A/N: My apologies for the recent disturbances in chapter releases, but worry not I plan to be back to my normal four a week starting this week. Of note there will be a small disturbance near Chri...
2024-11-26 04:00:00 +0000 UTC
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“You could have at least been here on time,” grandmother complained, interrupting my attempt to change the subject.
“You were early, that is hardly my doing. I also would hav...
2024-11-13 19:23:34 +0000 UTC
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Ignus seemed less than enthused when I shared with him my interaction. It was at least nice that he'd made a hole in his busy schedule for me, but that was sort of expected, after all it wasn't lik...
2024-11-13 19:22:21 +0000 UTC
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I pointed my weapons as the goblin slowly emerged from the brush. Behind me the horses and the driver slept, clearly knocked out by some spell or other.
“I didn't come here to fi...
2024-11-07 00:40:54 +0000 UTC
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Word by word I worked, pen scratching, ripping into the paper before me. Beads of sweat rolled down my forehead, for I'd been at this for hours, and while I loved this sort of thing, it was mentall...
2024-11-05 01:53:06 +0000 UTC
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I put the final one of the many, many documents Mrs. Rider had provided to the side. Over the past months the housekeeper had done a magnificent job, at least so far as I could tell. The books were...
2024-10-31 13:17:54 +0000 UTC
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“I like your sister, but she's running me so hard I'm exhausted,” I said to Lucas as I tossed the ball we were throwing around to him. Simon guffawed from the far side.
“I'm ...
2024-10-24 03:20:57 +0000 UTC
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I sat looking at the small box that I'd designed. It'd taken work from both Simon and myself to bring it to existence, but it was something special, something worthwhile, something I was just a lit...
2024-10-22 21:15:04 +0000 UTC
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My hands tingled as the lathe spun to life. It didn't have the hum I was so used to from Earth, the gears being run by magic instead of an electric motor, but it did make a slight sighing noise. Th...
2024-10-12 03:15:42 +0000 UTC
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Simon and I had to wait a bit to really get to work, mostly because I was too busy to do much more than I was. That said I did give him a few tips on what he should look for in features, and even l...
2024-10-11 13:50:53 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Sorry for the slow posts over the past week, between the hurricane destroying several cities in our state and family staying with us because of said hurricane I've been a bit out of sorts.
2024-10-03 10:10:15 +0000 UTC
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School was, well, schooling, even if a number of the subjects were different it remained much the same from my previous life. Sure, there were no computers to write our reports and essays on, and s...
2024-09-28 02:10:30 +0000 UTC
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I did not aim to cause the family's staff stress, but I did so with aplomb anyway. Mrs. Rider, the housekeeper for this particular home soon found me where the maid had, looking a bit surprised, bu...
2024-09-18 20:46:14 +0000 UTC
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I passed along the halls of my school, an academy for young knights. Outside young men sparred in one of the fields, others studied on the grass in the summer sun. Now well into my second year of s...
2024-09-18 01:50:19 +0000 UTC
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Southern Elazia
Nicon- Palace of the People
High Leader Scoran
I laid back as the girl dyed my hair, one at a time, careful, painfully so. There could be no ...
2024-09-09 13:40:22 +0000 UTC
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Ignus
I shifted through the city's offices, eyes peeled for whoever and whatever might be a threat. The city was always under threat of some kind, be it bandits, organized crime, c...
2024-09-07 18:40:38 +0000 UTC
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“Why, why would you get this stuff!?” Chien fumed, trying to cut the sheet of rubber back a bit.
“Goodness, use magic, this stuff isn't that bad.” I of course was using onl...
2024-09-03 05:00:25 +0000 UTC
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My conflict with the over-sized avian was disappointingly short. Sure, it was big, and fast, but as most people who studied such things could tell you, when a mammalian predator gets hold of an avi...
2024-08-29 06:37:47 +0000 UTC
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My carriage dropped me off just outside the gate to Bamblebrook, this choice was made because the streets inside were apparently painfully small and while they could be taken I didn't have anywhere...
2024-08-27 12:44:47 +0000 UTC
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With the holidays ending I found myself returned to school, which was a mixed bag. I liked my school and my friends, and being around them, but on the other hand there was the scheduling. At the en...
2024-08-22 00:41:51 +0000 UTC
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Sasha
I looked at my sister, having felt off for the past several days. While I leaned up against the door to the warren, tapping my fingers in thought. Beside me my most common co...
2024-08-20 07:47:13 +0000 UTC
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There were few things in this world that I really truly loved. My family, some of my friends, and my new workshop were all among them. During the days of my break I might have expected to have an a...
2024-08-13 03:31:33 +0000 UTC
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“Don't we have enough problems?”
“Probably, but as I said, I don't believe it is related to our local problems.”
I leaned back, blowing out a sigh. First g...
2024-08-05 17:22:18 +0000 UTC
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“Good that you removed the flesh when you did,” the elder of this little village said. He barely had a white hair upon his head, but was amenable enough. “It's not that dangerous, but it attr...
2024-08-05 17:21:10 +0000 UTC
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There waas a certain light joy to this little coastline. It was odd to me that it was so small, barely going up to the mountains before steeply climbing, but I knew neither enough about geography n...
2024-08-05 17:20:02 +0000 UTC
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Responding to the duke was quick, finding a date was even quicker. Mother had several potential candidates in mind, but honestly, there'd only really been one. After all, they'd been insisting that...
2024-08-01 17:29:57 +0000 UTC
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My father, who spent so little time around me or dealing with me at all came through quite well. He ordered a number machines for me, powered by mana, that I could use. The ones from the school tha...
2024-07-30 15:19:58 +0000 UTC
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After weeks of travel we discovered a few things. One, that riding on the sled was far, far, faster than any other method of travel, and two, I really needed to work on doing more magic. There was ...
2024-07-29 20:14:57 +0000 UTC
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“So, mind not telling mom about this?” I asked my grandfather after I'd gotten healed and seen to.
“Oh, I'm telling her, some things,” he affirmed.
“She'...
2024-07-19 11:23:25 +0000 UTC
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The first shot landed squarely in the middle of the goblin's chest, tossing him back like a ragdoll. That was refreshing, so very refreshing, to have something I made work just perfectly. The smell...
2024-07-17 15:58:02 +0000 UTC
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