CHAPTER 38
Waves, waves of the dead crashed on them. His world reduced to the current opponent and situational awareness of the next danger coming up fast. He was just endlessly swinging, stabbing, forcing his sword to cut through the cold meat and stubborn ligaments of every thing that wan...
2022-05-01 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostArelt trudged along, blistered feet tremendously pained inside his heavy boots.
‘I wonder if Benk thinks as I do.’
The back of his partner’s head gave no information. Benk was staying close to Igni, who apparently liked the sorceress.
‘This woman is trouble....
2022-04-30 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe next chapter of AIC is being checked and edited, you’ll see it here within 24 hours. Also look for 2 updates of The Lilliad.
In May, if I can pull it off, I’ll be posting something experimental. I want to write an original story and give readers the option to plug in the names and p...
2022-04-30 16:13:25 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER 7
BOARDED AT SCHOOL
Little stood in a parlour, waiting next to a trunk that was apparently hers now. It was full of clothes and paraphernalia that she hadn’t had time to look through yet. On the other side of a glass door, Mrs. Winters was talking with a tremulously elderly ...
2022-04-29 09:53:25 +0000 UTC View PostAbsurd and random, I know, but this is from a setting where she’s born 5 years before Naruto.
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“Uzumaki-san.” Shisui had to stop and suck in a steadying breath. They could afford a few seconds to plan, they had gotten far enough away. He pushed through t...
2022-04-07 07:28:16 +0000 UTC View PostLittle stood in a parlour, waiting next to a trunk that was apparently hers now. It was full of clothes and paraphernalia that she hadn’t had time to look through yet. On the other side of a glass door, Mrs. Winters was talking with a tremulously elderly woman in all black clothing, with tiny g...
2022-03-31 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER 4
in which Yué suspects her best plan needs workshopping. Written because I need some serotonin, things are not going to plan lately.
The most obvious answer for avoiding Hahn and his necklace was not to go near him...
2022-03-31 01:03:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Little in her borrowed orange dress, realizing she is out of her depth.
Objectively I am not good at drawing people, my one artistic ability is painting on skin. But I offer this anyway, in case someone would like to know what she looks like.
2022-03-30 02:37:46 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER 6
charity
The library was an open, airy room, with a scattering of chairs. A cart with an assortment of strangely shaped bottles rested to the right of where Mr. Pine was seated. He didn’t look at her when she entered the room.
Mrs. Winter made an...
2022-03-30 02:11:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dream
Little had to move fast to keep up, which was not what she expected. It was easy, though, because the crowd parted in front of the lady of the manor. She stopped in uncertainty when they reached a carriage and the lady stepped up inside.
The lady fixed Little with a yellow s...
2022-03-26 02:27:15 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a particularly cold morning. Yué regretfully pulled off her waterproof mittens and then the thin, soft gloves underneath. She winced at the air. She was in the living room attached to her personal suite. No one else used the room, so it hadn’t been warmed at all yet for the day. 2022-03-09 05:02:30 +0000 UTC View Post
“He’s handsome,” Aunna said under her breath. Her face was turned politely, modestly away, and she was so quiet that the two waterbenders at the back of the boat probably couldn’t hear the glee in her voice. “A southern tribesman! I’ve never met one. I heard he’s their Chief’s son...
2022-03-05 03:00:36 +0000 UTC View PostIdk if anyone is interested but here is a brainworm I had for an SI in avatar, of all the things.
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The girl was born in a fabulous palace at the center of a wealthy city, with glittering walls that hid the yellow dance of sunlight on the waves. It was pale inside, ...
2022-03-04 03:50:31 +0000 UTC View PostThere was nowhere to run. Little felt calm. That wasn’t what she’d expected to feel when she was in this position. But she made direct eye contact with those yellow eyes and she knew she was about to die. It wasn’t a shock. On some level, she’d known this was coming. She’d known she was...
2022-02-28 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe next trip went perfectly smoothly. She delivered all of the walkers without any fuss or feeling that they were followed. Little felt very cheerful and comfortable on the way out of the church and to enjoy a few minutes at the market before she needed go eat lunch at the manor house.
A s...
