posts updated! mar 18 2025
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2025-03-18 16:27:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Renea did a double take. “What? Ele—that makes no sense! Then she’d be at least—”
“Three hundred years old. Right. Pull out the perspective finder,” Ailn said. Then, after a moment, he turned to Ellen. “It was a little obvious when you showed up this morning with a hat.”
Fumbling with her cloak, Renea finally produced the perspective finder. Her eyes flickered with curiosity, but it faded into guilt as she noticed Ellen still wearing the hat. She glanced back and...
2025-03-18 16:26:18 +0000 UTC View PostHope you guys enjoy. Thank you for your patience with my small slipup in scheduling last week. The Sussuro arc is heating up!
2025-03-16 11:58:47 +0000 UTC View PostAfter she’d spent some time admiring Noué’s portrait at the count’s estate, Ellen began to feel uneasy. Not only had the count returned—so had his daughter. Yet the duke and his sister were still in Aakdrift.
“The duke sends his apologies that you’ve been left waiting, and is uncertain when he’ll return,” a butler had informed her. “Count Fleuve also wishes to let you know a room has been prepared for you, should you choose to stay the night at the estate, Miss Lirath...
2025-03-16 11:57:07 +0000 UTC View PostI accidentally double released on Royal Road so I'm releasing a chap today to keep the chapter gap the same lol. Hope you guys enjoy!
Note: Because of the accidental double post, I'll probably skip the usual Thursday release. So basically it's just getting 81 a day early.
2025-03-12 15:10:17 +0000 UTC View PostAiln and Safi on one side, Renea and Conrad on the other—two small worlds coexisted on the shoal, the first imperfectly shielded from the second.
“Safi, you know it’s…” Ailn sighed. “Don’t you think it’s time to start letting people back into your world?”
The typically easy-going girl now fixed on him with a glare. At first full of indignation, her eyes then started to brim with tears.
“I never pushed them out!” Safi raised her voice. She pointed ...
2025-03-12 15:06:42 +0000 UTC View PostHope you guys enjoy! Worth noting here, I didn't get any comments on my post if you guys were interested in me making a table of contents, or collections, etc. It does make some sense because everyone is the highest tier atm, so presumably it's not so hard to navigate. So for now I'll just assume everything's hunky dorey. But please, if there's anything you'd like me to do just let me know! Either here in the comments, or DM me, or in the discord!
2025-03-11 16:13:56 +0000 UTC View PostIn her past life, Safi was always at the margins. When she’d been in school, she always found a desk in the corner. When she got a job, she always went home straight after work. No one ever talked to her, and she never bothered anyone.
But that didn’t stop them from talking about her; it didn’t keep their looks of conceited repulsion away.
If there was only one thing she’d ever learned, it was this: totem poles work best when there’s someone at the bottom. Every cl...
2025-03-11 16:10:56 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks. I just realized that it might be a little hard to navigate the patreon for chapters. Would any of the things in the post title help you guys out? Which would you prefer? (Or would you want all these things?) Please let me know in the comments! Sorry if anyone has had any trouble with this up to this point!
2025-03-10 14:51:50 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time they’d plodded their way back to the oxbow pond, Safi was gone, along with whoever, or whatever, she’d been speaking to.
There was nothing left to do but return to the count’s estate. All four of them were exhausted and soaked to the bone. Sussuro was warmer than Varant, but still quite chilly at night; staying in Aakdrift, wet as they were, was a recipe for disaster.
That night, Safi did not return.
They waited until morning on the terrace that frame...
2025-03-09 15:28:51 +0000 UTC View PostIt was clear the situation called for a mage of the highest possible caliber. Ailn’s first instinct had proven false: he’d guessed the contents of the obsidian jar had the strongest effect on individuals with strong holy aura or mana.
Given Renea’s severe reaction, that clearly wasn’t the case. Her experiment also seemed to rule out reincarnators having a natural resistance to the shadowy substance—unless that resistance required having current possession of jeweled eyes...
2025-03-06 15:50:10 +0000 UTC View PostEarlier that day, Ailn had presented Kylian with a nigh-impossible task. At least, impossible with the little time they had.
