Hey guys!
As mentioned, during this hiatus I'm doing an AMA to tide you guys over and give back to my lovely community of readers.
I will answer questions next Thursday, May 1, from 12:00 to 3:00pm UTC-6. To give more people a chanc...
Siobhan
Month 9, Day 23, Thursday 3:00 p.m.
It took a couple days of preparation before Siobhan felt safe enough to attempt the crown of madness. Most of that time was spent waiting for Oliver’s contacts to give them some porta...
2025-04-08 01:23:38 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 9, Day 20, Monday 11:00 p.m.
After Analyst Hite let her go and the rain stopped, Siobhan did not go back to Liza’s. Instead, she turned around and headed for one of the few dozen places across the city that she kn...
2025-04-06 23:56:05 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 9, Day 20, Monday 10:40 p.m.
‘Is that even Liza with the light on in her apartment, or was it one of them, waiting for me?’ Siobhan wondered. She closed her eyes and listened to the crashing noise of th...
2025-04-06 00:02:08 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 9, Day 16, Friday 2:00 p.m.
The next day, Sebastien left the Order’s headquarters. Damien and Deidre had argued with increasing passion about who she should stay with until she put her foot down and picked Damien. In ...
2025-04-03 23:47:48 +0000 UTC View PostOliver
Month 9, Day 17, Friday 6:00 p.m.
Oliver slowed his horse to a walk as he approached Gilbratha’s north-western entrance tunnel. The line was long, and as the tunnel itself was fairly narrow, moving slowly. But it was still eas...
2025-03-27 23:35:49 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 9, Day 12, Sunday
The process of sewing her mind back together was painful, precarious, and exhausting. Once Sebastien had started, the smooth edges of the memetic surgery wound in her mind were left frayed. They would...
2025-03-20 22:38:56 +0000 UTC View PostDamien
Month 9, Day 12, Sunday 9:00 a.m.
Damien worked with Ana to shove Sebastien’s somewhat larger frame into the stranger’s carriage, and all three of them climbed in after him. “It is Will-strain,” he admitted, his heart ac...
2025-03-14 00:36:25 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 9, Day 12, Sunday 7:00 a.m.
Siobhan woke to a mind—a self—tearing itself in two.
Most of her remembered coming to wait for Thaddeus, hoping to discuss the situation with the emergency shelters that had bec...
2025-03-07 00:43:49 +0000 UTC View PostThaddeus
Month 9, Day 12, Sunday 4:00 a.m.
Thaddeus panicked for a moment when Siobhan seemingly threw herself to her death. Despite knowing that she was a powerful thaumaturge, some instincts were hard to break.
Soon after...
2025-03-01 01:41:21 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Note 2/27/25: You may notice the chapter numbering has changed. I originally wanted to put an Interlude at this point in the story, but then decided there wasn’t enough content for a full chapter, since I wanted the contents of “The Dar...
2025-02-28 03:35:08 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 9, Day 12, Sunday 3:50 a.m.
On the other side of the strange cloak-window to elsewhere, Siobhan climbed to her feet. Everything was deeply, existentially wrong, and she had opened her mouth to scream out in pain and fear ...
2025-02-21 02:18:49 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 9, Day 12, Sunday 3:45 a.m.
Siobhan raised her right hand with the palm outward as shadow coated the appendage like a liquid. While Thaddeus’s attention was drawn to this seeming attack, her other hand reached into her ...
2025-02-14 02:14:37 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 9, Day 12, Sunday 3:25 a.m.
Siobhan turned to run, and Thaddeus sprinted after her. As she had guessed before, he was quicker. His legs were longer, and each step propelled him forward with more strength. She managed to g...
2025-02-07 00:35:10 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 9, Day 12, Sunday 3:15 a.m.
‘The question I asked is not allowed,’ Siobhan thought as she raced into the darkness. She fumbled the light coaster out and used it to shine the way, confident that Thaddeus could...
2025-01-31 01:22:48 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 9, Day 12, Sunday 3:00 a.m.
For some reason, Siobhan couldn’t force her mouth to form the words of the question she really wanted to ask. Instead, she said, “Thaddeus, you are a special agen...
2025-01-24 02:07:36 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys,
I have been extremely ill, and even now barely have the energy to sit here typing this note. There won't be a chapter this Thursday, and probably not next Thursday, either. I'm just too sick to write.
This setback comes at a ...
2025-01-08 18:05:38 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 9, Day 12, Sunday 1:00 a.m.
Siobhan stopped on the wide street in front of the canal entrance through the northern white cliffs and looked around for anyone out late enough to notice her.
Pain pri...
2025-01-03 01:05:38 +0000 UTC View PostDamien
Month 9, Day 11, Saturday 11:15 a.m.
Damien picked up a paper from a scruffy-looking boy hawking at the corner, but refused the follow up attempt to cell him “high quality” foreign cigars. Damien didn’t consid...
2024-12-27 23:38:02 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Note 12/26: As I somewhat anticipated and mentioned the chapter before last, holiday gatherings have taken the place of my writing time this week. I still managed to write most of the chapter but it needs an ending and some edits. It should...
2024-12-20 01:58:09 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 9, Day 11, Saturday 1:00 a.m.
Siobhan returned to her forbidden research on shamanry, where she was systematically working her way through all the texts she could find that dealt with the subject. She still f...
2024-12-17 00:46:47 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 9, Day 8, Wednesday 9:00 p.m.
Siobhan—disguised as yet another alternate version of her female form—took a rather nice carriage from Liza’s to the Undreaming Order headquarters. It cost a couple of extr...
2024-12-06 02:41:41 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 9, Day 6, Monday 3:00 a.m.
Siobhan looked back to the tasteful nude of her other form drawn in Myrddin’s journal. “It does look a little like him,” she admitted, trying to keep her voice from cra...
2024-11-30 00:47:44 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 9, Day 5, Sunday 10:00 a.m.
Sebastien wasted no time sitting down to review the modifications Liza had made to the sleep-proxy spell. She closed her eyes and ran through the whole solo casting process in he...
2024-11-22 02:29:35 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 9, Day 4, Saturday 2:00 a.m.
After their end-of-term celebratory dinner, Sebastien herded and packed her drunk companions into carriages headed for their respective homes, then took a couple of hours to safel...
2024-11-15 02:35:45 +0000 UTC View PostGera
Month 9, Day 4, Saturday 8:00 a.m.
Gera’s constantly running divination took in the others sitting at the round table they had set up in the center of the Undreaming Order’s second floor. Deidre, Anders with his d...
2024-11-08 02:23:11 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor Note: I added a few hundred words of duel preparation to the previous chapter when a reader comment reminded me I'd forgotten to mention some important things. I hope you won't mind too much that this happens as you guys are reading my firs...
2024-11-01 01:23:07 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 9, Day 3, Friday 2:15 p.m.
Sebastien felt like the world was spinning around her. She wanted to rest her head on her knees while things settled, but instead looked desperately between Professor Lacer and th...
2024-10-25 00:14:39 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 9, Day 3, Friday 1:40 p.m.
Sebastien and her friends arrived at their reserved seats in the temporary amphitheatre, a grand structure of white stone drawn up from the ground for the huge crowds that came to...
2024-10-18 01:02:25 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 9, Day 1, Wednesday 2:00 p.m.
Wednesday afternoon, while she and her friends were hanging about, Sebastien was asked to fill in for a third exhibition, this time for Natural Science. This time, they gave he...
2024-10-11 00:54:25 +0000 UTC View Post