Ling Qi shared a long look with Xuan Shi.
As much as a founding tale could be interesting, how much would it help? Flipping the situation around in her head, how much would the tale of the Em...
2022-12-22 23:14:25 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi swallowed once. Even she knew there were many ways this story could go from a hundred hundred scraps of folktale and spirit knowledge.
“We would be happy to bring you your firewood,...
2022-12-20 01:42:11 +0000 UTC View PostShe wasn’t going to be caught again. Not like she had been with the fox.
“Xuan Shi, we’re going to move much faster now,” she warned. The pressure of the voices scratching at her thou...
2022-12-16 02:56:37 +0000 UTC View Post“I think going downward through the tunnel will be the safer trip.”
“I wouldn’t call any of this safe,” Sixiang said dubiously.
“I said ‘safer,’ not safe. The storm abov...
2022-12-13 01:24:21 +0000 UTC View Post“You are an attentive student,” Shu Yue praised as Ling Qi finished her analysis of the last letter, a simple invitation from a baron in the nearby Wang lands to trade som...
2022-12-10 04:03:35 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi’s head snapped up, eyes widening in surprise. “But…”
“I was not there. You are important, but you are not my only business,” Shu Yue explained, righting the angle of their...
2022-12-05 22:52:23 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi drew her breath into her lungs and exhaled, beginning the next stanza of her song. Moisture became falling snow, swiftly dirtied to gray by dust and mud. She sang of the girl, little more t...
2022-12-02 00:04:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe ith-ia gardener raced toward her.
He leapt, and she vanished, ghosting backward, a dress and the silhouette of a face in the dark without hands or limbs like her teacher once had appeared...
2022-11-28 22:09:45 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Meant to get this out before the holidays but it didn't work out. Enjoy and look out for the next part soon.
The army of Phoenix Home wended its way...
2022-11-26 22:34:51 +0000 UTC View PostOne more announcement for the holiday season. From now on I'll be partnering with Fourthwall, to produce merchandise for the Destiny Cycle series! Right now I only have a small selection of product...
2022-11-23 16:22:39 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi took the central path, straight on toward the target. The old veteran and one of the officers went left, and the Ministry official and the others took the right. But all remained in her mis...
2022-11-21 22:56:53 +0000 UTC View PostWhat it says on the tin folks. Going to be traveling for the holiday. Thanksgiving for those who don't celebrate. I hope everyone has a good one.
2022-11-19 21:21:06 +0000 UTC View Post“What?!” the voice from the crystal, Yan Renshu’s voice, snarled.
“Dead men lose their hearing. Good to know,” Ling Qi said coldly.
“You... You can’t be here! This room is...
2022-11-18 01:23:02 +0000 UTC View PostThey had been watching for two days now.
Yan Shenyi was a young seeming man who bore some resemblance to his cousin. He was short and a bit broad with the rough sort of face that was not usua...
2022-11-15 01:15:54 +0000 UTC View Post“So, how bad do you think the damage is going to be?” Ling Qi asked, looking out the window of the carriage as it began to get moving. The outlying buildings of the sect town rolled by.
...
2022-11-10 21:25:46 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ll have to hope enough people are enraptured by what could be to counterbalance any disagreements about what was,” Ling Qi mused.
“Guess I’ll just have to hope you're as good at ...
2022-11-08 00:58:10 +0000 UTC View Post“By the way, which of my retainers would you prefer to be my liaison at your settlement since I cannot be on site yet?” Meizhen asked.
Ling Qi considered. She was curious about Bai Anxi...
2022-11-03 22:33:25 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone. This post is just a bit of long overdue admin. I'm going to collect here some important links for you guys and pin this up to give easier access to various bits of content and patro...
2022-11-03 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostWhat to do? Joking aside, she actually did feel for them a little.
<There’s a poetry reading going on. Got a couple of Gan’s folks there,> Sixiang pointed out. <And Wang Chao and...
2022-10-31 22:36:55 +0000 UTC View PostHome. It still eluded her. The house in the sect town wasn’t really hers. Tonghou had certainly never been home. But this, she had built, a little retreat where she could cultivate her arts, bull...
2022-10-27 20:43:25 +0000 UTC View PostEye of Grudges. An art? A technique? Ling Qi wasn’t sure, but it sounded ominous. Nonetheless, she was confident that she could make any lessons her own.
“It’s been some time since I’...
2022-10-17 22:30:52 +0000 UTC View PostThey took it a little slower in returning, but as they came near the great manor nest, they found the old spirit beast and his grandson awaiting them. Both of those beasts kept up appearances, but ...
2022-10-14 01:11:17 +0000 UTC View Post
That's right the wait is almost over narrated by Natalie Naudus, like the previous volumes, the first book of Threads is coming to Audio you can preorder at the link!
2022-10-12 20:39:03 +0000 UTC View PostShouldn't be much difference for you RR and Patreon folks. But I read my calendar a bit wrong. 19th-26th will be the break
2022-10-12 20:32:03 +0000 UTC View PostFirstly. Sorry for the days delay on the previous update! But as you can tell from my missing a basic thing like that, it's getting to be time for my semi regular break. SO for one week here there ...
2022-10-11 23:38:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe young beast regarded her in shock, the old one with consideration. “Be wary,” Changin warned. “Their power crumbles artifice and severs law. They devour the breath and souls of the living...
2022-10-11 23:36:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe short journey through the woods proved pleasant. There was no rising hostility or pressure in the air, and their only watchers were circling birds and small beasts that skittered away at their ...
2022-10-06 23:36:43 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi blinked.
“The surveyors have discovered a high concentration of spirits, which they are not equipped to engage with. The concentration lies along the southeastern tributary of the r...
2022-10-03 23:14:18 +0000 UTC View PostAs they moved out into the gardens to take a small lunch, conversation turned to the recipe she had provided Suyin, an elixir that would aid in the fourth realm breakthrough coming in their future....
2022-09-30 00:56:43 +0000 UTC View Post“The construct,” Ling Qi explained, “along with some other projects, was found in a clanless fourth realm crafter's workshop after he passed. Since he had no living kin, it all went to auctio...
2022-09-26 23:37:05 +0000 UTC View Post