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Cavalier's Gambit 2 -ch9-

Chapter 9

Wayne looked over the contract, tilted his head to one side, then the other, as if viewing it from a different angle would somehow give him something different.

“Isn’t this ridiculous?” he asked, looking to Miriam, Josephine, and Wendy.

“Yes,” Wendy said, then laughed. “It really is. There’s no other way to say it. It’s ridiculous. They’re offering you four time what a normal mercenary company would be hired at, even if they were true veteran comp...

Cavalier's Gambit 2 -ch 8-

Chapter 8

Wayne pulled at the edge of his jacket, feeling it settle into place.

He was dressed for a dinner date with his fiance, Josephine Mirkil, and her father, the crown prince. While he would’ve preferred it to be just Josephine, he couldn’t fault the man.

Their introduction to one another had been brief and in a very wild and chaotic time, the Mirkil family imploding and losing many of it’s heirs, but it hadn’t been a bad meeting.

Just strained.

Sho...

Cavalier's Gambit 2 -ch 7-

Chapter 7

“—and there we are,” Wayne said with a chuckle, handing over Cara’s new bank card, room key, identification, and even her Dashi citizenship identification card as well. “I didn’t realize the administration office could handle it all without Michael getting involved. That was rather nice.”

“It’s because it was you,” Cara said, looking at all the different pieces of plastic and pictures of her. The picture on her Dashi ID was older. She looked barely ei...

Cavalier's Gambit 2 -ch 6-

Chapter 6

“— and that covers the shares,” Miriam said, looking up at him with a wide smile. Her eyes crinkled. “Thank you for insisting I receive a share as your handler… Wayne. You are just so very adorable.”

“You’re not just a handler anymore, Miri,” Wayne said with a laugh, looking across the small table to her. They’d returned to the station after a short debrief, a photo of his squad standing in front of the drop-ship with more than a few of their Walker�...

Cavalier's Gambit 2- CH 5-

Chapter 5

“Nothing,” Wayne said, watching the ruins of a neighborhood slowly moving past them on the right. The coordinates that Miriam had gotten for the location had brought them to this general location. The error variance was pretty large because she had been pretty positive that they were using a relay to get to this point.

Now they were just searching the area assuming it was around here somewhere, but Wayne was starting to wonder if this was just a dead end.

As mu...

Cavalier's Gambit 2 -Ch 4-

Chapter 4

“That’s a lot of comms gear, Cavalier,” mused Mick on the squad line. “Remote comms gear. You getting a funny feeling?”

“Yeah,” Wayne said after putting himself on the same line, staring at the two Walkers. They’d stopped and were clearly processing what he’d said into the line they were supposed to be on. “Real funny feeling. Walking bombs funny feeling. Think you can give one of those comm setups a speed hole?”

Mick chuckled at that and Wayn...

Cavalier's Gambit 2 -Ch 3-

Chapter 3

Wayne shifted his hands around the physical controls that Tink had put in. He didn’t need them, not at all in fact because of his implant, but she’d made a really good point about them.

Just because he didn’t need them, didn’t mean he couldn’t benefit from them. Even if his mind was distracted, he could force a pedal, shift a hand, and move.

He wasn’t superior for not having them, he was superior by using both his implant and his body to push Warhorse t...

Cavalier's Gambit 2 -ch 2-

Chapter 2

Wayne was somewhat sad to be returning to the station.

A week at home hadn’t felt very long at all. Almost no time at all with how he had felt about it all. That by the time he had felt settled, it was time to go.

Though, to be fair, Tink had kept him quite occupied at night. In a way that he was surprised, delighted, and worn down by. When she had originally told him she wouldn’t say no, he hadn’t expected him to not say no, either.

Thankfully it wasn�...

Cavalier's Gambit 2 -Ch 1-

Chapter 1

Wayne couldn’t help but smile. Looking out his bedroom window.

“This is… w-w-where you grew up?” Tink asked from behind him. She sounded rather nervous but not uncomfortable.

He glanced back at her and grinned.

The black-eyes from having her nose adjusted were already fading. The wound-sites were healing, and by and large, Tink didn’t even look the same anymore.

Her bright blue orbs almost always found him and would stare into him, at least un...

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CC6 -ch17-

Seventeen

Ash looked around and felt a smile immediately curl his lips.

Wahst was booming.

While no one could really leave unless they were part of the Brides and Knights, it was obvious the city had received a great number of people from around the fortress.

Because the whole of the once prison was indeed a fortress now.

This was a fallback point that couldn’t be accessed without a great deal of work by outsiders. Anyone and everyone inside would be part of th...

cc6 -ch16-

Sixteen

Ash had enjoyed his visit with his parents but it’d unfortunately been limited to a single day. A day spent listening to his parents tell him about everything and anything they’d seen.

From how strange everything seemed to them, to how flattered they were that the king himself had come to present their grand-daughter to them along with the royal princess.

While it wasn’t certain yet, it seemed that the first-born of the princess didn’t have a Dantian.

S...

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CC6 -ch 15-

Fifteen

The One Emperor’s projection was handed over to a very flustered Locke.

She’d been somewhat beside herself due to the fact that she couldn’t contact him at all while he fought the monster. It’d been as if Ash hadn’t existed at all to her and there was nothing for her to reach out to.

He imagined it’d been a horrifying experience to her.

Unless he was sleeping, and really he suspected she watched his dreams, there was no time she couldn’t reach out...

CC6 -ch 14-

Ash looked down at himself and found he was dressed in the old clothes Mother Far and Father Duyi had managed to get for him. He hadn’t really fit into Yan or Jing’s hand-me-downs.

Yan had been far too narrow in the waist, and Jing was too short, which had exposed Ash’s ankles.

It’d left him in the middle of being able to wear neither sets of clothes from either sibling.

Turning his wrist over, Ash looked to the bottom of the sleeve.

Mother Far’s stitching, s...

CC6 -ch 13-

The slow grind of his lower Dantian and it’s Qi-Sea reverberated through Ash’s senses.

A sound that felt like two rocks being eternally run past one another.

Or sand paper moving across a surface without end.

Locke had told him that the world was moving slowly at the moment and he believe her. Believed that it was inching along in fractions of seconds for minutes of time.

It just seemed weird to him for that to be true yet his Qi-Sea moved at the same rate it alway...

CC 6 -ch 12-

Ash’s Qi crept and crawled it’s way along the carved stone.

And it was most certainly carved, at least roughly, given how he could practically feel where the chisel marks began an end with his Qi. With each shaving of the rock his Qi would have to flex to accommodate it.

“Ah… Lo… Lord Sheng, we’ve stabilized the patients,” said a voice to Ash’s left.

He nodded his head in response but stared into the portal.

“Good work,” he murmured. There was an od...

CC6 -ch 11-

Eleven

Ash was surprised in the end when thirty Knights and thirty Brides arrived.

One and all they were all part of the recruits brought in from Wahst and Ghast’s world.

It was a curious thing to Ash, as he wondered if perhaps those from the realm they were returning to would want to be there when it happened. To return home and be part of the group that managed it.

“They deferred to those who had never been to the realm before. They wanted to give them a chan...