Crown of Slaves
Chapter Fourteen
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The room that Spindrall had claimed for himself, unlike the rest of the tomb, looked almost exactly like it had in the game. A small cul-de-sac, utilitarian lighting and durasteel grating providing the lighting and space required for the failed acolytes hiding here to train. And there were acolytes, a half-dozen of young men, working on sword forms or struggling to summon lightnin...
2024-07-04 05:26:06 +0000 UTC
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Crown of Slaves
Chapter Thirteen
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Destroying the K’lor slug nest, with Cormun and his infantry helping, was actually astonishingly simple. Between other roving bands of acolytes and the beasts’ tendency to tear each other to bits at the slightest provocation, they were not as numerous or tightly packed as I had feared.
Of course, the simplicity of the task didn’t make it easy. A task bei...
2024-07-04 05:25:05 +0000 UTC
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Crown of Slaves
Chapter Twelve
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“Hey, you. Looks like you’re finally awake.” a soft feminine voice said from across the way, and I gave a rough chuckle as I opened my eyes with a small smile.
“Skyrim, really? Really? Even here and now, after all of this, I can’t escape that joke…” I sighed in resigned amusement, ...
2024-06-25 20:44:20 +0000 UTC
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Crown of Slaves
Chapter Eleven
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Asmu-Nikal watched with her heart in her throat as Vestara meditated deeply under the direction of Lord Ergast himself, so deeply in fact that her presence in the force was a muted ember compared to the warm, fierce fire it was meant to be. She had been angry and bitter and, though she would never voice it aloud, depressed and hurt when she had so bluntly spoken to Lord Kallig when they had...
2024-06-21 00:46:55 +0000 UTC
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Forsaken
Chapter Five
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Bianca didn’t know what it was that woke her, only that something had happened that resulted in her shooting upright in bed, wholly awake and searching the room around her with senses beyond what even most demigods could hope for.
The world seemed tranquil, at peace. The sounds of a light rain pattered against the windows, the quiet hum of the heating system resonated ...
2024-05-27 14:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Nothing Is True
Chapter Sixteen
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Clarke Griffin woke slowly, blearily, wondering at the warm softness that surrounded her, the sunlight streaming in through a window. It was probably one of the best feelings she had ever experienced. A level of comfort that she had only experienced once before, in the hidden bunker with Niylah. Sighing softly, a small smile gracing her features, she drowsily shifted slightly in her bed…and cried out a...
2024-05-20 11:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Crown of Slaves
Chapter Ten
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“My Lord?”
The voice of his apprentice, his most valued and talented of every apprentice he had ever had at that (not that he would ever tell Corilla that. The Empire did not need more egoists.), drew Koret Solusar from his thoughts. His deep thoughts, deeper than he had realized if he had only...
2024-05-10 22:47:30 +0000 UTC
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Shadows and Dust
Chapter Five
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Mindoir Defense Headquarters
2170
Private Joseph P. McDonald, nineteen-year-old native of Mindoir and one of the few people in the garrison who was both a native to Mindoir and wasn’t particularly interested in leaving the quiet, boring post on one of Earth’s quietest colonies, gazed at the readout of his sensor station with what could generously be called...
2024-03-24 15:34:34 +0000 UTC
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Nothing Is True (Save For The Blood We’ve Shed)
Chapter Fifteen
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“What do we do now?”
Kostia’s words, first spoken to her lover alone, and repeated again and again and again by Leksa’s advisors as each of them were brought into the room holding The ORACLE and filled in on what was happening, lingered in the air. Indra, Onya, and Titus had all been carefully and quietly instructed to present themselves as ...
2024-03-01 05:22:39 +0000 UTC
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On Ashen Wings
Chapter Five
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Reaching the above-ground portion of the temple was quick and easy, lacking anything in the way of unpleasant surprises, which was really rather nice. Or, at least, it would have been, if the mutual distaste that Shadowheart and Gale were radiating at one another wasn’t painfully obvious. A concussed child could probably have picked up on it, though at least they were keeping t...
