“What do you think about this one?” asks Basil, coming out of the dressing room of the tailor’s shop.
Fresh looks up from the shelf that she’s browsing through. “It looks really great, Basil!”
Basil sighs, but smiles. “You said the same thing about ...
2021-09-04 10:18:27 +0000 UTC View Post
As you can see, I am putting your generous donations to good use. I commissioned these three cute drawings for the different Patreon tiers! =)
2021-09-04 06:50:47 +0000 UTC View PostCanta wakes up.
It hurts.
A mass of bodies lays on top of him. Soggy, damp flesh presses itself against his own, their dead-weight laying down on top of him. Their unmoving mouths are still full of the constantly regenerating flesh that they were tearing from him...
2021-09-03 19:03:35 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s the last of it,” says Jubilee, dusting their hands as the last of the water splashes out of Fresh’s open inventory. The four of them stand in the cleared out basement. “With all of these materials and our money, we’ll be up and running in a couple of days, when we get there....
2021-09-03 09:15:02 +0000 UTC View PostJubilee draws a line down over the crude map on the table. “We’ll head down this way, we’re gonna have to dip into the south a little,” they explain. “But only about a day’s worth of walking, it’ll be fine.”
“Can’t we just go around the center, to the north?...
2021-09-02 13:00:39 +0000 UTC View PostEverything goes white.
Annelida stares out of the window of their house, looking over the barren fields which stretch from before their door, out to as far as her eyes can see. She sighs, lowering her head to rest it down on top of her arms, which are crossed over the windowsill....
2021-09-01 13:30:37 +0000 UTC View Post“What do you mean ‘he left’?” asks Fresh, staring up at the familiar fairy, who looks out of the fairy-house hanging in the branches above the grave that she had dug.
The fairy from the tailor’s shop, Tarja, looks down at her from out of a small, open window. “He left...
2021-09-01 11:56:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe four of them walk around town together, having decided to take a stroll to really see the sights one last time. Though, the ‘decision’ wasn’t exactly that for everyone. Fresh had to beg and plead with Jubilee, in order to convince them to go outside with the rest of them. Jubilee had jo...
2021-08-31 08:55:27 +0000 UTC View PostCanta runs out of the door, stepping out of the buzzing house and out into the world. The moment he breaks out through the barrier, he stumbles. His eyes can’t keep up with his feet.
The dry, but fertile golden wheat that had surrounded them on all sides is now gray. The ruby-r...
2021-08-30 19:04:22 +0000 UTC View PostFresh rolls the boss-core back and forth over her workbench as she thinks, unsure of what to do. More aptly said, it’s not that she doesn’t know what she wants to do, it’s just that she isn’t sure if she should do it. This moment of quiet contemplation on her part, she realizes, would be ...
2021-08-30 15:42:59 +0000 UTC View PostTheir time together on the mountain is slowly coming to an end. And now, there is the potential to add a new, yet still somewhat unfamiliar, member to their party before they go.
Should Fresh try and find a way to allow Veli to travel with them, or are they better off keeping their ci...
2021-08-30 10:17:59 +0000 UTC View PostCanta sniffs the air. Something smells weird.
The tall yellow wheat-fields which seem to stretch on forever and ever, like the water of the boundless ocean that they had seen weeks before, billows from here to as far as Canta can see. The haze of the autumn sunshine covers the ca...
2021-08-29 19:03:55 +0000 UTC View PostFresh lets out a pitiful yelp as her lower back painfully pops. Her fingers, touching her toes, twitch for a flash of a second as the jolt shoots through her. She hangs there for a moment, feeling the stretch run up through the back of her legs. She realizes that she can barely touch her toes. Sh...
2021-08-29 08:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe far-west is different.
“Hold still!” says Canta, tugging on Alleluia’s shoulder to pull her head back straight. She spares him the noises and jokes this time as he fiddles around with her body.
“Sorry honey, I saw a cricket,” she explains. “I was ...
2021-08-28 18:02:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe magistrate looks at Fresh, sitting on the chair across from her in an unusual moment of quiet rest, as he swirls the bottle of coughee around in his hands, considering her request.
“It’s unusual,” he explains. “I don’t think anything like this has happened before....
