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Chapter 46 version 2

[Here is the new version of Chapter 46.  If you read the previous chapter 46, please read this one anyway.  It's different enough to warrant a second read.  Or at least skim it :P  Peace!]

“Green, Black, three.  House wins.”

A chorus of angry groans erupted from the assembled gamblers around the caretta table.  Nobody’s voice was louder than Tehlmar’s.  An aggrieved, drunken protest emerged from his lips as he slammed his fist o...

Revised Chapter 46 coming tomorrow, please read it

Hey peeps!  So as I wrote Chapter 47 (which ended up being 12,500 words and might be broken up into two chapters it's so big) I ended up realizing that I messed up Chapter 46.  I'd written the much of the characterization of Tehlmar wrong and it didn't match the character he is in 47.  So not only did I write what is currently my longest chapter yet (until I split it maybe) I also rewrote a great deal of 46.  Whew!  I'll be posting the new version of 46 during my lunch b...

Chapter 45

“How much longer do we have to wait?!”  Wham!  General Cloudburner-hono’s fist slammed angrily onto a table.  “How much longer will you refuse to do what needs to be done?!”

“And what exactly do you believe needs to be done?!” an incensed General Fernfeather-hono shot back.  “What ludicrous, impossible idea do you have in mind?!  You want to kill them all, like Stonefist-hono proposed last week?  Or is it something equally stupid, like imprisoning ...

Chapter 44

“Pathetic.  I’ve seen ten-year-olds hit harder tha

44 is coming, I promise

Sorry it's taking forever for another update.  44 is almost done but my editor is busy with life.  It doesn't help that it's currently 11,500 words long, making it by far the longest chapter I've written so far.  It took me much longer than normal to write, and editing is even worse.  With the first editing pass, it took over three hours just for us to discuss his notes!  It's coming though, please have patience.  Thanks! :D

Chapter 43

Haidar Batra reclined against the back of a plush sofa in his private chambers, enjoying his time in the company of his four young grandchildren.  Shrieks and cries sprang up all around him as the little tykes ran about causing chaos wherever they went, but Haidar only smiled.  It was nice to be around people who didn’t want much more than love from him for a change.  It was a shame the times when he could drop all the pretense of being the Emperor and just be a loving grandfath...

Chapter 42

Soft, warm light filtering through her eyelids melded with the musical chirping of birds off in the distance to pull Gabriela Carreno back into wakefulness.  She let out a relaxed, sleepy hum.  She felt better than she’d felt in as long as she could remember.  A pleasant scent wafted into her nostrils.  Some sort of flower.  Lavender?  No, it  wasn’t that.  Where was the smell coming from?  She shifted her head.  Why did her pillow feel weird...

Chapter 41

“Mama!  Up!”

Gabriela Carreno put her knife down beside the half-chopped onion and bent down to scoop up her beloved son.  She grunted as she lifted the two-year-old up to eye level.  “You’re getting heavy, Javier.  You’re Mommy’s big boy now!” she said to the giggling toddler as she bounced him in her arms.

Carrying him against her shoulder, she walked over to the nearby table, grabbed the cheap plastic toy truck that was sitting idle on the table top, ...

Chapter 40

A palpable tension hung over Rul, a sense of impending doom that seemed to almost choke the air from the city and its populace.  This wasn’t the Rul that Hector remembered.  Back when he’d left the strange, creepy facility where he’d found himself without explanation, he’d wandered the hills at the foot of the mountains, unsure about where to go or what to do.  It was then when he’d run across a Gustilian patrol and been taken to the nearest city — Rul.  The Rul o...

Chapter 39

“Just say it.”

“I don’t wanna.”

“Come on, Sam.  I don’t have all day.  Just say ‘Next stop’.”

“Why do I have to say it?”

Blake Myers massaged his forehead and fought back an aggravated groan.  Kids.  Always a headache.  “Because I said so, that’s why.  Just say what I need you to say and I’ll let you go eat dinner.”

“...next stop.”

“Now say ‘Please stand clear of the closing doors’.�...