2024-02-02 21:14:57 +0000 UTC
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Crown of Slaves
Chapter Nine
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“…seems, based on the reports from those you sent to observe her, that your honored descendant wishes to bring her concubine and slave to meet you, My Lord, and discuss the works of another Lord named Ergast, but it has been deemed too dangerous due to the storms and they have not been permitted to do so.” Malith finished his report on the activities of his descendant, and Aloysious frowned ...
2024-01-13 07:37:59 +0000 UTC
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Nothing Is True (Save for the Blood We’ve Shed)
Chapter 14
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To say that Clarke was nervous as their little group of three approached the outskirts of Polis was an understatement. Intellectually, of course, she knew that her secret was safe, with all the proof that might reveal who she was and where she had come up from having quite literally gone up in smoke. Sure, the Grounders had an exact description of her, th...
2023-12-30 04:17:39 +0000 UTC
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Shadows and Dust
Chapter Four
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2170
Mindoir
A bell, sharp and clear, rang loudly through the halls of the Theodore Roosevelt Jr. High School. A sound that had been engraven into the cultural memory of humanity long before they departed the cradle of their homeworld, and remain as popular with students today as it had the first time it had heralded the end of the sc...
2023-12-15 07:28:48 +0000 UTC
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On Ashen Wings
Chapter Four
Distractions and Detractions
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The scream, as it turned out, had come from a pair of what looked like servant girls, ones that had (by all appearances) survived the nautiloid’s crash, and seemingly had emerged from the wreckage relatively unharmed in an attempt to flee to safety, only to be found and killed by a group of intellect devourers. Even now the dog-sized creatures we...
2023-12-08 06:31:38 +0000 UTC
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Forsaken Chapter Four ############################################################# “It’s a hell of a situation, and I don’t envy Cassie a b
Forsaken
Chapter Four
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“It’s a hell of a situation, and I don’t envy Cassie a bit. God, I don’t envy anyoneinvolved in this entire debacle. And I choose that word deliberately.” Paul groaned into his hands as he scrubbed them over his face, and S...
2023-12-03 03:12:23 +0000 UTC
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On Ashen Wings
Chapter Three
Hand to Helm
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If Ciri hadn’t already hated monsters that had captured them, the ‘mind-flayers’, she certainly would have starting hating them when her innocent attempts to save a young woman, trapped inside of a pod just like the one she and Shadowheart had been imprisoned in, had instead used some sort of monstrous transformation magic to turn the young woman into a mind-flayer hersel...
2023-11-18 19:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Crown of Slaves
Chapter Eight
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Unfortunately for my plans, going to the Tomb of Ergast was still thoroughly impossible due to the raging Force Storms that the Temple’s opening had started. Even on foot it was still deemed too dangerous, between the wind and hail and all-consuming, oppressive metaphysical weight. And, quite frankly, Nicky’s name might have been insufficient to get them past the guards and patrols...
2023-11-11 07:09:58 +0000 UTC
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Nothing is True
Chapter Thirteen
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“You’re serious?” the words were incredulous, the tone was baffled, the looks were bewildered, and the body language was disbelieving.
“Deadly serious, Miss Blake.” The response was flat, unyielding in it’s emotionless delivery.
“You want us, me, to help fix up another pod and follow Clarke down to Earth?”
“We do.”
Raven Reyes and O...
2023-10-25 05:58:23 +0000 UTC
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On Ashen Wings
Chapter Two
Ascent From Avernus
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Ciri huddled at the base of her pod, hugging herself against it’s protective bulk as the heat washed over her, her fingers twisting as she instinctively warded herself, the shimmering dome of Quen rippling as flames licked across it. It didn’t do much for the heat itself, it was a protective barrier made to shield against harm, not the temperature, but if Ciri h...
2023-10-10 18:19:57 +0000 UTC
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Shadows and Dust
Chapter Three
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Earth
Approximately 1 year post-First Contact War
“You know, Benezia said that you were ‘pretty unusual’ as far as asari went, but this isn’t exactly what I pictured when she said that. Do you have any ideahow awkward this is going to make things around town?”
Hannah Shepard’s life had changed a lot over the last half-y...
