The little carriage rolled towards my future home for the next few years, the campus pulling itself from the ever-present mist. We were just outside the city, the walls and towers of the metr...
2024-03-06 23:24:18 +0000 UTC View PostOn my first day at the house in Exion I'd made some inquiries, but the results were less than I'd hoped for. The housekeeper Mrs. Rider thought that I was just trying to get a grip on how thi...
2024-03-01 02:54:37 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the mad morning dash my boarding the train was peaceful. This was a trip I'd made many, many times, and even if I found it rather boring it wasn't like it was difficult. Soon enou...
2024-02-27 16:18:57 +0000 UTC View PostWhile my grandfather had been thrilled with our model's success my parents honestly didn't see the point o it. Flying with magic was possible, and if you really, really wanted you could make ...
2024-02-20 22:11:06 +0000 UTC View PostI was only fourteen, and all the things I'd managed astounded me. Over and over again I thought this as I looked at my newest creation. Perhaps it was cheating, calling this my own doin...
2024-02-17 09:19:37 +0000 UTC View PostThere were no two ways about it, mother was livid. She'd not been so sure about me being there in the first place and my insistence that the goblin was nothing like it was depicted in the pap...
2024-02-11 02:46:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe revelation of my grandfather's combat abilities left a lot of questions, questions I wanted answers to. Of course with all the excitement going on in the Royal Society and the gardens I w...
2024-02-09 17:24:11 +0000 UTC View PostMrs. Lutte was an annoyingly smart cookie, and had put together the exact same things I had. She'd also alerted my family to the matter and now they were taking action. True, they were ...
2024-01-30 18:29:13 +0000 UTC View PostA few days after I had dinner with my... friends? They were still so young, it was honestly odd to call them that, perhaps peers would be a better word, if an odd one. Regardless, a few...
2024-01-30 02:21:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe day had finally come, and I had a dinner party to attend. This was going to be an interesting affair, riddled with rules and meeting new people, a fresh experience. My mother of cou...
2024-01-23 04:07:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe day after my visit to the Royal Society I ended up in a heavily fortified building with Grandpa Shadestone. He'd reserved a private room for today's activities at this facility, and was w...
2024-01-21 02:12:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe rains began, it was expected, anticipated, completely normal for this land. It seemed that the world was weeping as the sky turned gray and water fell, sheet after sheet. It also me...
2024-01-16 20:21:18 +0000 UTC View PostChien grunted as we pulled the last of the ropes taut and readied to test this machine. Next a small bolt was brought to the fore and we established a shield in front of us, something learned...
2024-01-12 01:23:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe Royal Society was, in a single word, chaos. I was sure that somewhere there were men and women writing papers in stuffy offices, but it certainly wasn't here. The building was occup...
2024-01-10 06:31:24 +0000 UTC View PostReflecting back on it later I found I had been a bit hard on most of my opponents through the day. They were children, had trained like children, and fought like children. To most of th...
2024-01-09 07:40:52 +0000 UTC View PostThere was no sense of satisfaction when I left the little village behind, no sense that everything would be okay, but I'd done all I could. We had other villages to check, other places to mak...
2024-01-08 03:58:45 +0000 UTC View PostAtal waited until we'd returned to the last village we'd visited to speak with me, for which I was grateful, as it gave me time to organize my thoughts. He was as distant as always, but a few...
2024-01-06 08:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostAll around me the battle raged, there were screams of elves dying and suffering as they were rent or burned. I was unprepared for this, how could I have ever been? How could I have thou...
2024-01-04 19:04:54 +0000 UTC View PostWhile I liked my paternal grandparents I really just didn't get them. They were both talkative, and both far less obsessed with propriety than my maternal grandmother seemed to be. I wo...
2024-01-02 21:44:36 +0000 UTC View PostGrandfather and I sat in one of the many reading rooms aboard the ship, the papers before us held as the vessel swayed gently in the sea. He'd taken a number of notes on the engine here and t...
2023-12-29 16:52:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun crept over the horizon on the third day of our trip from Atal (The city) and Atal (The man) was acting more and more anxious by the mile. It was hard to see, stoic as he tended to be,...
2023-12-28 22:22:05 +0000 UTC View PostI'd just started running my aunt through the basics of algebra when a visitor arrived at my door. Those were getting more and more common these days, either orders from the local government f...
2023-12-26 16:07:57 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: It was pointed out, rightly, by Logan that 3 really didn't end it properly, so here it is.
I stumbled through the portal into Justin's domain once more, leaning heavily ...
2023-12-20 12:33:17 +0000 UTC View PostSo many years had passed since I'd come to this world. I even had a few gray hairs here and there. These days I mostly kept to my school coming out to advise the king, or attend to thin...
2023-12-20 01:26:23 +0000 UTC View PostMy black dress fluttered in the icy wind, and I couldn't bring myself to cry again. Too many times in the last couple days it had happened, too many times had I felt tears fall. As the ...
2023-12-20 00:34:17 +0000 UTC View PostI stood well back, watching, waiting for all of our people to come into position. It was strange, no longer running most of the activities, but at times I needed to step back, let others take...
2023-12-20 00:02:42 +0000 UTC View PostThings changed slowly around my home, I brought in more things that were normal to me, but still odd to others. These were often things that I didn't really think about, things that I'd never...
2023-12-18 14:02:47 +0000 UTC View PostOf course Isha did want to see my workroom. I secretly suspected that a lot of people wanted into that particular room, but were too polite or too patient to ask. Nobody went down there...
2023-12-17 11:36:35 +0000 UTC View PostAfter giving my host a quick goodbye I followed the kids through the portal. I was really going to have to do something for Justin, though I was still unsure as to what. For now I neede...
2023-12-15 02:48:33 +0000 UTC View PostI didn't quite know what to do, so I did what I always did and retreated into my work. I couldn't stop the enemy that Isha and Atie had described, I couldn't destroy half a village in one mom...
2023-12-14 02:23:13 +0000 UTC View Post