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Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.60 (92)

Mike let go of the swords he had been using to hold on to the back of the monster and stood up. Taking a deep breath, he looked around to see if there were any other threats he needed to deal with. Seeing nothing, he said, “All right. Let’s get our perimeter set up. We’ll base from here.”

Heather stepped out from behind the tree she had been using as a firing position. “Aren’t we a little too close to the ambush site?” she asked.

Jerry appeared as he dropped his esse...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.59 (91)

Vera was in her office at the newly renamed Salvatore-Verena estate. She wore a satisfied smirk as she monitored the multiple screens hovering above her desk. For her, there was no better feeling than watching multiple plots and plans proceeding in perfect harmony. The delicate web of cause and effect, move and countermove, all resulting in her victory along with a confusing loss for her opponents.

On one screen, she was keeping track of the acquisition team she had sent to Bevin Indust...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.58 (90)

The head of the Enforcement squad, Captain Reese, wasn’t happy. She considered this entire mission a waste of her time, and she wasn’t shy about showing her displeasure with the situation. Standing in front of her 50-man squad, she crossed her arms and said, “How many favors did you have to call in for us to be here?”

Vera faced the tall woman with a cold look on her face. She was wearing her combat attire, which she hadn’t used in years. Crimson red accents adorned a tight bl...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.57 (89)

Arch-mage Jennings was in his private room at the top of the mage tower, using his link to read a paper on planar magic. He always enjoyed the multi-layered spell-forms. The author was a brilliant mage from out East, and Jennings thought that some of the ideas in the paper were brilliant.

As Jennings looked over the data the man had collected from a planar disturbance he had found, the door to his room pinged. Lazily opening his eyes, he didn’t bother to remove his feet from his desk....

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.56 (88)

Mike was checking his supplies in their common room when Heather burst through the door. Startled, he spun around and dropped into a combat stance, as a pair of knives appeared in his hands. Recognizing his teammate, he rose from his crouch and frowned. He was about to berate her for barging in like a lunatic, when she held up a folded map.

With a wide smile on her face, she said, “Our friend’s contact came through. We have the route they’re going to take into the wilds.”

...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.55 (87)

Arch-mage Jennings was bored. The petty arguments he was hearing were nothing new to him. Over his nearly 1000 years of life, he had heard all of this before. Looking around the room, he saw the same archetypes wearing different faces.

The large Hall of Leadership was familiar in it’s own way. No matter how different, and seemingly ‘original’, someone designed a conference room, they always looked the same. A bunch of people with a great deal of power sitting around in a circle…...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.54 (86)

General Branson frowned at the projections floating above his desk. Tapping his fingers on his armrests, he mentally cycled through the reports his office had been receiving all week. Instances of increased activity were reported at every gate. Even here at central command, in the inner ring of the city, there was a noticeable increase in issues needing to be addressed.

Sighing, he sent his approval for two squads to enter the sewers below the keep. He hoped that the slime queen hadn’...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.53 (85)

Arch-mage Jennings was waiting at the teleportation hall. He hated waiting. He leaned against the wall, tapping his foot with impatience. Any minute now, the replacement for that idiot Cranston would be arriving, and he promised Mathers that he would show him around.

Mentally, he felt around for the connection he had to the communication crystal in the Mage Tower in Hennings. It was still there, but no one seemed to be using it from the other side. Grimacing, Jennings realized that even...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.52 (84)

Nick was enjoying watching Nero train. He had initially thought it would be nothing more than a review session, as he expected to be reminded of his time at the Centerpoint Academy. Yet, he found himself admiring the unique curriculum Specialist Howard had created. It was a very bare-bones introduction to spell casting, and Nick found the idea of using the elemental wheel as the foundation for the class, inspired. But, he had to admit that it only worked because of how rare a student Nero tur...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.51 (83)

Deidre Cosgrave was nervous. She had received word that the contract she had put out on Lord Walker had been accepted. It would be several days until his training unit went into the wilds, and another few days until the attempt was made.

It was the waiting she was having a problem with. Every day she worried that her mother would decide that Derek was too large a liability to leave alone.

