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Penitent Ch 25: Every Man's Fantasy

Michael crouched down in a bush doing his best to ignore a thorny branch digging into his side. He knew that Davi and Pyotr were on the other side, dealing with similar discomforts as they waited. ...

Penitent Ch 24: Cause Chaos

Their eyes adjusted and they saw in front of them a young man sitting with a bright smile, perfectly coiffed brown hair, and soft gray eyes. He was sitting in a chair behind a crude wooden table, b...

Penitent Ch 23: Exercise Exercise Exercise

Michael as well as the rest of the irregulars, spent the rest of the week preparing for the upcoming exercise. There was additional instruction about how to ‘kill’ your opponents that basically...

Penitent Ch 22: Punishment

After a few more weeks, Michael was looking at himself in the mirror. He took a moment to divine himself, and when he saw no changes and was unable to reveal anything new, he cleared it and instead...

Penitent Ch 21: Pubescence

The next two weeks went about the same. Michael continued his diviner training, and gained more stamina both as a healer and also in general, his muscles, heart, and lungs recovering from exercise ...

Penitent Ch 20: Ranking and Rest

At the end of the week, their first rankings went up. Michael had attained first in shield and overall conditioning. He thought his performance on the hill the other day was the reaso...

Penitent Ch 19: Sparring

Michael caught up with the rest of the group as they were being paired off. They were starting with sword and shield, which was his favorite pairing, and because he and Pyotr were the last two to a...

Penitent Ch 18: Grit

The next morning started similarly to the previous ones. The lights in the barracks went off, and everyone got up and got into their uniforms. Kline came in, and inspected everyone’s uniforms. If...

Penitent Ch 17: Incentive

The next few weeks everyone was moving more and more toward some kind of specialization with only a few exceptions. Ollie continued his mage training, with occasional help from everyone else when h...

Penitent Ch 16: Old Dog, New Tricks

They arrived in the infirmary with their guard in tow. Meera did not shorten her strides or slow her pace as they walked so Michael had to effect a kind of half-walk, half-run in order to keep up w...

Penitent Ch 15: Divine

“Touched by divinity,” said Kline standing from where he’d been kneeling by Ollie. “And a healer at that.”

Ollie stood back up too, blinking and wiping some blood away on his sleeve...

Penitent Ch 14: Helping Hand

Kline pointed at Davi who’d had his hand raised for nearly five minutes. It had taken quite some time to earn another free hour of questions after what had happened with Xiu, but Kline had finall...

Penitent Ch 13: New Flows

A month passed without anything else significant happening, and things fell back into routine. Wake up, treatment, magic, language, lunch, military norms, or quartermaster duties in Michael’s cas...

Penitent Ch 12: Brand

There was one hour to sleep, which few of them in the barracks actually managed. After that they shuffled silently to receive their shots for growth, with Ollie receiving what looked to be a half o...

Penitent Ch 11: Reasonable

Michael snapped awake as the lights to the barracks came on. He rubbed the sleep from his eyes and looked around, seeing everyone else doing the same.

“What’s going on?” he asked Davi w...

Penitent Ch 10: Collateral Duties

One day Ollie was taken out of the barracks and not returned to the rest of the group until breakfast where he sat shaking his head and cursing under his breath as he bit into a biscuit.

“W...

Penitent Ch 9: Routine

The next several weeks followed the same formula. They would wake up, dress, be inspected, get punished if they messed up, walk to the alchemist to receive the next injection, breakfast, magic, lan...

Penitent Ch 8: Q&A

Dinner was uneventful, but when they arrived back at their bunks, there were large packs on each bed as well as storage trunks at the foot of each bunk. They were told that they’d be wearing unif...

Penitent Ch 7: Magic

They were all in a classroom standing on stools at metal tables in a semicircle facing Kline and a man wearing the same uniform, but with a brown leather shoulder on his uniform rather than a black...

Penitent Ch 6: Dawn

They did bring them dinner, and showed them the facilities which proved that they had at least some form of running water, and assigned them to bunks. There was a heavy emphasis on making sure the ...

New Story

As some of you may have noticed, I just posted the first five chapters of my new story, "Penitent" for all members to read. I'll be posting these same chaps early next week on RR, but thought you s...

Penitent Ch 5: Warm Welcome

Michael watched the man leave and turned back around to see that a few of the other lifetakers had approached him. One of them, a short blonde kid with a flat nose, stepped closest.

“Ni hao...

Penitent Ch 4: New Skies

The start of the trip to the Stent Military Academy was uneventful. The woman who’d been put in charge of him had little interest in dealing with him beyond making sure that he stayed alive until...

Penitent Ch 3: Learning, Guessing, Growing

Michael awoke in the very early morning, the fiery pain in his limbs having subsided enough at some point to allow him to fall asleep. He had a taste of some kind in his mouth which indicated to hi...

Penitent Ch 2: Drafted

Michael was left in a small crib with only the blanket he’d been swaddled in before he’d been taken on his first night. He couldn’t see anything in the room, having only the vaguest idea of t...

Penitent Ch 1: Old is New

Michael was barely conscious. He had the vaguest awareness of a rhythmic beeping from his bedside, the fuzzy outline of a few people surrounding him, and the smell of lemon scented cleaner. The onl...

Downtown Druid has Ended

Just a reminder, this patreon charges at the first of the month. If you'd like to give me a final 5 bucks I'd appreciate it, but if you don't please end your sub so I don't have to do any refunds. ...

Book 3 Ch 62: A Binding, A Sacrifice, A Vow

There were no witnesses dreaming this time, just an empty street, two figures, a pile of ashes, and the sound of wailing. A man wearing a dark blue cloak dug his hands into the pile of ashes in fro...

Discord is now available

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I made a discord for discussing Druid as well as all of my other stories. Eventually it'll be limited to paying patrons, but since I'm making it toward the end of Druid's run I ...

Book 3 Ch 61: I Am This City

It was late morning when Gavain reached the edge of the city. Dantes first saw him through the eyes of a pigeon circling just outside the main gate. He looked different from the last time he’d ha...