Chien
It took us a few weeks to get deep into the subject of magic, but it was fun. I got to teach little Adia not only what I knew about her powers, but what I knew about the wilds. Perhaps ...
2025-05-02 03:03:05 +0000 UTC View PostChien
I looked at the child and her small satchel.
“So... you have everything you need?” I asked.
“Mommy helped me pack it, said not to bring much though,” she complained....
2025-05-01 03:16:42 +0000 UTC View PostIsha
“Whatever we choose, she needs training,” I informed my husband after we'd put our child to bed. There were things you simply didn't need to discuss before them.
“Yes... I co...
2025-04-29 15:24:19 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hi everyone! I'm here to let you know that I'll be slowing the rate of chapters for Machinist slightly over the next bit while I work on the storyboarding for book 3 and give Elevation some ...
2025-04-28 11:01:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe soldiers were unamused by my joke, but I was clearly no goblin, and grandfather soon landed near us. It seemed I'd actually lost him for a bit there, the plane not being quite as fast as the ou...
2025-04-24 17:48:19 +0000 UTC View PostIsha
Thankfully Adia was alright, finding her out cold on the ground had nearly made me faint. However she was merely asleep, unlike her friend, who was crying up a storm. A quick once over h...
2025-04-22 19:59:45 +0000 UTC View PostThere was no wind in my sails for my grim work. I reloaded and moved to the next cart, cutting one more free. I'd considered leaving it, but that was senseless, what if one of the goblins got back ...
2025-04-21 02:00:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe train lurched as the first of the cars fell away, the reduction in mass noticeable throughout it. That had not been intended, nor was it welcome in the least. Had I known... no, I probably stil...
2025-04-18 14:25:35 +0000 UTC View PostIt took only minutes for the plane to be back in working order and I looked at our runway.
“It's short,” grandfather said.
“It's what we have, and it should be long enough,” I r...
2025-04-16 21:09:33 +0000 UTC View PostAdia
I sighed as I looked around at all my friends, and our one open chair. Lunch was so long ago so where was he? Daddy always came to see me after lunch for tea, always. Well, I guess somet...
2025-04-14 16:04:59 +0000 UTC View PostOur plane ate the miles as fast grandpa's flight had, and significantly more comfortably. It seemed one moment we were in the hangar, and the next we were over the city, looking for our landing pla...
2025-04-11 13:18:12 +0000 UTC View Post“What's going on,” I asked as we escorted Ignus into the hall.
“The short version is this, they made it through the portal and managed to escape the fortress on the far side. I'm still ...
2025-04-09 02:49:06 +0000 UTC View PostAdia
I crept from room to room, looking, watching. Mommy was somewhere, and if I was going to get to the kitchens and get any snacks I'd need to keep her from seeing me. She didn't like it wh...
2025-04-08 03:44:08 +0000 UTC View PostTime seemed to slow to a crawl. We had nothing we could do, nowhere to go, and other than comforting each other there was no action we could take that would accomplish anything at all. My grandfath...
2025-04-07 04:14:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe fighting lasted for seconds and nothing more.
“Another strike?” one of the men nearby asked.
“Much closer than the previous ones. That way?” I told them, pointing.
For...
2025-04-04 03:14:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Greetings,” Ignus said, meeting us at the entryway to the duke's palace. He didn't look particularly pleased.
“Good day, before we continue, could you please ask your men to lower thei...
2025-04-02 15:05:13 +0000 UTC View PostWith my wife now aiding me I gave her a lot of documentation and got back to what I was currently actually doing. I felt bad about having to put together and then dump upon her so much info, but sh...
2025-04-01 10:00:56 +0000 UTC View PostI moved along the rooftops, something normally quite frowned upon. There were many people who could've done it but running along the tops of people's houses didn't make you many friends. However no...
2025-03-28 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostArthur Shadestone
As my boy carried the daughter I'd never known nearly well enough away I watched, pushing back the tears. What was done was done, and it was time for me to go, to finish thi...
2025-03-27 14:24:39 +0000 UTC View PostI'd never managed to own an M2 back in my previous life, but the Ma Deuce was legend. A weapon that had served in war for almost a century with no sign of stopping any time soon. This weapon wasn't...
2025-03-25 13:36:43 +0000 UTC View PostKaylee
I waited in the odd, machine-filled room. Something must have gone truly wrong for lord Percival to have run off like that. After the explosion it had gotten all quiet, not that you co...
2025-03-24 12:46:09 +0000 UTC View PostIsha was mostly uninterested in my fabrication facilities, such as they were. Most of the things I did I did with purely magic, having neither the know-how or the tools for machining things. Instea...
2025-03-24 12:45:10 +0000 UTC View PostAs the scout finished we all stood stunned. Beasts that seemed devoted to nothing but killing, and ones that were of the size he described, almost unheard of. Sadly almost was an operant word in th...
2025-03-20 07:03:42 +0000 UTC View PostI held Kaylee for just a moment as the first screams of panic reached me, then I looked her dead on and spoke.
“Stay here, something is wrong.”
She made a move to grab onto me, to k...
2025-03-18 02:56:08 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Sorry for the delay everyone, was traveling and had some internet issues, dropping multiple today
Weeks passed without incident, turning into months. My infrequent breaks sadly d...
2025-03-18 02:55:16 +0000 UTC View PostConstruction of my first flying machine was proceeding apace, and by that I mean slowly. There was so much that went into any sizable build that it took time, time and patience. Oddly some of the o...
2025-03-12 15:56:45 +0000 UTC View PostSasha
The nest was always growing, always expanding, but I was getting worried. At first I hadn't noticed, but it seemed Father had been allowing some of our brothers and sisters to breed unc...
2025-03-10 13:28:19 +0000 UTC View Post“OOF!” I flew across the arena skidding along the ground painfully.
This wasn't the first time I'd missed a strike today, in fact there'd been several now. It was however the roughest one...
2025-03-09 12:29:50 +0000 UTC View PostArthur Shadestone
I sat in my office, unable to even wish my son goodbye as he returned to that school of his, unable to face him. It wasn't fear, no, for I wasn't afraid of what he would do....
2025-03-04 13:32:09 +0000 UTC View PostThere were different levels of elders, and while it was a group I'd just joined Jina was an old, old hand to it. That was a good part of why I needed her.
“So you want me to reinforce our e...
2025-03-03 08:24:48 +0000 UTC View Post