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TS6 - Chapter 22

“Kat!” Kaleek called out, his voice echoing through the catacombs as he draped an arm over her shoulder.  “What has you so distracted?  Usually you’d have a quip or  comment ...

TS6 - Chapter 21

Mana crackled through the air around Kat, infusing her domain with potential.  About thirty paces to her left, Dorrik was squaring off with some sort of flying diamond that flickered with pear...

TS6 - Chapter 20

Jaalin was glaring at Belle, and it took everything in Kat to not laugh at the lokkel as Belle calmly sipped a cup of tea.

.”I’m trying to open your people up to the galaxy,” Jaalin gro...

TS6 - Chapter 19

“We need to have a sit down meeting with Jaalin and Belle,” Kat remarked as she peered over the side of a massive hole.  Dorrik and Kaleek were with her in a dark tunnel.  The walls a...

TS6 - Chapter 18

“Are you ready Kat?”  Kaleek asked, a fist sized rock in his palm as he stood about twenty paces away from her.

She took a deep breath before closing her eyes.  Without the dist...

TS6 - Chapter 17

Kat threw herself into a roll, dodging to the left a fraction of a second before a perfectly spherical ball of stone zipped past her and detonated pelting her with shards of rock that opened a doze...

TS6 - Chapter 16

Maybe she’d done enough for Earth.  It might be time to let the planet fend for itself for once.

That was the only thought filling Kat’s mind as the high heeled shoes she’d forced ...

TS6 - Chapter 15

“Do I-”

“Yes,” Kat replied, cutting off Dorrik as the lokkel paced back and forth fretting wildly.  “Your scales are shiny enough for me to see my own reflection in them.” 2025-06-24 14:31:51 +0000 UTC View Post

TS6 Chapter 14

The door to the boss room opened, and almost immediately, Kat was assaulted by hot, fetid air.  She took a step forward and the ground squelched under her foot.  She bounced once on her t...

TS6 - Chapter 13

Kat crouched behind a rock, crossbow trained on a furry sex-legged monster that was about the size of a small car.  It shuffled slightly, a dangling trunk sweeping back and forth over the dung...

TS6 - Chapter 12

Kat struggled to keep a smile off of her face as Dorrik scowled right next to her.  To their left stood five hover tanks, four combat models supporting a more lightly armed command control and...

TS6 - Chapter 11

Wind whipped through Kat’s hair as she stood atop the viewing platform, the smell of ash and burning ozone burning her nose as she squinted into the distance.  Whippoorwill snorted at her si...

TS6 - Chapter 10

Kat stood at the edge of the moat of dark brown hissing liquid.  About a hundred paces in front of her, the tower leading out of the eighteenth floor jutted out of the ground, the bubbling bro...

TS6 - Chapter 9

Kat glanced up from the table where Dorrik was inspecting the goods that he’d ordered.  The marketplace was bustled around them.

She rolled her eyes.  Maybe bustle was too strong ...

TS6 - Chapter 8

Kat dove across the table, knocking Jasper’s coffee out of the way as she tackled him.  For a fraction of a second she saw his eyes widen, and then her shoulder hit his chest, knocking him o...

TS6 - Chapter 7

Kat could hear a pin drop.  Even the barista froze, sensing the mood, and she was functionally deaf from the high tier earplugs she was wearing.

Belle sat frozen with a deeply uncomforta...

TS6 - Chapter 6

“How have you not discovered where Millennium is hiding out?”

Kat kept her face even, suppressing the urge to roll her eyes as Richard Ricket blustered wildly.  The older shareholder...

TS6 - Chapter 5

Kat fell through the sky, shifting herself away from the flailing tentacles of the giant jellyfish with a tweak to her personal gravity.  She fired her crossbow, feeling her mana drain as the ...

TS6 Chapter 4

A trio of quills hit the sand next to Kat, each of them sending up a plume of detritus as they buried themselves an arms length deep, leaving only a small amount of their sharp chitin vibrating in ...

TS6 Chapter 3

Hyperactive pop music pumped through the room’s speakers, setting Kat’s teeth on edge, forcing her smile into something more akin to a pained grimace.  A couple paces away her mother was l...

TS6 - Chapter Two

Kat’s knife cut through the metal bar with ease, shaving off a sliver of glittering steel.  She set her weapon down and picked up the circle of metal, probing its sides with her index finger...

Prologue & Chapter One

Previously

After sneaking, stabbing, and extorting her way to the top, Kat is in the uneasy position of having her role reversed.  She is the target, stationary and unab...

Tower of Somnus Book VI Index

Chapter One
Chapter Two
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Somnus V - EPILOGUE

“I don’t think you understand how rich we are now,” Belle said, her voice raised so that Kat could hear her over the hum of the hovertank. At Kat’s side, Whippoorwill was pressed up agains...

Somnus V - Chapter 40

“KAT!” Cobra screamed, and they both blurred into motion simultaneously. Kat’s gravity doubled and her Pseudopod pushed her toward the ground as she drew her pistol.

 Ice Cobra fir...

Somnus V - Chapter 39

Kat hovered quietly, her Pseudopod and gravity working together to move her swiftly down the hallway, past the bodies of the dead doctor and samurai and toward the door beyond. She paused for a sec...

Somnus V - Chapter 38

Kat awoke to the sensation of a bucket of ice water being dumped over her head. The samurai from the truck stood a pace away from her, a sheepish expression on his face and an empty bucket in his h...

Somnus V - Chapter 37

Kat opened her eyes and immediately wished she could pass out a second time. She was zip tied to a metal chair that was welded to an enclosed truck bed. With each bump in the road she jolted agains...

Somnus V - Chapter 36

Kat only got a fraction of a second before the explosion reached her. There wasn’t enough time for a spell, so she did the next best thing. Gravity twisted around her, upending the heavy wooden t...

Somnus V - Chapter 35

The questions were quick and sharp. Each one tried to pry and twist a half truth from Kat so that VodCom’s attorney could twist them enough to craft some vast saga about how Kat and GroCorp were ...