As Moishe walked around the park, speaking to the gathered people there, he realized that many of them were not from Cyrus’s Orientation.
It shouldn’t have surprised him; once he, Cyrus, ...
2024-08-16 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostGravity sucked the bird and the butterfly straight down from a dramatic height.
They had been close to the mountain as the battle played out, but not close enough to land high on the mountain...
2024-08-15 03:30:31 +0000 UTC View PostAdon felt a return to the status quo as soon as he pursued the Golden Eagle into the air.
Even though the eagle was wary, shooting looks in all directions as it rose into the sky, and even th...
2024-08-15 03:28:23 +0000 UTC View PostMoishe Rose reached out and touched the Skin Balloon.
It was the last minute of Orientation, and he knew that it was there for him, one of James’s creatures. He didn’t know to what purpos...
2024-08-14 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: This is also an updated version of chapter 9. Changes are relatively minor. If you already read updated chapters 10 and 11, you probably don't need to read this.
... 2024-08-13 14:25:26 +0000 UTC View PostDave looked around the packed room.
He was surrounded by a crowd of people now, all waiting with rapt attention for the Fisher King to begin his speech.
Only Dave already knew at least ...
2024-08-13 04:06:40 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: In response to some (frankly very logical) feedback, I rewrote certain parts of the story, to reflect that James would explain to his citizens a certain key piece of informat...
2024-08-13 04:05:28 +0000 UTC View PostMina felt a harsh tension impose itself on the air in the community center.
She saw how Cyrus locked eyes with James, and she realized suddenly that Cyrus was using an ability of some sort. I...
2024-08-12 01:11:19 +0000 UTC View PostAdon fluttered in the air just above the mountainside, helplessly staring down at the gap in the rock face that led into the Golden Eagle’s eyrie.
He was still processing.
What ju...
2024-08-10 17:01:55 +0000 UTC View PostAs Adon held the brown feather in the air, thinking about how he might move it through the air with his Telekinesis, a shape emerged from the crag he had been watching.
In an instant, his foc...
2024-08-10 16:57:41 +0000 UTC View PostJames found himself suddenly in an unfamiliar ecosystem.
The first thing that struck his eyes was that it was a vast, open space, and brightly lit, as if there was no cloud cover—and little...
2024-08-07 13:55:14 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: I'm still deciding where to put this interlude, and it may need more edits. I just wrote it, but it should definitely come well before it's currently placed. Open to suggesti...
2024-08-07 02:14:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe butterfly came out of his feeding trance only to discover that he had consumed almost everything and settled himself on a tree branch after doing so.
His trance must have bled into torpor...
2024-08-06 01:10:52 +0000 UTC View PostAs the religious folk filed out to let the King and his council confer, James smiled to himself and rose from his seat.
He moved from the central chair to walk around the edge of the table, t...
2024-08-03 04:31:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe dinner conversation was mostly light and relaxing, a welcome break from Rosslyn’s near interrogation by her father in the chapel.
The spiders gave the King an eager update on their prog...
2024-08-03 04:03:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe third day after the masked man’s arrival began.
James and Mina fed their children and descended from the royal apartment for a council meeting.
Today was the day that they were to...
2024-07-31 22:21:45 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Rosslyn and the spiders saw Adon take off and begin his open air flight practice, Rosslyn carried the spiders back inside.
She spent another hour working with them, overseeing their mag...
2024-07-31 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Welcome back to my laboratory, son,” Zora said, smiling brightly. She turned to Mina and added, “Good to see you, too, Mina!”
Mina offered her usual small smile in return. Zora thoug...
2024-07-29 16:47:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe great bird’s body partially unfolded as it yanked up on the pine marten’s tail.
But despite what it had been doing underground before, the pine marten had become fully focused on the ...
2024-07-29 15:05:45 +0000 UTC View PostOn the morning after the martial arts demonstration, Mina accompanied James to a big meeting on a subject close to his heart.
He seems more serious than usual, she thought as they wa...
2024-07-27 01:59:46 +0000 UTC View PostAdon used Color Change to become effectively invisible once more.
He knew that in the open air, a massive bird like the Golden Eagle would have a speed and power advantage over him. If he was...
2024-07-26 19:18:38 +0000 UTC View PostAdon looked around uncomfortably for another minute or two before he thought about next steps.
He felt like he was in the middle of a crime scene. The hollowed out, feathered husks of his pre...
2024-07-24 21:38:44 +0000 UTC View PostLeo DaSilva stepped forward perhaps a little more eagerly than he should have.
He had always enjoyed fighting as a boy. In the neighborhood where he grew up, you had to be good at it. And he ...
2024-07-24 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe bird’s species name displayed for Adon. It was surprisingly far from intimidating.
Rainbow Bee-Eater (Male)
Well, the first part of the name makes sense. Does...
2024-07-23 21:36:29 +0000 UTC View Post“I don’t know what he meant about that either,” James said for the third time. It was just as true this time as it had been the previous two.
It was after they had put the children to s...
2024-07-22 23:37:25 +0000 UTC View PostAdon’s torpor the rest of the evening was slightly uneasy.
He was awakened much more easily by subsequent stimuli than he had been by the moth.
The pitter-patter of raindrops falling ...
2024-07-20 21:27:55 +0000 UTC View PostMina and James were walking back from the service when they came upon the unknown.
Others, including Yulia, were still there, eating and talking. When Mina planned the service, she had asked ...
2024-07-19 22:06:07 +0000 UTC View PostThis is an old version of this chapter.
Dave looked around the packed room.
He was surrounded by a crowd of people, all waiting with rapt attention for the Fisher King ...
2024-07-18 16:07:20 +0000 UTC View PostYes, this is definitely familiar.
Adon floated in a wide circle above the palace and saw the now-tiny-looking building from several different angles. It was while he was wheeling aro...
2024-07-17 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAs Adon shared his feelings with Rosslyn, he felt anxiety boil up within him alongside shame.
He had never openly told anyone how he had felt about his brother and sister in his previous life...
2024-07-16 01:17:18 +0000 UTC View Post