Chapter 46 version 2
[Here is the new version of Chapter 46. If you read the previous chapter 46, please read this one anyway. It's different enough to warrant a second read. Or at least skim it ...
2018-10-17 16:59:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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Revised Chapter 46 coming tomorrow, please read it
Hey peeps! So as I wrote Chapter 47 (which ended up being 12,500 words and might be broken up into two chapters it's so big) I ended up realizing that I messed up Chapter 46. I'd written t...
2018-10-17 04:52:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 45
“How much longer do we have to wait?!” Wham! General Cloudburner-hono’s fist slammed angrily onto a table. “How much longer will you refuse to do what needs to be done?!”
Chapter 44
“Pathetic. I’ve seen ten-year-olds hit harder tha
2018-09-18 02:54:53 +0000 UTC View Post44 is coming, I promise
Sorry it's taking forever for another update. 44 is almost done but my editor is busy with life. It doesn't help that it's currently 11,500 words long, making it by far the longest chapter...
2018-09-16 01:36:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 43
Haidar Batra reclined against the back of a plush sofa in his private chambers, enjoying his time in the company of his four young grandchildren. Shrieks and cries sprang up all around him as th...
2018-09-03 22:04:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 42
Soft, warm light filtering through her eyelids melded with the musical chirping of birds off in the distance to pull Gabriela Carreno back into wakefulness. She let out a relaxed, sleepy hum. &n...
2018-08-27 16:55:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 41
“Mama! Up!”
Gabriela Carreno put her knife down beside the half-chopped onion and bent down to scoop up her beloved son. She grunted as she lifted the two-year-old up to eye level. &...
2018-08-24 04:40:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 40
A palpable tension hung over Rul, a sense of impending doom that seemed to almost choke the air from the city and its populace. This wasn’t the Rul that Hector remembered. Back when he...
2018-08-19 04:23:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 39
“Just say it.”
“I don’t wanna.”
“Come on, Sam. I don’t have all day. Just say ‘Next stop’.”
“Why do I have to say it?”
Blake Myers massaged his ...
2018-08-09 02:07:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 38
Every city in existence possesses its own unique architectural quirks, and Nefin was no exception. The unusually large windows, designed to invite in the ocean winds in order to combat the city...
2018-08-05 22:44:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 37
[Sorry for the gap. The expected delay I talked about earlier this month ended up happening after all, and my editor went on vacation and hasn't had much time to edit.
This chapter is obviousl...
2018-07-27 21:44:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 36
“I’m very proud of you, you know.”
Rudra grumbled and winced as the bandages slowly tightened around his torso. “It hurts to breathe,” he complained.
“Of course it hurts to b...
2018-07-07 14:06:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 35
Akhustal Palebane-chos watched with glee as her warriors returned to the land of the living, their journey to rejoin Ruresni forestalled. One by one they stumbled towards an official who, once e...
2018-06-27 23:15:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 34 (updated)
The man came to life with a roar, struggling against the four Feelers holding his limbs still. Rudra was used to such reactions by now. Most of the people he’d healed so far reacted that...
2018-06-19 02:51:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 33
Akhustal Palebane let out a sigh as she crested a ridge and spotted a glimpse of Titan Grove far off in the distance through the forest canopy. Coming home had never felt so terrible before. &nb...
2018-06-10 04:27:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 32
Akhustal Palebane swung her massive war club around in a wide arc, the giant weapon, carved over years from a piece of Ruresni herself and stronger than the hardest stone, hurtling towards the nearest...
2018-06-06 03:38:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 31
Rudra Kapadia leaned back against the wall of his prison cell, feeling the smooth wood against his back and pondering whether or not to try to break out. The subject was far more complicated tha...
2018-05-29 16:16:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 30
“How much longer until we’re there?” Rudra asked Eztli Silverwater, one of the people guarding him at the moment.
“If we make good time, we should be there before nightfall,” the man repli...
2018-05-23 17:15:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 29
“Where’d I go wrong, Arun?” Rudra Kapadia slurred to the bartender as he slumped forward on the barstool. He downed his third shot of the night. He wasn’t drunk enough for the occa...
2018-05-20 02:26:18 +0000 UTC View PostQuick status update
So I had expected to have my Arc 2 planning/re-planning done back on Saturday. Sorry, but it took much longer than I expected. That being said...
Eleven different PoV's
Thirty-seve...
2018-05-08 03:02:24 +0000 UTC View PostTime for a short break... and maybe a Q&A?
I hope you all enjoyed Chapter 28. I consider 28 to be the unofficial end of "Arc 1" of the story. That's why I'm taking a few days off from writing to recharge. Ever since I began w...
2018-05-03 22:49:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 28
“Alright everybody, let’s get this over with,” Blake said as he marched into what he called the “Council Room”, a meeting room with a large circular table in the center surrounded by chairs....
2018-05-01 00:06:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 27
“So as you can see, three times ‘x’, then times ‘y’ is in fact equal to three times the result of ‘x’ times ‘y’. This is known as the ‘Associative Property of Multiplication...
2018-04-20 17:08:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 26 (slightly revised)
[Made a few small changes to dialogue and whatnot at the suggestion of my editor. If you've already read this, it's not something significant enough to read again.]
Arlette tossed the ke...
2018-04-08 19:55:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 25
Arlette Faredin wanted to scream. She wanted to cry. She wanted to run. But it didn’t matter what she wanted; her body wouldn’t listen to her mind. It was paralyzed by the ...
2018-03-31 21:25:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 24
Once there was a country filled with happy people. They lived happily in their lands, where life was peaceful and food was plentiful. But the gods became jealous of their happiness and lai...
2018-03-23 04:22:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 23
“An’... and then ‘e said... ‘If tha’s a vekkel, where’s my wife?’”
Sofie Ramaut sat on a rough stool in a noisy tavern in a world she barely knew, watching three people she’d...
2018-03-14 03:44:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 22
Sofie Ramaut sat in a library at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, located in Brussels, Belgium, studying late into the night for an upcoming paper due a week from now. Being a linguistics major i...
2018-03-09 17:43:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 21
“Arlette, what the hell is going on?” hissed Sofie under her breath. “Did I hear her right? There’s an invasion coming? Did you know about this?”
The two of them sat agai...
2018-03-04 05:44:28 +0000 UTC View Post