2/4.
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Renise thought about the 3rd Princess often.
It was hard not to. She was officially her saviour.
When Renise closed her eyes, it was all too easy to see the princess amidst the darkness, her sword shinin...
2024-02-07 00:43:07 +0000 UTC View Post2: The Bread & Berry Cafe
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I sat down in one of the cafe's dining chairs, indulging in a wooden surface that was flat and varnished and not the repurposed tree branch that broomsticks...
2024-02-04 18:28:32 +0000 UTC View Post1: Modern Dragonslaying
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The problem with dragons is that they always had to have the last word.
I say problem, but this really wasn’t an issue so far as humans were conc...
2024-02-04 18:27:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Synopsis:
The world is ending.
To most, that's a problem. To Elise Rowe, it's the start of her week....
2024-02-04 18:25:46 +0000 UTC View PostRenise Rimeaux's mini-arc. 1/4.
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Renise smelled trouble.
That wasn’t unusual. As the informal head of the Kingdom of Tirea’s very own budding clandestine organisation for wayward misfits, trouble was less someth...
2024-02-04 02:35:30 +0000 UTC View PostHags.
Women who had sold their souls, their sanity and their mortality to nightmares which existed only in the depths of forests.
But amongst them, the hag witches did more than eschew the comforts of passable tea.
They were fall...
2024-02-02 02:51:27 +0000 UTC View PostI couldn’t help but smile.
Why, for my assassin to be a fair maiden with a kindly exterior, all I could feel was bemusement and a slight tingling in my nose as I held back a public sneeze. Something far more harmful to me than any concocti...
2024-01-30 22:54:42 +0000 UTC View PostThere were fouler things than that which slept in the abyss.
Most were too gruesome for my innocent ears to be privy to. As the epitome of a fragile princess, I was shielded from the horrors which stalked the darkest reaches of existence. 2024-01-28 04:18:59 +0000 UTC View Post
As a princess, I’d witnessed the most beautiful backdrops of my kingdom.
From the soaring heights of my bedroom ceiling as I read while lying on my back, to the mysterious corners of my bedroom bookshelves as I read while lying on my side,...
2024-01-26 05:04:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe Gentle Princess creaked as it swayed like a giant upon a hammock.
Within the many corridors and cabins of this majestic vessel, the skull upon the black flag no longer jeered. The bright colours of the Kingdom of Tirea was now p...
2024-01-24 04:17:16 +0000 UTC View PostMy mouth widened at the sight of a single eye hazing over into a dark orb.
No … it was more than dark.
It was deeper. Emptier. Hollower.
A shade blacker than a night sky devoid of stars. It was the abyss itself. And it...
2024-01-21 04:14:01 +0000 UTC View PostBarbarians.
Beyond the Fabled Realm of Ouzelia, the frozen tundras and icy mountains which awaited housed the wealthiest and most powerful barbarian clans to exist upon the continent.
Making their riches as mercenaries or tradesmen of ...
2024-01-19 04:26:43 +0000 UTC View PostI held my palm above me, wincing as a column of sunlight bore down upon my fair skin.
As Apple trotted at a leisurely pace on the northern road to Hartzwiese, I peered up at a blue expanse embellished by wispy trails of clouds, each twisting...
2024-01-16 21:08:25 +0000 UTC View PostDawn came in the form of a golden halo cresting the Loerstadt Gate.
I watched from atop Apple’s back, gazing at the sight of the sun hoping to earn a spot in my good graces by sending me off. It’d need to do more than that. I hadn’t ye...
2024-01-14 04:50:37 +0000 UTC View PostSecond Prince Tristan Contzen was a man of few words.
In truth, there was little he was permitted to say.
To be a second prince was to be a lifelong understudy. A role which few found joy in.
Upon the grand theatre of war, politi...
2024-01-12 03:36:59 +0000 UTC View PostDivination was widely derided as the least of magic.
