“BAYBEE!”
I sigh as I watch Livvie roll around on the ground with the as-of-yet unnamed creature… thing that is apparently my sort-of offspring while it rapidly cycles between snarling,...
2024-09-17 12:22:46 +0000 UTC
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She’s crying again.
I understand why… but…
Despite everything we’ve been through, that she’s been through, this is the hardest I’ve ever seen her cry.
An...
2024-09-17 12:20:54 +0000 UTC
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I… can’t put this off any longer.
Pips…
She’s getting worse. For a while after I returned, yes, she followed me like a puppy… but…
It’s that dead look in her eyes, a...
2024-09-17 12:19:41 +0000 UTC
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Hyperion.
Her new name is Hyperion.
Unsurprisingly, I had no trouble at all getting Izzy or Livvie to agree to help, since I still consider my former hero as part of my family. She’s ...
2024-09-17 12:18:19 +0000 UTC
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“I’ll have to think about it. You’ve done a lot of really bad stuff…”
I take a sip of my tea… that same nostalgic blend, the one Olive always made… after hundreds of years Nula ...
2024-09-17 12:16:53 +0000 UTC
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Sure enough, my worst fear – in this situation anyway – has been realized, as demonstrated by that same look of love in her eyes.
I was trying to free her from this.
“What happene...
2024-09-17 12:15:37 +0000 UTC
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Well, that turned out exactly like I’d expected it to.
And hoped it to, but I know that’s the compulsion again. Despite the contentment washing over me from the feel of my wife’s skin a...
2024-08-28 12:25:58 +0000 UTC
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“It’s… not actually that… can we not stand like this? Please?”
I blink. “Oh. Sorry. This is really important though!”
“Then,” she sighs, “can we at least sit down so...
2024-08-28 12:24:58 +0000 UTC
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…This isn’t working.
Once again, I’ve tried a number of different things… and again, even the words of creation are failing me.
I tried removing the title, thinking maybe we nee...
2024-08-27 18:54:59 +0000 UTC
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Two hours, she said. At the fountain.
I’m not sure why we’re meeting in such a public place… some of my… past self’s past experiences with watching humans interact seem to imply tha...
2024-08-27 18:53:28 +0000 UTC
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Well, I guess now I actually know what my financial advisor has been doing with my assets…
Whether I understood any of that is another question entirely, but if nothing else I’ve been mad...
2024-08-27 18:52:30 +0000 UTC
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And here we are, at another gala!
…Uninvited, of course. Although I’m sure if she wanted one, my fox wife could have requested it…
She didn’t. But that didn’t stop me...
2024-08-27 12:47:14 +0000 UTC
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“Yes. No… Yes? Yes.”
That’s what she’d said when I asked her. Whether she actually wanted to be with me, I mean.
And I don’t know how to process it, or even how to interpret...
2024-08-27 12:44:56 +0000 UTC
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Yes, I’m pleased. Quite pleased.
With what? Why, my new throne room, of course! It’s spectacular!
…And something about it feels more like home. I’d say I’m not sure why, but I...
2024-08-27 12:42:44 +0000 UTC
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While tormenting my adventurer ‘friends’ for a few dungeon dives – without a break between them, it’s so wonderful seeing them struggle – I had an idea.
A wonderful id...
2024-08-27 12:40:19 +0000 UTC
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A massive sigh reverberates in my throne room.
It’s mine, of course. I’m not sure who else it would have been. Some things never change, after all.
Hades… or Izahne again, rather,...
2024-08-27 12:38:02 +0000 UTC
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"I would rather you hate and fear me than fear everyone and everything around you. I've seen that future. I don’t ever want to see it again."
That’s what they said.
But I’m just n...
2024-08-27 12:35:55 +0000 UTC
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Nothing is working… not in the way I want. Hades continues to lack herself… I still don’t recognize who she is now.
And I’m not sure what to do about it.
I’ve been nursing her...
2024-08-27 12:27:16 +0000 UTC
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…And one extended argument involving a lot of weapon pointing and threatening with feelers later, the situation is at least defused…
For now. Probably.
But Vulcan isn’t happy. Als...
2024-08-27 12:25:28 +0000 UTC
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A tube trip and some walking – okay, drifting – later, and we’re outside of a familiar building in the industrial district.
This is going to be the hard part… even if she remembers, t...
2024-08-27 12:23:52 +0000 UTC
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“Why does he only hate me now?”
Nyx shrugs while Hades has joined her in fawning over the cat.
And it’s pretty clear that my wife recognizes him.
…
And...
2024-08-27 12:21:32 +0000 UTC
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I keep forgetting to upload the chapters I write in the mornings before work - but they're up now, to current! Sorry, entirely my fault.
-Ember
2024-07-29 02:55:22 +0000 UTC
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Several hours have passed, and Hades and I are still waiting.
What are we waiting for you ask? Nyx and Vulcan to stop talking on and on and on about technical aspects of runesmithing an...
2024-07-29 02:52:17 +0000 UTC
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Well, she didn’t.
Maybe it’s easier that she doesn’t remember them… especially since Sodaca was so awful.
“Couldn’t you just resurrect them? You know, like you d...
2024-07-29 02:49:29 +0000 UTC
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Until now, anyway. Brand new in my Status is the Infernal Common language.
Which doesn’t really matter much. I don’t even have to use the words of creation to learn a language, I’...
2024-07-29 02:47:30 +0000 UTC
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The former eldra’s glaring doesn’t stop as she continues tearing through wave after wave of goblins…
I guess I may as well take a peek at her progress. It’s a bit more difficult...
2024-07-29 02:45:56 +0000 UTC
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Surprising to absolutely nobody who knew about it, u-comms are now everywhere, not even a full month later. I’d volunteered the Adventurer’s Guild on my own plane as a test group and Nyx had un...
2024-07-29 02:32:31 +0000 UTC
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“…And when they pull up a list of other users they’ve registered as members of their party, they can-”
Yeah, so this is a lot more complicated than I was expecting. I thought Ny...
2024-07-29 02:30:48 +0000 UTC
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Annoying.
The best word to describe this situation.
Sure, the four furies are quiet enough… it would seem they’re just as scarred as Hades was.
But ...
2024-07-29 02:28:38 +0000 UTC
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Well, the walls are definitely familiar.
I find myself in a place made of water. She’s dreaming of Ceto’s palace, or lodge, or whatever you’d call this place, but it’s definite...
2024-07-29 02:26:15 +0000 UTC
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