[Here is the new version of Chapter 46. If you read the previous chapter 46, please read this one anyway. It's different enough to warrant a second read. Or at least skim it :P Peace!]
“Green, Black, three. House wins.”
A chorus of angry gro...
2018-10-17 16:59:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey peeps! So as I wrote Chapter 47 (which ended up being 12,500 words and might be broken up into two chapters it's so big) I ended up realizing that I messed up Chapter 46. I'd written the much of the characterization of Tehlmar wrong and it didn't match the character he is in 47. &nbs...
2018-10-17 04:52:36 +0000 UTC View Post“How much longer do we have to wait?!” Wham! General Cloudburner-hono’s fist slammed angrily onto a table. “How much longer will you refuse to do what needs to be done?!”
“And what exactly do you believe needs to be done?!” an incensed General Fernfeather-hono shot ...
2018-09-29 20:49:43 +0000 UTC View Post“Pathetic. I’ve seen ten-year-olds hit harder tha
2018-09-18 02:54:53 +0000 UTC View PostSorry it's taking forever for another update. 44 is almost done but my editor is busy with life. It doesn't help that it's currently 11,500 words long, making it by far the longest chapter I've written so far. It took me much longer than normal to write, and editing is even worse. ...
2018-09-16 01:36:18 +0000 UTC View PostHaidar Batra reclined against the back of a plush sofa in his private chambers, enjoying his time in the company of his four young grandchildren. Shrieks and cries sprang up all around him as the little tykes ran about causing chaos wherever they went, but Haidar only smiled. It was nice...
2018-09-03 22:04:57 +0000 UTC View PostSoft, warm light filtering through her eyelids melded with the musical chirping of birds off in the distance to pull Gabriela Carreno back into wakefulness. She let out a relaxed, sleepy hum. She felt better than she’d felt in as long as she could remember. A pleasant scent wafte...
2018-08-27 16:55:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Mama! Up!”
Gabriela Carreno put her knife down beside the half-chopped onion and bent down to scoop up her beloved son. She grunted as she lifted the two-year-old up to eye level. “You’re getting heavy, Javier. You’re Mommy’s big boy now!” she said to the gig...
2018-08-24 04:40:10 +0000 UTC View PostA palpable tension hung over Rul, a sense of impending doom that seemed to almost choke the air from the city and its populace. This wasn’t the Rul that Hector remembered. Back when he’d left the strange, creepy facility where he’d found himself without explanation, he’d wandered...
2018-08-19 04:23:37 +0000 UTC View Post“Just say it.”
“I don’t wanna.”
“Come on, Sam. I don’t have all day. Just say ‘Next stop’.”
“Why do I have to say it?”
Blake Myers massaged his forehead and fought back an aggravated groan. Kids. Always a headache. ...
2018-08-09 02:07:24 +0000 UTC View PostEvery city in existence possesses its own unique architectural quirks, and Nefin was no exception. The unusually large windows, designed to invite in the ocean winds in order to combat the city’s notoriously sweltering summers, were one salient example. The basketball-sized statues pla...
2018-08-05 22:44:22 +0000 UTC View Post[Sorry for the gap. The expected delay I talked about earlier this month ended up happening after all, and my editor went on vacation and hasn't had much time to edit.
This chapter is obviously a bit different in... tone. But this character is a bit different in attitude and it's from ...
2018-07-27 21:44:08 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m very proud of you, you know.”
Rudra grumbled and winced as the bandages slowly tightened around his torso. “It hurts to breathe,” he complained.
“Of course it hurts to breathe, you have two fractured ribs! Those are painful! Now hold still,” Jaya chided. ...
2018-07-07 14:06:24 +0000 UTC View PostAkhustal Palebane-chos watched with glee as her warriors returned to the land of the living, their journey to rejoin Ruresni forestalled. One by one they stumbled towards an official who, once enough had assembled, would take them to a nearby room and explain to them their situation. Onc...
2018-06-27 23:15:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe man came to life with a roar, struggling against the four Feelers holding his limbs still. Rudra was used to such reactions by now. Most of the people he’d healed so far reacted that way. Just as familiar with the situation as he, the four Feelers pulled the man off the groun...
2018-06-19 02:51:44 +0000 UTC View PostAkhustal Palebane let out a sigh as she crested a ridge and spotted a glimpse of Titan Grove far off in the distance through the forest canopy. Coming home had never felt so terrible before. Her body ached from the trip back, but not at much as her spirit. She’d spent the entire ...
