Lexie did not sleep throughout the night.
She and Pvilycht spent most of it working out possible pathways for the living card, and after brainstorming, they finally put it together, with Lexie writing her thesis and sketching it on her old black pad.
“Eldritch and human pathw...
2025-12-03 23:44:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe adults stared at the kids with a range of expressions, but it was Stein’s fierce disapproval that had Dewie shifting closer to Lexie.
Lexie stared back at Stein just as fiercely, but that was also so that she didn’t want to meet her father's gaze quite yet.
Journeyman, w...
2025-12-02 23:47:24 +0000 UTC View PostDewie blinked several times. “Huh?”
“I’ll explain on the way there,” Lexie told him. “But we need to leave now, before the portal closes.”
“Portal?”
“Yeah. I teleported here.”
"How?" he whispered as he sat up.
"Well, it wasn’t easy, I ca...
2025-12-01 23:18:38 +0000 UTC View PostUnlike before, when Lexie had explored Dewie’s pathways, this time he wasn’t on the medication that suppressed his soul magic; now it suffused his pathways, concentrating on those in his brain and his eyes.
It was a dark cloud that seemed to cause his pathways to glitch, and Lexie could...
2025-11-28 01:59:40 +0000 UTC View PostVacek nodded, accepting Lexie's demand. "We'll go to him first thing tomorrow. You'll need to work quickly, because I get the feeling we're getting to the end."
"The end of what?" Lexie asked.
"The Alchemist’s ultimate goal. I think he caused all that commotion to bring the Fae to E...
2025-11-27 00:57:25 +0000 UTC View PostLexie held the Fae Ambassador’s gaze for as long as she could, without breaking eye contact.
The Fae Ambassador also continued to stare down at her, and the mixture of his natural arrogance with the placid expression was irritating. Especially because Lexie could sense the smugness, the s...
2025-11-26 01:02:23 +0000 UTC View PostLexie instantly grabbed Tate’s arm, keeping him from going further.
“What is it?” he asks.
“There’s a dungeon underground,” she says. “Just appeared underneath our feet.”
“What?”
She didn't respond. She took out her phone and tried to reach her fa...
2025-11-25 00:54:53 +0000 UTC View PostNaem and Lexie stared at each other silently, while Lexie analyzed the emotions trickling through her.
The Eldritch part of her didn’t feel much for him. She was no longer attached to him, and vengeance toward him was no longer her main goal, so now she was stuck with mostly indifference,...
2025-11-21 00:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostAiden caught his daughter’s arm before she could leave.
“You’re not going anywhere, missy, before you tell me what you’re about to do,” he said sternly, and Lexie raised an eyebrow.
She could simply teleport without her father’s permission, and seeing as how there were peo...
2025-11-19 23:48:24 +0000 UTC View PostMane gave Lexie an indulgent smile like one would give to a kid who’d just said something silly.
In fact, a few of the staff did the same thing, and Theo even ruffled her hair as Mane said, “Let’s go inside. The cook made some apple pie, plus that custard you like.”
He t...
2025-11-19 00:06:34 +0000 UTC View PostLexie’s simple denial seemed to throw them all for a loop. Even Vacek and Aiden shot Lexie looks. The Fae did not show their shock easily, but Lexie had lived with Ryn long enough to know what that little ear shake signified. They were surprised.
“No?” the Ambassador said. ...
2025-11-17 23:15:25 +0000 UTC View PostDewie’s knee bobbed anxiously inside the Road Rocket.
He was staring out the windows, his hands folded in his lap because he was trying not to bite his nails. They were already short, round little nubs in his fingers, and his mother would kill him if they got any shorter.
“W...
2025-11-14 23:34:56 +0000 UTC View PostLexie had her eyes closed when the door opened again.
She wasn't asleep. She didn’t think she could sleep, at least not without help from Ryn’s special tea. But she’d closed her eyes because she wanted to remember what it felt like. She wanted to soak it all in, the scent, the noises,...
2025-11-13 23:16:43 +0000 UTC View PostLexie was having a little trouble breathing.
She didn’t know if it was because of how hard Aiden was squeezing her during their extended hug, or if it was because of the chaos storm.
Or if it was…something else.
She was trying to be patient with the hug, though she was a lit...
2025-11-12 23:53:23 +0000 UTC View Post“The Mundane isn’t half bad,” Top Dog said to make conversation as they waited for the next match to start. This was the match he’d been waiting for all day, the one he really came to see.
“Told you he was good,” Conrad said. “It’s a shame he doesn’t want to fight an...