Wringing her hands, she stood on her balcony, lost in thought. She tried to force herself to ...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.50 (82)

The Council of Fate had served Oglivarch for the last 4000 years. Gently guiding it ever onward, avoiding dangerous paths, their course set by the Matrix of Fate itself. Sacrifices were avoided whenever possible, but sometimes the optimal path required them to watch the kingdom they served suffer an unavoidable tragedy. Cities were saved and lost, but always with a greater purpose in mind. The council saved who they could, and remembered those they couldn’t.

Director Charles Weatherby...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.49 (81)

Cathleen Averett had forgotten how much she enjoyed real training. When she had followed two of her brothers south, she had hoped to find worthy warriors to bring into her clan. Yet, all she found since arriving over 40 years ago were weak southerners. Cathleen had found that training in the south was nothing but a pale imitation of what she had faced in her youth. But she stayed anyway, because training wasn’t why she had settled in Dorchester.

Over the centuries, the Averett family ...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.48 (80)

The entire Council of Leadership was in attendance, even the members that rarely bothered to participate. Even though the ‘council of nine’ was effectively in charge, there were 30 total members on the council. Today, every one of them had made the trip to the capital. This emergency session was too important to miss.

The Hall of Leadership was filled with shouting. Upon arrival, the nobles were given the details of the exploit they were summoned to discuss. Pandemonium had ensued. ...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.47 (79)

The king was sitting in his drawing room, enjoying some time with his head consort, Lydia Collins. She had been in charge of his household for many years, and he had never tired of her fascination with gossip. While he could observe the whole of his kingdom through his abilities, she could do the same with just whispers and rumors. It always made him smile when she fixated on something, then forced him to hear about it.

Sipping his wine, he was listening to her describe how she caught M...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.46 (78)

Lord Cosgrave had just finished dinner when her aid said that Lords Bennings, Brinks, and Masters were waiting for her in her office. ‘I’m sure this is gonna be good news,’ she said to herself sarcastically.

Walking with her aide to her office, she asked, “They said nothing? Not even a hint as to what this is about?”

Ms. Chandler said, “No, m’lord. They just said it was urgent, and that they needed to see you right away. When asked why they didn’t just pin...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.45 (77)

Vera walked into the conference room armed with a thick leather portfolio filled with revolutionary business plans. She had spent all of last night working on them, as had three of Precision Shipping’s lawyers. They were under secrecy contracts, and had been working for Vera for over 20 years. She also had made sure they knew what would happen to them if they crossed her.

The conference room was full, and the board of directors watched patiently as Vera took her seat at the head of th...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.44 (76)

Laying in her bed with her hands behind her head, Rose was using her link to catch up on current events. She was waiting for her check-in with her handler. Every night, she was responsible for summarizing her day, and reporting on what her target was up to. She understood why the general was interested in Lord Walker, the young man was definitely odd.

While she was watching the weekly rank matches from the arena, she received a connection request. With a start, she shot up into a sittin...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.43 (75)

City-Lord Cosgrave sat in her office chuckling at the report that had just come in. The noble house of Morisson had lodged an official complaint against General Branson. They were apparently unhappy with his recent actions. As she read the specifics, she just shook her head in amusement.

They were saying that the general had no right to remove their spies. Lord Morisson was of the opinion that their house’s retainers having a secondary objective didn’t violate the oaths of service t...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.42 (74)

The council of mages' meeting room in the Tower of Magic was always relatively full. At minimum, there would be two or three arch-mages using the room to argue about something. There were always new findings to discuss, and new conclusions to defend. But over the past week, the topic of conversation always had to do with the anomaly that was currently living in Dorchester.

At first, the mage-council was watching the young man’s every move with interest, but over time their attention b...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.41 (73)

Now that Vera was no longer running Gate 7’s Center-Intake, she would be spending most of her time working from home. She had already been spending at least 3 nights a week using her home office to operate her shipping concern, ‘Precision Shipping’, so the office was already well suited for her new duties.

Her local hub was top-of-the-line, and she had spared no expense appointing the room with tasteful furniture. There were floor to ceiling windows which opened up onto a veranda ...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.40 (72)

Rose felt like she was walking a tightrope. It was imperative that she make a good impression, but she didn’t know how to act. At first she thought that playing the innocent school girl would be enough to diffuse any suspicion, but that had backfired. For some reason, both men thought that her attitude was indicative of some kind of past trauma. She had no idea how they came to that conclusion.

