"My uncle would always complain that admiral's quarters on bigger ships were too lavish for his tastes," Silgvani mused as she entered the decorated room, still getting supported by the doctor. Once inside, the soldier who had led them here bowed and left them alone.
"I'm fine again, Doctor," she insisted as she walked towards the couch, but noticed that the doctor was instead trying to guide her to the bed.
"One symptom respiting is not the same as "being fine". You were under st...
2023-10-22 22:41:22 +0000 UTC
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The sound of her steps on the metal floor echoed through the empty hallway of the Star Treader, as Doctor Githaiy made her way towards the medical bay. They were about to reach the final hyperlane of their journey, and she had hoped to get a night's worth of sleep before they arrived at their homeworld. When a call from Her Highness, Princess Silgnvani had ended that hope, she at first had expected some form of a medical issue.
Of all the inhabited planets in alliance territory...
2023-10-20 23:39:12 +0000 UTC
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"Jump completed, Admiral."
"Confirm targets! Battle stations, fire at will!" Mirtan shouted. This first step had to go fast. And while the Unifier was a carrier, it wasn't exactly lacking in terms of guns. However, the answer he received through the speaker wasn't what he had expected.
"...there are no targets, Admiral."
"Then close the gap and get them in range, quickly!"
"No, Admiral, I didn't mean the targets aren't in range. I meant that there...
2023-10-07 11:22:18 +0000 UTC
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The tension on board was almost tangible. After half a day past the hyperlane, Githaiy had decided to retreat to the medical bay. There already were more than enough pairs of eyes drilling metaphorical holes into the backs of the poor pilots, who themselves couldn't do more than fly full speed ahead. And she wasn't needed on the bridge right now in the first place, so rather than contributing to the suffocating silence, she would rather be silent on her own. Not to mention that a thorough che...
2023-10-07 11:20:58 +0000 UTC
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Kykla looked around. Nothing. Just as always. From behind the glass, she could see into the opposing row of cells, but no one was there. Not that she expected there to be, it had primarily been an act of boredom. Besides praying, it was more or less the only thing she could do down here.
She wasn't exactly sure for how many days she had been down here. She could've counted the number of times she was brought food for reference, but she honestly didn't care. Her life was over, she was we...
2023-10-07 11:19:38 +0000 UTC
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49th Day after my arrival
Dear Diary,
Today *is the day I will meet other*, I’m going to meet with clan Silpiyne. The translator translated their rank as “Count”, no idea how accurate that is. I have no idea how our noble titles worked back when they were anything other than fancy add-ons to the name. But apparently, they are about the low...
2023-10-07 11:18:14 +0000 UTC
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Silgvani leaned back as she watched the servants disassemble their temporary desks in her quarters. They were finally done with the… “crunch time”, as Nadine had called it. Her work wasn’t done by any means, but the rest she could manage by herself, even if her capacity was still reduced. Walking also had started to get easier for her, and over short distances, she no longer needed someone to lean on. According to the doctor, she wouldn’t fully recover until her next molting cycle ...
2023-10-07 11:11:08 +0000 UTC
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“Doc,” the soft voice of the alien girl addressed Githaiy. “I told you about the role alcohol – sorry, ethanol – has in human society, yes?”
“You did,” the doctor affirmed, currently writing down the results of her examination. The princess's health was steadily getting better, but full recovery was not yet in sight. That didn’t stop her from getting back to work though.
Said princess was currently sitting upright in her bed, which had been equipped to provide a ...
2023-10-07 11:06:32 +0000 UTC
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With a sound of relief, Silgvani sank into the soft chair in her room. Even if it had gone over comparatively quickly considering how politically charged this case was, it had still been quite exhausting for her. Her recovery wasn’t nearly at the point she would’ve liked, but she knew that was unrealistic to expect that after just a couple of days. According to the doctor, the fact that she could already walk a bit was above expectation. Just how long would it take until she could operate...
2023-10-07 11:02:53 +0000 UTC
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Can't cross out text here, so *text written like this* is supposed to be crossed out
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31st day after my arrival
Dear Diary,
*it is now* going by Earth’s calendar, I now would’ve spent an entire month on Hohmiy. Although the days here are slightly longer, so I guess it’s actually a bit more than that. Either way, it certainly was an eventful month “month”. Over the last “week”, t...
2023-10-07 10:58:25 +0000 UTC
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The light coming off of the nearby twin star formation dimly illuminated the left half of Krndl’s face, as she leisurely sat in her chair in captain’s quarter. One of the few places on the Hunter where she wasn’t one step away from an anxiety attack. The Hunter was a light cruiser, currently leading a destroyer flotilla on route patrol around the Bridgeway. This piece of space was called such because nothing was here. It simply was the shortest path between two disconn...
2023-10-07 10:53:23 +0000 UTC
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For the record, "earlier on Patreon" was not supposed to mean, "the normal time now on Patreon and on Reddit even later than usual". The last week was unfortunately pretty stressful, I'll do my best to have the next one done sooner!
I'll also upload the rest of book 2 just so the collection is complete, and then start uploading book 1 with the slightly reworked early chapters.
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"Wait... are you seriously telling us that Humans found a w...
2023-10-05 21:37:55 +0000 UTC
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