Chapter 62
Audience With the King
I barely had time to take a single shuffling step towards Basil, still holding onto my guts to keep them inside, before the world went white an...
2025-11-30 03:26:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 61
The Greatest Good
I was impressed by Hull. He wore shock on his face sure enough, clear as day even with his skin covered in starlight, but he readied himself to char...
2025-11-26 06:53:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 60
The Consequences of Winning
“You best watch yourself,” Penkmun said, leaning back in his chair and shaking his head. “You’re likely to get whacked on the head...
2025-11-23 04:38:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 59
Old Acquaintances
Watching Hull destroy his mother’s card was like watching our enemies scatter to the wind, the spray of shards their fleeing backsides. I could fe...
2025-11-19 05:29:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 58
The Love of a Mother
She appeared out of nowhere on the arena floor in front of me, looking startled. Seems the Twins hadn’t trusted her to take the tunnel route th...
2025-11-16 07:56:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 57
Persuasion, to the Death
I jumped up and down in place and shook my hands loose, wishing the stones of this weird place in the Twins’ city would give under my feet ...
2025-11-12 05:07:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 56
When Words Fail
I won’t get to kill him. That was my first thought when the semifinal pairings were revealed. While an arm for an arm had contented me wher...
2025-11-09 06:50:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 55
Know Thine Enemy
“We approach the semifinal round,” Rakkoden said to us. “The moment of decision approaches. The Twins of Glory are pleased with the valor and p...
2025-11-05 02:58:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 54
Revenge
The leonid’s breath was hot on my face as he growled through his teeth. “I had hoped you would be more of a challenge than this, little human.”
Ou...
2025-11-02 04:33:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 53
Trickster
I sat and stared at the card I held. Ever since I’d earned the elevation at the end of my match against Xemris I’d kept it in hand. I just needed to kee...
2025-10-29 03:03:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 52
Unwanted Future
At any time now they would call her name, and Esmi felt the anticipation of that moment in her bones. She stood by Basil while she waited, a place tha...
2025-10-26 08:36:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 51
The Only True Honesty
Xemris breathed deep to cycle the anger through her veins as she waited motionless on the dueling grounds. The Nether was so weak here in the mo...
2025-10-22 06:23:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 50
The Time Between
There was a flow of air in the room, but it was a hesitant thing, so light it would have escaped me if I hadn’t been sitting perfectly still, my se...
2025-10-19 01:17:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 49
Sins of the Mother
The centaurs were making a fuss over Gale as they kept him from bleeding to death, but I kept my distance. He’d just make some stupid joke about ...
2025-10-15 05:09:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 48
Far From Home
The humans yapped at each other like cubs barely past their mother’s milk, which in truth most who still lived were. They celebrated the return of the...
2025-10-12 01:54:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 47
Breaking Bread
Esmi felt as if some huge golem Relic had its hand wrapped around her chest as she watched Stafford plunge his meaty fist into the prince’s guts. Som...
2025-10-08 00:19:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 46
What the Heart Wants
The damnable cell they were in for viewing the duels was not nearly long enough for Gerard to outpace the anger the conversation with his bastard...
2025-10-05 05:15:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 43
Things That Matter
I’d only left Afi’s side for a bare moment to see the tail end of Basil’s match, but now I hurried back to her, pride at my friend’s win wa...
2025-10-01 04:43:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 44
Vows & Victories
Afi came back to us in a weeping, bleeding heap, which Hull took in his arms the moment she arrived, the two of them sagging down to the floor to...
2025-09-28 03:19:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 43
What Is Mine
Afi was gripping my hand like she meant to break it as she stared at Edaine’s card with silent tears coursing down her face. Come to think of it, I was...
2025-09-24 02:44:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 42
Round 1
The centaurs moved aside with an elegant sideways trot, their hooves clip-clopping on the stone-like substance we stood on. They were making a clear path for ...
2025-09-21 02:59:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 41
Union
I never thought I’d experience anything that could distract me from having an enemy’s hand clamped around my throat, especially when that enemy was a big-as...
2025-09-17 02:27:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 40
A Different Kind of Royalty
The demon with the tail greeted Hull with a great deal more familiarity than I would have expected. I hadn’t seen her since Hull’s mot...
2025-09-14 00:29:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 39
Into the Fray
We thundered down the main avenue watching cobbles shake loose and windows crack at every step. I laughed at the feeling of the wind whistling through m...
2025-09-10 02:28:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 38
Friendship
The Precinct cleared quickly, in a flurry of pounding boots and jostling bodies. Afi cast one last forlorn look at Hull before vanishing into her Mind Home...
2025-09-06 20:56:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 37
Unacceptable
I wiped my sweat-slick brow and stepped away from the mobile forge to catch my breath. The Queen’s smith – a man named Flockson – dismissed the Les...
2025-09-03 02:38:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 36
Off Center
There was a tang in the back of my throat. Not the metallic strangeness of blood I had experienced once as a child, but a stale heaviness that my body didn...
2025-08-31 01:38:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 35
Something Useful
“Really do ha...
2025-08-27 02:06:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 34
The Home Within
I had spent a li...
2025-08-24 01:27:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 33
No End of Visitors
I fell...
2025-08-20 01:54:42 +0000 UTC View Post