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125. Cross-Purposes

I really, really hate the smell of the forest. It reminds me of the fight where my limbs bitten off and I nearly got my whole team killed.

That and there's just so many things to sense. I've trained myself extensively to be able to pick out and identify dangerous scents and sounds, so it's not overwhelming, but it's certainly a lot. And now with Vita gone, I feel obligated to be the one directing everybody to safety. Which is a surprisingly difficult task even when we're just h...

124. Reunited

"Well basically," Margarette explains, "while Penelope was really into that cognimancy stuff and Theodora enjoys helping her research biomancy, I figured I'd do what you do and learn a bunch of necromancy! The first question I asked related back to our research about 'what constitutes a corpse.' I wanted to find the lower limit of what the Mistwatcher wouldn't grab a soul out of."

"And let me guess," I cut in. "Skeletons?"

"Skeletons!" Margarette chirps happily, her massi...

123. Homemade Horrors

A/N: Hey! This is an extra chapter this week because I missed one while moving. Expect one tomorrow as well! Enjoy!


For a beautiful moment, it's just the two of us, squeezing each other with all our might because, despite all our fears, we actually can. We're here, together again. I'm curled all around her, tentacles twisting around every inch of her body as I hold her close, Rosco nestled between my physical form and hers.

Something stirs inside her...

35. Efficiency

The ESTOLs are in the air. It's time for Squad Evelyn's next mission, and I dare any stupid bird monsters to try and stop them. I experiment with the acid cannons on a particularly unfortunate tree, and damn do these things melt shit. They also really hurt to use, and if I fire them too often it will disable them until I heal, but… I doubt that'll be a huge deal. Sloth acid is brutal, and between six ESTOL bodies I have twelve acid cannons. Two of these ESTOLs will remain ...

34. Triple Trouble

The massive monster with designs on my meat pile looks unfortunately familiar. It walks on two thick, powerful legs, ending in wicked claws. It has no head, only a mouth that stretches most of its upper body length, big enough to swallow any of my bodies whole. Four limbs ending in barbed spikes surround the circumference of the mouth, ready to impale a target and feed it into the beast’s awaiting gullet. It looks to be a few feet over EE’s eight in height, which is more than big enough t...

122. The Road Home

I am both confused and frustrated by the sheer number of people that decided to follow me out of the prison. I feel like I was pretty unambiguous with both the fact that I intended to be a complete dictator to anyone that stuck around, and that everyone is welcome to just leave. At the very least I was expecting the former prison staff to take me up on that, as well as most of the prisoners.

Turns out this is not the case. The entire cooking and cleaning staff is following me. ...

121. Letting it Out

My roommate and I each stare at each other in horror, for vastly different reasons. Neither of us has the courage to break the silence until eventually the burning agony of my question becomes too much to hold onto.

"...You know Fulvia?" I ask breathlessly.

Gina takes a while to register my words, for her eyes to stop staring at me and actually focus on me. I don't blame her. I know what I am. What I don't expect is for her to dart a hand underneath her pillow, pull out a knife, a...

33. Reflections

Hsthressis' words jolt me instantly from blearily soaking in the melancholy of the dream to wide-awake panic. All of my bodies leap to my feet, my mind racing with questions and terror. Did she just see all of that? Why? What should I do? I didn't mean for her to—

"Aaah, stop it! Evelyn, stop it stop it what are you doing!?"

Oh fuck. I'm moving Hsthressis' body too.

Sorry! God, I'm so sorry! I'm stopping, I'm stopping, it's yours.

I allow Hsthressis...

Chapter Delays, Fri/Sat/Mon

...I tried. I really did.

I'm moving into a new apartment tomorrow, and I've spent all week setting up everything I need for the lease and the move-in. I really hoped I could do it all congruently with normal uploads but... I can't. I won't have the chapters finished in time, and I'm absolutely exhausted from attempting it.

So! Emergency weekend break. I owe Patrons a bonus VM chapter to keep things at +15, and I'll likely just cancel the RR and Patreon HMGGH chapters for this wee...

120. Pass or Fail

"Hey, Lark!" a voice calls behind me. "Whatcha reading?"

I flinch only slightly before turning around to see the happily-grinning Xavier, who is thankfully not accompanied by Bently today. The two of them seem to be together a lot, which I suppose might just be normal for roommates. Not that I'd know, my situation is anything but. I like Xavier, all things considered. He's polite and always seems happy to see me, which is a strange but welcome experience.

"Oh, it's a copy of the V...

32. Parallel Paths

I sit stock-still, not trusting myself to respond, to move, or to even breathe. Tara, similarly, stops plodding along in her bear body, the pair of us waiting alone in the wilderness as the sun starts to set.

Is this it? Is this where I die?

"I'm sorry," Tara blurts out.

In my panic, my initial interpretation of that phrase is an advance apology for the fact that she's about to eat me, but as my brain starts to kick in, I notice her hands clenc...