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Abyssal Road Trip - 524 - I am not (yet) okay

Amdirlain’s PoV - Material Plane

Throughout Sarah catching her up on events she’d missed, Amdirlain continued creating simple bacteria and chemical chains for their reproduction. Verdandi’s death resonated with the stray memories the plinth had ensured she’d witness...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 523 - Best for me

Amdirlain’s PoV - Vehtë - Southgate

With gentle chiming notes, Verdandi’s Soul lifted from her body, and Amdirlain ended the lingering song that prevented the acolyte and priestess from hearing anything.

“Goodbye, Verdandi. Whatever your journey holds next for ...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 522 - Letting go

Amdirlain’s PoV - Vehtë

Phoenix’s Trail sped her across successive longitudes at a pace that saw the sun shift in the sky, taking her from early evening to early afternoon in a few seconds.

As she approached the northern shore of the Great Lakes, she paid more at...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 521 - An Unexpected Call

Amdirlain’s PoV - Demi-Plane

When the hug finally ended, Rachel winked. “Don’t keep the family waiting too long for a barbecue.”

“Once I’m settled, I’ll put regular family gatherings high on my list.”

Rachel laughed and wiggled her eyebrows. “T...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 520 - Home Again

Amdirlain’s PoV - Atonement

Silpar and Eldest barely began to field questions when the whole cloister jumped planes. The atmosphere shifted as the planar energy changed to calm consideration from the oppressive, chaotic pressure of the Abyss.

Purification energies w...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 519 - A Thousand Years

Amdirlain’s PoV - Culerzic

Amdirlain considered the nearby trio of Eleftherios, Laodice, and Naamah as the flames from the corruption’s incineration died, and she shrank to her typical height. The pendant of the Redemption’s Path, having survived her various transform...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 518 - Lost and found

Amdirlain’s PoV - Primordial Essence

Her initial impression had grossly underestimated the tens of thousands of shards she’d scrambled to locate and assemble. After the memory she’d retrieved of surviving the mines, time had passed with the steady beat and tiresome pr...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 517 - Pieces of me

Amdirlain's PoV

Liquid darkness drank her thoughts. A blink tickled her eyelashes across the icy surface beneath her, and she imagined herself lying face down on a sheet of ice; yet she became immediately unsure of what ice might be or why she was lying on it. Aches and sha...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 516 - Lose Yourself

Amdirlain’s PoV - Ijmti - The Cloister of the Fallen

The lifetimes she influenced loomed like an avalanche poised to crush her. Amdirlain sought her soulscape, but the plinth yanked her back into the moment. From within the plinth, billions of tales linked to her were ass...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 515 - One More Light

Amdirlain's PoV - Outer reaches of the Material Plane

The latest of the string of stars she'd left behind had only barren planets orbiting them. While ready for life to be created, she focused on pushing True Song. By not yet increasing her classes further, she was better a...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 514 - Colour your night

Amdirlain’s PoV - Demi-Plane

It’d taken under a month to have sessions with all the Enyalië. The gradual increase in group sizes as her Power improved was offset by the rests she took throughout the process. The process of supplying realistic simulations of True Song ...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 513 - Mood

Amdirlain’s PoV - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches

A few days later, a Gate contracted behind them, disappearing into the shadows beneath the trees. Amdirlain could see the fields outside the Outpost of the Western Reaches through the gaps between the trees...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 512 - Fleeting comfort

Amdirlain’s PoV - Demi-Plane

She’d only been there a few minutes when Sarah arrived—her look of relief at seeing Amdirlain changed to concern when their eyes met. “Your eyes look a lot older.”

“You could say I did some closed-door training. There was a tim...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 511 - Light 'Em Up

Amdirlain’s PoV - Hades

Lysandra shifted them to a gigantic grey cliff face carved with Grecian columns and balconies. Ancient shed ectoplasm provided ghostly echoes from all the souls that had trudged through the barred gates at the cliff’s centre. The stream of residu...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 510 - Bittersweet

Amdirlain’s PoV - Hades - Observation Platform

She appeared with the green figure in a vaulted chamber. Around them, sturdy constructs that had thick elephant legs attached to a central core used long tentacles to shift stacks of material from various storage containers. ...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 509 - Far away

Amdirlain’s PoV - Hades - Beneath the seal

The descent proceeded for a couple of kilometres through granite polished enough to shine like marble, and Amdirlain could feel the dimensional energies shifting across her skin. Oddly, it was a magic firmly laced with Chaos rath...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 508 - Goddess

Amdirlain’s PoV - Hades

When Amdirlain stepped out of the gold pane, Damon froze in mid-word with Medusa, who sat nearby. She caught him mentally setting aside their idle chatter to follow his duty.

