Sidon was a fine city, as far as Egyptian cities went. It helped that it was more Kinahhu than it was Kemeti, as it were, having only been conquered a generation ago, but to Mattizawa of the Mitanni it was still an Egyptian
2025-08-11 15:42:56 +0000 UTC
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“Alright, folks. Fai Dan said that the areas we’ll be fighting in will be pretty tight. A full squad will do more harm than good. Which means it’s fire team time, which means we’re splitting up.” Cassandra announced, thirty minutes had s...
2025-08-10 15:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Camilla hated it when her brother left her behind and went out adventuring. It wasn’t something he did much, anymore, not after they had settled down in Riverwood, but she still hated it. She hated knowing that he was in danger, but she hated be...
2025-08-03 16:29:26 +0000 UTC
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The crisp mountain air, the sweet smell of a mist-laden forest and a fresh-water river, and the natural cacophony of more living creatures than any area near my old home were all a magnificent display of the beauty that could be found in a world t...
2025-07-30 15:06:28 +0000 UTC
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“Hello, Clarke. It’s good to see you again.”
The words echoed through the room for several long heartbeats as the two females stared at eachother. Well, Clarke was staring, with a hanging jaw and wide eyes at that, whil...
2025-07-30 15:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Riverwood.
Built beside a river strong enough for industry but weak enough not to be dangerous, teeming with fish but bereft of water-going predators. Built amongst a forest large enough and rich enough to provide everything that they might ...
2025-07-22 03:01:43 +0000 UTC
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Shall We Play A Game?
Chapter Seven
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Shai watched from on high as Hasamelli, Yuri, and their companions made their way out of the palace, in the company of one of her most proficient genera...
2025-07-21 03:30:22 +0000 UTC
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Shall We Play A Game?
Chapter Six
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Paramesse, -though he much preferred Ramses, thank you very much!- rubbed at his temples in an effort to banish his growing head-ache. ...
2025-07-21 03:29:44 +0000 UTC
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Shall We Play A Game?
Chapter Five
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Ankhesenamun glided through the palace corridors like she was floating on a cloud, her steps light and her heart even lighte...
2025-07-21 03:28:55 +0000 UTC
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Shall We Play A Game?
Chapter Four
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Akhenadin, former bearer of the Millennium Eye, Maker of the Millennium Items, and (amongst many other things) uncle to the current Phara...
2025-07-21 03:27:58 +0000 UTC
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Shall We Play A Game?
Chapter Three
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The first five days of courtship had been brutal, at least for the other suitors. I, personally, had found it very amusing...
2025-07-21 03:27:20 +0000 UTC
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Shall We Play A Game?
Chapter Two
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It was not unusual, in fact it was very common, for Ankhesenamun and her closest companions (and lovers, though they didn’t adver...
2025-07-21 03:26:17 +0000 UTC
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Shall We Play A Game?
Chapter One
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Ankhesenamun felt the muscles of her jaw flex in irritation as yet another would-be suitor -this one a fourth prince from some satrapy of Babylon. A fo...
2025-07-21 03:25:09 +0000 UTC
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Shall We Play A Game?
Prologue
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Ankhesenamun Nebkheperure Kanakhttutmesut, daughter of Akhnamkanon, Pharaoh of the New Kingdom, Ruler of Tâwîî and, by the Grace o...
2025-07-21 03:24:02 +0000 UTC
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As it turned out, getting Vette safely and -relatively- comfortably lying down in the ritual room barring the path to Khem Val was more complicated than I had expected it to be.
No, that wasn’t quite accurate.
Better to say th...
2025-07-20 15:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Cassandra looked around the Normandy’s briefing room with a faint air of windswept exhaustion, which seemed to be more or less how those filling the rooms seats seemed to feel. Save Wrex, of course, who looked more bored than any...
2025-07-10 15:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Clarke had thought that she knew what a Coalition celebration looked like, after the they had killed that mutant gorilla, and before that she’d thought she knew what a Coalition celebration looked like in the evenings after the Conclave’s dail...
2025-06-30 17:00:13 +0000 UTC
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This was it. My final trial had begun. The trial that would solidify my place as Zash’s apprentice, though at this point it was essentially a formality. The rest of my pool was dead, missing, or were Kory, and Zash hadn’t been subtle in our co...
2025-06-20 17:12:02 +0000 UTC
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Wrex, Battlemaster of Clan Urdnot, was not a particularly common sight on the Citadel, and with damn good reason. He wasn’t a big fan of all the noise, the bright lights, the perfect cleanliness, the facade of enlightenment and civilizati...
2025-06-10 16:00:00 +0000 UTC
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It was the last day of the Conclave, and excitement was at a fever pitch in and out of the palace alike. The feast a few days past, featuring as a center-piece the yong pauna that had been hunted down and slain personally by their Heda an...
2025-05-30 18:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Fortunately for me, my injuries were sufficient to earn me a brief stay in a bacta tank. Whether that was standard protocol for an acolyte in my position, advanced in the Trials and having successfully completed the trial that had so badly injured...
2025-05-20 17:00:10 +0000 UTC
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The initial Council meeting was, perhaps unsurprisingly, a bit disappointing. They had confirmed, after it was over and the audience had dispersed, that her candidacy was still valid and that her evaluation was still underway, but without f...
2025-05-09 11:00:12 +0000 UTC
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None of them had been terribly surprised when Klark had, upon getting out of bed the next day, insisted that they collect a larger detachment of soldiers and hunt the yong pauna down. Though she only admitted to wanting to do so to preven...
2025-04-30 15:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Those of you from my Discord got some small forewarning about this, so here it is: this poll is to determine what you, my loyal readers -paying and otherwise- would most want to see out of a sequel for Crown of Slaves. We're still a ways off from ...
2025-04-20 16:00:45 +0000 UTC
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Hope should not, in fact, have sprung eternal. Although, in pursuit of fairness, I did have to admit that this wasn’t quite what I expected to have happen, because while the slaves were not, in fact too busy to ignore me, they unfo...
2025-04-20 04:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Introspection, deep introspection, had never been something that had given Cassandra a great deal of trouble, at any stage in her life. ‘To serious and quiet by half’ had been a common refrain by adults in her life, which had been balan...
2025-04-10 17:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Crown of Slaves
Chapter Three
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Nearly a month had passed since I had been made a member of Asmu-Nikal’s personal sta...
2025-03-17 18:22:56 +0000 UTC
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Crown of Slaves
Chapter One
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I didn’t expect to die the way I did. Granted, I don’t exactly remember how I died, but I doubt that it was how I had expected to die...
2025-03-17 18:22:12 +0000 UTC
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This wasn’t at all how I expected things to go when it came to rescuing someone from the Sith Academy, and it wasn’t what I had expected whe
This wasn’t at all how I expected things to go when it came to rescuing someone from the Sith ...
2025-03-17 18:00:13 +0000 UTC
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The stench of ozone, roasted flesh, and scorched chitin clung thickly to me, filled the air around me, and I resisted the urge to gag only t
The stench of ozone, roasted flesh, and scorched chitin clung thickly to me, filled the air around m...
2025-03-17 18:00:13 +0000 UTC
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