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Glass Kanin: Chapter 35 - The Circle

“What?” I ask.

“The spell circle!” Noli points to the spell book, still open to the Core Bond instructions. “It’s right there. Let’s copy it.”

“But no chalk,” I sign...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 34 - A Friendly Face

“Kanin!” Noli signs. “Oh, thank the gods, you’re alive! I was so worried we wouldn’t find you.”

I stare, stunned. Is this real? Is she really here? “How?” I struggle to my fee...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 33 - Pocket Dimension

The city guard shows up later, and Hemral explains what happened. I don’t really listen, because I don’t particularly care. I just watch as the blue fire burns itself away, leaving only a pile ...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 32 - Shadows and Glass

I take a hesitant step forward, then back. The shop’s open. Now’s my chance to sneak inside. If they see me, they’ll kill me, but if I don’t take a chance, I might be missing my only opport...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 31 - Window Shopping

Carrying the map and cheat sheet around is a bit of a pain, making sure neither get snatched up by a breeze or kicked any drunk passersby. I’m still not sure how my second attempt at Cheat Sheet ...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 30 - Just Room

The city guards don’t even give us a second glance as we stroll into Harrowood. There isn’t anyone else coming from our direction, but the guards are preoccupied by greater concerns in the form...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 29 - Harrowood

The sun can’t rise fast enough, though even after it does, Zyneth continues to sleep. I’m anxious to get back on the road, but I let him rest. Without him, I’m not going anywhere, after all.<...

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Glass Kanin: Chapter 28 - Planar Theories

If I were able to spill my guts, the void would probably be a good place to start. I’m only level 7—now 8, I guess. He’s 31. If the predator got out again, could he stop it?

It might ha...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 27 - The Nightbanes

As more of the pack emerge from the trees, Zyneth stirs behind me.

“I see we’ve some company. I would advise you to not make any sudden movements.” Eyes on the predators, he slowly curl...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 26 - Glorified Laser Pointer

The ravine eventually falls away to a gentle slope, trees fencing us in on either side. Sometimes I catch glimpses of green plains beneath us, but the hills rise and fall around our path, obscuring...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 25 - A Deal with the Devil

Little one? I’m going to choose to ignore the condescension there. But “Telling my story” is easier said than done, given the limited vocabulary at my disposal. I also don’t even k...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 24 - Boned

The night takes an eternity to tick away. I try climbing the hill a couple more times, but each attempt is quickly thwarted by gravity and a consequential near fall to my death. Trying to creep aro...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 23 - Road Block

Once the hail stops, I start walking once more. No Attunements to jump me through the night; I can’t risk doing magic or withdrawing anything from my inventory, even if I wasn’t already pressed...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 22 - Forsaken

As Noli settles in, I shimmy my legs back out from under her, using them to stand up once more. We regard each other for a moment in silence.

“Don’t,” Noli signs, before I can even thin...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 21 - Rubble

It takes a few moments to readjust to all my senses. As the predator, we—it—could taste and smell and vocalize. All that’s gone now that I’m just a vial again. Its vision was also ...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 20 - We

The hunger is devouring us. It eats us from the inside, maddeningly incessant, and we drag our claws through our surroundings, desperate for relief. Irritating high-pitched sounds rake at our ears....

Glass Kanin: Chapter 19 - The Void

I shove Noli away. “Run. Run!”

The ground thumps as the shopkeep rounds the corner. “I swear, if it’s you kids again…” They stop, sucking in a breath. “What in Relona’s Realm�...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 18 - Atlas Emporium

The shop is surprisingly clean and modern—not at all the medieval setting I was expecting—and for a moment it feels like I’m back on Earth, having walked into some kind of antique bookshop. B...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 17 - Class Check

The fatal flaw in our plan is almost immediately discovered when we wait for a cart to pass, only for me to go left as Noli goes right. My omni-vision catches the flub right away, but Noli doesn’...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 16 - Flame’s Fest

“Something’s changed.”

“What?” I ask.

We’ve only been on the road for an hour or two, all the crimson hints of dawn evaporated from the horizon.

“Actually, I know ex...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 15 - Cat Got Your Tongue

[Spell: Spiritual Familiar]

[Level: 3]

[HP: 15/15]

[Mana: 0/0]

Noli! I take a step forward before I even have a chance to think—then a hasty step back as the cat swipes a ...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 14 - Pedantic Linguistics

I get Attunement leveled up to 3 that night as I’m skipping the time away, this time focusing on Attuning the largest—and hopefully most useful—pieces of glass I picked up. One of them I thin...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 13 - Ball and Chain

The night vanishes in a moment of sleepless black, and when I wake from my Attunements, it’s nearly dawn. There’s a moment of disorientation—of wondering where I am, and if everything that ha...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 12 - The Opposite of Fast Travel

Noli leads the way, taking us around the side of the house, past the workshop, and onto a faint trail that slopes up a hill. I consider stopping in the workshop before we leave to see if there’s ...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 11 - The Predator

I can feel it like an ache in my soul. Like a crack in reality. Like a numb limb, like the cold of a chasm, the burn before inhale, a stab of electricity—

Space stretches around Trenevalt a...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 10 - The Shell

Retreating to my stand, I impatiently recover some mana and then skip through the rest of the night with Attunements. This time I do four at a time to make use of that 10% discount. The 8 mana it w...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 9 - Dish Sucks

Double-checking that the bar of soap is still in the basin—shockingly it is—I search for a better route up than I’d come down. A stack of plates seems fairly suitable. I head up slowly, testi...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 8 - Ready? Fight!

[Command resumed.]

Huh?

I lower my glass, which I’d been using to practice some of Noli’s signs, and glance around the room.

It’s late—or maybe early. I haven’t been kee...

Glass Kanin: Chapter 7 - A Lesson in Linguistics

Trenevalt notices the pile of dust first, frowning as he squints down at the mound of lint and trash. I stay perfectly still—this must be what deer feel like when cars are barreling toward them�...