2018-06-10 04:27:48 +0000 UTC View PostAkhustal Palebane swung her massive war club around in a wide arc, the giant weapon, carved over years from a piece of Ruresni herself and stronger than the hardest stone, hurtling towards the nearest Drayhadan at tremendous speed. The Drayhadan, likely the strongest fighter on that area of th...
2018-06-06 03:38:42 +0000 UTC View PostRudra Kapadia leaned back against the wall of his prison cell, feeling the smooth wood against his back and pondering whether or not to try to break out. The subject was far more complicated than it seemed. The material composing his cell, and the other cells that he could see through th...
2018-05-29 16:16:02 +0000 UTC View Post“How much longer until we’re there?” Rudra asked Eztli Silverwater, one of the people guarding him at the moment.
“If we make good time, we should be there before nightfall,” the man replied cordially. Rudra sighed with relief at the news. After weeks and weeks of pushing thr...
2018-05-23 17:15:54 +0000 UTC View Post“Where’d I go wrong, Arun?” Rudra Kapadia slurred to the bartender as he slumped forward on the barstool. He downed his third shot of the night. He wasn’t drunk enough for the occasion, but he’d fix that soon enough.
“What’s the problem now, Rudra?” Arun the bartender r...
2018-05-20 02:26:18 +0000 UTC View PostSo I had expected to have my Arc 2 planning/re-planning done back on Saturday. Sorry, but it took much longer than I expected. That being said...
Eleven different PoV's
Thirty-seven PoV Changes
Fifty Chapters
Buckle up, boys and girls. Arc 2 is looking to be a p...
2018-05-08 03:02:24 +0000 UTC View PostI hope you all enjoyed Chapter 28. I consider 28 to be the unofficial end of "Arc 1" of the story. That's why I'm taking a few days off from writing to recharge. Ever since I began writing, it's been like having a second job. The part that has really depressed me is that I ha...
2018-05-03 22:49:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Alright everybody, let’s get this over with,” Blake said as he marched into what he called the “Council Room”, a meeting room with a large circular table in the center surrounded by chairs. Blake hated this place. This was where boring happened.
“My Lord,” Leo said, risi...
2018-05-01 00:06:05 +0000 UTC View Post“So as you can see, three times ‘x’, then times ‘y’ is in fact equal to three times the result of ‘x’ times ‘y’. This is known as the ‘Associative Property of Multiplication’.”
Samanta watched her captor scribble feverishly on a large, flat slate board using a piece o...
2018-04-20 17:08:49 +0000 UTC View Post[Made a few small changes to dialogue and whatnot at the suggestion of my editor. If you've already read this, it's not something significant enough to read again.]
Arlette tossed the keys to Sofie and sprinted down the hallway after the man she’d once called her friend. At the...
2018-04-08 19:55:07 +0000 UTC View PostArlette Faredin wanted to scream. She wanted to cry. She wanted to run. But it didn’t matter what she wanted; her body wouldn’t listen to her mind. It was paralyzed by the sight of this nightmare from her past.
The door swung open and the man strode in, confident and in...
2018-03-31 21:25:37 +0000 UTC View PostOnce there was a country filled with happy people. They lived happily in their lands, where life was peaceful and food was plentiful. But the gods became jealous of their happiness and laid a curse upon the people and their lands. They stole away the sun, covering the sky in gray, ...
2018-03-23 04:22:53 +0000 UTC View Post“An’... and then ‘e said... ‘If tha’s a vekkel, where’s my wife?’”
Sofie Ramaut sat on a rough stool in a noisy tavern in a world she barely knew, watching three people she’d just met ramble and laugh drunkenly about their dead friends. In fact, drunk was putting it v...
2018-03-14 03:44:53 +0000 UTC View PostSofie Ramaut sat in a library at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, located in Brussels, Belgium, studying late into the night for an upcoming paper due a week from now. Being a linguistics major in the humanities department meant an endless parade of papers coming due, to the point that the libr...
2018-03-09 17:43:30 +0000 UTC View Post“Arlette, what the hell is going on?” hissed Sofie under her breath. “Did I hear her right? There’s an invasion coming? Did you know about this?”
The two of them sat against a wall in a second octagonal room adjacent to the state room where they’d first met the crazy ...
2018-03-04 05:44:28 +0000 UTC View Post