Chapter 38

Every city in existence possesses its own unique architectural quirks, and Nefin was no exception.  The unusually large windows, designed to invite in the ocean winds in order to combat the city’s notoriously sweltering summers, were one salient example.  The basketball-sized statues placed on every corner of every roof were another.  Known as ‘svanta’, they were apparently part of an old superstition from long ago.  For the people of Nefin, they were guardians of a sor...

Chapter 37

[Sorry for the gap.  The expected delay I talked about earlier this month ended up happening after all, and my editor went on vacation and hasn't had much time to edit.

This chapter is obviously a bit different in... tone.  But this character is a bit different in attitude and it's from his perspective.  Writing it sure was different.]

Hector Miranda let out a contented sigh as he snuggled into the plush pillows covering the massive four poster bed.  This was the life...

Chapter 36

“I’m very proud of you, you know.”

Rudra grumbled and winced as the bandages slowly tightened around his torso.  “It hurts to breathe,” he complained.

“Of course it hurts to breathe, you have two fractured ribs!  Those are painful!  Now hold still,” Jaya chided.  “Given your bruises, you should feel lucky you don’t have more.”

“I don’t know if I’m cut out for this whole pacifism thing,” Rudra sighed.  “I don’t see what’s to...

Chapter 35

Akhustal Palebane-chos watched with glee as her warriors returned to the land of the living, their journey to rejoin Ruresni forestalled.  One by one they stumbled towards an official who, once enough had assembled, would take them to a nearby room and explain to them their situation.  Once they had adjusted to their sudden revivals, they left the facility through a long, newly-constructed tunnel connecting their current location with a hidden location outside the city, where they woul...

Chapter 34 (updated)

The man came to life with a roar, struggling against the four Feelers holding his limbs still.  Rudra was used to such reactions by now.  Most of the people he’d healed so far reacted that way.  Just as familiar with the situation as he, the four Feelers pulled the man off the ground and carried him off to the side.  A second group of Feelers took their place an set down another corpse.  As he’d done hundreds and hundreds of times already that day, he reached out wit...

Chapter 33

Akhustal Palebane let out a sigh as she crested a ridge and spotted a glimpse of Titan Grove far off in the distance through the forest canopy.  Coming home had never felt so terrible before.  Her body ached from the trip back, but not at much as her spirit.  She’d spent the entire journey questioning her every decision.  Had she been too greedy?  Too reckless?  Had there been some way to avoid the disaster she’d walked into, or was this simply fate?  These...

Chapter 32

Akhustal Palebane swung her massive war club around in a wide arc, the giant weapon, carved over years from a piece of Ruresni herself and stronger than the hardest stone, hurtling towards the nearest Drayhadan at tremendous speed.  The Drayhadan, likely the strongest fighter on that area of the wall, threw up his shield in a desperate attempt to ward off her blow, but to no avail.  The massive woman Observed the club’s weight from light to heavy just before impact.  Now weighin...

Chapter 31

Rudra Kapadia leaned back against the wall of his prison cell, feeling the smooth wood against his back and pondering whether or not to try to break out.  The subject was far more complicated than it seemed.  The material composing his cell, and the other cells that he could see through the wooden bars, was some sort of lightweight wood that was far, far stronger than any wood that light had any right to be.  Still, strong or not, no wood could keep Rudra from leaving this cell if...

Chapter 30

“How much longer until we’re there?” Rudra asked Eztli Silverwater, one of the people guarding him at the moment.

“If we make good time, we should be there before nightfall,” the man replied cordially.  Rudra sighed with relief at the news.  After weeks and weeks of pushing through brush, sleeping on the ground, and not taking baths, Rudra was desperate for whatever counted as civilization for these people.  His whole body felt like one giant rash.

Rudra had lost...

Chapter 29

“Where’d I go wrong, Arun?” Rudra Kapadia slurred to the bartender as he slumped forward on the barstool.  He downed his third shot of the night.  He wasn’t drunk enough for the occasion, but he’d fix that soon enough.

“What’s the problem now, Rudra?” Arun the bartender replied, refilling Rudra’s shot glass.  “Your coworkers disrespecting you at work again?”

“Oh, shut it,” Rudra huffed, before returning to his solemn mood.  He ran his fingers...

