CHAPTER 12
Slowly, she put down the vase. That would significantly decrease the temptation of hitting foreign royalty with low quality ceramics. She licked her lips. The man himself sauntered...
2022-09-12 07:19:13 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER 11
Rose wrenched herself upright, scrambling to put a little distance between herself and the skirmish. Her leg was broken. She ran her left hand over it, feeling a panic struggle to ...
2022-08-31 16:34:48 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER 10
"I already told my brother," Rose disagreed. She put a hand up to stop the messenger from leaving. "We shouldn't send another messenger until we have more information to convey." 2022-08-30 05:27:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Aiko was still shaken the next morning. She laid in bed and watched her ceiling, aching for home.
It couldn’t have been. People who weren’t born yet didn’t have ghosts. But she could ha...
2022-08-29 17:27:31 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER 9
Camp flew by in a blur of smoke and lights. The warm night air was full of laughter and the tantalizing scents of the dinner that he’d been interrupted before eating. It seemed li...
2022-08-25 14:48:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun was beating down on her neck. Hana felt sweat begin to trail down from her hairline onto her brows. She grimaced and heaved her weight into her work again. Her arms were shaking with the st...
2022-08-17 16:30:58 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER 8
Rose ran a hand down her braid and frowned at the empty paddock. She'd lost her good mood as she ran around unsuccessfully looking for one man in a military camp of hundreds.
Rose stomped through camp with an extremely sour attitude after she parted from Kian. She had the uncomfortable feeling that she had been the one to behave badly.
Technically, he hadn’t don...
2022-08-01 01:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostMayumi gripped the tree trunk. Her fingers dug into the rough bark.
The priestess was walking slowly down the path. Her dark eyes were fixed ahead at the cloud of dust heralding men on horseb...
2022-07-29 13:04:17 +0000 UTC View PostHi, I have life whiplash. Left my job, sold my car, and moved out of my apartment in 48 hours. Please clap now.
This will probably translate to an update tomorrow of at least two things. ...
There was really only one option, and she was fast enough to take it. Dirt swirled around from the force of how fast she'd moved to be in front of Tanjiro. Aiko smiled directly into the child's fac...
2022-07-20 03:07:56 +0000 UTC View Post"You don't have to come," she said. The words came out raspy. The effort to talk her advisors through a potential frontal assault on the gate had taxed her voice. Rose cleared her throat. She didn'...
2022-07-18 09:53:24 +0000 UTC View PostThat's because for some reason I'm way less depressed now. (I'm leaving my job, the reason isn't very mysterious)
However I am extremely busy moving house so I'm personally very pleased with ...
2022-07-15 14:36:50 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER 6
That week, she started her school. Aiko began gathering the children too young to work and teaching them hiragana in the mornings. Their minders were obviously interested as well. 2022-07-15 12:54:25 +0000 UTC View Post
CHAPTER 5
She swept in, trusting that he would be at her heels. She gestured at a chair across the table as she sat.
He sat without any hesitation, as if it was normal for...
CHAPTER 4
There were three prisoners to question, but only two made it until morning. Rose waited at the command tent with freshly washed hair and tired, resentful eyes.
"Celestin," she...
2022-07-03 10:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER 5
It took a few days to tiptoe towards making something that might put her village on the map as a religious site of importance. While her little flock was doing their regular se...
In the morning, scouts managed to track the blood and other signs. Whoever she'd hit had basically dragged themselves a truly impressive distance before signs disappeared.
At a guess, Rose wo...
2022-06-30 22:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
She moved. There was no conscious thought involved, only her desire to survive and the heightened instincts that her family was known for. The assassin adjusted quickly, lunging around her ...
They began encircling the city the next day. By her calculations, they did have enough soldiers to do it, but it was a close thing. The tactic spread her army thinner than she wanted, but there was...
2022-06-30 08:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
CHAPTER 4
"Woodworking or stone carving?" Ichirou the bald sucked in a deep breath. "No, I don't know of anyone with those skills. I could give carving a try, if you like…" He trailed...
SWORDPOINT DIPLOMACY PROLOGUE
The twins took their first hard look at war from a flowering hilltop.
"It seems cruel," Etienne said in an undertone. In his discomfort he shi...
She rested that afternoon, idly dragging her fingers through the plush fibers of a rug that Orochimaru had once purchased for his bedroom. Aiko was lying on her back with her arms sprawled above he...
2022-06-16 22:56:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe first test of Aiko's self-assigned status as the protector of a tiny mountain village came in the form of hoofbeats.
She held a hand to shade her eyes as she came out of her shrine to see...
2022-06-03 09:19:48 +0000 UTC View PostOk I got sick of trying to write the practical things that are glue for a story and I am just skipping to the good parts, the fun parts I have been wanting to write. I remembered that AIC was never...
2022-06-01 06:30:43 +0000 UTC View PostThank you for your patronage and patience, we truly appreciate it. The Lilliad will be continually updated until the book (and yeah, it's already over 200,000 words long, why did I do this to mysel...
2022-05-31 20:49:22 +0000 UTC View PostLorit clenched his teeth and braced himself. The sickly feeling from before was rising in his belly, and ringing in his ears.
The bundle began to shake and unfold on the ground, quickly gaini...
2022-05-31 20:32:59 +0000 UTC View PostLilli felt, all things considered, that this was going pretty well so far. Elathor had not in fact been murdered, no one had noticed that she was just as much of a thief as they were, and most impo...
2022-05-31 20:30:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe spectral wolf stopped at a giant stone, larger than even Aiko could ever hope to move. She glanced between the guide and the dead end, brow furrowed.
“This is the entrance to the land o...
2022-05-01 04:11:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe night had worn dark by the time they arrived at the temple, bloodied and bruised.
The soreness radiating from Arelt's body made him want to collapse. A quick glance at his companions reas...
2022-05-01 02:00:38 +0000 UTC View Post