2021-08-28 08:30:07 +0000 UTC View PostTufts of smoke loosely billow past them, the vapors of the cremation pushing past his nose, settling on his skin and further dirtying it with the destruction that they leave in their wake.
It’s been another day. Canta still hasn’t slept.
He pushes himself up ...
2021-08-27 18:36:41 +0000 UTC View PostFresh and Basil stand there, holding a set of poles that they’ve submerged into the water of the river. Basil had asked if this was really a priority task right now. Her question received no more answer than the, perhaps, most venomous glare from Fresh that the priestess had ever received.
<... 2021-08-27 07:24:52 +0000 UTC View PostA raspy breathing fills the room. The air that the man inhales pushes through his throat releasing a sound akin to a metal file against rock. With every falling of his chest, another scratching exhalation leaves his nearly lipless mouth, pushing over his blackened teeth. He doesn’t scream. He d...
2021-08-26 19:15:16 +0000 UTC View PostFresh runs around the basement, gathering up everything that they could possibly need during their travels and in their new destination, leaving only the necessities of what they might need here for the coming days. She doesn’t know how long it will be, but Jubilee is right. They need to be rea...
2021-08-26 07:49:38 +0000 UTC View PostGoing to the village would offer a potential new ability for Canta if he consumes the sin there, but it also carries the inherent risk of them being found. Otherwise, they could avoid the settlement and keep traveling through the backlands until they find something else, it's wiser, but not as ad...
2021-08-25 15:04:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe two of them walk for a while, always sticking to the side-roads that lead through the forest and then ducking into the woods occasionally. In all honesty, Canta has no idea where they’re going.
After some discussion during the morning, they realize that they both have no id...
2021-08-25 14:27:44 +0000 UTC View Post*NYAAAAH~!* shouts Mr. Mushroom, releasing his sonorous war-cry as he charges into battle. For some reason, he’s wearing a cape. Fresh sits on top of him, holding on to the leather reins as he charges through the dungeon, trampling through hordes of tiny, little wizards, all dressed in...
2021-08-25 09:15:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe underground storm-runoff tunnels are entirely dark and light-less, save for the odd, sparse ray of light that somehow has managed to find its way down to the underground, often shining through a grate or a broken surface above. Other glows come from splashes of old potions that have disconcer...
2021-08-24 18:30:22 +0000 UTC View PostFresh darts around behind the counter, running past all of her friends as she works on carving the delivery-chute into the rock surface behind the wall. It’s an odd construction project, but Jubilee is right in their assessment that it will optimize their repair process. Plus, with the new deli...
2021-08-24 09:08:53 +0000 UTC View Post“Hold still!” hisses Canta in a loud whisper, as he tugs on a piece of metal in her leg, trying to bend it back into place.
Alleluia holds her hands to her cheeks. “Honey! You’re so deep inside of me!”
“Will you cut it out!” snaps Canta, trying to f...
2021-08-23 18:58:35 +0000 UTC View PostFresh supposes that she has been afraid to use any of her curses for a while now. Not since the north. Maybe because of the mental connection to the somewhat traumatizing events that had taken place there, or maybe because she just doesn’t want to make any trouble for her friends or to upset th...
2021-08-23 09:19:24 +0000 UTC View PostCanta stares out of the window of their bedroom, his hands behind his back as he looks down over the night-washed courtyard, which lies far below them.
It’s been two days since that breakfast. At first, he was convinced that this was some further layer of the odd dream that he ...
2021-08-22 19:15:45 +0000 UTC View Post“A nest?” asks Veli after being asked by Fresh about the thing in the basement. It is past closing time, the last customers have left. Veli scratches his head, looking around the shop, clearly a little uncomfortable.
“Out with it,” snaps Jubilee, their fingers tapping aga...
2021-08-22 11:02:57 +0000 UTC View PostSin-Eater 27 has been drastically rewritten from the original Patreon version =)
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/44330/sin-eater/chapter/742312/chapter-27-proclivity<...
2021-08-21 18:10:39 +0000 UTC View PostFresh cups her gloved hands, blowing another tuft of ash forward over the crystal marbles on the table. This doesn’t help the already dusty basement become any less of a nose-itching mess, but it does complete the process of enchanting the marbles.
It is late in the morning of ...
2021-08-21 08:37:01 +0000 UTC View Post