Maikana

Chapter 70 – Improper testing procedures

While the destination had changed, nothing else about the trip south towards Emberscale Caverns was much different than it was for the trip towards the town. They trudged along beside the plodding ...

Chapter 69 – Much ado about scones

By the time that Kori departed Gnomish Delights, it had been several hours since she’d absconded from the enclave, a bit longer than she’d intended and probably long enough that Har had noted h...

Chapter 68 – Taking the sting out of things

Har continued to evade her questions about whatever it was that he was obviously planning, frustrating her with her mentor even more than she had already been. She didn’t see why he was excited a...

Chapter 67 – Insert maniacal laugh here.

With a few moments to collect himself, and a grin that seemed wider than his face should allow, Har finally settled his gaze on the youngling standing opposite him. “A silver… do you have any i...

Chapter 66 – Kori may need remedial lessons

Deciding to take a different tack with her this time, Imelda instead asked a question, “Kori, just how much do you know about potions?”

The subject dragged up the memory of her previous a...

Chapter 65 – More than one way to mix some moss

With a quick appraisal, Imelda confirmed that the paste was indeed the same Imbued Herbal Healing Ointment that Kori had intended to make, though at a quality of inferior which was likely due to th...

Chapter 64 – An unimpressive display of magic

A/N: Sorry about the delay, I guess I wasn't quite as ready to be back as I thought I was. With the lack of chapters the deadline for resuming billing continues to push back as the backlog grows. i...

Name that herb!

Chapters are resuming!

Antibiotics did their thing and I am feeling so much better.

In light of that, how about some reader participation?

Kori is set up to do a bit of experim...

Update

There’s a saying about mortals making plans and deities laughing that seems appropriate right about now…

No sooner had I announced my plans to catch up and started working on chapters, t...

Chapter 63 – Asking the obvious question

The work of gathering the dried and hanging the fresh herbs went fairly quickly, though not without an awkward moment when Imelda asked if s

The work of gathering the dried and hanging the fr...

Chapter 62 – Potentially pilfered pigment?

“You still deny it?” Zln replied, a thread of mana joining into the spiritual energy swirling around her body, feeding it like fuel to a flame. “You’re not the only one with [Spiritual Sens...

Update

So I wanted to give a quick update, I wasn't very good about communicating that I was going to be away for a trip and wasn't going to have opportunity to write, so I apologize for that.

I'm ...

Chapter 61 – Disproportionate response

In a turn of events from many of their nights out, it was Har who had to practically carry Kori back to the enclave. A trip that was much further than their typical stumble home from Maribel’s ca...

Chapter 60 – Good food makes everything better

Departing the potion shop in such a manner left a foul taste in Kori’s mouth, the things she had said and the way she said them was something that Kori had never experienced before. Sure, Bolst w...

Chapter 59 – Some of them are even uglier on the inside

Kori’s grin at successfully obtaining the skill, and creating a mostly okay bottle, extended into a little wiggling dance as she swept her tail around and cheered.

“Yes, yes, you made a b...

Chapter 58 – Blowing things up

The morning following Har’s catching up with his acquaintance and Kori’s making of a new friend came quickly, and for Har, quite unpleasantly. When she saw him at breakfast his eyes were striat...

Chapter 57 – A first time for everything.

Following along behind the elder as he did his tasks was not what Kori had in mind when she found out she’d be visiting the surface. Watching him going over ledgers and inspecting goods that awai...

Chapter 56 – Aren’t you an ugly one

After the evening’s discussion while training her senses with Snq, images of puddles erupting from beakers and engulfing her while she worked coloured her dreams and left her mood soured the foll...

Chapter 55 – Pork, it’s what’s for dinner

A little ointment went a long way towards brightening Snq’s evening, though she still wasn’t in the greatest of moods for the remainder of it. Suffice to say, there would be no playing hide the...

Icara World Map

I keep referencing places, figure I should give you a better look at the world map. This is a political map for the world, Emberscale Caverns is marked in the northeast.

Chapter 54 – a little pot for all occasions

The travel day was much shorter than Kori had envisioned, it seemed that they had barely gotten started with the day when they were already pulling off the road onto a cleared patch of dirt that se...

Chapter 53 – Only surface deep

Minutes passed as Kori just stood there, stunned by the novelty of her surroundings. The abundance of sensations was overwhelming to the young kobold who had never imagined that the surface could b...

Chapter 52 – Basking

With the new workspace still a work in progress, Har decided it was the perfect opportunity to go spend some of the budget that they’d been given. He had the list that Kori had provided him, but ...

Chapter 51 – Three mana monte

The days to follow were a whirlwind of activity for some, and utterly mundane for others. Unfortunately for Kori, her days fell into the latter. Warriors, mages, miners, Elders, and even a few memb...

Chapter 50 – A miner diversion

<A/N> Holy crap, chapter 50! (Well, technically the 55th chapter, cause prologue, but still, chapter 50!)

The discussions petered out soon after, most of the matters agreed upon and not...

Chapter 49 – Lets get this apprenticeship started.

Their conversation continued onwards, debating everything from where the youngling’s work would take place, which ended up being ‘as far away from the clan’s caverns as could be considered pr...

Chapter 48 – What could possibly go wrong?

Tea distributed; the Elders came together in a more relaxed setting than Kori had ever seen them in in their chamber. Sat around just a single table, elbow to elbow, some with heavy lidded eyes sti...

Chapter 47 – A four year old's existential crisis

Morning came all too soon for most members of Clan Emberscale. It was an unspoken rule that no one was really expected to arrive on time for their work on the morning after the festival, even the E...

Chapter 46 – To spice things up

The feast laid out before them disappeared faster than the young group had expected it to. None of them held themselves back from devouring the soft, moist flesh that had been revealed once the she...

Chapter 45 – Scale me, that’s good

Until recently, Kori had never spent much time with her sister. Beys had been a bit of a bully for much of their early years, but she’d grown out of it since the beginning of their apprenticeship...