The fireteam met them two hours later at the apartment. Hackworth had called James and Serenity an Uber, surprising James, who’d thought they’d have to catch a bus. But it was clear that the ma...
2022-09-07 20:34:56 +0000 UTC View PostThey didn’t get to see the mayor.
Instead, Williams dropped them off outside the NYCEM Headquarters after getting waved through the security checkpoint. The place was a madhouse, with all k...
2022-09-07 20:34:20 +0000 UTC View PostJames lay on the couch staring up at the letters that hovered three feet from him. Futile questions ran through his mind. How was he seeing them? How did they track with his line of sight if he cou...
2022-09-07 20:33:46 +0000 UTC View PostThey got a ride back to Serenity’s apartment from a grateful survivor who called their mom to come pick them up. James passed out in the back, leaving Serenity to fend off the excited questions f...
2022-09-07 20:33:11 +0000 UTC View PostJames piled into the oncoming gremlins. Swung his skillet once but didn’t bother drawing it back. He ran on a carpet of dread bodies, small, scaled forms that shifted underfoot, making purchase h...
2022-09-07 20:32:37 +0000 UTC View Post“Shit!” James pounded the steering wheel. “Shit shit shit shit!”
Serenity whipped about, trying to keep all the gremlins in view. They were all over the car. Slamming their fists agai...
2022-09-07 20:31:55 +0000 UTC View PostShadows were starting to lengthen. It was cold. James pulled the caramel-furred coat tighter about himself and tucked his chin into his neck. Kicked at a berm of filthy ice that lined the ...
2022-09-07 20:31:19 +0000 UTC View PostJames yanked on the cargo pants Serenity had left in a pile by the bathroom door, and still soaked ran into the living room.
Serenity was yanking open drawers in the TV stand, and pulled out ...
2022-09-07 20:30:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe next hour was spent watching the news, checking social media, and fighting off exhaustion for as long as possible. Little changed, though the outbreak of mystery dog attacks was the main story ...
2022-09-07 20:30:10 +0000 UTC View PostJames reread his personal statistics. They reminded him of the Dungeons and Dragons game he’d played back in high school. But none of the rest made any sense.
“Definitely Catholic,” mur...
2022-09-07 20:29:19 +0000 UTC View PostJames emerged smoothly from his sleep. He was propped up on a clean bed. There were people around him, doctors, nurses, but they were paying attention to other people. He was groggy. He’d been gi...
2022-09-07 20:28:37 +0000 UTC View Post60,000-year countdown has ended
Nemesis 1 released
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James blinked blearily and swiped his gloved hand at the g...
2022-09-07 20:27:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe temples burned as if starved for fire. The black wood cracked and warped and erupted into flames that were more blue than anything else, going up so quickly that in moments all four buildings w...
2022-09-07 20:11:18 +0000 UTC View PostThere were far fewer people living in Kaldrborg than Skadi had expected. They seemed to haunt their own settlement, proud yet reclusive, scornful yet melting away from all confrontations. For the m...
2022-09-07 20:08:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhat followed was the longest day of Skadi’s life.
She’d suffered moments of bleaker anguish. Riki’s murder as Kalbaek burned. Yri’s death. Finding Begga, Kofri, and Ulfarr arranged a...
2022-09-07 20:05:46 +0000 UTC View Post“No,” Skadi called out. “This is between you and I. Leave my friends out of it.”
Afastr smiled. “You are the one who involved them. Who made this all so complicated? But if you wish...
2022-09-07 20:04:53 +0000 UTC View PostDauðakoss.
Skadi took a step back. Her uncle’s words were loud in her ears as if he spoke to her directly from the past: “None may parry or block its blows. It cleaves through swords...
2022-09-07 20:02:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe space beyond the Raven’s Gate swarmed with Kaldrborg warriors. They hadn’t been ready for Aurnir’s explosive entrance, but reacted with violent surety, screaming their defiance and throwi...
2022-09-07 20:01:53 +0000 UTC View PostThere was no time to think, to weigh the moment and decide on the best course of action. She had to decide, make a choice, and own it with everything in her spirit.
To run with the others to ...
2022-09-07 20:00:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe army marched along the mountain road all afternoon and into the evening. Almost five hundred strong, they formed a huge snake five men wide, many sharing the weight of ladders that extended dow...
2022-09-07 13:14:31 +0000 UTC View PostThey arrived at camp as the sun was dipping down toward the mountain peaks, weary and exhausted but fired with such bleak determination that Skadi felt nothing but scorn for her physical frailty. 2022-09-07 13:13:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Skadi felt her true thread, her life-cord, bend as the norns somewhere far away placed their shears about it.
Hjörþrimul drifted into view once more, every line of her eager and burning wit...
2022-09-07 13:12:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe cliff face uncoiled.
Breath caught in her throat, a storm rushed through her mind, and Skadi took a step back, drawing Thyrnir from her belt without thinking about it.
Sinuous curve...
2022-09-06 12:51:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe challenge lay in the dying of the day. Their original plan had been to travel south immediately after scouting out Kaldrborg, traveling through the wilderness at night with a linnorm on the loo...
2022-09-06 12:49:36 +0000 UTC View PostThey got out of there fast.
Glámr led the way, rushing further up the mountainside in the hopes that the linnorm would naturally move down the slopes instead, and then they ran at a fast jog...
2022-09-06 12:48:34 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
We're drawing to a close on Skadi's Saga. The first arc will finish this Friday (9/9/22) with Chapter 116. I will then transition to 2022-09-05 23:16:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Her companions were ready before dawn. Aurnir rose to bid them goodbye, and it took Skadi a while to make him understand why he couldn’t come. Morose and uneasy, he watched them leave the camp, p...
2022-09-05 14:13:50 +0000 UTC View PostEven as Skadi stood amongst the rest of the crew on the Sea Wolf another beacon kindled to life farther up the coast, a crimson flicker a score of miles away.
“A curse on that man,...
2022-09-05 14:12:55 +0000 UTC View PostBaugr arrived upon the Wave Flame late that afternoon. The longhall yet gave off a plume of ashen black that wound its way up into the gray sky, so that there was no surprise on the Havakl...
2022-09-05 14:11:34 +0000 UTC View PostWhen at long last Marbjörn deemed the longhall ready, dozens of warriors raised burning brands and approached the stacked piles of kindling.
Skadi had watched in a stupor, the night seemingl...
2022-09-02 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post