2023-10-03 05:02:46 +0000 UTC
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Forsaken
Chapter Three
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Camp Half-Blood was a scene of chaos, barely coordinated but energetic, as anyone and everyone spilled half-dressed and barely awake from their cabins, summoned by the shouts of the camp staff and the Goddess of the Moon herself. Demigods poured into the amphitheater, watching the deeply concerned Chiron and the nearly frantic and impatient moon deity with a deep sense of uneas...
2023-09-27 05:20:17 +0000 UTC
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Crown of Slaves
Chapter Seven
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The three of us were still kneeling on the ground staring at one another, breathing hard as we continued struggling to recover from the psychic impact of the Dark Temple being disturbed, when another pulse of Force energy swept across us. It was fainter, and somehow familiar. A whisper compared to the previous shout, no weaker or somehow less potent, just…quiet, as strange as that ...
2023-09-11 21:25:49 +0000 UTC
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Nothing Is True (Save For The Blood We’ve Shed)
Chapter Twelve
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The throne room of Polis was a simple one, despite it’s lofty title and the nature of what happened within it’s expanse. Seats and spaces designated for standing lined the sides, positions for guards and arbitrators were subtly marked and left unencumbered by any obstacles that would slow their intervention, and the dais upon which sat the Throne of th...
2023-08-27 05:46:49 +0000 UTC
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An Oath, Timeless (And Forged By Souls)
Chapter One
A Dragon, Born
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Frea of the Skaal was feeling rather bored, something that was becoming increasingly common of late, despite living life as a constant struggle against both Nature and the All-Maker’s less intelligent creations, beast and Rieklings alike. No outlanders had come to the village in years, not since the old book-writer three years past, and her...
2023-08-17 20:39:16 +0000 UTC
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Oskoreia
Chapter Two
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Randvi had been right, of course. The mere suggestion that Eivor intended to go a-viking, never mind hunt down Kjotve himself, had led to a strict command that she stray no more than three miles from the walls of Fornburg by any means or for any cause. That edict had led to a rather heated argument, but in the end Eivor had little option but to obey, if only for the moment.
Instead, after a go...
2023-08-08 18:27:15 +0000 UTC
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So, the bug for An Oath, Timeless (And Forged Between Souls) bit me hard, and I've been digging out my old outlines and chapters. I am considering slowly, casually, posting it here exlusively to Patrons for a while, just like I am with Forsaken. However, I wanted to ask you guys the following:
I know I have a lot of yuri with futa stories, and AOTAFBS would be yet another. However, the story could very easily be with a male main character. Instead of Alessia being reborn as a female, s...
2023-08-05 17:19:27 +0000 UTC
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This chapter will be a series of scenes, covering moments of the First Contact War. I fully intend to have there be snippets, interludes, or even a small side-story covering the conflict more broadly in the future, but I don’t want to get bogged down in a half-dozen chapters of the FCW like so many Mass Effect stories do. As such, only moments important to Shepard’s future self, things that shape and affect her specifically, will be shown.
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2023-07-27 00:54:48 +0000 UTC
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Forsaken
Chapter Two
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Artemis was seething as she reconstituted on Olympos, within her temple-house. Much like her cabin in Camp Halfblood, the interior was spartan in the extreme. Even more so, perhaps, because she spent even less time here than she did at the Camp, preffering to remain encamped with her Hunt whenever she was not attending to one of her divine duties, such as driving the moon-chariot.
Her mou...
2023-07-18 02:10:58 +0000 UTC
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Dawn Is Just A Heartbeat Away
Chapter Four
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Hades didn’t try to hide his amusement as the blushing, stuttering child tried and failed to get a proper apology for ‘ignoring him’ out, remembering another individual that could be a clever-tongued, quick-witted show-woman one moment and a tongue-tied amusement the next. Waving off her apologies and aborted attempts to decide whether she should be kneeling or saluti...
2023-07-10 04:56:27 +0000 UTC
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Crown of Slaves
Chapter Six
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I had to admit that, once we were away from the slave market, I started to have fun. Shopping had, admittedly, never been something I loved doing. I preferred to go to stores with specific items, specific sections at the very worst, in mind. And, admittedly, I didn’t much care for shopping now, especially given my status as a slave unable to buy things as freely as...
2023-07-02 00:50:00 +0000 UTC
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