A/N: Hehehehheehe THREE CHAPTERS IN A DAY!!!!! Worship me for I am a God(dess). This puts us 13 chapters ahead <3
Chapter Thirty-Six
To Fuel A Flame
Rise of Winter, Week 5, Day 5
Freddie listened when her Skill tried to show her a new attack. It didn’t always tell her something. No. It was as if it were a mentor that came in and out of existence. A tilt here, a shift there. It was a red overlay of her own body, f...
2025-05-24 22:23:46 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Two in one day?! Who am I?! Anyway, enjoy, this puts us TWELVE ahead. Please be sure to read CH 34 first.
Chapter Thirty-Five
Surprise
Rise of Winter, Week 5, Day 5
He’s on his way. Freddie felt tears prick at her eyes, and she roughly brushed them away before they could fall on their own.
He was still far. A week, maybe, depending on how fast he could trek through Nemo to the dungeon entra...
2025-05-24 18:29:34 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: We are finally over halfway to my goal of 21 chapters ahead on patreon---that means we're 11 chapters ahead here!!!! enjoyyyyy
Chapter Thirty-Four
Flours For The Deceased
Rise of Winter, Week 5, Day 4
Sweat. When Freddie came out of her rage, that was the first thing she noticed. She was sweaty. The fire encasing her fists made her feel hot.
It was an odd sensation, and it wasn’t the first time she...
2025-05-24 12:41:35 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: HAHAHHAHAHA How do we like the adventure so far? I'm putting up CH 24.5 on RR now, so if you go and leave a comment I'll love you 5ever!!!
Chapter Thirty-Three
Milling About
Rise of Winter, Week 5, Day 4
The goblin made it another three hits.
Freddie watched as its body dissolved into the miasma, her eyes heated. Around her, there were bags and barrels and boxes of the Listrain wheat. So much, Freddie...
2025-05-23 16:11:30 +0000 UTC View PostHello!!! Today is the day A Burned Heart comes back to Royal Road!!!
While I didn't get quite to the 14 advanced chapters I planned for, I DID get to 10!!! Which is very exciting!!! I will continue to up the amount of chapters as often as possible. This means I'm trying reallllll hard to get to 21 within the next few weeks so I can have a backlog to Patreon.
This also means that sometimes I'll have to revise the patreon chapters content --like with CH 30 of ABH. When this happens...
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Chapter Thirty-Two
Battle Madness
Rise of Winter, Week 5, Day 4
Freddie rounded the corner without fire and brimstone. Instead, she stalked up to the first Red Goblin and lunged, crushing its windpipe and throwing it to the side before either of the creatures even realized she was there. It slammed into one of three pillars that decorated the roo...
2025-05-23 00:29:05 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: And we've got another OW!!! Please enjoy!!!!
Chapter One Hundred Eleven
Avoidance
Fall of Autumn, Week 5, Day 2
It was a small blessing that I was near to Uriel, because every time Master Kroll looked at us, Uriel’s glare sent him elsewhere for a question. When the time came for class to end, I realized I hadn’t really learned anything of value at all.
These classes are so stupid! I groan...
2025-05-21 22:34:56 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: REMINDER!!!!! I updated CH 30's ending!! Please re-read!!! It's only the last 150 words or so. This puts us at 9 ahead of RR
Chapter Thirty-One
Hit Rate
Rise of Winter, Week 5, Day 4
Stretching her stiff limbs, Freddie leaned forward. There was no time to dwell. When Tiltham and her grandfather came for her, Freddie would lose access to the dungeon.
That was how she decided to think of it—as taking Scylla...
2025-05-21 00:43:04 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: It's short but it's an interlude so alas. It is as it should be.
Interlude Four
To Call Order
Rise of Winter, Week 5, Day 4
Duke Nemo was outraged. It had taken the better part of an hour to explain to Queen Esther what he needed and why, then another several hours to call in favors to Duke Umbra and Duchess Poplar. The Duchess Dawn was useless in this endeavor, as she always was. But the Duke of Dawn owed him gr...
