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Warrior of the Void Book 1, Chapter 50

Muur opened her mouth, but no words would come out. For the first time in her Eorzean life, she was at a complete loss…

“From what thou hast said, I suspect that the entity that has aided thee hoped to ensnare thee through the third method.” The Warden meanwhile spoke with practiced disinterest as it took up its untouched cup and brought it to their face in order to take a deep breath of its aroma.

“With perhaps a touch of not wanting anyone else to eat her scaly ...

Warrior of the Void Book 1, Chapter 49

“Very well,” With a rapid flick of both their fingers and wrist, the talisman was sent spinning across the table. Each rotation moved its center of gravity just so that its course was curving at just the exact angle to make a lazy circle along the table’s entire edge, “Perhaps I ought to have prepared nourishments as well.”

“T’would appear we’ve not erred in entrusting our waking duties to our brothers,” Cocobuki quietly declared as he pulled his cup ...

Warrior of the Void Book 1, Chapter 48

Chapter 48

“Brothers, does the ‘how’ she became acquainted with The Archwarden of Nightmares Given Flesh truly matters so?” Cocobezi, who had joined them only a few minutes prior, drawled with naked amusement.

““Yes!”” Both of the other Cocos grumbled, for entirely different reasons. One argued that it was a deeply dangerous area of the Ossuary, and that anyone going there was at risk. While the other was more worried about the potential failings of the wards mea...

Warrior of the Void Book 1, Chapter 47

Groaning and blinking where she laid, Muur wasn’t greeted by what she’s expected. She wasn’t exactly sure what she’d thought it’d be, but it was not a tall sandstone ceiling and three privacy curtains surrounding the bed she was in. When had she–?

That simple question was cut short by a wave of pain-induced nausea. She felt horrible, and the sensation of her stomach jumping into her throat was the least of her worries. Her entire body was a nexus of sufferi...

Warrior of the Void Book 1, Chapter 46

Almost as if her shout was the cue they had been waiting for, the dozen of floating balls smashed into each other. A flash of dark-light and a rush of sand-laden air forced the adventurers to raise their arms to shield themselves, blinding them for a split second.

As soon as the moment had passed, they looked beyond their limb to see a black vortex hanging in the air. More darkness, more rot, spilled out of it in long ribbons, “Twelves preserve us…” From behind, the wayward noble ...

Turns out, it's for breakfast (2nd Umamusume snippet)

Waking up was a truly unpleasant thing for me today. For the last two hours, I'd flited in and out of consciousness. The bed was too hard, then it was too soft, the blankets were too warm, so I took them off. only to feel chilly and put them back on– and don't even get me started on the pillow! I missed my old, beat up one from home already– hopefully it wouldn't spend too long stuck in transit to Japan.

In the end though, it was my poor bladder screaming in protest that fo...

Warrior of the Void Book 1, Chapter 45

Faced with nearly half a dozen creatures bearing down on her, Muur and Lilira, Kofle tore her weapon out of its sheath– just in time to catch a glimpse of the kind of creatures they were facing. A shiver went down Kofle’s spine at the sight, a revulsion and hatred for their kind born of the hundreds of thousands that they slaughtered during The Fall.

A pair of wings as long as they were tall beat the air to keep them afloat. “Blanga!” She shouted with barely restrained bl...

Warrior of the Void Book 1, Chapter 44

“My thanks for the delivery,” The stationmaster, an elderly lalafell with the most exquisite facial hair, said with a chuckle, “Though I could have done without the ice water. They’ll not stop pestering me for an on-site thaumaturge for the next week or so I’d imagine. Papashan, stationmaster of this humbled Dispatch Yard at your service.”

“Oh, I’m sure there’s someone who can be sent here for a token fee to spread the good word, given some of the ‘luminarie...

Why are we here? Just to run? (Umamusume snippet)

One might think that being born as an umamusume is a peaceful world like this one. Where we are so beloved and appreciated by all, would mean an easy-ish life– not that I was implying the life of an uma was free of troubles, or strife. Just… not as bad as my other life.