Closely related to the bumblings of astrology, it was an ancient branch of magic relying not on study or skill, but an innate draw towards the stars.
The problem was obvious.
S...
2024-01-10 00:18:07 +0000 UTC View PostI … I was in mortal peril!
Why, I could feel it like Coppelia’s elbow in the night! My princess senses were as keen as the ears of a fawn in a forest! And currently, the cracking of a twig came in the form of a receptionist from Reitzlak...
2024-01-07 03:00:36 +0000 UTC View PostMy heart was filled with trepidation upon entering the inn.
I should have been in high spirits instead.
After all, I'd sent the Grand Duchess's pets back to her waiting claws, and also deported an errant peasant from my kingdom. True, ...
2024-01-04 19:41:28 +0000 UTC View PostOphelia pouted as she sat upon a tree branch.
Beside her was Duck A and Duck B, both of whom were perched within a warm bird’s nest which they definitely built themselves.
Swinging her legs while holding her cheeks in her palms, she ...
2024-01-03 03:58:30 +0000 UTC View PostI watched as the last of the silhouettes returned to the shadows beneath the forest boughs.
The earth shook as the armoured riders diligently made certain that any surviving wildflowers were stamped into the soil, and in the process ensure t...
2023-12-31 01:54:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi there!
Thank you so much for your support over the past year. Because of your relentless generosity, we've been able to (accidentally) reach the #200 chapter milestone just before the end of the year!
If you haven't already, be sure...
2023-12-30 13:44:57 +0000 UTC View PostA row of darkened eyes met me as I idly approached.
Granholtz’s finest remained mounted on their mailed war steeds, their black halberds and lances almost seeming to pierce the clouds as they rose high above their heads.
Yet it was t...
2023-12-30 04:53:13 +0000 UTC View PostI waited.
Within a small clearing dominated by nothing more than a mound smaller than the discarded pile of gifts I threw outside my bedroom window, I waited as I stood idly upon the unofficial border between my fair kingdom and the house of...
2023-12-29 02:26:56 +0000 UTC View PostThere were many things I expected upon my return to the group of elven hoodlums.
Being the joyful participants of my carefully designed one day rehabilitation scheme for convicted litterers, I had high hopes.
Grass so spotless I could ...
2023-12-27 02:46:46 +0000 UTC View PostBwooom.
A giant claw came crashing down into the ground, turning soil upwards like a great shovel.
A pair of black wings spread out, casting a shadow even half-bent and broken. And yet of all the things to disturb the moonligh...
2023-12-24 02:46:17 +0000 UTC View PostMy kingdom was truly beautiful.
A vista of snow-capped mountains, verdant forests and distant shores illuminated beneath the moonlight. No matter what wonders one could build with hands, none could match what was shaped by nature, time, and ...
2023-12-21 20:21:16 +0000 UTC View PostA cold sweat ran down Ophelia’s back.
She was used to getting into bad situations. Being an A-rank sword saint didn’t exclude her. On the contrary, it only drew her towards them. Mostly because she sought them out.
Other A-ranks we...
2023-12-19 23:52:48 +0000 UTC View PostI looked up.
And then I looked up even more.
Where before an elven druid stood, there now towered a growing figure of colossal height.
Gone was the robed figure tattered with disheveledness and a napkin stained with the remains o...
2023-12-17 01:24:03 +0000 UTC View PostI scraped my boots across the floor of the tower chamber.
Why, it didn’t even squeak!
A true caricature of royal abodes! I hadn’t spent a single crown to view it and I still felt poorer for it!
The absolute gall of this man! ...
2023-12-15 01:55:16 +0000 UTC View PostI led the way, Starlight Grace in hand as I ascended a spiralling stairwell.
Ordinarily, climbing a spiralling stairwell was cause for joy. There was only one in my life, and it led to my bedroom. Appropriately located on the third tallest t...
2023-12-12 18:48:14 +0000 UTC View Post