Chapter 217: Beneath A Different Light
2/4.
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Renise thought about the 3rd Princess often.
It was hard not to. She was officially her saviour.
When Renise closed her eyes, it was all too easy to see ...
2024-02-07 00:43:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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A Part-Time Heroine's Guide To Dragonslaying: Chapter 2
2: The Bread & Berry Cafe
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I sat down in one of the cafe's dining chairs, indulging in a wooden surface that was flat and varnished a...
2024-02-04 18:28:32 +0000 UTC View PostA Part-Time Heroine's Guide To Dragonslaying: Chapter 1
1: Modern Dragonslaying
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The problem with dragons is that they always had to have the last word.
I say problem, but this r...
2024-02-04 18:27:06 +0000 UTC View PostBonus Story: A Part-Time Heroine's Guide To Dragonslaying
Synopsis:
The world is ending.
To most, that's a p...
2024-02-04 18:25:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 216: The People’s Princess
Renise Rimeaux's mini-arc. 1/4.
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Renise smelled trouble.
That wasn’t unusual. As the informal head of the Kingdom of Tirea’s very own budding clandestine organis...
2024-02-04 02:35:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 215: Beauty Is A Beast
Hags.
Women who had sold their souls, their sanity and their mortality to nightmares which existed only in the depths of forests.
But amongst them, the hag witches did more than eschew ...
2024-02-02 02:51:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 214: The Surest Antidote
I couldn’t help but smile.
Why, for my assassin to be a fair maiden with a kindly exterior, all I could feel was bemusement and a slight tingling in my nose as I held back a public sneeze. ...
2024-01-30 22:54:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 213: Taste Of Home
There were fouler things than that which slept in the abyss.
Most were too gruesome for my innocent ears to be privy to. As the epitome of a fragile princess, I was shielded from the horrors ...
2024-01-28 04:18:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 212: Where Black Roses Bloom
As a princess, I’d witnessed the most beautiful backdrops of my kingdom.
From the soaring heights of my bedroom ceiling as I read while lying on my back, to the mysterious corners of my bed...
2024-01-26 05:04:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 211: To Protect A Smile
The Gentle Princess creaked as it swayed like a giant upon a hammock.
Within the many corridors and cabins of this majestic vessel, the skull upon the black flag no longer jeered. Th...
2024-01-24 04:17:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 210: Eye Of The Raven
My mouth widened at the sight of a single eye hazing over into a dark orb.
No … it was more than dark.
It was deeper. Emptier. Hollower.
A shade blacker than a night sk...
2024-01-21 04:14:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 209: Discount Paradise
Barbarians.
Beyond the Fabled Realm of Ouzelia, the frozen tundras and icy mountains which awaited housed the wealthiest and most powerful barbarian clans to exist upon the continent.
M...
2024-01-19 04:26:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 208: Haggling For Beginners
I held my palm above me, wincing as a column of sunlight bore down upon my fair skin.
As Apple trotted at a leisurely pace on the northern road to Hartzwiese, I peered up at a blue expanse em...
2024-01-16 21:08:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 207: The Fairest Shadow
Dawn came in the form of a golden halo cresting the Loerstadt Gate.
I watched from atop Apple’s back, gazing at the sight of the sun hoping to earn a spot in my good graces by sending me of...
2024-01-14 04:50:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 206: An Ordinary Prince
Second Prince Tristan Contzen was a man of few words.
In truth, there was little he was permitted to say.
To be a second prince was to be a lifelong understudy. A role which few found j...
2024-01-12 03:36:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 205: Meetings Beneath Starlight
Divination was widely derided as the least of magic.
Closely related to the bumblings of astrology, it was an ancient branch of magic relying not on study or skill, but an innate draw towards...
2024-01-10 00:18:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 204: The Better Part Of Valour
I … I was in mortal peril!
Why, I could feel it like Coppelia’s elbow in the night! My princess senses were as keen as the ears of a fawn in a forest! And currently, the cracking of a twi...
2024-01-07 03:00:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 203: No Rest For The Wicked
My heart was filled with trepidation upon entering the inn.
I should have been in high spirits instead.
After all, I'd sent the Grand Duchess's pets back to her waiting claws, and also ...
2024-01-04 19:41:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 202: Melting Snow
Ophelia pouted as she sat upon a tree branch.
Beside her was Duck A and Duck B, both of whom were perched within a warm bird’s nest which they definitely built themselves.
Swinging he...
2024-01-03 03:58:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 201: A Knife In The Distance
I watched as the last of the silhouettes returned to the shadows beneath the forest boughs.
The earth shook as the armoured riders diligently made certain that any surviving wildflowers were ...
2023-12-31 01:54:28 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3 Release & Ouzelia Book
Hi there!
Thank you so much for your support over the past year. Because of your relentless generosity, we've been able to (accidentally) reach the #200 chapter milestone just before the end ...
2023-12-30 13:44:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 200: A Princess's Duty
A row of darkened eyes met me as I idly approached.
Granholtz’s finest remained mounted on their mailed war steeds, their black halberds and lances almost seeming to pierce the clouds as th...
2023-12-30 04:53:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 199: Where The Grass Is Greenest
I waited.
Within a small clearing dominated by nothing more than a mound smaller than the discarded pile of gifts I threw outside my bedroom window, I waited as I stood idly upon the unoffici...
2023-12-29 02:26:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 198: When Midnight Yet Strikes
There were many things I expected upon my return to the group of elven hoodlums.
Being the joyful participants of my carefully designed one day rehabilitation scheme for convicted litterers, ...
2023-12-27 02:46:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 197: Loser Takes All
Bwooom.
A giant claw came crashing down into the ground, turning soil upwards like a great shovel.
A pair of black wings spread out, casting a shadow even half-bent and broken....
2023-12-24 02:46:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 196: Effective Delegation
My kingdom was truly beautiful.
A vista of snow-capped mountains, verdant forests and distant shores illuminated beneath the moonlight. No matter what wonders one could build with hands, none...
2023-12-21 20:21:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 195: Future Prospects
A cold sweat ran down Ophelia’s back.
She was used to getting into bad situations. Being an A-rank sword saint didn’t exclude her. On the contrary, it only drew her towards them. Mostly b...
2023-12-19 23:52:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 194: A Ballerina’s Touch
I looked up.
And then I looked up even more.
Where before an elven druid stood, there now towered a growing figure of colossal height.
Gone was the robed figure tattered with dish...
2023-12-17 01:24:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 193: Bottom Of The Barrel
I scraped my boots across the floor of the tower chamber.
Why, it didn’t even squeak!
A true caricature of royal abodes! I hadn’t spent a single crown to view it and I still felt po...
2023-12-15 01:55:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 192: Missing Guests
I led the way, Starlight Grace in hand as I ascended a spiralling stairwell.
Ordinarily, climbing a spiralling stairwell was cause for joy. There was only one in my life, and it led to my bed...
2023-12-12 18:48:14 +0000 UTC View Post