Honour Rae

52. Surrounded By Sharks

You have no idea how much self-control it's taking not to create a Master of Bees card. (I'm enjoying all the speculation in the comments!)

“Are you w...

51. The Duke's Secrets

Arthur opened the door a crack, saw darkness beyond. No candles were lit. He swiftly stepped in and shut the door behind him, heart beating fast as he listened for any sign he had been noticed from...

50. Lockpicking - Level 11

Arthur's uncle laughed uproariously.

All Arthur could do was stare. His mind, scrambled in shock, wasn't sure if the man was laughing out of casual cruelty because Arthur had bungled his jugg...

49. Basic Juggling 9

No, the original title wasn't really 'back juggling'. That was just a trick of your eyes and certainly not my terrible typing skills gone awry... 

The upcomin...

48. A Hint of Green

“One silver?” Arthur replied with a tinge of fake outrage. “Surely you mean per case.”

“Don’t pull that on me. One silver per box, and there are four boxes to a case.” The veget...

47. Personal Space and Second Helping

Arthur’s fingers trembled as he picked up the last corner piece. As it was a rare, it shimmered metallic in the early sunlight. Assembled on the table in front of him was the rest of the card. Ne...

Interlude: Cori was a good good dragon

Cori was a good, good dragon. But Cori missed her rider very, very much.

 Many, many moons ago a wicked, wicked scourgeling had knocked Debrah off Cori’s back.

Cori had flown fas...

46. Cooking Class

Arthur hadn't felt this flavor of rage and despair since... well, now that he thought about it. He hadn't felt it since he left the borderland village.

A place where everything was unfair, wh...

45. Serving Wench

Had to cut this one short because it ends in a weird place. Believe it or not, we're coming up to the time jump soon. Hope everyone's ready to say goodbye to 12 year old Arthur...<...

44. Dragon Linked Card

Instantly, Arthur was suspicious.

“Why do you want me to visit the hatchlings? Is there a Rare available or something?”

Not that it would do him a lick of good. From what he had gle...

43. Basic Empathic Resistance

Arthur froze with the feeling like he had just been caught stealing raisins from the bowl. His first fleeting thought to deny it died when he saw the certainty in Kenzie's face — and remembered t...

42. Like a baby who had his rattle taken away

The city had a different feel to it during mid-morning. They were quieter than he had seen before. The children were in school or apprenticed in their future trade. The adults were either working t...

41. Kitchen Management (Cooking/Leadership Class)

Arthur woke to the tinny chime of a card anchor alarm.

Groaning, he rolled over. Through bleary eyes, he saw a small light pulsing by his bed. His new alarm stone.

Horatio groaned from ...

40. Starting To Take Notice...

A month later and Arthur had still not gained his Cooking Class. He couldn’t figure out what the problem was.

His Kitchen Knife and Meal Preparation Skills...

39. Freeze

There was trouble ahead.

He had followed the tunnel through so many twists and turns, that he was completely turned around. No windows or balconies led to the outside to tell him what directi...

38. Aura Eye

Arthur’s mind was split three ways. He had just promised himself that he would now allow the thief class to change him. Yet here he was, tempted to put that Shoplifting Skill to ...

37. Ripe For The Picking

“Don’t shift your weight around so much. You’ll tip me over,” Marteen called, which didn’t help Arthur’s nerves at all. Especially since he didn’t think he had been shifting his weigh...

36. To Catch A Thief

I’ve created a monster, Arthur thought fondly as he walked down the streets of the hive city. For once, he was not heading back to the orphanage after work… and he was alone.

Hor...

Chapter 35: Card Anchor

Second of two chapters today. 

The day after Arthur was paid his first Uncommon card shard was a break day.

These came once every six days, w...

Chapter 34: Work Hard, Earn Cards

Turns out I found a natural stopping point with the chapter after all. This is the first of two today.

Arthur recoiled in horror, hand halfway up to his heart even...

Longer Chapter Friday

Two things real quick:

Today's chapter grew long with no natural stopping point so an extra chunky one will be posted tomorrow. 

Beyond that, I've edited the previous chapter to in...

Chapter 33: A Rare Deal

By all rights, Arthur should have woken up at the morning bell dead with exhaustion.

Instead, it was as if his limbs were charged with bits of lightning. What he had seen last nigh...

An Appeal To The Person Pirating My Work

Recently the text of locked chapters have appeared on a site. As this is the only place where they have been posted, it's one of my subscribers. 

This puts me in devastating jeo...

32. Card Anchor

"In the red corner,” said the announcer. “Shawna Shadow Sorceress.”

The crowd cheered and Shawna turned and waved. As she did, Arthur noticed she held a stick in her hand about a foot l...

31. Red Vs. Blue

Straightening, Arthur lowered his hand from the bandage under his shirt. Hopefully, Horatio would think he had been going for a belt knife instead.

“What are you doing here?” he asked, th...

30. Out On The Town

Arthur chewed over what Horatio had said for the rest of the evening. So much so that he chopped the pile of onions roughly, so that Chef told him to throw those in an onion soup and start again --...

29. Annoying Roommate

I know I'm behind one chapter. This chapter had no natural break and is twice as long as normal, thus the delay.

Soon, Arthur’s days at the Wolf Mo...

28. Cook

Arthur had expected to see something like the community kitchens back in his village. Thinking of old Yuma and how she sat on her stool and threatened kids with her wooden spoon gave him...

27. Orphanage

Arthur stopped in shock in front of the building. His feet planted to the ground in horror.

After they got the last of the evacuees sorted out, Magda had led him through the city, where final...

26. Hook, Line, and Sinker

Arthur slept in hours past dawn which was unusual for him. Red had started his days early, even if the rest of the caravan would prefer to sleep off the wine and ale from the night before. That had...