I jolted awake when the room’s door opened. Half buried under me, Seyari twitched then shoved me off her with surprising strength. It was enough that I tumbled over and caught her wing while my tail tripped her.
We landed in a haphazard pi...
2024-09-03 02:38:19 +0000 UTC
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A few very long days ago…
Joisse crunched her way through days-old snow on the road back to town, hands stuffed into her pockets despite how the woolen cap made her forehead itch. The coat she was wearing, something simple she’d...
2024-08-25 22:16:17 +0000 UTC
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Did Sey and I waste time having more than a little fun?
…Probably.
I’m gonna regret this, aren’t I?
When we emerged from the… enlarged cave system, Quiraxa was waiting for us, dressed to the nines in a flowing su...
2024-08-20 04:46:00 +0000 UTC
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“So let me get this straight,” Paula said slowly, gesturing forward with both gloved hands. “You want to start building something in the dead of winter when half the town’s burned down.” She kicked at the ground. “The fuck are we gonna...
2024-08-03 00:30:07 +0000 UTC
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“And that was how I knew she was still my sister,” Kartania finished.
Gareth stared into the campfire for a long time before responding. “What does this all mean?”
Kartania tilted her head to look at his distant-eyed face. “W...
2024-07-21 04:34:15 +0000 UTC
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A/N: This chapter was another tough one, not to mention a heatwave with no AC and exhaustion after getting home until my body remembered not to be allergic to furry friends that were no longer there constantly. Chapters SHOULD resume normal weekly...
2024-07-08 05:04:59 +0000 UTC
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A/N: I really ought to make announcements on the Patreon! For those who don't know, I had an out-of-state wedding to attend into a long-awaited vacation. This chapter is a couple days late even with that, so my apologies! But I was s...
2024-06-27 05:33:57 +0000 UTC
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We didn’t make it far before the ash cloud lowered visibility to nothing. Worse, it carried faint traces of mana, rendering aura sight worthless. Even the shining crimson light from my wings reflected back at me, almost blinding.
By the ti...
2024-06-10 02:25:01 +0000 UTC
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Entering the Sovereign of Conceit’s demesne wasn’t like entering Lilly’s back in Navanaea. Instead of a progressive, soft feeling like a smothering blanket, the edge here was sharp enough to cut. A hard, invisible edge, a rapidly fading head...
2024-06-05 01:46:30 +0000 UTC
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Imagine how much more pretentious this tale’d seem if I added epigraphs!
-Taava, Bard of Great Renown and Grace
Renna and Sey were gone, Shyll was cowed into being a merely gigantic bitch, and Taava was picki...
2024-05-29 03:54:34 +0000 UTC
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“You are more than you appear,” Quiraxa said, raising her voice just over the rushing wind.
I looked down at her in my arms; she was already looking away with her chin up. “How do you figure that?”
“Your wife appears to be a ...
2024-05-19 03:19:05 +0000 UTC
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Kartania stopped in Norgath for the night. Armor stowed in saddlebags and wearing plain clothes, she’d be tougher to recognize even if she wasn’t ahead of any news. The inn she’d chosen was on the far edge of the city—and she’d ridden ar...
2024-05-06 21:40:24 +0000 UTC
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When I got back to our shared room, Seyari had come down from her supposed-to-be-secret perch on the roof and was standing out on the balcony. Already, afternoon was turning to evening, though all the colors of the sky were hidden behind white clo...
2024-05-05 18:01:30 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Most of the way through this, I realized I'd said S&S on Friday and SoW on Saturday. So, a bit of a reversal (S&S tomorrow), but for those of you in time zones ahead of me (most of you), it's actually SoW on Saturday and S...
2024-04-27 04:22:59 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Sorry for the delay! I don't normally talk about life stuff that comes up, so I won't. But suffice to say, it combined with a busy two weeks of work to create a state where I just couldn't get my head into writing. But now I am ve...
