The others followed after her, each of them reacting in an obvious manner at the shock from breaching the barrier. Zef just twitched a little, Makhus audibly gritted his teeth, the woman in red and...
2021-08-13 17:59:05 +0000 UTC View PostThrough the city they made their way, finding that yet more Kargarian merchants were openly setting up their cart stalls on the major streets. Besides Zelsys being recognized and called out for her...
2021-08-12 17:59:31 +0000 UTC View PostTanks, both full-scale and ultracompact.
Guns, from sparklock handguns to artillery pieces.
Ammunition, enough enriched gunpowder to blow up a small mountain.
The machines to equi...
2021-08-11 17:39:02 +0000 UTC View PostPieces fell into place in her head. So that’s why the governor had gone out of his way to ask her not to reject people without good reason. “That bastard… Don’t expect preferential treatmen...
2021-08-10 17:14:43 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Zef gingerly pulled it out of the box, they saw that beneath the so-called fotoapparat sat a thick tome and some other things, like a deck of square cards much similar to those on the table in...
2021-08-09 18:39:33 +0000 UTC View Post“Aye. Had this weird feeling one night, then heard someone screaming. Slicked my hair back, put on a gas mask, and ran out with a war-knife following the noise. Thought I’d end up cutting down ...
2021-08-08 14:59:48 +0000 UTC View Post“What if they’re not caught? Do you truly think a crowd of civilians won’t fall for a well-done distraction?” Zef pushed again. It sounded like she well and truly wanted to ensure the death...
2021-08-07 17:23:49 +0000 UTC View PostIt was overtly worded in a way that shifted the agency onto the crowd, no doubt to position Estoras as a servant to the people’s will even as he served up the location of those who would see him ...
2021-08-06 17:17:04 +0000 UTC View PostShe had fully expected to need to encourage him at least a little bit, but much to her self-satisfaction and amusement, it was like he just snapped under the pressure of her presence.
“So b...
2021-08-05 17:21:09 +0000 UTC View PostFrom a brisk walk she broke into a sprint that rendered her a blur for all but Shang and a few of his more perceptive lieutenants, lightning arcing over her legs, its tendrils writhing around them ...
2021-08-04 19:45:08 +0000 UTC View PostThey had been told that it was tall, but-
“It’s her! She stinks of alchemy and my dead brethren!” chittered the Transformed, breaking Shang’s train of thought. He recklessly charged a...
2021-08-03 17:45:05 +0000 UTC View PostWild-eyed he stared at her, looking side to side as if trying to convey a shake of the head with his eyes.
Part confused, part terrified, the boy once more spoke to her, “I-I’ve seen that...
2021-08-02 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a geyser of steam and blood, a brief gurgle, and the man was dead, his spine, esophagus, and carotid arteries all cleanly severed. Just to make sure he wasn’t awake in his own dying hea...
2021-08-01 18:08:22 +0000 UTC View PostZelsys chopped, cut, and kicked her way into the first floor’s main hallway, willfully burning a tenth of her lung capacity on every breath for Fulgur to be expelled. Not as an attack, but as a l...
2021-07-31 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostA sword swung at her chest by a man from the left, no feint, completely telegraphed, but the attacker had the fortune that the Butcher was currently busy being used reverse-grip to cut a swathe of ...
2021-07-30 18:17:24 +0000 UTC View PostTurning the sound ward generator off he proceeded to stride over to one of his shelves, grabbing an ornamental saber off its stand, proclaiming, “I might be out of practice, but I’m an out of p...
2021-07-29 16:56:37 +0000 UTC View PostHe looked at her with a flash of blue fire in his eyes, this time continuing to spin the dial back and forth with pure muscle memory. Click. Click. Click. Click.
“Executing them for treason...
2021-07-28 18:13:59 +0000 UTC View PostLooking into the binder revealed a single, thick sheet of parchment - no, that wasn’t right. This was all too thick to be called parchment, this was more like preserved skin, tattooed with meticu...
2021-07-27 16:41:38 +0000 UTC View PostJust one guard.
And it was him. That mercenary.
“Is this where sailing once more has led you?” she prodded as she approached. He gave her a steely-eyed look and the subtlest of smil...
2021-07-26 17:19:32 +0000 UTC View Post“Did you just replicate what I did back in the E.Z. using the citronade?” she questioned.
Zel just nodded, answering that, “Using the second gut feels less like exhaling and more like b...
2021-07-25 17:54:41 +0000 UTC View Post“One last thing, before you leave. What do you intend to call yourself? Renegade, or something else?” she questioned, not entirely sure of the reason herself. Somehow she just felt that there w...
2021-07-24 17:42:46 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ve not mentioned it before, but the fact that your Tablet uses the four-attribute format was more telling of its make than the fact it’s a stone slab. I’m nearly certain that my Force is...
2021-07-23 18:16:44 +0000 UTC View PostMakhus looked at the stick in his hand, spun it around in his grasp a few times to get a feel for its center of mass, and let out a resigned sigh. He looked at Zel again, and though his words spoke...
2021-07-22 18:29:00 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: There might not be a chapter tomorrow. Can't really say for certain as of the posting of this chapter.
For a few seconds it hung limp connected by a near-black layer of blood-stuff, but ...
2021-07-20 18:56:20 +0000 UTC View PostIt was even visible, a hair-thin silver conduit on her arm taking on a barely-visible glow. Being so shallow, the cut resealed almost seamlessly when she let go, leaving behind just a lingering pai...
2021-07-19 12:13:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Yeah, we ran out of eggs so I made lokshe instead,” he confirmed, returning to the stove to continue. “The filling’s apples, cinnamon, and ground poppyseed.”
She had a mind to ask ...
2021-07-18 19:07:19 +0000 UTC View PostHer tongue sat in her mouth like a curled-up dead snake, dry and slimy from dehydration, numb and aching like an overexerted muscle, so fresh the turgid sensation it brought to mind a just-ended co...
2021-07-17 14:52:57 +0000 UTC View PostMost averted their eyes.
A few stared her down with a grim coldness behind their glares, a wordless agreement tainted by defeatism.
Three men emerged from the crowd, each burly, each wi...
2021-07-16 13:06:57 +0000 UTC View Post“You had other names in ages past.”
“Yes, yes I did... And I regret each of them, most of all the one immediately preceding Omniudex. The Cruel Miracle, the people ...
2021-07-15 12:37:10 +0000 UTC View PostYet, with a saintly patience, Jorfr continued explaining: “The paths carved in the ice by new meteors are the same as those we see left behind by the old ones. Our land has been generously bestow...
2021-07-14 18:59:29 +0000 UTC View Post