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13.2: The Royal Ball II

The past couple of days had been fairly uneventful after the initial confrontation that we’d had on the first outing. Sure, there was the occasional spell tossed our way and there were a number o...

13.1: The Royal Ball

“You came all the way to Dakheng?” Jasmine asked. “Why?”

It had been a whirlwind of activity after we’d gotten back to the manor. The Alzaq patriarch had, rather predictably, been f...

12.5: Trouble in Dakheng V

“You identified yourself as Strike Team Leader Faye,” Orchid said. “What’s your unit number?”

The woman in question had been extricated from her armor, forced to shed the mass of oa...

12.4: Trouble in Dakheng IV

The jester had told us that we were under attack by multiple enemies, and it was quickly becoming clear that he had been correct.

Another impact resonated through my shield, and this time it ...

12.3: Trouble in Dakheng III

Five of us had signed up for the job, none of us in a full party. We were a motley crew, the styles of our armor clashing with each other, and we did not look like a group in any sense, except for ...

12.2: Trouble in Dakheng II

The nobles were gone, and I was alone in Jasmine’s house.

It was, to be fair, probably the best place to be alone in the entire city. The house was massive on a scale that I had almost forg...

12.1: Trouble in Dakheng

“That is all for class. You are excused.”

It had only been two days since we had come back from the primordial fight, tired and bloody, and already Lasi had fully returned to the same gru...

11.6: Containment VI [END OF BOOK 1]

I came back to a village that was more destroyed than it’d been when I’d left, and I was’t sure who to blame for it.

Whatever the other oathholder had done—Nishi, he’d called himsel...

11.5: Containment V

The primordial had noticed me, and somehow my oath had resonated with some part of it.

“It’s going to attack!” I announced.

I might as well have said water was wet. The primordial...

11.P: Containment (Primordial)

Christopher Kuan’s parents were dying.

Two weeks ago, they and half the other grown-ups in Disya had been rescued from a cave-in at the mine. His parents had assured him again and again tha...

11.4: Containment IV

Lukas was barely able to stand on his own. I wrapped a hand around his waist, stabilizing him, and his skin was cool to the touch. He placed his usable arm around my shoulders, leaning on me for su...

11.3: Containment III

The blades of grass were moving with a mind of their own, expanding and stretching far beyond what a meadow should ever be capable of naturally. The green grass we’d ben striding across had been ...

11.2: Containment II

“We’re going back now,” Lasi announced.

“Understood,” Jasmine said. “Shields up!”

I acquiesced, Soren and Sunsbridge being a little slower to do so. I watched as their spe...

11.1: Containment

“Fuck!” Sunsbridge shouted, physically recoiling as we watched the clock tower slowly crumble under the pressure of a thousand different vines. “What in the gods’ names is that?”

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