Seersucker

Book 2 Ch 10: I Think We May Need to Split Up

Vampa looked up as Dantes approached, his eyes darting up and down as if assessing a threat and quickly determining there wasn’t one.

“Who are you?” he asked, as he began to unwrap the ...

Book 2 Ch 9: Grinning Down at Them

Dantes watched incredulously, checking with the rats at the Vixen for just a moment. Things seemed to be going as they usually did, with a few early morning sailors pairing off with the girls. The ...

Book 2 Ch 8: Take Care of the Girls

Dantes slipped past the watchers on the Vixen easily as a rat, and climbed up to the windowsill of his room where the window had been left cracked to allow Jacopo an easy entrance and exit as he wa...

Book 2 Ch 7: Why did these things all seem to happen in waves?

Traveling through a tree was probably Dantes’ least favorite method of travel. He felt his sense of self momentarily disappear and become one with a kind of primal and natural force, before being...

Book 2 Ch 6: Welcome a brother

The group ate the meal together, some in silence, others with some light chatting. There was a comfortable familiarity to the group that Dantes sensed had been developed over many years. He himself...

Book 2 Ch 5: Why would I want to be anything other than a rat?

Dantes looked at Lorna and the strange green creature she’d called Beast as they moved to sit next to him. Her eyes were dark, almost black, and he found his own drawn to them. Like looking down ...

Book 2 Ch 4: Plans to initiate. Old friends to kill.

As Dantes walked into the glade, he could feel the attention of the other druids slowly shift to him. The woman in the lake was the first to approach, pulling herself out of the water, with her str...

Book 2 Ch 3: This is all that remains

Dantes followed behind Murk and Traizen as they walked through the Veridian Expanse. Dantes had never been in a forest before, and found himself overwhelmed by it. The trees ranged wildly in size f...

Book 2 Ch 2: The weak and the tainted

Dantes drifted in and out of consciousness for some amount of time between thirty seconds and five hours. He had flashes of consciousness in which he saw streets, abandoned buildings, an...

Book 2 Ch 1: Mondego, sir

Zak, Jayson, and Jayk sat on a too soft couch in an opulent parlor listening to the sounds of a man being beaten to death in the other room. They looked at the gaudy gold and purple curtains, the r...

Ch 71: Dantes the Druid

Wayne brought down the axe with a grunt, taking a piece of the root that was attempting to sneak into the space closer to the maw. The root bled red, and began to shrink back. On either side of Way...

Ch 70: Sleep

Dantes poured what was left of Gaspard’s healing potion over his knuckles, wincing as the bones in them resealed and the scrapes stitched together. He pocketed the other two potions that were lef...

Ch 69: It would make us feel better

Gaspard woke in the dark and for a moment, he wondered if he was dead. He didn’t feel any pain, which was a stark contrast to how he felt when he’d finally passed out. How he felt while Dantes ...

Ch 68: Just a chat

“... And so the gnome sailor says to the orc, ‘I’ve never seen a man firmer in his beliefs’.” finished Dantes with a smile.

Sera’s face contorted as she tried to resist laughing, ...

Character portraits

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I felt guilty posting self promo today without posting a little something extra. These are some character portraits I made using midjourney to put next to the character bi...

The Deadman Trilogy is complete!

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Some of you are probably already aware of the series I was writing before Downtown Druid. Well, it's now completed, with all three book available on KU and audible.

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Ch 67: Fell into my knife

Dantes shot up, breathing heavily and covered in sweat. He looked around the room, sensed the flowers on his windowsill, Jacopo stirring beneath the bed, and a solitary roach nibbling on some small...

Ch 66: A silence hungry for words

Dantes came down early in the morning as he had the previous day. Creeping completely silently down the stairs and arriving to the sight of Tilly once again cleaning the floors. She was a very orde...

CH 65: Midtowner born and raised

It was very late when Dantes made it back to the Vixen, but not so late that it had closed for the night. He shifted back into his normal self in an alley a few blocks away. It took longer than it ...

Ch 64: Quick and dirty

Dantes skittered through the outskirts of Midtown with Jacopo, their small paws making little sound as they moved across the cracked and broken cobblestone streets. During the trek it had gotten da...

Ch 63: One bite at a time

Dantes didn’t react, simply continuing his walk as if he hadn’t heard anything.

“How many?”

“Three.”

He looked at the window of a nearby pub and took note of the three...

Ch 62: That's his perogative

Dantes watched the exchange between Ket and Pacha through Jacopo’s eyes with great interest. He’d remembered Zak telling him about Pacha back in the pit. A guardsman that was actually trying to...

Ch 61: There's always some new vice

This wasn’t how Dantes had hoped his first day helping out at the Vixen would go, but he was unconflicted about how to react to someone attempting to slap him. He swung his left arm down where th...

Ch 60: I've had far worse habits

“You're late for breakfast,” said Vera from the head of the table, cutting into a heavily seasoned egg delicately with a knife and fork.

“Sorry auntie. Took a walk and got lost. Been a ...

Ch 59: I like what I like

Dantes woke the next day next to Alessa, and carefully got out of the bed so as not to wake her. She hadn’t wound up with much business, so he decided to help her out. He certainly had no motive ...

Ch 58: Too surprised to be angry

Dantes walked into the Vixen with Jacopo tucked comfortably in one of his new jacket’s pockets. In the entryway, Alessa was leaning sultrily against a wall, her half-lidded orange eyes glancing u...

Ch 57: Memento of a dear friend

“Wouldn’t it be flattering for a customer to drop his trousers? Means you did a good job on the scrims.”

“No. It would just mean I need to beat a half naked man. Unlike the women at t...

Ch 56: He wanted them to know that they'd lost

Dantes pulled up his hood, and started walking down the street, keeping an eye on Mercedes from a distance. Two large men were following behind her, each of them carrying boxes and bags of what Dan...

Ch 55: That's not what your mother told me

Dantes stepped out of the Vixen and took a deep breath, savoring the slight taste of salt in the air and the morning breeze whistling through the alleyways. He hadn’t felt a breeze in a long time...

Ch 54: You shouldn't, it's a lie

Dantes woke up on the floor. He’d moved there at some point during the night when he’d found the bed too soft to sleep on. He took a deep breath and took in his surroundings. Light coming in th...