He wanted Kylian to find Noué’s real childhood home.
“It can’t be done. That’s absurd,” Kylian had said, as the two had met at dawn. “There is no certainty that Sussuro is even her true hometown.”
They were outside the Fleuve estate’s dining hall waiting for it to open. Even here, the estate showed its hospitality. Plentiful ston...
2025-03-04 12:39:13 +0000 UTC View PostContrary to Ailn’s expectations, the next morning Renea seemed perfectly fine—in an awfully pleasant mood even, once she overcame her grouchiness at being awakened so early.
“You’re not scared that they were trying to kidnap you specifically?” Ailn asked.
Renea bit her thumb anxiously, then shrugged. “Does it matter? They’d intended to slaughter everyone else.” Her eyes narrowed, and she looked off to the side glaring at nothing in particular. “I refu...
2025-03-02 15:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostHope you guys enjoy! We've officially arrived in Sussuro.
2025-02-27 15:02:39 +0000 UTC View PostSussuro always carried a gentle murmur, like a sleepy child whispering in your ear about their day. A slow-moving river, the sounds of the Sussurokawa were soft, and the cityfolk matched its easy pace.
Cobblestone paths meandered through Sussuro’s streets, seemingly in no hurry to get anywhere, while colorful timber houses dotted themselves right up to the river’s banks. Dusk was beginning to fall, and the bluegrass blanketing the ground took on a silvery hue which reflected t...
2025-02-27 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Sussuro, Sussuro…” Sir Dartune muttered. “To think I should ever find myself back.”
“Bad experience?” Ailn asked.
“Correct,” Dartune said. “I grew up there.”
Sussuro was five days’ ride along a tributary from Varant, which led into the city’s namesake river: Sussurokawa. They’d already traveled for three days.
The bloom of spring and their southward journey brought the warmest weather Ailn had felt since arriving in this world. ...
2025-02-25 14:23:42 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a few days in the infirmary before Ceric was in reasonable shape. His ordeal in the catacombs had taken its toll on his body, and after he’d been properly hydrated and fed easy-to-digest foods, he spent most of his time sleeping.
Ailn owed him a considerable debt—and so did the city of Varant. Ceric had chanced upon something sinister in those catacombs. The exact nature of what he found, they still didn’t know, but the possibilities ran from grim to dire. Someone had mana...
2025-02-23 16:30:04 +0000 UTC View Postdoing an all nighter tonight so early release! didn't want to forget later in the morning haha. hope you enjoy!
2025-02-20 09:24:22 +0000 UTC View PostSir Aldous Ferme was executed unceremoniously on the third day of the second month of the hundred and tenth year of the imperial calendar, hung—ironically—in the very courtyard where he had perpetrated his crime, assaulting Ailn and ‘nearly’ killing the young noble.
Only a handful of knights were there, to inform him of the crime for which he would be hanged, to assure him that his further fate and judgment were now in the hands of God, and to ask the fallen knight if he h...
2025-02-20 09:22:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe graph had too many points, and connecting the dots didn’t seem to make a picture. Trying to tie everything into one neat little bow was a mug’s game. Ailn knew that. And yet, there was enough that was suggestive to keep his mind fixated on it.
There was Sir Envont, cryptically goading Aldous into a revenge plot before disappearing.
There was a mysterious masked woman, who tried to use Dahlia and Tuckerson as tools to rob the cathedral.
Then there was the ...
2025-02-18 13:33:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapters are out a little early today since I'm about to board a plane. Hope you guys enjoy!
2025-02-15 23:27:20 +0000 UTC View PostThere wasn’t much to begin with, and it was a snack chosen with care. Still, Renea found herself mindlessly twirling her spoon, letting it clang against the rim of the brass dish.
Ailn, not even pretending to work, raised an eyebrow. “I thought you liked yogurt with honey,” he said.
“I do,” Renea replied, raising the dish to eye-level and admiring the ornate snowflakes embossed into the metal. When she was Saintess apparent, she’d dined with fancy silverware all ...
2025-02-15 23:25:14 +0000 UTC View Post