Electra Rose

The Lilliad 38

CHAPTER 38

Waves, waves of the dead crashed on them. His world reduced to the current opponent and situational awareness of the next danger coming up fast. He was just endlessly swinging, stabbing, forcing his sword to cut through the cold meat and stubborn ligaments of every thing that wanted him dead.

His arms were heavy and his fingers were going numb. Arelt pushed through, aware that he couldn’t afford to take a break.

The smell was terrible, far worse than a battle sh...

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Arelt trudged along, blistered feet tremendously pained inside his heavy boots.

‘I wonder if Benk thinks as I do.’

The back of his partner’s head gave no information. Benk was staying close to Igni, who apparently liked the sorceress.

‘This woman is trouble. A fanatic, with power, and either a terrible sense of humor or a willingness to escalate things in order to hurt her enemies…’

It was impossible to know if finishing this quest would b...

Good news! About posting

The next chapter of AIC is being checked and edited, you’ll see it here within 24 hours. Also look for 2 updates of The Lilliad.

In May, if I can pull it off, I’ll be posting something experimental. I want to write an original story and give readers the option to plug in the names and pronouns that they want the two main characters to have. It is a little romance story.

Other projects I hope to move on are The Pass Phrase and Wolf Moon. Please let me know in the comments if yo...

The Pass Phrase 7

CHAPTER 7

BOARDED AT SCHOOL

Little stood in a parlour, waiting next to a trunk that was apparently hers now. It was full of clothes and paraphernalia that she hadn’t had time to look through yet. On the other side of a glass door, Mrs. Winters was talking with a tremulously elderly woman in all black clothing, with tiny glasses and tightly curled white hair.

She couldn’t hear them, even though they were very close. The instant the door had shut, their voices had complete...

Shisui/Aiko oneshot

Absurd and random, I know, but this is from a setting where she’s born 5 years before Naruto.

Xxx

“Uzumaki-san.” Shisui had to stop and suck in a steadying breath. They could afford a few seconds to plan, they had gotten far enough away. He pushed through the pain boring into his skull as his stomach lurched. He could tell that she was looking at him. He managed a grin and looked up at her. “Would you consider taking a break from being the most fright...

The Pass Phrase 7

Little stood in a parlour, waiting next to a trunk that was apparently hers now. It was full of clothes and paraphernalia that she hadn’t had time to look through yet. On the other side of a glass door, Mrs. Winters was talking with a tremulously elderly woman in all black clothing, with tiny glasses and tightly curled white hair.

She couldn’t hear them, even though they were very close. The instant the door had shut, their voices had completely cut off.

‘Magic,’ ...

Wolf Moon 4

CHAPTER 4

in which Yué suspects her best plan needs workshopping. Written because I need some serotonin, things are not going to plan lately. 

The most obvious answer for avoiding Hahn and his necklace was not to go near him. That was a good basis for a plan, but it was significantly complicated by the fact that he’d be looking for her.

Yué stayed in bed late, looking at her ceiling. She had heard her father lea...

Sketch of Little

Little in her borrowed orange dress, realizing she is out of her depth.

Objectively I am not good at drawing people, my one artistic ability is painting on skin. But I offer this anyway, in case someone would like to know what she looks like.

The Pass Phrase ch 6

CHAPTER 6

charity

The library was an open, airy room, with a scattering of chairs. A cart with an assortment of strangely shaped bottles rested to the right of where Mr. Pine was seated. He didn’t look at her when she entered the room.

Mrs. Winter made an approving sound and lifted her glass of a pitch black liquid. “Much better,” she said, eyeing Nova up and down. “Brother, doesn’t she look halfway to a member of society?”

Mr. Pine si...

The Pass Phrase chapter 5

The Dream

Little had to move fast to keep up, which was not what she expected. It was easy, though, because the crowd parted in front of the lady of the manor. She stopped in uncertainty when they reached a carriage and the lady stepped up inside.

The lady fixed Little with a yellow stare. “Keep up,” she said mildly.

Little blinked, and the lady’s eyes were green again. She managed a little bow and stepped up into the carriage. She hesitated for a moment, and then sett...

Wolf Moon 3

It was a particularly cold morning. Yué regretfully pulled off her waterproof mittens and then the thin, soft gloves underneath. She winced at the air. She was in the living room attached to her personal suite. No one else used the room, so it hadn’t been warmed at all yet for the day. 

