“I think that’s everything,” Kur said.
At his feet, there was a tall, sturdy looking and square backpack, in a color blend of dark and lighter browns. It had been a part of the free, ba...
2025-02-26 11:30:06 +0000 UTC View PostKur called for their attention as they left the auditorium.
“We’re up,” he told them. “I just got the notification to head to the offices of Leadership. It’s time to know what our d...
2025-02-25 11:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Why would anyone do something like that?” Cen asked her brother, horror lowering her tone into a hushed whisper.
Mul shrugged. “People suck, and they’re greedy. Haven’t you realize...
2025-02-24 11:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Good morning! Good morning!” Professor Thim greeted them as he entered the auditorium from the lower entrance.
Nar had just made it back in time to catch his party as they left their roo...
2025-02-21 11:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostHe knew he was in sickbay even before he was fully awake. He hadn’t forgotten that overwhelming comfort, that sensation of being hugged and all of his problems just being very, very far away… B...
2025-02-20 11:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhen all was said and done, and his head hit the pillow, the curtains pulled closed, and he lay in the dark with nothing but the gentle hum of the ship and his very thoughts to distract him, everyt...
2025-02-19 11:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostHe raged through the ship in a blindness of raw pain and rampaging memories, his aura roaring within his core, and his heartbeat pounding against his ribcage as though it was some enormous beast se...
2025-02-18 11:30:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you okay?” Rel asked as they traversed the yellow lit, hexagonal corridors of the ship. “You’re so quiet.”
“What? Am I?” Nar asked.
Rel looked down at her feet. “I...
2025-02-17 11:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostNar turned off the alarm in his head with a mental grunt, and took in a deep breath as the dark ceiling above his head came into focus. From around the room, he heard the now familiar sounds of the...
2025-02-14 11:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhen later that night he returned to his room, with the lessons of his master aching across his body, Nar found that the lights of the common room were still bright despite the late hour, and a hus...
2025-02-13 11:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Things turned out a lot more chaotic than expected", the Master of Blades said, earning a slow nod from his apprentice.
The two of them sat cross legged in the center of the master's priva...
2025-02-12 11:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey-hey!”
Nar groaned and flipped to the other side.
“Come on, man!” Kur said, shaking him. “Breakfast!”
“Noooo…” Nar moaned hoarsely.
“Your fault for s...
2025-02-11 11:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Alright, try to move your fingers… Very good. Now, the elbow…”
Nar followed the instructions of the healer.
He’d been surprised to find a zeibar, of all things, as he entered...
2025-02-10 11:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostNar came slowly to a blurry chaos of darting figures and moans of pain.
“Jul?” he rasped. “Jul!”
“Nar!” someone shouted nearby, and small, warm hands wrapped around hi...
2025-02-07 11:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post“I fucking hate these things!” Mul shouted.
His flaming hands propelled him upwards, and Nar reached down to pull him up to the top of the fish they had just killed together.
Yo...
2025-02-06 11:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Get ready to jump!” Mynap shouted, over the sound of the storm and the impacts. “Melee! We’re going down! Stay away from the heads!”
Stay away from what heads? Nar th...
2025-02-05 11:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe wind roared against his body, and for a split moment, Nar wondered if he was going to be blown back up into the promenade, but then, he was through the wind resistance, plummeting towards the s...
2025-02-04 11:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“You fucking idiots should’ve woken me up!” Kur yelled at them.
It was the next morning, after the klaxon had sounded even earlier than anticipated, and it was a very sorry looking motl...
2025-02-03 11:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostGoing up slowly proved to be a lot easier than just dashing up, of course. However, Mynap challenged the melee apprentices to try and go as fast as they could safely go.
That resulted in a fe...
2025-01-31 11:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe wind blew wistfully past Nar’s shocked expression, and below him, blocked by a single, skinny looking handrail, the ship's hull curved down and out of sight. Beyond that, the clouds and vastn...
2025-01-30 11:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Time’s up. Please turn off your devices,” Professor Vissur’s translator said.
Nar groaned and turned off his touch screen, stashing away the little metal cylinder in his ring.
...
2025-01-29 11:35:28 +0000 UTC View Post“The lengos first. What's your name?” Jarl asked.
“Mul,” the brawler said. “And that’s Jul and Nar.”
“A’ight! I’ll try to remember, but no promises! You ex-Climbers ...
2025-01-28 11:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“No! I mean… I…” Tuk stammered.
“Because that’s… Hilarious!” and the man boomed with a throaty, wheezy laughter.
“Fuck’s sake, Jarl…” Tuk breathed. “My heart n...
2025-01-27 11:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostSweat dripped down his face, his neck. The sword’s grip was slick in his hands, but Nar held it firm.
His heart raced, and despite the burning begging from his lungs, Nar fought back to pre...
2025-01-24 11:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostViy stared into the vast, silken twilight outside. In the quiet of the night, with the snack machines humming at the back of the leisure room, she eyed the void with blank emptiness upon her featur...
2025-01-23 12:55:07 +0000 UTC View PostStrangled shouts and constrained grunting made Gad look up from her weight lifting routine. She already knew what she was going to see, but was still unable to not put down her weights and walk ove...
2025-01-22 12:04:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Good morning, apprentice!” the Master of Shadows beamed at her, as Jul entered the master’s private training room. “Do you feel well rested? Fully healed?”
Jul smiled at the Master...
2025-01-21 11:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostIn the early hours of the day after their den fight, Kur finally gave up trying to go back to sleep, and instead, got up, and slipped out of their room, coming to sit at the table in their party’...
2025-01-20 11:30:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Mul!”
Cen sat up straight, her left hand reaching out for her brother, who was about to disappear under a pile of beasts. Pain tore through her, and she dropped back onto the mattress wi...
2025-01-17 11:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post