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As mentioned, during this hiatus I'm doing an AMA to tide you guys over and give back to my lovely community of readers.
I will answer questions next Thursday, May 1, from ...
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Chapter 254 - A Crown of Madness
Siobhan
Month 9, Day 23, Thursday 3:00 p.m.
It took a couple days of preparation before Siobhan felt safe enough to attempt the crown of madness. Most of that time was spent waiti...
2025-04-08 01:23:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 253 - No Way Out
Siobhan
Month 9, Day 20, Monday 11:00 p.m.
After Analyst Hite let her go and the rain stopped, Siobhan did not go back to Liza’s. Instead, she turned around and headed for one o...
2025-04-06 23:56:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 252 - Red Guard Pressure
Siobhan
Month 9, Day 20, Monday 10:40 p.m.
‘Is that even Liza with the light on in her apartment, or was it one of them, waiting for me?’ Siobhan wondered. She closed...
2025-04-06 00:02:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 251 - Sudden Showers
Sebastien
Month 9, Day 16, Friday 2:00 p.m.
The next day, Sebastien left the Order’s headquarters. Damien and Deidre had argued with increasing passion about who she should stay with ...
2025-04-03 23:47:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 250 - A Pig Teammate
Oliver
Month 9, Day 17, Friday 6:00 p.m.
Oliver slowed his horse to a walk as he approached Gilbratha’s north-western entrance tunnel. The line was long, and as the tunnel itself was ...
2025-03-27 23:35:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 249 - Eunoia
Sebastien
Month 9, Day 12, Sunday
The process of sewing her mind back together was painful, precarious, and exhausting. Once Sebastien had started, the smooth edges of the memetic surg...
2025-03-20 22:38:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 248 - The Key to an Unknown Lock
Damien
Month 9, Day 12, Sunday 9:00 a.m.
Damien worked with Ana to shove Sebastien’s somewhat larger frame into the stranger’s carriage, and all three of them climbed in after him. ...
2025-03-14 00:36:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 247 - Bifurcation
Siobhan
Month 9, Day 12, Sunday 7:00 a.m.
Siobhan woke to a mind—a self—tearing itself in two.
Most of her remembered coming to wait for Thaddeus, hoping to discuss the ...
2025-03-07 00:43:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 246 - Perfidious
Thaddeus
Month 9, Day 12, Sunday 4:00 a.m.
Thaddeus panicked for a moment when Siobhan seemingly threw herself to her death. Despite knowing that she was a powerful thaumaturge, some in...
2025-03-01 01:41:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 243 - Delaying Tactics (NEW)
Author Note 2/27/25: You may notice the chapter numbering has changed. I originally wanted to put an Interlude at this point in the story, but then decided there wasn’t enough content for a full ...
2025-02-28 03:35:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 245 - The Womb and the Grave
Siobhan
Month 9, Day 12, Sunday 3:50 a.m.
On the other side of the strange cloak-window to elsewhere, Siobhan climbed to her feet. Everything was deeply, existentially wrong, and she ha...
2025-02-21 02:18:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 244 - The Dark Descent
Siobhan
Month 9, Day 12, Sunday 3:45 a.m.
Siobhan raised her right hand with the palm outward as shadow coated the appendage like a liquid. While Thaddeus’s attention was drawn to thi...
2025-02-14 02:14:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 242 - Icarus Burning
Siobhan
Month 9, Day 12, Sunday 3:25 a.m.
Siobhan turned to run, and Thaddeus sprinted after her. As she had guessed before, he was quicker. His legs were longer, and each step propelle...
2025-02-07 00:35:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 241 - A Desperate Escape
Siobhan
Month 9, Day 12, Sunday 3:15 a.m.
‘The question I asked is not allowed,’ Siobhan thought as she raced into the darkness. She fumbled the light coaster out and used ...
2025-01-31 01:22:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 240 - Violation
Siobhan
Month 9, Day 12, Sunday 3:00 a.m.
For some reason, Siobhan couldn’t force her mouth to form the words of the question she really wanted to ask. Instead, she said,...
2025-01-24 02:07:36 +0000 UTC View PostDelay Notice
Hey guys,
I have been extremely ill, and even now barely have the energy to sit here typing this note. There won't be a chapter this Thursday, and probably not next Thursday, either. I'm just...
2025-01-08 18:05:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 239 - A Shroud of Lace
Siobhan
Month 9, Day 12, Sunday 1:00 a.m.
Siobhan stopped on the wide street in front of the canal entrance through the northern white cliffs and looked around for anyone o...
2025-01-03 01:05:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 238 - Beneath Walls of Stone
Damien
Month 9, Day 11, Saturday 11:15 a.m.
Damien picked up a paper from a scruffy-looking boy hawking at the corner, but refused the follow up attempt to cell him “high...
2024-12-27 23:38:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 237 - Harrow Hill Archives
Author Note 12/26: As I somewhat anticipated and mentioned the chapter before last, holiday gatherings have taken the place of my writing time this week. I still managed to write most of the chapte...
2024-12-20 01:58:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 236 - Conceptual Beings
Siobhan
Month 9, Day 11, Saturday 1:00 a.m.
Siobhan returned to her forbidden research on shamanry, where she was systematically working her way through all the texts she c...
2024-12-17 00:46:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 235 - Dream Messages
Siobhan
Month 9, Day 8, Wednesday 9:00 p.m.
Siobhan—disguised as yet another alternate version of her female form—took a rather nice carriage from Liza’s to the Undre...
2024-12-06 02:41:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 234 - Spite
Siobhan
Month 9, Day 6, Monday 3:00 a.m.
Siobhan looked back to the tasteful nude of her other form drawn in Myrddin’s journal. “It does look a little like him,â...
2024-11-30 00:47:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 233 - A Sexy Statue
Sebastien
Month 9, Day 5, Sunday 10:00 a.m.
Sebastien wasted no time sitting down to review the modifications Liza had made to the sleep-proxy spell. She closed her eyes an...
2024-11-22 02:29:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 232 - The River of Oblivion
Siobhan
Month 9, Day 4, Saturday 2:00 a.m.
After their end-of-term celebratory dinner, Sebastien herded and packed her drunk companions into carriages headed for their resp...
2024-11-15 02:35:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 231 - Round Table
Gera
Month 9, Day 4, Saturday 8:00 a.m.
Gera’s constantly running divination took in the others sitting at the round table they had set up in the center of the Undreaming...
2024-11-08 02:23:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 230 - A Lesson in Violence
Author Note: I added a few hundred words of duel preparation to the previous chapter when a reader comment reminded me I'd forgotten to mention some important things. I hope you won't mind too much...
2024-11-01 01:23:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 229 - Dueling the High Crown's Heir
Sebastien
Month 9, Day 3, Friday 2:15 p.m.
Sebastien felt like the world was spinning around her. She wanted to rest her head on her knees while things settled, but instead...
2024-10-25 00:14:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 228 - Vendetta
Sebastien
Month 9, Day 3, Friday 1:40 p.m.
Sebastien and her friends arrived at their reserved seats in the temporary amphitheatre, a grand structure of white stone drawn u...
2024-10-18 01:02:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 227 - Demonstrations of Skill and Power
Sebastien
Month 9, Day 1, Wednesday 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday afternoon, while she and her friends were hanging about, Sebastien was asked to fill in for a third exhibition, this...
2024-10-11 00:54:25 +0000 UTC View Post