Quick status update

So I had expected to have my Arc 2 planning/re-planning done back on Saturday.  Sorry, but it took much longer than I expected.  That being said...

Eleven different PoV's

Thirty-seven PoV Changes

Fifty Chapters

Buckle up, boys and girls.  Arc 2 is looking to be a pretty wild ride.  Writing resumes tomorrow.

Time for a short break... and maybe a Q&A?

I hope you all enjoyed Chapter 28.  I consider 28 to be the unofficial end of "Arc 1" of the story.  That's why I'm taking a few days off from writing to recharge.  Ever since I began writing, it's been like having a second job.  The part that has really depressed me is that I haven't had the time to read other stories anymore!  Reading other people's work on RoyalRoad and elsewhere is what inspired me to finally start putting word to page, and I miss it.  That, and...

Chapter 28

“Alright everybody, let’s get this over with,” Blake said as he marched into what he called the “Council Room”, a meeting room with a large circular table in the center surrounded by chairs.  Blake hated this place.  This was where boring happened.

“My Lord,” Leo said, rising from his seat as Blake entered the room.  His greeting was repeated by the others present, each with varying degrees of enthusiasm.  Nearly all of the chairs were already filled by the me...

Chapter 27

“So as you can see, three times ‘x’, then times ‘y’ is in fact equal to three times the result of ‘x’ times ‘y’.  This is known as the ‘Associative Property of Multiplication’.”

Samanta watched her captor scribble feverishly on a large, flat slate board using a piece of chalk, his other arm gesticulating wildly as he spoke.  Every day, he’d usher her into a small room deep inside his fortress and proceed to talk at her about various subjects.  The man�...

Chapter 26 (slightly revised)

[Made a few small changes to dialogue and whatnot at the suggestion of my editor.  If  you've already read this, it's not something significant enough to read again.]

Arlette tossed the keys to Sofie and sprinted down the hallway after the man she’d once called her friend.  At the end of the hallway lined with cells, she came across a guard station.  At first she thought it empty, but on closer inspection she found three dead bodies hidden away in a corner.  All thre...

Chapter 25

Arlette Faredin wanted to scream.  She wanted to cry.  She wanted to run.  But it didn’t matter what she wanted; her body wouldn’t listen to her mind.  It was paralyzed by the sight of this nightmare from her past.

The door swung open and the man strode in, confident and in control.  Dressed in armor from the shoulders down, with a strong, handsome face and wavy blond hair, he was every bit the knight in shining armor he’d been all those years ago, just on the ma...

Chapter 24

Once there was a country filled with happy people.  They lived happily in their lands, where life was peaceful and food was plentiful.  But the gods became jealous of their happiness and laid a curse upon the people and their lands.  They stole away the sun, covering the sky in gray, and sent the lands into a harsh winter.  Crops would not grow and snows covered the ground land.

The people despaired.  They begged the gods for their forgiveness, but the selfish gods wan...

Chapter 23

“An’... and then ‘e said...  ‘If tha’s a vekkel, where’s my wife?’”

Sofie Ramaut sat on a rough stool in a noisy tavern in a world she barely knew, watching three people she’d just met ramble and laugh drunkenly about their dead friends.  In fact, drunk was putting it very lightly.  She'd never seen people down goblet after goblet of liquor at such an astounding rate before, and she'd been to Oktoberfest!  Speaking of which, Sofie felt like she could reall...

Chapter 22

Sofie Ramaut sat in a library at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, located in Brussels, Belgium, studying late into the night for an upcoming paper due a week from now.  Being a linguistics major in the humanities department meant an endless parade of papers coming due, to the point that the library was almost her second home.  Sofie didn't mind; she'd always loved books, and being around such a large collection excited her.  Sure, she could probably find the knowledge she desired o...

Chapter 21

“Arlette, what the hell is going on?” hissed Sofie under her breath.  “Did I hear her right?  There’s an invasion coming?  Did you know about this?”

The two of them sat against a wall in a second octagonal room adjacent to the state room where they’d first met the crazy giant beastwoman Akhustal Palebane.  Unlike the first room, which was adorned with evidences of conquests and victories, this room was entirely barren save for a strange wooden floor that felt al...