He shook his head and looked up at Amdirlain in concern. “It conc...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 507 - Round and Round

Amdirlain’s PoV - Hades - Halls of Athena

A steady progression of knowledge points into the Arcane Knowledge had caused two evolutions. Her understanding of the realm’s rules and True Song made it far easier to see how the arcane elements of the realm linked. After hund...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 506 - Drought

Amdirlain’s PoV - Hades - Halls of Athena

Within Amdirlain’s Soul, the group of elves had grown distinct. A male among them drew Amdirlain’s gaze. While previously, only his lack of face tattoos had distinguished him from the others in the group, now he appeared worn ...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 505 - Time warp

Amdirlain’s PoV - Hades - Crete

Amdirlain waited near the closed gate, aware of the throbbing sour notes from her destroyed arm. Only when the sour notes eased did she move to the open floor area of the amphitheatre, checking for signs among the benches of where Medusa an...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 504 - Some like it hot

Amdirlain’s PoV - Hades - Tartarus 

Lava streamed off the figure as they rose higher in the volcano’s central pool. His stony brow alone was three hundred metres across while beneath his eye ridges pits of molten lava seethed in his eyes socket.

[Name: Ekdik...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 503 - Never be

Amdirlain’s PoV - Hades - Crete

Amdirlain emerged from the wormhole to find Damon staring at Medusa with wide-eyed fascination. “No one has ever returned from a trial with someone else before. What’s your name?”

“Megaera,” offered Medusa, without a glance ...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 502 - Left Behinds

Amdirlain’s PoV - Hades

Amdirlain easily located both the attackers and those who knew. Theodotus, despite his misogyny, hadn’t been involved at any point. Though he looked down on women, he considered such assaults to show a lack of prowess and honour. She concealed he...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 501 - Don't tell me.

Amdirlain’s PoV - Hades

Her perceptions contract to a churning conduit of white and black, with a pinprick of light in the distance. The threads of energy along the tube looked like the inside of the eye of a dust-laden twister. She felt herself rush along in the tube for minutes, and as ...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 500 - Crossroads

Amdirlain’s PoV - Hades

Wind and lightning battered Amdirlain as Aetos Kaukasios raced up the mountain. Every beat of the giant eagle’s wings pulsed the surrounding air with energy, and a rift split the grey clouds high above them. The psionic pattern aimed at her targe...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 499 - On my own

Amdirlain’s PoV - Atonement

She arrived a few million kilometres from where Nazha and his father were sparring atop the building. Amdirlain had expected as much since the Plane’s automated processing of souls left them little to do. As she started to plan her next steps...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 498 - Set me free

Amdirlain’s PoV - Beijing

From the hills outside the imperial city, Amdirlain looked over the red-tiled roofs and the neat lines of the paved streets. In a variety of sites beyond its limits, she observed large fortified compounds that contained the themes of multiple pra...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 497 - Parting ways

Sarah’s PoV - South Wind’s Court - Ayutthaya

As the two servants escorted them through the palace they caught glimpses into the rooms they passed. The interior was a mixture of polished stone, airy screens, and engraved wooden furnishings. Though it was immaculate by Hu...

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Abyssal Road Trip - 496 - It's you

Amdirlain’s PoV - South Wind’s Court - Ayutthaya

The river around the island—Ayutthaya—teemed with fishing and trade boats, as Amdirlain and other practitioners raced along the waters in the early dawn. They’d been in the guest house for days without invitations o...

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General Status

Hi Folks,

I'm running late with the second chapter this week. I've spent a lot of time finishing book 2, and chapter 496 needs reworking.

Will look to get three chapters together next week, but will see how things go.

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