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Tala and Eskau Meallain moved toward the door even as it slowly opened before them, large and ornate as Tala expected of the Major Houses and City Lord.
She was quite content walking between the elf and Terry, ...
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Tala looked at the slab of stone which showed the rear view from their flying construct as Howlton shrank and faded, then fuzzed and vanished in their wake.
The dinner with Paresh had been enjoyable and largely...
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Tala came up into a place near the center of the room, taking a moment to look around while Rane, Terry, Lea, and Honored Brandgul joined her in the room.
Just as she remembered, the room was ringed in glass,...
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Tala reveled in the warm light of sunrise as she sat in her throne within the sanctum.
Before her, a large panel of stone showed the world outside as her flying construct zipped forward.
Rather than openi...
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Tala could still taste the coffee well after she’d swallowed it, as she waited for Mistress Holly to impart what she was willing to say.
Even so, she still took another big drink to help fill the silence.
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Tala, Rane, Terry, and Lea stood in a massive, exterior experimental yard, surrounded by sections of wall.
There were octagonal towers, tower extenders to allow them to reach higher, wall tops with protected wa...
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Chapter: 644 - Heralding
Tala soaked up the atmosphere of Irondale as they made their way to the heart of the minor city within her expanded space.
Lisa walked with her, if half a step be...
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Tala briefly looked around at the play cottage, marveling at just how much work had been put into the children’s space. There were no kids about at the moment, the girls having just left, but if any did arrive, she...
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Tala decided to take her last day before departure for a tour through Ironhold. While she could see it all on a whim, it had been ages since she’d actually visited most of it in person, and given the upcoming ventu...
2025-10-06 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
I know there are no new chapters this week, but I wanted to send this y'all's way in any case.
It has been brought to my attention that one of the weaker parts of CYA was chapters 2-4, so I have combined them and streamlined them into what follows. NOTE: There is no change to the story. This is simply a paring down/refining. There are no new events.
This time, the google doc linked at the top is to an OPEN COMMENT document. I am trying to improve this ea...
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Tala regarded Eskau Meallain with an impassive face as the elf looked around in a mix of curiosity and hesitancy as she panned her gaze across the city of Marliweather.
The woman was firmly within Tala’s aura...
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Xeel stood atop one of the eastern peaks, distractedly smiling at that moniker in his own mind. They’ll be the western peaks again in half a cycle.
Still, he didn’t let his attention wander as he k...
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Tala kept her aura highly suppressed, as she stood at the back of the small area in which the memorial for Alan Karweil was being held.
He was her father, in blood and influence in her life, even if not in rela...
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Tala’s new body rested before her floating perception, built of reality iron and white steel, then woven through with regular iron, malleable material from her elk leathers, precious metals in the form of inscripti...
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Tala looked up into the massive eye that regarded her from the Doman-Imithe.
No, that’s not quite right. She was having a bit of trouble getting her perception to properly interpret unexpected things...
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Tala had been preparing for years now… more than a decade actually, when she thought about it, and she was ready.
She and Terry moved to her merging chamber, the one that she’d had built to study t...
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Tala, Rane, and Lea stood outside the house of the senior Karweil. Terry rested on Lea’s shoulder, but his one open eye was locked on Tala, clearly aware of her inner turmoil.
Rane held Tala’s hand. In thei...
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Tala took a deep breath, standing in her full armor at the edge of a known magical monster haunt.
These monsters weren’t really close to a human city, though apparently in cycles past there had been ...
2025-09-12 11:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostNOTE:
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Tala kept mastery over herself—but just barely—as she stood in an all too familiar room, the one in which she’d taken her first step of true advancement, where Terry had come to her aide even against A...
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