Tellak ended up being the only person to join Ana in approaching the Waystone, though with three empty slots Ana also invited Wandak and Kaira into her Party. They were the most likely to put thems...
2025-11-18 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostDraka: 12,899 words
Splinter Angel: 13,196 words
Starmind: 4,056 words
Other: 1,104 words
Draka: 2025-11-17 17:58:22 +0000 UTC View Post
When we woke down in that lightless chamber, my internal clock told me that it was night. The burning pain in my side had reduced somewhat to a miserable gnawing ache, but I desperately wanted my h...
2025-11-17 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostWaking up was terribly disorientating. Ana was no longer in the street where she’d gone to sleep, and she’d never noticed being moved. Messy now lay to Ana’s side with a foot of space between...
2025-11-15 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostFor a moment I stood, paralyzed by grief and horror at the loss of my wing. Behind me I heard Behold Her coming closer, not using her breath, just using brute strength to tear through the forest, k...
2025-11-14 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! Managed to get another chapter finished just in time. It's pretty raw and has only been lightly proof-read, so I hope there aren't too many mistakes in it. Happy reading!
//AB
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2025-11-12 17:00:27 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey, Petra,” Ana said gently, clasping the dying woman’s hand. It was cold and clammy, and sticky with blood. “Can you hear me? Varinus said you asked for me.”
Petra’s eyelids sl...
2025-11-11 20:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI tore through the sky, skimming the treetops of the northern side of the high city. Ahead and to my right was the tallest point, where lay the palace grounds. To my left, the open sea stretched to...
2025-11-10 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostAna heard what the man, most likely the Earthbreaker, said. She understood him. But it was incredibly hard to care when she was close, so very close, to ending this bitch who’d promised ...
2025-11-08 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Conscience alerted me that Behold Her had made her move, I didn’t think. I just acted. It wasn’t for the sake of propriety that I scooped Herald up in my arms to fly. It was simple, practi...
2025-11-07 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI got it done in time, so here's the first chapter of book 2! Now, since I'm writing this as a book, there will be some reminders and such here and there. If you read this shortly after chapter 46...
2025-11-05 17:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe Iron Warrior came straight at Ana with a roar of fury, and a wave of fear broke and washed around Ana as she felt the effect of what must be a high-Level Intimidate Sk...
2025-11-04 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostDraka: 21,427 words
Splinter Angel: 16,742 words
Starmind: 7,019 words
Other: 1,824 words
Draka: 2025-11-03 22:35:37 +0000 UTC View Post
The Shrine was almost entirely silent for a long while after we all settled inside. Once Herald got the last few sniffles, sobs, and hiccups out of her system, the loudest sounds were the nervous b...
2025-11-03 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostTen miles. Ana could do ten miles. Twenty miles at a dead run had almost killed her three weeks earlier, but ten? She could do ten and still be fighting fit. At least she hoped so, because she was ...
2025-11-01 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Halloween! No monsters in this chapter, I'm afraid, unless you count me for being so cruel to my poor characters.
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2025-10-31 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe two Earth-mages accompanying Messy, Rayni, Petra, Marra Falk, and the dozen-odd armed men and women with them Shaped, and the center of the stone barrier keeping them from entering the square w...
2025-10-28 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Sun Need Not Rise In His Presence wasn’t hurt. He wasn’t wounded, or injured. Such words were nowhere near enough. They were too limited — too easy to understand. Presence was ravaged...
2025-10-27 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“They can’t leave,” Messy said. There was a vicious satisfaction in her voice that she hadn’t put there intentionally. “They put in all this effort, caused all this damage as a distractio...
2025-10-25 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostWe waited in the same spot where I’d spoken to The Sun Need Not Rise In His Presence. It was nowhere near as visible as where we’d waited for Indomitable and Sandstorm, so to make sure that we...
2025-10-24 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI haven't had much time for anything outside my main series lately, but I've had a draft of this chapter ready for a little while. I needed something to get me started today, and decided to edit it...
2025-10-23 16:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning Temeri left again, this time taking Bekeri with her. Bekeri was going to look at a bunch of machines that weren’t working great. I wasn’t sure why Temeri was going, but when I ...
2025-10-22 16:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostMessy woke to a sound like the world ending.
Her first instinct was to grab for Ana, but Ana wasn’t there. She was alone, and she almost panicked before the adrenaline hit and reason and me...
2025-10-21 16:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostNote: I've made some very small edits to chapters 257 and 263 to address that fact that poor, neglected Avjilan is also a magic user, and should have been affected in some way by the magical explos...
2025-10-20 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the growing darkness, and with no Ana-deprived Parties to slow them down, Ana and her ten hunters moved fast. She started them off slow to warm up, but soon set the same six...
2025-10-18 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Wake up, little one!” Mother’s urgent command burrowed into my sleepy brain, forcing me to open one eye to look toward the door. “There is no more time for sleep! The peace of the conclave...
2025-10-17 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHi all! This is just a short notice that, as I've mentioned previously, I have increased the price for new members from $5 to $8. At about 16k words per week, I think it's justified. However, and t...
2025-10-16 16:58:31 +0000 UTC View PostI got this finished and (sloppily) proofread in time! Hooray! Unfortunately I can't make any promises about next week. I wish I could, but it depends entirely on how the writing goes overall this w...
2025-10-15 16:00:30 +0000 UTC View PostSo I know there's already been two posts mentioning this today, but did you know that Shadows of Gold, Book 3 of Draka, released today? True story! 2025-10-14 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
It's launch day! Shadows of Gold is finally out! Now, I'm dropping this ea...
2025-10-14 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post