The halls at their barracks were practically emptied by the expulsion of the noble spies. A...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.39 (71)

Heather walked into the common room from the hallway with a smile on her face. It was so out of character, both Jerry and Mike looked at her like they didn’t recognize her.

“We’ve got the score of a lifetime coming to us,” she said and took a seat on one of the couches. Throwing her feet up on the coffee table, she pulled out a flask and started drinking.

Mike set down the sword he was polishing and said, “Well? Details please. You said you heard there was a wilds contra...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.38 (70)

Rose and Cathleen arrived at the archery range and headed toward the only person in sight. While approaching, Cathleen spoke up, “Are you Sergeant Peyton?”

The man was sitting on a wooden bench, carefully polishing an unstrung bow. Without looking up, he said, “I thought there would be more of you. Is Angelton sending you over in groups?”

Cathleen was surprised by Rose, who didn’t seem as sheepish without Nero or Nick around, as she took the initiative to reply, “I thi...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.37 (69)

Nick was enjoying training, it was a less intense then he thought it would be. In fact, Rose was a wonderful conversation partner. Interspersed throughout their conversation, they heard Nero cursing out Cathleen, but they were far enough away that they could ignore it. Sergeant Wesker’s shouting was much harder to ignore. Nick thought the man was an exceedingly angry person.

“Stop poking at each other! Fight, damn it!” Nick heard Wesker shout from behind him.

Ignoring the se...

Nero Walker, Book 2 Ch.36 (68)

Sergeant Wesker had been training soldiers for the past 10 years. Before that, he’d fought in units that faced class 3 threats regularly. He’d even faced a few class 4’s and lived to tell the tale. He knew his business. When he was told that he was going to train a new class of elites, he was ready. Elites were offered the best of everything, but thrown into the worst combat environments available. To say he was excited, was an understatement on par with pointing at a black brick of mea...

DIFTW Chapter 5

Mick rubbed his hands in anticipation. He hadn’t expected to gain an ally when he had come to see his old friend. At most, he’d expected to have to convince the elf to allow him to leave at all. After all, Mick realized long ago that Neelan was, among other things, his handler.

But now, Mick had the aid of a warden. They could go anywhere in the kingdom, and even governor's listened to what they had to say. Neelan’s help would prove to be invaluable. Now, Mick just needed to make ...

DIFTW Chapter 4

Mick finished his meal while Neelan told his story. As he was used to the elven tendency to blather, he patiently waited for Neelan to make his point. While sipping his tea, he listened to the ancient elf with a wry smile on his face. ‘The old bastard can really spin a tale. I’ll give him that,’ thought Mick.

But hearing the end, he felt goosebumps pimple his skin, while his face lose its color.

Coughing lightly to clear his throat, Mick shakily said, “Well, that ...

DIFTW Chapter 3

Ages ago, in the time of the shattered kingdoms, before the fall of man, there lived a king. His name was Brennan Mosgrave, and he was a mage of unrivaled power. Upon the ashes of his enemies, he had built the kingdom of Mosria. And it had spanned many leagues.

While other nations fought each other, and suffered under the constant threat of the untamed world, Mosria stood as a beacon of safety. Its tall walls, and expansive army, provided protection from the many dangers of the outside ...

DIFTW Chapter 2

Waking up to darkness, Mick groaned in annoyance.  He remembered that he had left the candles burning.  As his cell didn’t have any windows, he was completely in the dark.  He hated waking up like this.

Carving a simple light spell, an orb of pale white light appeared above his hand.  Absently throwing it at the chandelier, he watched it stick to the cross-brace and set the entire thing swinging.  The ceiling of his cell was only 10 feet, and if he stretched, ...

DIFTW plan.

As the collection said, this is going to be for the January RR thing.

I'll try and post once a week, but considering I'm only on chapter 3, I doubt I'll keep to any schedule.  But I'll put them up on here as soon as I write them.

As for the content, it'll change a bit as the story progresses.  I'll go back and alter some stuff, and polish what I've written.  I have a general idea as to how I want the story to go, but I learn about the characters, and the world, as I...