"You there! What are you wearing?" Of course, I'd long learned that wasn't the case. Ever since I'd learned about the life I wasn't living, really.

Holding back a sigh, I turn to the person t...

Warrior of the Void Book 1, Chapter 43

Chapter 43:

“Well, you two seem to be havin’ a day,” Marching around a number of tables filled with rowdy miners and merchants, a comely lass brought the adventuring pair their meals.

“Don’t you know it,” Kofle grumbled as she accepted the bowl of carrot soup she’d ordered. As it turned out, it was more of a vegetable broth, thickened with stale bread, that had large carrot chucks swimming in it, “Our last job tried to underpay us, and I almost fell for it too.�...

Warrior of the Void Book 1, Chapter 42

‘Badly drawn chocobo’, as the cat woman had put it, was something of an understatement. The things were almost revolting to look at! First, while it was true that they had scales, what she hadn’t said was that these scales were coloured a poisonous violet and molted with large blobs of white– It kind of reminded Muur of her current hair troubles now that she looked at them.

Second, they actually had feathers! Too bad it just made them look worse. Now, ...

Warrior of the Void Book 1, Chapter 41

“I spy something that ends with D.” Her fellow passenger hummed as he scanned the landscape around the moving caravan.

“Huh, took you four rounds before picking ‘Sand’ this time.” The cart’s driver said with a chuckle.

As it turned out, the caravan was made from four carts, each laden with crates, bags and bales, and each cart had both a pair of adventurers assigned to them, as well as a pair of workers.

On account of pulling the short straw, Kofle (and by exte...

Warrior of the Void Book 1, Chapter 40

“It’s been a mixed bag, to say the least.” Muur sighed softly, cracking her neck this way and that as she loosened the muscles there. Her morning may’ve gone swimmingly, but that nightly vision had left her tensed up and she was still feeling it a bit. “Very exciting, very interesting, very rewarding, very trying sometimes.”

“As is the merchant’s life I’d say,” The peddler told her as he scanned around the camp, “I’ve been waitin’ for my business partn...

Warrior of the Void Book 1, Chapter 39

Even in the early-ish morning, the area outside of Ul’dah was warm. Just shy of unpleasantly so even. Thankfully, rather than a sprawling slum, what stood right outside of the Gate of the Sultana was a winding paved road leading into the distance.

“To recap,” Kofle called out as their birds plodded along at a slow pace that still outsped the merchants walking on foot around them, “We’re headed for the crossing. Then to Horizon, we have nearly a bell of nothing there, and then ...

Warrior of the Void Book 1, Chapter 38

“Right, so we’ve got two options here,” Registering to take up the escort jobs had been quick and painless, thanks to the poor overworked (and probably underpaid) clerk at the registration desk. Leaving the pair of adventurers free to take the aetheric network to the Ossuary’s front yard, and walk to the Gate of the Sultana, in front of which they now stood, from there, “Either we walk there. Which will take… roughly half a bell, or we take a rental chocobo. Which will cut the tim...

Warrior of the Void Book 1, Chapter 37

Once her breakfast was finished, Muur was left without much to do. No one came to her with a list of chores, nor did any of the various members of the priesthood that she knew asked her to come with them, or for her help.

Which meant it was as good a time as any to go get her hands on some tea and scones and track down the Warden for a talk. The whole meditation business had ended up a bust given what happened with it every single time, so she needed to look into other ways to ...

Warrior of the Void Book 1, Chapter 36

–A new home for ourselves. With the feasting horde washing over our once-home we had no choice but to leave.

How long it has taken us to find this retreat, none of us know… 

It is a castle, made in the style of ████. It stands on the edges of the Wretch’s territory, sparing us its predation… For the time at least. The land it stands on is ravaged and rent, but remains solid. ⛋❖◈◈ tells us there is no need to worry about it crumbli...