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CC3 -Ch4-

Sitting at the table his alliance tended to meet up, Ash waited quietly. The sun had risen a few hours ago but given that everyone knew what he’d been up to the night previous, they seemed to be giving him his space.

Little did they know that today would be a massive change.

One that would push all of their plans out of alignment.

“You know, Na, Moira, and Tala have been outside your home for a while now. They’re just talking amongst themselves. They’re all under...

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CC3 -CH3-

Ash felt ridiculously tired.

Tired doesn’t even begin to cover it.

Reaching up with his right hand, Ash pressed it to his eyes. Blocking out the morning sun and the disgusting light it presented him.

Beside him, Tala stirred for a moment, then pushed her head up under his chin. Her left hand coming up to lightly tickle along his bare chest. Her long ears were curled around his head in an odd way that wasn’t uncomfortable.

Lifting his hand up, Ash looked do...

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CC3 -Ch2-

“It was Bao?” asked Moira in an incredulous tone. “Really? That’s… rather unexpected.”

The Owl woman was seated in one of the chairs around his table. Her white and black hair hung loosely around her face, framing her giant yellow eyes and making them almost brighter. Almost larger, at times. Giving her a slightly alien look.

Her large wings were pressed to her back in their natural place and dressed in her usual form-fitting leather armor.

After retreating from ...

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Cultivating Chaos 3 -CH1-

“You’re not still sore at me, are you?” Locke asked.

Ash didn’t immediately respond. He was currently busy inspecting the back of his eye-lids for the truth of sleep. He didn’t want to deal with the trickster in his head.

“Don’t be so grumpy, my Chosen One,” said Locke in a pouty and insufferable tone. He had the firm mental image that she’d been saying it while pinching his chin. Since she’d revealed the fact that she was in truth a woman a f...

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Direction!

Well! Right of Retribution 3 is doing well.

Be sure to go read it and put a five star review on it!

https://www.amazon.com/Right-Retribution.../dp/B09N6YJ23S

On to the next book!

Which will be Cultivating Cha...

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Right of Retribution 3- The Spoiler Post

Spoilers ahoy.

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Right of Retribution 3- LIVE

Morning everyone,

It's that time!

Share it in every group you can, post about it, talk about it to anyone you think will listen, then run off and give it five-stars. Sweet, delicious, five stars.

Right of Retribution 3 is live.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09N6YJ23S

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Monster's Mercy 3-Audiobook

Andie is starting Monster's Mercy 3

https://discord.gg/andreaparsneau 

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RoR 3 -CH15-

“The stench of it all is terrible!” shouted Inger as they flew over the capital. The stink of the injustice swept across the whole of it as if it were a terrible storm blowing through.

“Politicians and back room deals!” Dayine replied.

The problem was she actually couldn’t sense what Warner and Inger could, but she was right. There was a lingering and terrible stink to the whole of the area that rank of the worst injustices.

Bribery and extortion ran as an over cur...

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RoR 2 Audiobook

Here's the RoR2 audiobook.

Apparently the ACX metadata team feels that RoR2 is erotica.

They're unwilling to switch the category either. I have... no idea how they came to that conclusion. I've asked for what exactly triggered that but... I'm betting they won't tell me.

Here's the link for the book regardless.

Very silly ACX. Very silly.

https://www.a...

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RoR 3 -Ch14-

Letting out an explosive breath, Mark let go of the rifle in his hands and let it hang on its strap. Pressing his hands to his face he slowly leaned backward until his back pressed to the wall.

“You’re… telling me that we’re going up against the incarnation of War itself,” he said through his hands. His voice sounded strained and lacking in strength.

“Yes,” said Warner. They’d spent only a few minutes giving Mark a complete run-down since he hadn’t asked any ques...

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RoR 3 -Ch13-

Warner couldn’t quite believe what he was seeing.

Looking to the streets below, he could see that it was actual chaos down there. Though, at the very least, it was managed chaos.

There was a great many soldiers that were everywhere. All of them were armed and they weren’t hesitant to point weapons at anyone who approached.

Kitted out completely in what looked to be a full deployment, they were in armor, carrying rifles, had communication equipment, and mechanized support...

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RoR3 -Ch12-

“Oh, hello,” Daria said in a wheeze as Warner continued to hug her. “I can see you were rather worried. Looking backward I can see a few hints and glimpses at what might have come to pass.

“I’m very grateful, Warner. Seems I owe you my life yet again. Thank you, I’m not sure what I could have done in your situation if the roles were reversed.”

Daria then pressed her face into Warner’s neck and just let herself be held by him.

“We did what we must,” Warner...

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Right of Retribution 3 -CH11-

Warner’s phone started to ring in his pocket.

Looking away from where Inger was busily sewing up Ylva’s leg he leaned to one side. Jerking out the phone from his pocket he looked to the screen.

It was a number he didn’t know, which meant it was more than likely one of the burner phones.

Tapping the button, he put it to his ear.

“Hello?” he asked.

Just because he thought it was one of their burner’s didn’t mean it was.

“Ah! Warner!” said Wa...

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The Axe Falls -CH30-

Nick leaned back from the hole and looked down into it.

While they hadn’t found a spring that they could directly tap into, which honestly sounded like a bad idea to Nick, they did find water.

Or a way to get water, that was.

At the bottom of the four foot hole they’d dug, water was filling.

He hadn’t expected it to actually work but he’d forgotten a simple reality.

They were at the bottom of an extremely deep hole. Digging at all was likely going to put ...

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RoR 3 -Ch10-

Looking down at Fort Carson below, Warner was very confused. He could see a great number of soldiers facing a lesser number opposing them.

They were spread out amongst buildings, in them, behind cars, spread out across roads, and generally taking cover anywhere they could. It looked like something out of a world war two movie.