2025-05-18 23:20:10 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: UPDATED ENDING PLEASE REREAD LAST 200 WORDS AS OF 5/20/25 4:50 PM EST
Chapter Thirty
Alone and Lonely
Rise of Winter, Week 5, Day 4
Feeling the cold blade across her skin, Freddie refused to flinch. Instead, she decided [Quick Fight] was worth the mana cost. Activating the Skill, Freddie felt the blade sank into the flesh of her neck and she realized something very important.
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A/N: HAHAHHAHA now we're 6 chapters ahead of RR. Goal is to get 8 more up before launch, then get to 21 total by June 1st.
Chapter Twenty-Nine
To Have A Need Met
Rise of Winter, Week 5, Day 4
A shiver went up Freddie’s spine, a breeze brushed her nose, and the whirr of a machine clicked in her ears.
Freezing, Freddie held her breath.
Don’t look, don’t look, don’t—ah, crap. F...
2025-05-17 01:23:06 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: AND WE'RE BACK BABES!!!
Chapter Twenty-Eight
To Listen To A Mentor Long Lost
Rise of Winter, Week 5, Day 4
Freddie knew she should have stopped, should have crawled under the table and taken a nap, or used [Meditate]. She should have recovered. But, she wasn’t drained fully yet. She had enough mana to get through one of the Vanda Vines, of which there were only two.
She’d have to make a d...
2025-05-16 01:38:21 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Tomorrow the first of the new patreon chapters drops for A Burned Heart tomorrow night!! Away we gooooooooo~~~
Chapter One Hundred Ten
Shadow Puppets Ease The Soul
Fall of Autumn, Week 5, Day 2
“Neat,” I said to no one, putting in the rest of the coins.
Finally, some magic at the Magic Tower.
I looked around, tucking the small velvet coin purse into the bag on my hip. Sir Neil would ha...
2025-05-14 23:28:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Seven
A Feast
Rise of Winter, Week 5, Day 4
Freddie dismissed the golden notice and focused on where the goblins had seemingly been coming from. There was a long table pushed up against the room's far wall, decorated with a tattered tablecloth in a grimy grey color. At the center of the table was a single chair —and a plate of what looked to be food. Sort of. It held some kind of burnt sausage, porridge, and a grey piece of wh...
2025-05-10 14:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Six
The Welcoming Committee
Rise of Winter, Week 5, Day 4
Freddie ducked down and wrapped her hand around the arrow shaft, pulling forcefully. With a grotesque rip, the arrow came out of her skin. It had only sunk in a bit, but it was enough to leave a bleeding gash. Freddie could feel her passive regeneration working on it, but it didn’t stop her from empowering the Skill and rushing the healing along.
She had no desire...
2025-05-10 14:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostA/n: The start of the dungeon dive <3
Chapter Twenty-Five
Trapped
Rise of Winter, Week 5, Day 4
An unnatural darkness surrounded Freddie, but it was only for a moment. Because as soon as it overcame her, it dispersed into the shadows of a poorly lit room.
Freddie, however, felt no better for the dim light that was coming from the portal before her. And, thus, she tried to run back through it. That was how dungeo...
2025-05-10 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostEDIT AS OF 1PM EST 5/10:25: Nora will still be posted every Wednesday, no changes there. Freddie will be regularly posted on Fridays, and she will get extra chapters until I’m at the full 21 ahead. It’s $5 additional to get two separate stories.
Hello hello!
I will be starting to post OW - A Burned Heart again on 5/23!! That means I've cleaned up the patreon tiers again. Now they're named Nora, Freddie, and Otherworldly Master Tier. You can look at them for what you w...
2025-05-10 13:58:46 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I knowwwww, it's short, but it's action packed <3
Prologue
Discord
Time Unknown
In a Domain between earth and sky, a woman stood. The furrow of her brow looked unnatural on her paper-white skin, so much like porcelain that the rolling skin was out of place. The woman’s straw-colored hair flowed around her in a frenzy, the wind whipping it around in a mess. Her white robes flew in the wind as well. Her name was Frill,...
2025-05-10 13:55:00 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: GOOOOOOOOOOOOD Morningggggggggg!!! I have such a backlog (21 chapters!!!) I get ever closer to the elusive goal of 50. Wish me luck. A Burned Heart is re-starting soon (May 23rd) and I'll be setting up two new tiers. One for ABH alone, and one for ASA+ABH. That means I'm gonna have to change the name's of the tiers again sorry about that!!!!
