“Young lord I've held my piece, for a long time, but there are limits,” Mrs. Rider began.
“Excuse me?” I asked, a bit taken aback by her tone. Earlier I'd been angry and she knew it, ...
2025-03-01 18:27:38 +0000 UTC View Post“Please, sit,” I said to Kaylee as I closed and locked the door, no reason to risk someone else overhearing us.
“Um... sir, I really don't.” I gave her a look, and she sat.
Sitt...
2025-02-28 00:22:27 +0000 UTC View Post“I will have an answer,” I said, voice hard as steel and cold as ice.
“Sir, please calm down, really it's fine, everything is fine.” Mrs. Rider had never seen me angry, truly angry be...
2025-02-26 19:43:41 +0000 UTC View PostFor the first time in a long time I was getting to do some proper forging myself. I loved it, the heat, the way the metal bent, the cherry red it could turn under the flame. It wasn't my favorite t...
2025-02-24 14:32:08 +0000 UTC View PostThere was at least one advantage to my new schedule, and that was flexibility. Most of the time when we were at school, we were at school, with only our rest days to take off. However with personal...
2025-02-21 19:50:51 +0000 UTC View PostAfter my display the other elders left me to my devices, which was good. Perhaps here and there they were voicing their irritation behind closed doors, but none were bringing it to me, and that was...
2025-02-19 11:42:08 +0000 UTC View PostIt was at least gratifying to see when Lucas began his resistance training. I'd had to go through mountains of it, but his first few days he was spent. I even got to reenact his little talk with me...
2025-02-18 12:36:18 +0000 UTC View PostI was a little anxious about fighting the little old lady that was Professor Ruian, but that changed in the first second of the battle. Around me the sands of the arena exploded in a wave, thrown b...
2025-02-13 08:39:05 +0000 UTC View PostIf I was making progress, I certainly wasn't seeing it. Every day seemed the same, with more tests, more meditations, and more shocks from that damnable rod of Sir Kendrick's. No matter how hard I ...
2025-02-11 07:22:39 +0000 UTC View PostI made it back to my dorm that evening somehow more tied than I'd been if I'd gone to regular class. A few of the boys looked at me and seeming to feel my mood didn't bother me as I fell into bed.<...
2025-02-10 12:00:58 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up, looking at the ceiling and knowing that the day would be magnificent. My mornings would be much the same of course, with wake up and breakfast first thing. Of course my waking wasn't the...
2025-02-06 23:50:31 +0000 UTC View PostAs I ascended the final steps to our council hall several of my fellows stood forward to meet me. Most notable of these was Shorin, an old friend, and while not always an ally on the council someon...
2025-02-03 20:17:16 +0000 UTC View PostAll things had to come to an end, and my winter vacation was no different. Before I knew it the time had come to pack my things and return to school, and the stress and time crunch that always seem...
2025-01-31 13:29:10 +0000 UTC View PostRowenna's aunt lived on the outer part of the more expensive districts of the city. Perhaps the man she'd married wasn't a titled noble, or he was lower on the totem pole than most I'd dealt with, ...
2025-01-29 21:13:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe morning of my announcement my family helped me dress. Most of it was the girls doing my hair and making sure all the jewelry was on right, but they fussed a lot, trying to make sure that everyt...
2025-01-28 13:39:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a couple of weeks but someone eventually did invite me to another party. Now, the issues wasn't that I was some kind of social pariah, quite the opposite, it was that nobody was having any ...
2025-01-24 17:39:39 +0000 UTC View Post“I'm glad you're taking this so seriously,” I said to my smiling assistant.
“As are you,” he scoffed, and I had to laugh.
“Fair, but things will change.”
“For the be...
2025-01-21 08:54:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Hello World”
Yes, that old archmage and the insane goblin weren't the only ones of us. She'd known, I'd known on some level, but there it was. It was confirmation that I was now seeing f...
2025-01-20 18:39:09 +0000 UTC View PostIgnus may have come to get me, but he was now distracted and I saw a good time to make my own escape. So I left the two investigators to themselves and their deepening discussion and slipped out. I...
2025-01-19 09:05:54 +0000 UTC View PostI learned a few things over the next several hours.
Firstly, that though according to history books the various Orders had declined in power a bit from their peak that did not mean that they ...
2025-01-16 17:38:52 +0000 UTC View PostI was fast asleep when the blow came, so hard to the stomach that I shot awake, the air knocked out of me.
“OOF!” I grunted as I was thrust into consciousness.
“Wake up daddy!” ...
2025-01-13 11:28:40 +0000 UTC View Post“What are you doing here?” the goblin girl asked, goggles flashing in the low light.
I didn't bother trying to talk, instead drawing the pistol I'd taken to carrying on me at all times. I...
2025-01-09 16:00:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe night of the party finally arrived and I strolled into the ballroom, slipping on my mask. The piece I'd made for this was a fanciful bit, white with feathers sticking out in all directions. Bes...
2025-01-08 03:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Hello there my friend,” Simon said cheerfully as I joined him at the small room in his home we'd agreed to have this meeting at. While his face smiled his eyes held a hint of irritation.
"Thank you for seeing me on such short notice,” I said to the vendor, a tallish wispy man named Pino who ran the only ballroom I would be able to rent on such short notice.
“Not at...
2024-12-31 10:05:30 +0000 UTC View PostMy sincere apologies for the chapter delays. Unfortunately I set off on a trip for Christmas and am currently being bounced around airports without end. I will be back and posting just as soon as...
2024-12-28 04:52:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Alright Percival, the time has come to host an event,” my grandmother told me one afternoon. She was making an awful habit of interrupting my personal words on an almost daily basis.
“...
2024-12-20 14:40:09 +0000 UTC View PostGreta slid through the sewers, she hated coming out here so much. It wasn't like the surface, where there was fresh air and the bright open sky, and it wasn't home either. Father at least kept the ...
2024-12-10 00:27:53 +0000 UTC View Post“It actually works, like properly?” the girl sitting across from me asked over the table.
“Indeed, we had a demonstration for some of the more technically minded men from The Royal Soci...
2024-12-05 05:03:41 +0000 UTC View PostFaster and faster I moved, the wind reaching a peak until I felt it. The sensation of the wheels leaving the ground was magnificent, the bumps changing into small changes in the wind as I began to ...
2024-11-26 21:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post