The night moved quickly for the motionless Adon and Goldie.
The butterfly hardly noticed that time was passing at all. At some point, he was aware of movement, but only because Samson and the other spiderlings had approached them on the bed....
2024-09-21 13:20:17 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome back, Adon, Goldie sent drowsily as the butterfly settled on the bed covers beside her.
She looked up and to the right of where Adon had landed. There was a candle up there that the servant who had carried Samson back had li...
2024-09-18 19:59:10 +0000 UTC View Post“I am called Evangeline,” volunteered the bat representative quietly. “I won the right to be senior to my sisters by triumphing in the melee we held the day before yesterday.” She looked at James with an inscrutable expression. “By our c...
2024-09-18 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAdon’s exoskeleton expanded and contracted, broke down and re-formed, as his body sought to obey his command and reshape itself to a degree it had never attempted before.
The process of trying to use Transformation to shift to a different ...
2024-09-18 01:53:10 +0000 UTC View PostJames stared intently at the unconscious Moishe as he finished giving him the Blessing of the Fisher King.
He felt a wave of weakness flow through him at the moment that the power shifted from James’s body into Moishe’s. The Fisher King ...
2024-09-17 22:52:53 +0000 UTC View PostAs the Greater Claustrian Flying Foxes hurled themselves through the air just above the flowering tree, Adon felt time almost slowing down.
The colony of bats had lunged at what must have been their top non-flight speed. But compared with th...
2024-09-14 03:40:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe words appeared to confirm that Moishe and his remaining companion’s ordeal was over.
[Congratulations! You have cleared Dungeon: Valley of the Shadow of Death!]
[Assassin leveled up!]
I...
2024-09-13 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe butterfly flitted through the moonlit night, his body almost glowing in the intense light of the full moon.
He danced through the sky like an autumn leaf, floating just above the palace rooftop, eyes looking out for prey. The cool night ...
2024-09-11 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAs the memory went on, James saw that Moishe infiltrated the camp at night and managed to talk one person who was skeptical of the group’s leader—a man named Harris—into joining them.
Others preferred not to listen to the man who looke...
2024-09-11 15:14:07 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the awkward conversation, Adon fluttered past Rosslyn and into the palace.
She walked off in the direction of the room where she and Adon had trained, and Adon had to decide what to do next.
He could go back to Goldie and Samson...
2024-09-09 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe air hung with a pregnant pause for a moment as Adon waited for Rosslyn to respond to what he had said.
Oh, Goddess, was her first thought.
Her inner voice sounded perceptibly exasperated—or was it embarrassed? It was har...
2024-09-08 15:29:36 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m not trapped anywhere,” James said. “I’m just here to get you.”
“How do you expect to get me and get out?” Moishe said.
James could not think what to say for a moment. He felt slightly confused. Did Moishe mean that...
2024-09-08 15:25:03 +0000 UTC View PostAdon looked around for a moment and then thanked the Goddess that only those immediately near him were in the circle of his telepathic conversation.
He was terribly embarrassed at the way he’d just blurted out that Samson and Goldie were p...
2024-09-05 18:04:36 +0000 UTC View Post“Thank you both,” James said. “I think that helps. I’ll start thinking about how to expand more quickly than Dominion can travel. On a slightly different subject, how’s Moishe doing?”
“That’s much simpler to answer,” Alan s...
2024-09-04 15:45:36 +0000 UTC View PostJames looked back and forth between Alan and Mitzi until he confirmed that they each looked around ten years younger.
“Congratulations on your excellent health,” he said as he reached the top of the stairs.
“Well, thank you for n...
2024-09-02 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAs the toasts concluded, Adon managed to send a telepathic message to his assigned servant.
Excuse me, sir, but I would appreciate a small serving of sweet pudding, if that could be arranged, he sent.
The man looked around, sl...
2024-09-02 16:30:36 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as Adon met back up with Goldie and Samson, he told them what was going on with his Telepathy.
So, you can hear all our thoughts now? Samson asked nervously.
No, Adon sent back. I just hear bits and p...
2024-09-01 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAdon explained his newly unlocked level of Telepathy to Rosslyn, attempting to do so as quickly and simultaneously thoroughly as he could.
She obligingly moved more slowly through the hallways as he went on, giving the two of them more time ...
2024-08-31 06:05:03 +0000 UTC View PostAs Mina closed the door, James opened his eyes again.
Time to sleep, he thought.
But there was a Skill he could use in his sleep.
“Hester, are you still ready to Dreamwalk with me?” James asked in a near whisper.
... 2024-08-31 05:17:10 +0000 UTC View PostLuna burst forward, her body cutting through the brisk night air.
She could see the end of the massacre in sight—and with it, the accomplishment of her King’s wish.
Another useless prey human moved in between her and her objective,...
2024-08-30 17:18:10 +0000 UTC View PostDave and Amalia sat at their posts quietly in the slowly advancing darkness.
Luna and her wolf pack were tracking the monotheists’ movements and would let everyone else know if the group deviated too much from the expected route. It seemed...
2024-08-29 02:44:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe Duke’s sons were at once less flowery and more flattering than the King had described them, Adon found.
They bowed their heads to Rosslyn at the first encounter, to which gesture she responded with an elegant curtsy.
But once the...
2024-08-27 14:05:20 +0000 UTC View PostJames sat in the bed, staring at the menagerie of creatures all around him.
There were dozens of the things, all subjugated to his Will, but he had never seen them all in one place before.
Creatures that were like balloons made of skin...
2024-08-25 00:26:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe citizenship ceremony concluded uneventfully.
James sat and soaked in the sound of dozens of voices pledging their personal loyalty to him. The experience was as flattering as ever, and he gained another level in Fisher King—and a corre...
2024-08-25 00:24:54 +0000 UTC View PostGoodness. I have not seen them since…
That was the last thought Adon overheard from Rosslyn before he cut off Telepathy again.
When did I get this additional power? he wondered.
He had not been trying to ...
2024-08-23 14:39:16 +0000 UTC View PostRosslyn walked back to the living quarters of the palace, unconscious of the fact that each of her footsteps was more of a stomp.
To observers, she gave off the feeling of an uncaged lioness hunting for prey.
Her breath came hot and he...
2024-08-23 14:37:20 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s so good to see you’re all right, Your Majesty,” Rotter began.
“Thank you,” James said, smiling. “I assume that isn’t why you’ve been sitting in the living room waiting for me to wake up, though. To what do I owe this ...
2024-08-20 01:27:06 +0000 UTC View PostRosslyn was dripping sweat from what felt like every inch of skin.
It is nice to know I have not weakened physically, even if my vision is not what it was.
Matilda stood opposite her, panting and almost equally covered in pers...
2024-08-20 01:24:48 +0000 UTC View PostWhen James awakened, he felt a strange combination of sensations.
Fatigue. A combination of fatigue and muscle soreness that he had not experienced since Orientation, except in the immediate aftermath of combat.
An unpleasant cotton-li...
2024-08-17 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostBack at the palace, Goldie and Samson were in the same room as always, engaged in the same intensive activity that had occupied almost their entire time since Adon’s departure.
Training with Mana.
Neither Goldie nor Samson seemed to ...
2024-08-17 02:54:18 +0000 UTC View Post