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Abyssal Road Trip - 466 - Who's the Dreamer

Amdirlain’s PoV - Beneath Wudang Mountain

Rustam rushed through the tunnels after her, his Power reaching out to constrict passages. His first attempts were too slow, and Amdirlain hurriedly dove between closing rock walls...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 465 - Perception

Amdirlain’s PoV - Wudang Mountain - Zixiao Palace

Dark furnishing and decorations were a constant theme as they moved through the palace’s corridors, yet they had a comforting, protective feel rather than being coldly re...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 464 - Along your way.

Amdirlain’s PoV - West Wind’s Court

Four days later, Amdirlain stood at the midpoint of a narrow valley neck, carved plateaus along its sides accommodating thousands of observers. She counted at least thirty distinct ord...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 463 - Figure you out

Amdirlain's PoV - West Wind's Court

When Amdirlain arrived at the library, nearly two scores of curious practitioners followed her. Their broadcast thoughts were awash with even wilder rumours than those she’d heard from t...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 462 - Where lies the path ahead

Amdirlain’s PoV - West Wind’s Court

Bai Hu hunted her tirelessly, his blade slicing open flesh at the slightest opportunity. The tricks she used to hound Master Payam and Jinfeng earned barks of laughter from him. Throug...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 461 - Give me a sign

Amdirlain’s PoV - West Wind’s Court

The first techniques they found proved problematic, so they moved on through the collection. During the following hours, they discussed and culled dozens more for various reasons. The ...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 460 - Searching for answers

Amdirlain's PoV - Northern Tibet - West Wind's Court

The young boy assigned to lead them buzzed excitedly, his eyes roaming over the view from above the city, but he still paid enough attention to direct their route northwar...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 459 - Settling in

Amdirlain's PoV - Nepal Mountains - Silver Lake

Preparing to leave Silver Lake didn't take long. The biggest delay was Jinfeng fetching Timur from the compound. After they returned to the inn, the group found an isolated spo...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 458 - Retribution

Amdirlain’s PoV - Material Plane - Space

While Amdirlain and Gilorn planned and caught up, Amdirlain recreated the world she’d just destroyed; this time, she used the planetary songs from the orrery rather than a composi...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 457 - Close the gates

Amdirlain’s PoV - Deep Space

When Amdirlain arrived, the chain reaction within the sun had the mass shifting through hues towards Gideon’s predicted whitish-blue. She settled in a spot she calculated would be a suitable ...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 456 - Measure up

Amdirlain’s PoV - Nepal Mountains

With their return to the suite, Klipyl fixed Amdirlain with a worried look. “I updated Ebusuku on what happened. She’s worried about you, so if you’ve got anything I can share with h...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 455 - Back to you

Amdirlain’s PoV - Nepal Mountains

For five days, Amdirlain constantly sang; in her lightning-fast perception, she combated the gnawing pain with music for an agonising eternity. Sarah hadn’t left once but remained standi...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 454 - Pressure point

Amdirlain’s PoV - Nepal Mountains - White Tiger’s Claw Sky Keep

On the second morning of the junior tier matches, Klipyl sat beside Amdirlain in their section in the upper stands. Jinfeng was below, meeting with other me...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 453 - Come on now

Amdirlain’s PoV - Nepal Mountains - Silver Lake

The morning after the senior students' ranking wrapped up, they divided the arena floor into ten large circles spread out along its length. Their formation was a staggered pa...

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Re: Hell's Songbird - 2

This time, the changed scene is outwardly more congenial, yet it rings with a thousand malicious tones that scream through my bones and stick their tongues into my ears. As they slime over my eardrums, I clamp my palms to my temples, pressing to k...

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452 - Am I wrong

Amdirlain’s PoV - Nepal Mountains - White Tiger’s Claw Sky Keep

None of the newly passed students were in sight when the afternoon rounds started. The afternoon’s combat still showed minimal Ki use; the most common sig...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 451 - Pay the price

Amdirlain’s PoV - Nepal Mountains

When Amdirlain and Jinfeng returned to the inn, Sarah spilled the news of the Grandmaster’s plan to include Amdirlain in the tournament.

“Oh, really?” purred Amdirlain. “This...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 450 - Plans

Amdirlain’s PoV - Nepal Mountains

Amdirlain had settled down to relax with her scrolls, but her renewed leisure time was brief. A half-hour had passed when she felt Sarah and Kadaklan returning through the mental link, and...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 449 - Bridges you burned

Amdirlain’s PoV - West Wind’s Kingdom

As they moved away from the kingdom’s edge, the villages became more settled towns with well-equipped guards, regular patrols, and sturdy bridges over the broader rivers. When spri...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 448 - Simple life

Amdirlain’s PoV - Northwest India

As they trekked northwards, Amdirlain felt for minds nearby. Beside the buzz of the village thirty kilometres ahead, there were only a few hunters about, with both Human and non-Human mind...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 447 - New horizons

Amdirlain’s PoV - Barents Sea - North of the Russian plains

With the house packed up, they reappeared on the edge of the ice-covered sea, only to find a blizzard had erupted since their departure. Kadaklan wrapped his arms...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 446 - Vales of darkness

Amdirlain's PoV - Vehtë - Norway

The group fell into an easy routine of training and exploration, with a strange absence of White Dragon sightings that Sarah attributed to the change of seasons. Amdirlain allowed the others...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 445 - Summer days

Amdirlain’s PoV - Vehtë - Norway

When Amdirlain returned to the river bank where Sarah’s house had settled, she found Sarah clearing a swath of trees towards a rock face. The others were tending to the debris nearby and...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 444 - Man or a monster

Amdirlain’s PoV - Vehtë - Atlantic Ocean

Amdirlain stood looking over the barren rock beyond the dunes and hummed at the back of her throat. The dragons’ occupancy had probably lasted over a thousand years since they’...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 443 - Lazy days

Amdirlain’s PoV

Upon leaving the Lizardfolk village they’d restored, the group bypassed the other settlements on the peninsula and traced a route westward along the sea. Once they passed through the strait into the Atlan...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 442 - Tear you down

Amdirlain’s PoV - Mediterranean Sea - Italian peninsula

Amdirlain returned in time to see the first twenty villagers stir; groaning with fatigue, they looked about in confusion. As Dralic moved to reassure them, Klipyl beg...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 441 - Torn up

Amdirlain's PoV - Vehtë - Mediterranean

By the time Amdirlain returned from the ruined temple, Kadaklan had finished cleaning the filth from Jinfeng.

"One ruined underground temple complex cleared," said Amdirlain. "S...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 440 - Preception

Amdirlain’s PoV - Vehtë - Mediterranean Sea

The sea breeze from the Mediterranean brought with it the odour of dung fires from the Lizardfolk town. Its haze wafted across the ruin and mingled with the images her technique...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 439 - Vengeance

Amdirlain’s PoV - Vehtë - Greece

After the drama with Lutu and the gorgons, the next day’s trip along the coast proceeded with a suspenseful quiet. Kadaklan harvesting from bushes to test for alchemical properties made ...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 438 - Putting things in place

Amdirlain’s PoV - Vehtë - Mediterranean Sea

Hours had passed and, with the sunset, Sarah had called it a night to get some rest. The waxing moon was nearly full, illuminating the rough terrain, and Amdirlain sat on the fr...

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