The larger army looked to be all dressed in an unfamiliar uniform to Warner. They were also all of Asian heritage. Warner couldn’t discern which specific ...

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The Axe Falls -Ch29-

Nick carefully pushed Jessie off himself and then got to his feet.

“What, dumping me already?” asked Jessie in a groan. Her voice sounded absolutely filled with pain.

“Can’t fix you without getting up, nitwit. And no, I don’t have my egress crystal. Lost it with my pack,” said Nick. Stretching out his back he let out a sigh and then realized this wasn’t going to work. There was no way he could treat her in the dark.

It’d be better if he just acknowledge now h...

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RoR3 -Ch9-

“I’ll be honest,” Ryker said and then waved a hand at the white nothing around them. Two chairs appeared a moment later. “From the very beginning, I suspected War might do something like this.

“After all, as you yourself realized, she is the literal living breathing aspect of war. The more war there is, the more embattled the world is, the stronger she is. Right now… most of the world is at war in one way or another. There really isn’t many locations that isn’t fighting ...

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The Axe Falls -CH28-

Coughing, feeling as if he had a mouthful of dirt, Nick rolled to one side.

Or tried to, at least. Unfortunately there wasn’t anywhere he could go. Despite his attempt to move, he found that he could only barely shift his body around.

He was quite literally pinned beneath boulders, rocks, and earth. There wasn’t anywhere he could actually go as far as he could tell.

That was the best he could figure since it was pitch black and everything smelled like dirt. There was not...

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The Axe Falls -Ch27-

Looking up at the head of his poleaxe Nick felt like he was going to have to pull it apart, clean it, oil it, and make sure everything was tight. After the week of use he’d put it through with Iris and Claudia, he was certain there was a good chance that it was clogged up with hobgoblin and goblin blood.

Sighing, he looked down and to Iris who was sitting next to him on a cracked stone block. It might have once been part of something, but now it was being used as a seat.

In fact...

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Monster's Mercy: Extra Epilogue

Bianca smiled as bravely as she could as Rene vanished.

Disappearing into nothing as if he had never been there.

The smile lingered for several seconds before it fell, along with her heart. Plummeting into her stomach where it rolled around hollowly.

As if it were a bell that’d fallen free and clunked to the floor. Rattling about pathetically, never to chime again unless picked up.

With a shake of her head, Bianca realized she was letting her mind run away with her.<...

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RoR3 -Ch8-

Getting back to his car, Warner popped open the center console and grabbed the tissues. Looking into the rear view mirror he wiped at his face repeatedly. Getting everything off of him that he could see or find.

Even then, he still felt disgusting and dirty. The lingering injustice from War clung to him. Like the leftover sticky mess from Maya’s fingers when she was a little girl.

Shaking his head, Warner stared into the mirror. There was nothing physically left over on him that...

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The Axe Falls -Ch26-

“You sure I’m ready for this?” Claudia asked, nervously holding onto her staff.

They’d spent the better part of the morning getting her used to fighting. She was at the point now that they could dare to try more than two goblins. Iris would hold them all in position while Nick went about killing them.

Claudia would simply be there to heal Iris if her health got low.

“I mean, I think so,” Nick said and shrugged his shoulders. “I trust in Iris to take the punishm...

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Right of Retribution 3 -CH7-

Earlier this morning everyone had left. The house was now significantly quieter now with so many people missing.

Inger and Maya were currently out shopping at the moment. The two had left while laughing and talking the entire time. They planned on picking up Lauren on the way to include her

With Aelia heading south they’d have to take extra measures to make sure that they included Lauren. As her newly adopted daughter she was very likely to become Warner’s “step-daughter” ...

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The Axe Falls -Chapter 25-

“Doctor Palt?” asked Nick, stepping through the door and into the man’s office.

Once again, there was no one here. No one at the desk, no one in the chairs, and no sound of anyone nearby.

Claudia entered as well and looked around.

“Uhm, are we supposed to be here?” she asked, sounding quite nervous. Right now she was in her normal clothes. They still had an hour or two before they were due to meet up with Iris in front of the dungeon.

“Coming,” called Doc...

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Patreon - New Stuff-

So, I've always felt that my top tier in Patreon doesn't get enough... stuff.

Always.

That their level of support doesn't really justify what they get.

Going forward, I'm going to open "The Lab" section of early reads/chapters. This is stuff that I only did a chapter or two of to "test write". This is actually how Wild Waste, Monster's Mercy, and Fostering Faust began their lives. A test write that felt good.

Some of these test writes will never become anything, some w...

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The Axe Falls -Ch24-

Entering into the guild-house for adventurers, Nick found himself grinning.

It was exactly as he remembered it, though nearly empty. There were only a handful of non-employees in the entirely of the building.

There was even a clear indicator that there weren’t as many employees working as well. The number of people serving adventurers was down to three.

Sara was at one of the counters as was two other people. Nick knew neither one of them.

The three of them were stan...

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The Axe Falls -Ch23-

Pulling on the reigns of Table, Nick eased the horse up to a stop in front of the count’s manor.

You know, I never stopped to consider if it’s rude or impolite to tether Table out front. Never even considered it.

“Well, I don’t honestly know. It would have been rude back in my time in the capital, but not out in the countryside like Dayton,” mused Lucian. “Though, I imagine the count would have said something if it bothered him. You did leave Table out front p...

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The Axe Falls -CH22-

Finding the dukes tent took Nick only a few minutes. It hadn’t been difficult in the least in fact since there was a steady stream of visitors going through the camp.

Nearly every single one of them was being brought to the duke’s tent directly.

Though more than a few of them were bound in chains, leather ties, or being dragged along.

It seemed the duke was holding some type of impromptu judiciary hearing.

That didn’t make Nick feel much better about what he was ...

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