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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 22 - Silver

Elijah dreamed of happiness, homecoming, and falling asleep in Sadie’s arms. 

And then, it all shattered.  A sound like rolling thunder, followed by cracking glass echoed through ...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 21 - One Cell at a Time

At one point, Elijah considered body cultivation to be the least complicated of the four categories, and for good reason.  That wasn’t to say that it was easy.  Breaking down and rebuil...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 20 - Drive

Elijah felt it long before he laid eyes on it.

The spire jutted from the ground, rising dozens of miles before disappearing into the darkness of the abyss.  It was visible even from hund...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 19 - Making a Connection

Benedict stood atop the low wall making the boundary of Dravkein and watched Elijah walk away.  He knew he should be going with him.  His sense of responsibility demanded it.  And ye...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 18 - Finishing Preparations

“Vhalor, the Emerald Tyrant is the unquestioned leader,” said Zek.  Elijah’s understanding of the language had progressed well over the previous couple of months, but he still needed to ...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 17 - Giving Up and Moving On

Elijah sat in the center of the field, surrounded by foreign vegetation.  With his senses fully extended, he could feel every single plant in his vicinity.  And they all felt hollow, as i...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 16 - History

Their traversal of the city came with more than a little attention.  And it wasn’t difficult to see why, either.  For all that seeing mutated people was shocking to Elijah and Benedict,...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 15 - First Contact

“Are you certain they’re peaceful?” asked Benedict, his eyes flicking back and forth between the city in the distance and the terrain they’d just covered.  Elijah was familiar enough w...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 14 - Normal is Relative

Elijah stared at the wall, unsure if he was meant to take the next step.  After two days of observation, he’d already exhausted his capacity to learn more about the natives.  In that ti...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 13 - Finding a Way

Elijah crept closer, his body low to the ground.  Despite his confidence in Guise of the Stalker, he kept to the shadowy crevices cutting through the valley.  Hopefully, the combination o...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 12 - The Nature of Cleansing

For the next few weeks, Elijah struggled to ignore the call of evolution.  As much as he wanted to honor his instincts – and he did – the draw of more power was a potent one.  He knew...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 11 - Black Branches

The structure rose hundreds of feet into the sky, its base planted in the center of a wide plaza of pure white stone.  Despite the howling wind and the obvious age, no debris or dust stuck to ...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 10 - Frozen in Ash

“I want to go.”

“You can’t.”

“Why?”

Elijah sighed, shoving a bit of monster meat into his mouth.  He immediately chased it with a gulp of water, washing it down...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 9 - The Illusion of Freedom

Elijah banked right, the tip of his wing skating only a few inches above the ground as he changed direction.  Reoriented, he flapped his wings and pushed himself to top speed.  Below and ...

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Announcement - Protector of the Grove (PoD 1) Sale!

I just wanted to let everyone know that Protector of the Grove (Path of Dragons 1) is now on sale for $0.99 (running from yesterday until November 23). So, if you haven't gotten your copy yet, now...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 8 - The Better Part of Valor

The monsters were difficult to describe.

One part spider, another part octopus, and a third part wholly terrifying eldritch creature with a multitude of mouths, screaming, simian faces, and e...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 7 - Desperate Times

The potion vial glittered in the faint light, the liquid inside trembling as if it was alive.  Elijah could feel the energy trapped within – like a bomb waiting to go off – but he had nowh...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 6 - The Quiet Tragedy of Hope

Elijah awoke to a cascade of pain.

But a quick inspection told him that he wasn’t dead.  Nor had his body been corrupted.  In fact, he’d managed to maintain his Mantle of Author...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 5 - Wrung Dry

“This is newer,” Elijah said, kneeling next to a wall.  It only rose a few feet above the ground, and it ended after a length of ten feet.  The surface had been worn smooth by the ele...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 4 - Natives

“This is humiliating,” said Benedict.

Elijah ignored the man’s oft-repeated complaint, mostly because there was no other choice in the matter.  But also, because he was too focused...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 3 - Inhospitable

Corruption pressed in on all sides, searching for cracks in Elijah’s Mantle of Authority.  So far, it had found none, but it was only a matter of time before it began to fray at the edges.&n...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 2 - Dissolution

Elijah landed with a bone-breaking thud, kicking up a cloud of rock and dust upon impact.  The resultant crater was only a few feet deep, though not because of a lack of force.  Instead, ...

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Path of Dragons 13 - Chapter 1 - A World Alone

And so, we arrive at book 13 of Path of Dragons, which I'm tentatively calling The Forgotten. I'm aware that I ended the last book on a cliffhanger, but that's been planned for more th...

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Path of Dragons 12 - Chapter 92 - Unforgiveable Sins

Rage mingled with frustration and pain, and so thoroughly that Greffyn Cornelius didn’t know where one ended and the others began.  In the back of his mind, he could catalogue the events wel...

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Path of Dragons 12 - Chapter 91 - Indomitable

Miguel was surrounded by bodies.

Corpses in various states of dismemberment littered the bloody ground.  A few had managed to survive, but that wouldn’t last for long.  Even with ...

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Path of Dragons 12 - Chapter 90 - Echoes

A clang echoed through the forest, bouncing off the mountains and startling the wildlife.  Birds took to the skies as animals darted away, uncertain of the sound’s origin.  And perched ...

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Path of Dragons 12 - Chapter 89 - Outmatched

As he stared into the crystal orb, Greffyn Cornelius clenched his fists in frustration.  It was a trivial piece of artifice attached to a pendant worn by one of his scouts, but despite how com...

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Path of Dragons 12 - Chapter 88 - The Price to be Paid

For a fraction of a second, the emergent bolt of lightning froze in space and time as the force of its own momentum warred with the gravitational pull of the imploding ethereal star.  Even as ...

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Path of Dragons 12 - Chapter 87 - A Matter of Time

The undead abomination rammed the wall, sending rippling shockwaves of ethera arcing up and down its length.  Defenders aimed a barrage of ranged attacks – both physical and spellwrought –...

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Path of Dragons 12 - Chapter 86 - In the Palm of a Hand

Ethereal viscera splattered across the silver disc, staining it deep indigo.  Before the blood had a chance to pool, it coalesced into an arm that latched onto the ground.  Like it was pu...

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