2022-02-28 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostLittle was the last to arrive. They had been arriving before her, staggering arrivals in order to slip unnoticed
She saw the baby’s mother immediately, a tired-eyed woman bouncing it on her shoulder. Little tapped the older woman and held out the now-dried herb. “Give this,” she murmu...
2022-02-28 10:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe clearing stank. It was heavily shadowed but she could just barely see the outline of a figure hanging down from the tree, abandoned like a broken toy. The other refugee was face up and gasping brokenly. His spine was bent so that his hips faced down.
Their guide was face down, still on ...
2022-02-28 08:41:09 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://www.instagram.com/reel/CZKY0amBWKa/?utm_medium=copy_link
i just wanted to show you all because I saw myself in this lady.
2022-02-01 08:54:22 +0000 UTC View PostThey followed Mairi out of her family’s grand estate. They walked and walked through the city. The sun reached its zenith and then began to set before the sorceress pointed a long elegant finger at a stone wall.
“...there?” Lilli glanced back. “It doesn’t look that old.”
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2022-01-31 23:59:28 +0000 UTC View PostThey wanted to go directly after traces of whatever magical catastrophe had happened in the city. Assuming that their scorpion informant was correct, there ought to be signs here.
“All of the city looks old,” Ser Alcuin said. They turned in an uncertain semicircle. “Elathor, do you kn...
2022-01-31 20:36:47 +0000 UTC View PostFor once, Sanbi was dead silent. Aiko wasn’t breathing. The light coming off the sun goddess was boring into her brain.
“Go into the Land of the Dead.” Amaterasu adjusted the long hem of her many layered kimono. “Bring back my mother, Izanami no Mikoto.”
...Aiko opened her m...
2022-01-27 01:20:29 +0000 UTC View PostCHAPTER 34
The sun was setting when Lilli and Ser Alcuin climbed down the stairs of the temple to rejoin their waiting companions.
Arelt looked up anxiously, fingers tangled in loops of string. Lilli eyed that and wondered. “How did it go?” Arelt asked. “It took a long time.”<...
2022-01-27 01:14:44 +0000 UTC View PostHappy January!
I say, nearly at the end of January. time is a difficult concept for me. thank you for your patience.
AIC is my main writing project right now, followed by The Lilliad. There should be more of both this month. I have been fist fighting with this segment of AIC...
2022-01-24 02:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s not exactly what I meant...” Sarutobi frowned.
The head priest hummed. “As these lands have recently suffered from mismanagement by Orochimaru-san, we here have learned that perhaps it is best to carefully consider the benefits and drawbacks of all chosen affiliations and pr...
2022-01-24 01:38:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun was setting when Lilli and Ser Alcuin climbed down the stairs of the temple to rejoin their waiting companions.
Arelt looked up anxiously, fingers tangled in loops of string. Lilli eyed that and wondered. “How did it go?” Arelt asked. “It took a long time.”
In answer, ...
2022-01-18 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThey spent two days combing the mountainside, going up and down until Lilli’s thighs shuddered from over exertion. They gave up on the proper path and tramped all over the deer trails. All they found was a goat, which they promptly murdered and ate. They didn’t notice until far too late that ...
2021-12-31 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWithin 24 hours, the princess understands the situation she’s in. She and her ladies in waiting formulate a plan to get out.
2021-12-31 22:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAN I apologize for the delay. I realized I was cutting too many corners and went back to the drawing board with significant revisions. I really wasn’t feeling it before and was trying to be vague and re write my way around the canon Drabble to what I actually wanted to write, and I r...
2021-12-31 22:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostAfter spending all that time going up, Lilli was dismayed to be heading down. Inside the mountain temple, the air was surprisingly dry and cool. It felt much better than outside. There was that.
Lilli jumped, whipping around to look behind her.
Nothing.
She slowly lowered her da...
2021-12-31 18:59:59 +0000 UTC View PostOk I lied, the second half of this will be posted tomorrow.
Sunlight was painful. Kakashi grimaced. He ignored the shakiness in his arms and hefted himself up to a seated position. He surveyed the room.
“Well, well.” His voice was r...
2021-12-31 12:58:39 +0000 UTC View Post