“Yes, and his as well” Icarus added.
“I think my head matters a bit more”
“Truly? I think I could live with hearing your voice a bit less. Our captive on the other hand? Let...
2025-10-13 05:49:44 +0000 UTC View Post“Nicholas Flamel owes me a debt. The stone is repayment” he said with the kind of confidence that told me he truly believed what he as saying. Of course, that didn’t mean it wasn’t still bu...
2025-10-13 05:18:10 +0000 UTC View PostXXXXX- ONE MONTH LATER
“No, not like that” I muttered, turning to the seal that my newest apprentice had been banging her head against for a day now. It was relatively complex, but not so...
2025-10-12 21:44:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe body slumped over, hitting the table with a dull thud, and then they began to move with the efficiency of men who had worked together their whole lives. He moved to the side of the room, flippi...
2025-10-12 21:43:43 +0000 UTC View PostI hadn’t actually seen this coming, I thought to myself as I stared down at the letter that had arrived from Kumo. They were bowing out of the war, it seems. And even if their surrender left a lo...
2025-10-12 21:42:13 +0000 UTC View PostLATE 109 AC
“How does it look to you?” I asked, handing the slab of glass over to Laena for her to examine. It had taken months and months of work. First, it was getting the town built ne...
2025-10-12 21:39:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Who are you?” I asked, not making any movement to check the stone in my pocket or anything like that that would confirm his suspicions.
“A person interested in the philosopher’s sto...
2025-10-12 21:35:03 +0000 UTC View PostI waved him on to continue, because sure they were two separate jutsu but they worked on more or less he exact same underlying principle, and that was what I wanted to know about.
“So the ...
2025-10-12 07:32:49 +0000 UTC View Post“I’d drink to that one” he said instantly, tone sober and thick.
“The woman still disturbing you?” He asked.
“Less so now that I’ve had to come here, but she somehow alw...
2025-10-12 07:30:51 +0000 UTC View PostThey walked forward as one, having left their Sandsteeds some distance away. The rules around entrance into the fortress were old, and every noble son of Dorne learned them early enough. Some did i...
2025-10-12 07:15:21 +0000 UTC View Post—
He stared down at his hands, they were clean as always. He prided himself own having clean hands, a clean body, a clean mind. It was one thing his Grandmother had always stressed in his ...
2025-10-12 06:35:13 +0000 UTC View Post“She’s the daughter of Mu” He said.
“The Null man?”
“Yup. The Second Tsuchikage himself. She was the one supposed to be in the running to become the third. But then one d...
2025-10-11 21:58:06 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s fine, I waved them on in” I said, taking the blame.
“No, no. They shouldn’t have been able to get inside at all. There’s a lock seal on the door” He said. Looked over at...
2025-10-11 20:30:56 +0000 UTC View Post“Hokage-sama” He said with a bow that was far better than what any child his age should be managing. Of course, shinobi training meant that natural clumsiness of childhood was beaten out of the...
2025-10-10 21:36:50 +0000 UTC View Post“I said I must see to Quentyn’s death. I misspoke, if you would. You will be the one to kill the boy, Icarus. Make it clean, please.” He said, pouring another drink and taking a long swig of ...
2025-10-10 21:35:56 +0000 UTC View PostXXXXXX- ICARUS JORDAYNE
“This might be the worst idea you’ve ever come to me with, Icarus” His friend said with a sigh.
“Is it? I think stealing into the shadow city in disguis...
2025-10-10 06:35:32 +0000 UTC View Post“Now, moving on, is that all? Just a quiet acquiescence?” I asked.
“As the winning party, we can either elect to have them send one of theirs here to sign a treaty, or we can go to the...
2025-10-10 06:04:16 +0000 UTC View PostI hadn’t actually seen this coming, I thought to myself as I stared down at the letter that had arrived from Kumo. They were bowing out of the war, it seems. And even if their surrender left a lo...
2025-10-09 22:03:24 +0000 UTC View Post“If— And that’s a big if— I knew anything about a stone, then I would also know who the real owner is, and I could tell you most assuredly that you do not want to get on the wrong side of t...
2025-10-09 22:02:28 +0000 UTC View PostLATE 109 AC
“How does it look to you?” I asked, handing the slab of glass over to Laena for her to examine. It had taken months and months of work. First it was getting the town built nea...
2025-10-09 22:01:39 +0000 UTC View PostXXXXX- SHORIRAMA SENJU
“And so I call this first meeting of the Hokage’s advisory council in order,” I said, feeling the robes as they weighed me down as well as the comforting weight o...
2025-10-09 22:00:49 +0000 UTC View Post“This is a terrible idea. I must state my objections to this.”
“Yes, you have stated your objections, Uncle. Seven times at this point, if I’m counting right.”
“Eight,” La...
2025-10-09 21:59:50 +0000 UTC View PostI should probably have kept the fiendfyre for long enough to destroy these wards at least, it seemed, I thought to myself as I stood before the door. My rationale had been the fact that with the si...
2025-10-09 21:58:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Yes” he said.
“What else is behind this door, Gellert?” I asked, feeling a bad feeling begin to creep up.
“The Chinaman has taken to wearing my receptacle around his neck. If...
2025-10-09 21:44:58 +0000 UTC View Post—
“How are things looking for him?” I asked, staring down at the body of the last of my cousin’s surviving teammates.
He’ll live. And somehow without permanent damage. The he...
2025-10-09 21:23:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Allow you pay our surveyors more than we do? Do I look like a fool to you? You’ll pay them just as much as we do, and pay us two dragons per surveyor as a facilitation fee” He said. Of cours...
2025-10-09 06:04:49 +0000 UTC View Post“That seems unnaturally generous” Kagame pointed out, speaking for the first time since she’d given her name.
“In ten years, I’ll see to it that they pay the price of their actions ...
2025-10-08 21:50:27 +0000 UTC View Post—
“Well met, Ser Lancel” I said, walking forwards, and stretching my arm out to clasp it with his.
“And you, Ser Laenor. It is a pleasure to meet the youngest Knight in all th...
2025-10-08 21:49:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe draugr, reanimated from a corpse that had not been long gone still had a good portion of its magic left in it. That meant the wards that were to keep whoever was locked within still within woul...
2025-10-08 21:47:50 +0000 UTC View Post“I say we kick it further down the road. We can worry about what they do next, all we won’t. But we won’t know what they do until they do it. And by the time they move, we will have strengthe...
2025-10-08 21:46:38 +0000 UTC View Post