Her guard eyed this and stood up. “I’ll add a little more fuel.”

“Thank you,” she murmured, not watching as he crossed the room and fed the little fire.

This morning her gua...

Wolf Moon 2

“He’s handsome,” Aunna said under her breath. Her face was turned politely, modestly away, and she was so quiet that the two waterbenders at the back of the boat probably couldn’t hear the glee in her voice. “A southern tribesman! I’ve never met one. I heard he’s their Chief’s son.”

Yué nudged her childhood friend in the stomach, where the movement was hidden by her own robes. “Do you want to leave me and become a princess of the south?” She teased. “They don’...

Wolf Moon 1/?

Idk if anyone is interested but here is a brainworm I had for an SI in avatar, of all the things.

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The girl was born in a fabulous palace at the center of a wealthy city, with glittering walls that hid the yellow dance of sunlight on the waves. It was pale inside, and cold. Too cold. She was in fact born in the depths of winter, days before the wolf moon.

She was a very normal child, aside from the fact that she was born dying. Her parents prayed for days...

The Pass Phrase: Chapter 4

There was nowhere to run. Little felt calm. That wasn’t what she’d expected to feel when she was in this position. But she made direct eye contact with those yellow eyes and she knew she was about to die. It wasn’t a shock. On some level, she’d known this was coming. She’d known she was followed by something clever enough to stay hidden. It must have seen her come out of the tunnel passage and lazily hunted her all the way back.

Somehow, she knew all her options. She knew she ...

The Pass Phrase: Chapter 3

The next trip went perfectly smoothly. She delivered all of the walkers without any fuss or feeling that they were followed. Little felt very cheerful and comfortable on the way out of the church and to enjoy a few minutes at the market before she needed go eat lunch at the manor house.

A shiver traveled up her spine as passed underneath the shadow of the church spiral. Little shuddered and frowned. She looked around, but she didn’t know for what.

She had the oddest feeling that...

The Pass Phrase: Chapter 2

Little was the last to arrive. They had been arriving before her, staggering arrivals in order to slip unnoticed

She saw the baby’s mother immediately, a tired-eyed woman bouncing it on her shoulder. Little tapped the older woman and held out the now-dried herb. “Give this,” she murmured, indicating the baby. “It’ll keep her calm.”

The mother opened her mouth as if to question and then closed it just as quickly. That was the rule. The walkers weren’t customers. They ...

The Pass Phrase: Chapter 1

The clearing stank. It was heavily shadowed but she could just barely see the outline of a figure hanging down from the tree, abandoned like a broken toy. The other refugee was face up and gasping brokenly. His spine was bent so that his hips faced down.

Their guide was face down, still on the log she’d been trying to scramble over when caught from behind. But she was not dead. Not yet.

There was a gleeful, wicked laugh. The monster wheeled into the clearing and plunged its scyt...

An extremely accurate representation of Aiko writing process

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CZKY0amBWKa/?utm_medium=copy_link

i just wanted to show you all because I saw myself in this lady.

The Lilliad chapter 36

They followed Mairi out of her family’s grand estate. They walked and walked through the city. The sun reached its zenith and then began to set before the sorceress pointed a long elegant finger at a stone wall.

“...there?” Lilli glanced back. “It doesn’t look that old.”

“The mortar is quite neat,” Benk agreed. “There is no sign of the decay of time.”

“Yes, well.” Mairi examined her nail bed. “This wall is new. The old city just made everyone sad an...

The Lilliad ch 35

They wanted to go directly after traces of whatever magical catastrophe had happened in the city. Assuming that their scorpion informant was correct, there ought to be signs here.

“All of the city looks old,” Ser Alcuin said. They turned in an uncertain semicircle. “Elathor, do you know anything about the city?”

The wizard hummed.

Everyone waited.

Elathor glanced at them, frowned, and hummed again.

Lilli sighed. “We need to know which part is the old ci...

AIC teaser

For once, Sanbi was dead silent. Aiko wasn’t breathing. The light coming off the sun goddess was boring into her brain.

“Go into the Land of the Dead.” Amaterasu adjusted the long hem of her many layered kimono. “Bring back my mother, Izanami no Mikoto.”

...Aiko opened her mouth and then closed it just as fast. Wasn’t Izanami the ruling deity in Hell? Did she really need help? Or… Aiko felt a sinking feeling.

‘I’m not being asked to drag a Goddess somew...