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Path of Dragons 14 - Chapter 44 - The Tournament of the First Fang
2026-02-16 16:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostPath of Dragons 14 - Chapter 39 - The Very Definition of Awe
2026-02-12 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostPath of Dragons 14 - Chapter 32 - Just a Person
“You look different,” she said, holding him at arm’s length. “The same, but different.”
“It’s been thirty years, Lucy.”
Her hand crept up to his face, and she asked, “How do you not have a single wrinkle? You look like you’re in your twenties.”
“You don’t look so bad yourself,” Elijah remarked with a grin. Then, he waggled his eyebrows at her. “Want to revisit some old memories?”
She punched him in the arm. ...
2026-02-07 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostPath of Dragons 14 - Chapter 31 - A Needed Respite
Elijah stirred.
For a moment, he forgot that Sadie had left him. For a second, he convinced himself that she was the woman next to him. But that delusion didn’t last long. His bedmate was too soft. Too pliant. Too not-Sadie.
What’s more, Elijah’s memory was well intact. He remembered the past week, and with perfect clarity. Upon his arrival in Seattle, he’d spent a few hours just wandering the city. And he’d come away impre...
2026-02-06 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostPath of Dragons 14 - Chapter 30 - Strangely Familiar
Elijah loved the water.
It was one of the reasons he’d become a marine biologist, and he’d never had reason to regret that choice of concentration. However, he couldn’t help but panic as he suddenly found himself surrounded by murky water. His alarm only lasted for a brief moment before he took hold of his mind and forced himself to take stock of his situation.
Fortunately, the water wasn’t deep. He could see sunlight glittering through the surface nearly...
2026-02-05 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostPath of Dragons 14 - Chapter 29 - The First Leg
Elijah stepped out of the hotel, ready for battle. Not the physical sort. Rather, he was prepared for a political fight. After arriving in Gatehold, he’d left the compound at its center and explored the city itself. And he’d come away simultaneously impressed and disappointed.
Gatehold was an advanced city that looked like something out of a science fiction movie. Everywhere he turned, there were smooth lines and glass buildings. There were ...
2026-02-04 16:10:06 +0000 UTC View PostPath of Dragons 14 - Chapter 28 - Walkabout
“Isn’t a walkabout supposed to be about getting in touch with nature? Like a spiritual journey?” asked Carmen, popping a bit of fried pork belly into her mouth as she leaned back in the booth. Her muscular arm rested over Anupriya’s shoulders, hugging her close.
For her part, the Citadel Sage looked supremely uncomfortable with the public display of affection. Pointedly, she did not pull away, though. And when she didn’t think anyone was looking, ...
2026-02-04 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostPath of Dragons 14 - Chapter 27 - A Father's Role
Outside the clinic, Elijah stood motionless as waves of pedestrians passed him by. Absent-mindedly, he tugged at the shirt Hope had made for him. It wasn’t uncomfortable, but he could feel the newness against his skin. Fortunately, it also served its purpose by helping him to blend in with the rest of the city’s population. His bare feet were still an oddity, but the combination of his new clothes and fresh haircut helped to lessen the attention elicited by his app...
2026-02-03 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostPath of Dragons 14 - Chapter 26 - The More Things Change
Elijah awoke to a knock on his door.
For a moment, he interpreted it as an assault. He sprang to his feet, already building Eternal Plague. It only lasted a second until he remembered he wasn’t in any danger. Back on Gorveth – or more recently, in any of the realities he’d visited while traveling through the void – he’d routinely been the subject of surprise attacks.
And the habits he’d built during those years were difficult to discard.
E...
2026-02-02 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostPath of Dragons 14 - Chapter 25 - Thorn
For the first time in weeks, Elijah watched the sun peek through the grove’s canopy. Even through the localized rainstorm he’d summoned, he could see dust and pollen dancing in the beams of light. In the distance, children raced around the ancestral tree, playing a game of tag that left them giggling at their successes and failures.
Nerthus remained nearby, watching and waiting to step in and mend any damage they happened to inflict upon their surroundings. B...
2026-02-01 16:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostPath of Dragons 14 - Chapter 24 - Keystone
The night was quiet, but for the steady sound of a file scraping against wood. Elijah sat, hunched over as thick drops of rain fell upon his back. His clothes were soaked through, plastered to him like a second skin, while a dense atmosphere of vitality surrounded him. He ignored the vines and roots wiggling beneath him, his focus so singular that he couldn’t be bothered to pay them any mind.
To Elijah, there was only the branch.
He’d been at it for days.&nbs...
2026-02-01 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostPath of Dragons 14 - Chapter 23 - Sparring
The practice spear whistled through the air, slamming against Elijah’s unprotected head. Stars danced all around him as he collapsed to his knees. “Ow,” he muttered, reaching up to feel a growing lump.
“You’re really bad at this. You know that, right?” said his nephew, the slightest of smiles turning up the corners of his mouth. He twirled the practice spear almost lazily. It was a mistake of perception, as Elijah had discovered. Mig...
2026-01-31 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostPath of Dragons 14 - Chapter 22 - Education
Elijah knelt, resting his hand on the black soil. He could feel everything so keenly. Nerthus had already laid an intricate foundation, using various subterranean vines to create a tangle of runes that he barely understood. It was proof that, despite all the time he’d spent nurturing Treebie and terraforming Gorveth, he still had a long way to go before he reached the spryggent’s level.
In a way, that was comforting. During many of those idle years on Druhmor...
2026-01-30 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostPath of Dragons 14 - Chapter 21 - Questions
Elijah sat on the cliff, his back against the trunk of a tree as he stared across the strait at Ironshore. He remembered his first time seeing the budding settlement that would become a bustling city. Back then, it was just a collection of wooden buildings, its people struggling to create something permanent.
And now it was a real city, impressive by anyone’s standards and home to tens of thousands of people. All of them went about their lives, completely ignor...
2026-01-29 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostPath of Dragons 14 - Chapter 20 - The Reality of Time
Elijah sat on a tree branch overlooking the coast, watching a squad of crab-mounted Hartwood Sentries patrolling the beach. He didn’t recognize any of them, but by the way they moved, they all had a decent amount of power. Enough to protect themselves, at least.
Nearby, Elijah sensed a curious white fox he now recognized as the young Animist he’d met immediately after his return. The boy remained in stealth, but it was entirely insufficient to protect him fro...
2026-01-28 16:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostPath of Dragons 14 - Chapter 19 - A Shattered Man
He looked so strong.
And he was.
Sadie could feel that the second she laid eyes on him. The destruction of Meridian Lux served to support that impression, and her every sense screamed confirmation of that inescapable reality. But it only took a few moments for her to see beneath the surface and witness the broken man beneath that façade of strength.
That was why she hadn’t had it in her to tell him the whole truth. Not yet. He was so volatile...
2026-01-28 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post