The Space Rodeo

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 17

The gamer squad were fairly ungrateful, considering I had gotten them out of purgatory.

"I want a rematch against those turncoats," Rose grumbled. "They ganged up on...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 18

The last hour and a half had been the worst of Min's life. Fai-lan City guards, under the command of a man dressed in black robes with the Gem Court icon around his neck, had dragged her and Chang-...

Space Rodeo Book 5 Ch 16

SHAD POV

Veda stood there watching me, a half-smile on her face. She hadn't changed much in the last few years, still giving off the impression of being a snow queen—tall, slender, w...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 17

Chang-li had been expecting quite a bill, but the total staggered him.  “One thousand, two hundred and fifty kwan?" he demanded. That was three months' wage for him.

“Do...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 15

Veda stood there watching me, a half-smile on her face. She hadn't changed much in the last few years, still giving off the impression of being a snow queen—tall, slender, white-haired, wrapped i...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 16

Min watched Chang-li disappear up the stairs before turning to the clerk at the desk. "Now then," she said, "I require some information here."

"Of course, lady," the scribe said,...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 14

Sage, Rok'gar, and I assembled with our group of volunteer personalities in the center of our camp. Our little outpost hummed with activity as our units went about their patrols. I felt unaccountab...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 15

Chang-li found himself in a vast room. The sky above was lost in fog. He could feel the chamber stretched out all around him, but the haze grew thick about ten paces or so...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 13

I had a very hard time telling the passage of time in this place. We didn't need to eat. We rarely slept. Occasionally, we'd get a message from Gambler that one or more of us were at a limit for co...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 14

Somewhat to his surprise, Chang-li found Min waiting for him the next morning, just outside the Hall of Records. The doors were closed, but already there was a line ten people deep. He...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 12

I had a very hard time telling the passage of time in this place. We didn't need to eat. We rarely slept. Occasionally, we'd get a message from Gambler that one or more of us were at a limit for co...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 13

For the second time in the day, Chang-li froze in a doorway. Min was sitting in the crowded common room of the inn, a mug in front of her at an otherwise empty table. Since the other booths and tab...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 11

I was standing in the antechamber of an ancient progenitor structure with Patriarch Kvaltash and his team of arc...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 12

Min found the familiar bustle of the Mayor's Palace comforting. She had never visited the Mayor's residence here in Fai-Lan City but had spent en...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 10

I was to meet with my civilian expert squads in Assembly Bay 14. On the way I passed by a bunch more Assembly Bays where ETF soldiers were getting ready to receive their orders.

The ETF unifo...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 11

Chang-li arrived in Fai-Lan City at dusk, and then spent a good hour going from inn to inn, only to find most of them full thanks to the governor's tax tour of the provinc...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 9

The ground rumbled beneath our feet.

"We're under attack," Gambler warned, as though I couldn't tell. I ordered our units back to the base as Sage prepared for war and Rok'gar started pulling...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 10

Chang-li sat cross-legged on his pallet, watching the other scribes as they snored and turned over in their sleep. When he was certain they were all gone, he focused on Scribe Wulan's pen case, thi...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 8

The shattered fragment was in a den carved into one of the enormous violet hexagonal pillars. The pillar itself stretched up over our heads until it blurred into the purple background....

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 9

As his mouth dried, Chang-li was ushered into the reception room by one of Moon Whispers’s functionaries. He was wearing his best set of robes, though that wasn't saying much. The robes were badl...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 7

We were in a vast, glowing purple-blue cavern. It felt as though the chamber stretched on for kilometers in every direction. I peered up and could make out the ceiling far overhead. He...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 8

"I like the feel of your body now," the querulous voice of Scribe Wulan said.

Chang-li jolted awake. He stared up in horror to find the ghost of the dead scribe hovering over him, sitting cro...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 6

I stared at the wall of my silent quarters. Pictures of Sage lit up the display in front of me—a couple of our salvaged pictures from back home of Sage and me when we first came to live with Gran...

License to Cultivate Bk 2 Ch 7

Chang-li spent the next few days feeling as though he was poised on the edge of a precipice. One push, one wrong step, and he would fall to his death. There had been no wo...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 5

The Ad Astra's briefing room could be configured to accommodate whatever we needed. Right now, we had a long slate-gray conference table down the middle with swiveling chairs set around it...

License to Cultivate Book 2 Ch 6

Min sent Chang-li off with three members of the Oaken Band Brotherhood who were particularly good at letting themselves into places they weren't supposed to be and then back ou...

Space Rodeo Bk 5 Ch 4

It had been a really long day and a half in our shared cargo pod, with Rok'gar glaring daggers at me every time Sage had her back turned, and Sage expressing an overly-int...