2025-11-11 23:06:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Thank you for agreeing to meet with me, Ambassador,” Dominic Vacek said as Ambassador Raz-Ro-Nan walked into the office. He was so tall that he barely cleared the door, and he looked comically large next to the short, round Jerry, who'd led him in.
They both took seats at the other sid...
2025-11-10 22:47:05 +0000 UTC View PostA ruddy-faced, hairy man cut a tall and imposing figure against the starry sky. He was standing at the rooftop of one of his city lodgings, a half-finished glass of ale in hand, and though the burn down his throat should have been enough punishment, it did nothing to soothe his guilty conscience....
2025-11-09 22:31:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe poison rushed through his blood, the metallic taste stinging his mouth.
He knew almost instantly what it was, and it was his very first guess. Blue Nightshade. A classic torture device, often used by the Borgans and the Underworld Brotherhood to extract information from spies and enemy ...
2025-11-08 22:12:10 +0000 UTC View PostA land card.
It sounded so obvious that Lexie was kind of surprised she didn't think of it instantly. The Mountain had said that Lexie could not exist as what she was in the human world.
But what if she did not technically exist in the human world?
Land cards had initially been ...
2025-11-07 00:05:22 +0000 UTC View PostAiden sat on his front porch and waited for Tate, who was walking down the lane looking more relaxed than usual. He also looked cheerier, though it did not show on his face.
He’d been going out almost every day, and Aiden knew that apart from fulfilling his end of their mission, he was ...
2025-11-05 23:40:12 +0000 UTC View PostNeqal’s lab was a mess, which was likely a reflection of his mental state.
He had essences and wasted chaos strewn about, the outerdarkness whispering and moaning.
Naem picked his feet through the floors, watching the snarling creatures that Neqal had chained up in the corners of h...
2025-11-04 22:18:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe Mountain was not at all what Lexie expected. She’d been expecting something grand, something terrifying, a monster without a million grotesque faces.
Not this vaguely humanoid thing with a soft lilting voice, almost like that of a fairy.
The being did not look Eldritch at ...
2025-11-04 00:11:56 +0000 UTC View PostArthur snuck out near midnight.
It took two carriages and a donkey to get to his destination. It was deep in the Weston lands, a place he used to call home.
They said stars in the Weston sky were plentiful, far more than anywhere else in the Kingdom of Maradon.
Some ...
2025-11-02 20:20:13 +0000 UTC View Post“Feel my wrath! Stab! Stab! Stab!”
Arthur was greeted at the door of his home with swift thwacks to his calf courtesy of his seven-year-old sister and her new obsession, a wooden sword their brother had gotten for her. His sister was in a rambunctious mood this evening, attacking him vi...
2025-11-01 19:45:08 +0000 UTC View PostLexie started by attempting to send Little Fae home.
She knew this would likely be hard because she wasn’t sure how close the dungeon was to the Fae Planet. If it were too far away, it would require Lexie to dive too deeply into Yasycht’s essence, which could hurt her.
But s...
2025-10-30 23:48:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe group was silent, and Lexie was more than a little disappointed that they weren’t immediately impressed by her genius.
And that’s what her plan was...genius.
But maybe they didn’t understand it. Maybe they needed further clarification on how clever it was.
...
2025-10-30 01:48:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe knock on Aiden’s door wasn’t wholly unexpected. He’d been expecting Vacek to visit for some time now. The paranoid man wouldn’t be satisfied with his spies reporting that Aiden had been doing nothing but keeping to himself and staying out of trouble.
Aiden had even started going...
2025-10-29 00:24:38 +0000 UTC View PostUncle Max had his gun in hand and his other hand ready to flip open his eyepatch.
Lexie walked to the door and saw a serpent-humanoid in the courtyard, surrounded by dozens of other animal-humanoids.
Therianthropes, Lexie heard a whisper in her head, as knowledge dropped into...
2025-10-28 01:13:38 +0000 UTC View PostLexie was getting impatient. The hooded figure still hadn’t spoken, and he hadn’t revealed himself either.
“Did you hear what I said?” Lexie asked, wondering if she should use <Can I Have Your Attention> to project her voice further. “Are you deaf? Or you don’t speak...
2025-10-23 23:48:43 +0000 UTC View PostAt the ultimatum, Pvilycht and Lexie stared at each other.
Lexie was annoyed, and Pvilycht was passive and more than a little smug. Plus, sadistic. Now that he was no longer bonded with her as strongly, it seemed his previous irritating personality traits were returning. He'd been much mild...
2025-10-23 00:55:34 +0000 UTC View Post