a long two weeks of waiting and training. Yuriko had also taught her an Anima Recovery technique that she was to use...

CoESC Book 7-7.1: Seeking Sanctuary

The barbarians and Chaos Lords had stopped chasing after them by the time the caravan had reached the third campsite. It had taken nearly a couple of weeks to get there, rather than one, by Yuriko�...

CoESC Book 7-6.3: Clashing Pride

Yuriko ran towards the fight but the sounds and lights faded away even before she got halfway there. A purple light flared for a moment and she heaved a sigh of relief. Her brother was still there....

CoESC Book 7-6.2: Clashing Pride

By the time the Radiant Sun had set beyond the Zarek Mountains, Yuriko, Marron, and Sheamus had moved their fallback point several times to the north. The number of barbarians she’d killed had re...

CoESC Book 7-6.1: Clashing Pride

They pulled a bit further back from the forest’s edge. There was a good five hundred paces of clearing in between there and the outpost anyway, from the west side. Yuriko’s and Marron’s effec...

CoESC Book 7-5.3: Pathfinding and Base Building

The terrain blended together as Yuriko and Marron ran back towards the first camp. It only took a few minutes with both of them going as fast as they could. Or rather, with Marron going as fast as ...

CoESC Book 7-5.2: Pathfinding and Base Building

The snowstorm had reached Yuriko and Marron by midmorning. The two of them walked along the newly laid road, half a league from the first campsite. Ten Earthmelders of the Builder Corps, out of twe...

CoESC Book 7-5.1: Pathfinding and Base Building

By the time the sun rose at dawn, the caravan was less than a league from the camp. They were nearly four longstrides into the pine forest though, and they were on a narrow strip of road roughly si...

CoESC Book 7-4.3: Exodus

Yuriko’s Anima had expanded by nearly ten inches. She didn’t even notice until a while ago when they prepared themselves to defend the camp. The caravan of fifty troop transports along with six...

CoESC Book 7-4.2: Exodus

Gwendith sat on the chair, her legs in a duchess slant even though she wasn’t wearing a skirt. It was a habit formed over a lifetime, particularly enforced by her mother. She was of the nobility,...

CoESC Book 7-4.1: Exodus

The Songstress of Heartfelt Desire hummed happily as she snuggled up next to her master. Yuriko had finally allowed it, after that other girl, Gwendith Sharine, weaselled her way to the master’s ...