Infamous Goose

Starlit Soul 13 - Interlude: One Tribe

Stonehide looked out over the army assembled before him. Three years it had taken to unite the tribes. Three long years of bloodshed and violence, the kind he thrived in, and it all came down to on...

4:13 Retaliation

I teleported beside Elvira, as Morgan deposited Alala on the floor of her palace. The musuclar woman was convulsing, her unconscious mind fighting tooth and nail against the Rot that kept trying to...

Return of the Hero 12 - Murder is On the Table

Lucas was going to bite the bullet. It had been two days since his confession with his siblings, and while things had changed a little bit, they hadn't changed nearly as much as he had feared. It w...

4:12 Such Was My Rage

There was only so much I could do to help my children as they crossed the One World, but it had to be enough. My personal will reached out across the universe, still absorbing information as I was,...

Starlit Soul 12 - Death Would Not Come For Him

There were many things to remember when fighting a dangerous beast, especially magical ones, like the frost bear. Their habits, their diet, their preferred hunting methods, how territorial they are...

Return of the Hero 11 - Who He Was

Breakfast was a quiet affair. Getting out of the facility around the gate had been fairly simple, all things told. The guards had looked the other way despite their burning curiosity, and none of t...

4:11 System

Author's Note: There may not be a chapter Saturday. I have a family thing I need to go to. Just a warning.

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 I stared blankly at the box floating in front of t...

Starlit Soul 11 - If It is Death You Want

Lysander burst out of the tunnel, skidding to a halt on a ledge overlooking a massive cavern and, for the first time, beheld the salamanders’ village. Huts of stacked stone ringed the walls, form...

4:10 The God Empress

Inesa was now watching two little babies as she sat in a chair in her garden, just outside her and Xing Wu's home in the Heaven Realm. The first was her own child, Sequoia, though she was no longer...

New Stories

Alright! We've gotten ten chapters into the two tied stories, and I wanted to do a quick little poll about which ones you are enjoying so far. We've gotten far enough in each that you should have g...

Return of the Hero 10 - Proof

Sneaking into the gate had been trivial, as George and Elizabeth said. Though it had been less 'sneaking in,' and more them walking right past security with him in tow, ignoring all cameras and sen...

Return of the Hero 9 - Confrontation

I'll get chapter 10 out tomorrow. After which, we'll start with the once-a-week posting.

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It was on the news the next day. Lucas sat on the couch watching as the re...

4:9 Waking

A new consciousness brushed against my own. It was familiar in many ways, though I had never been quite as close to this one as I had been to the other two of its kind. For a brief, disorienting mo...

Starlit Soul 10 - Catacombs

Three years had passed since Lysander had first started to observe the Salamanders. The time had slowly trickled by as he did what he could, learning about their culture, habits, and snippets of th...

Starlit Soul 9 - Storm and Dark (Observations II - Timeskip)

A storm was coming. Lysander could feel it in the air, in his bones, in the whispers of the spirits as they danced along the roaring winds. He pulled his buffalo hide coat tighter around himself, s...

4:8 Counterattack

Author's Note: I won't take a break until there's a good stopping point. Not going to leave y'all on a 2 week cliffhanger.

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Explosions rocked Atreum's forces. Elivr...

Return of the Hero 8 - The Problem

Despite telling himself that he wouldn't look into it, curiosity won out and Lucas did a brief search into Solarianism. It really wasn't anything special; just a US-based religion that worshipped t...

Return of the Hero 7 - Wrong Number

Lucas plucked idly at the strings of his guitar, the instrument foreign feeling and just...off. They were horribly out of tune from years of being stored, and he didn't have the tuner to fix it. Th...

Return of the Hero 6 - Graves

It was cold out today, and it had nothing to do with the weather. Lucas shuffled forward, leaning gently on his cane as he walked through the graveyard, feet shuffling. Most of the headstones were ...

Return of the Hero 5 - Penthouse

The wheelchair clacked against the concrete as it was pushed out the doors of the hospital, Lucas hiding his face in his hands as his sister pushed him out of the front doors. Just as she had warne...

4:7 A Quick Oblivion

The Celestial Empress walked amongst the dead. A piece of white cloth covered her face, threads of silk interwoven with magic to prevent disease from spreading. Yet that did little to stop the smel...

Starlit Soul 8 - Pinecone Men (Observations I)

There was something wrong with the salamanders.

That was perhaps too strong of a word, “wrong,” but it was the only one Lysander could think of as he sat in a tree, chewing on a piece of ...

Starlit Soul 7 - Interlude: The Bloodhorns

Chief Stonehide of the Bloodhorn Tribe was a massive creature, far larger than all the other minotaurs gathered before him. His shaggy torso was broad and covered in battle scars, arms as thick as ...

Starlit Soul 6 - You Stay

Night had fallen.

Lysander lay in a bush not far from the entrance to the salamanders’ cave, just down a small slope and right next to one of the wooden shacks they stored firewood in. Two ...

Starlit Soul 5 - Run Back

For once, no time was wasted in getting ready to leave. The elders were notorious for taking a long time to get anything ready, spending dozens of seasons to deliberate over nearly anything. Not th...