Chapter One Hundred Nine
To Find Yourself Wanting
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Interlude 7
The Queen’s Road
Fall of Autumn, Week 5, Day 2
“You will be leaving for the Callistan Empire at the end of Winter,” Mallorica said it offhandedly as if Theo had no say in it. As if he were merely a pawn for her to control.
A God will descend before I willingly go to that barbaric empire.
Theo was about to say as much, about to tell his mother what he really thought of this order. Of her ever entertaining ...
2025-04-30 22:19:58 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Fun announcement! I spent this weekend recording book 1's audiobook!!! In my own voice!!! While I'm not a professional voice actor, I think it'll still be fun :) Release is set for a month or so away!
Chapter One Hundred Eight
The Light of Compassion So True
Fall of Autumn, Week 5, Day 2
The joy of Vitality is easy to see. Despite only getting a few hours, there were no bags under my eyes. No tightness in my musc...
2025-04-23 20:31:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter One Hundred Seven
Finding Yourself In A Bind
Fall of Autumn, Week 5, Day 1
After Effy left, it was just Gristle and I standing silently in the sitting room.
“I broke a window,” I said abruptly, unsure of how else to bring it up.
“I’ll call an artisan to have it fixed, my Lady.” He said simply.
“I told Ridan this is how you would be.” I half-huffed a lau...
2025-04-17 01:03:21 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: We grow ever closer to the end of Book 3. Are you ready for what's to come? Prepared for what our heroine shall face?
Chapter One Hundred Six
Followed By A Sweet Medicine
Fall of Autumn, Week 5, Day 1
“Effy!” I said as the woman reached me, wrapping me in a hug, her silver robes swaying with her movements yet still constrained by the white chains denoting her status as a priestess.
Her pale blue ...
2025-04-10 01:26:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter One Hundred Five
To Drink A Bitter Tea
Fall of Autumn, Week 5, Day 1
Ridan stood stock still in the aftermath of Frill’s descent, unmoving even as his bangs fell away —cut by an unseen blade. I knew, then, that he was doing something. I could feel his mana in the air, taste it on my tongue, the bitter taste of a stranger’s magic. [Mana Sense] had become so ingrained into my passive perception that I ha...
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Chapter One Hundred Four
A Classical Education
Fall of Autumn, Week 5, Day 1
I would be lying if I said I didn’t have expectations about what Captain Ridan would look like, but it was sure as day he defied them. I had been imagining a tall, burly man, like Oberon. Not necessarily bald, but with hair cropped short. And I had definitely expect...
2025-03-26 21:09:10 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: No one make fun of me for this chapter, I did my best to make it fun and understandable for everyone lol
Chapter One Hundred Three
Mental Gymnastics Are For The Mentally Unwell
Fall of Autumn, Week 5, Day 1
Noir toddled along behind me, running as fast as he could and throwing in a cartwheel here and there. Haze matched his speed, filled with Adventurer's enthusiasm, and Shade had somehow...
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2025-03-17 17:00:48 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude 6
To Cross A Wintery Divide
Fall of Autumn, Week 4, Day 7
Down the rough roads to Ugar, there were no horses tromping, no armors clanking. All the movement that existed was the gentle falling of snow, slowly accumulating atop the pressed dirt and piling on the leafless branches.
In the village center, there were two boys running toward each other —wooden swords aimed and ready to hit. Off to the side was a girl, watching the boys b...
2025-03-12 22:52:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Pretty please consider buying ABH in pre-order!! It comes out the 17th!! And it's fully edited and formatted soooooo good!!!
2025-03-09 15:34:30 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: OH MY GOD I HAVE A BACKLOG!!!! Of not only one or two BUT THREE CHAPTERS!!! If I can get my backlog big enough, I'll start posting some extra chapters to make up for the 10 weeks I missed in the fall :)
Chapter One Hundred Two
To Forget The World Turns Unwatched
Fall of Autumn, Week 5, Day 1
The rest of class was uneventful and mainly included me rushing out the door as soon as I dropped my training daggers into ...
2025-03-05 23:48:02 +0000 UTC View Post