2024-04-22 22:49:46 +0000 UTC
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It took the better part of half an hour of standing next to her, glowering, before Shyll started cleaning the latrines. She’d absolutely left the moment I’d stopped observing, but I also didn’t care to punish myself by standing out there all...
2024-04-07 05:16:25 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Made it!! Formatting fought me a little for some reason. Also, S&S out tomorrow night!
What about my title as Sovereign of Wrath?
The thought came to me soon after I left my room with S...
2024-03-30 04:16:16 +0000 UTC
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A/N: We're back! Well, we were back yesterday, but that's S&S and I know my readership rates. More chapter(s) by the weekend. Anywho, chapter below - not gonna keep you.
Seyari was out on patrol when someo...
2024-03-26 22:16:50 +0000 UTC
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“I thought I told them to make the doors taller.” I rubbed at my horns, then remembered I was supposed to be professional. Guests claiming to know me in Church iconography and all that.
So, I looked up and cleared my throat, ste...
2024-03-11 00:00:24 +0000 UTC
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Training in the morning turned into administrative work by the afternoon, and close to evening, I found myself seated in Astrye’s single surviving, intact inn. Around me were townsfolk, and the circular table where I was seated had three others ...
2024-03-04 06:50:37 +0000 UTC
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My dreams had changed.
The void was now comfort and familiarity, not ice-cold emptiness. Except for tonight. Tonight, in a vivid, lucid dream, I waded through a twisted, hazy landscape. Fires of unnatural color burned in spots, and the ash t...
2024-03-01 05:22:16 +0000 UTC
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“Kartania, if you’re willing to work with me, I can get you cleared for promotion back to—”
Kartania punched the stone wall of the barracks, hard enough to split her knuckles open. “I said ‘no’, Walter.”
“You...
2024-02-24 07:22:09 +0000 UTC
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A/N: This chapter's a little on the short side, but there's another on the way tomorrow!
My stop in Linthel went relatively smoothly. Sure, I got a few looks landing outside the city, but I was making great time and the sun still ...
2024-02-23 07:27:22 +0000 UTC
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Tyaniis was a firm believer in the cycle of reincarnation. Not just as a devout of Jaezotl, but on a deep, personal level. Hinssa had passed too soon, but her next life would be full—Tyaniis was certain of that. And Tyaniis hoped, fervently, tha...
2024-02-17 06:42:22 +0000 UTC
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I started up a spell that would end this fight, but I couldn’t focus with all the noise in my head. Demon Vivian fired another bolt as I dove for the floor.
Spinning, my tail batted it away and I landed with a crash, claws cutting through ...
2024-02-16 05:39:49 +0000 UTC
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A/N: This one's a big'un. SoW's next chapter is mostly finished, despite hangups in a couple of areas and a rather hefty fight scene. More surprisingly, the next Scales & Shadows chapter after this one is also done. I'm planning SnS -...
2024-02-15 06:07:59 +0000 UTC
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“Have you ever killed someone?”
Arina’s question caught me off guard. “…You know I killed Vivian.”
“The mercenary? No, not like that.” Arina sighed, looking up from the freshly-signed aid agreement back to the portrait ...
2024-02-08 04:09:05 +0000 UTC
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A/N: New Sovereign of Wrath chapter is in the works, but this S&S chapter absolutely dominated my writing and editing time, and my headspace. But, it's finally done and I hope you enjoy. After this, things will get less complex (and l...
2024-02-06 06:51:38 +0000 UTC
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Landing in the garden was immediately followed by a mixed cadre of estate and city guards demanding answers. For the first time in a while, I was glad to be in my human form. That didn’t stop the looks; I’d just landed in the middle of the est...
2024-01-31 05:47:48 +0000 UTC
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Hiya folks!
I've had requests (and I am sorry it took this long) for PDFs of the first couple volumes. At first, I wanted to just do a proofread, but then I got into the weeds with all the line edits I could make, including changi...
2024-01-31 05:37:00 +0000 UTC
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