Connor had never trusted Maths.
He’d been good at it once, back when numbers meant actual things. Apples in a basket. Change from a fiver. The number of blows it took to break a padlock. Ba...
2025-10-15 07:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post"I'm going to need you to carefully run me through what happened here," the Dane said, selecting the least blood-smeared of the barbershop’s remaining furniture and lowering himself onto it with ...
2025-10-13 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“You're honestly telling this face - this face - that you don’t know who’s supplying you?” Jaz said. “What? Did you just wake up one morning and there were suddenly two keys of g...
2025-10-11 07:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“So, were you really shot?” Jaz asked, not looking up from the glovebox as she rummaged through the mess of someone else’s receipts, breath mints, and spare mags.
“I’m sensing some ...
2025-10-09 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe air in the converted warehouse stank of stale coffee, whiteboard ink, and an aggressive sort of sweat. In fact, it smelled like the building itself had been panicking overnight and still hadn...
2025-10-07 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostDespite his interdimensional exhaustion, Connor got off the bus three stops early. He didn’t glance back. You never, ever glance back. That was how you gave the game away.
Instead, he strol...
2025-10-05 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostOnce Connor put one foot in the Dungeon, everything shifted.
His spine snapped into alignment with a whispering click, like a safe being unlocked. His breath steadied and the buzz behind his ...
2025-10-03 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostConnor didn't even get to see the creature emerge through the wall.
One moment there was nothing, and then the next… there was. It was like the shining area of the wall sneezed and a ...
2025-10-01 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dane had been sitting next to Connor’s bed for sometime, one hand resting lightly on a folder he hadn’t yet opened. In his other was a pen he hadn’t used at all. You didn’t get to the b...
2025-09-29 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Babes, listen. Listen! I know I said I’d come straight home, and when I said it, I meant it, I did. From the deepest bit of my soul. But the lads’ve had a shocker of a week. Gav’s just cra...
2025-09-27 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostConnor realised he’d not been listening to the enthusiastically wittering voice for quite some time.
Not out of rudeness, though that was a tempting option at this stage of proceedings, but...
2025-09-25 07:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“—through and through, right upper chest. No lung collapse but he's hypotensive, pressure's crashing. He's lost over a litre, someone get that O-negative up here now!"
A hand sla...
2025-09-23 07:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“... and I’m halfway through peeling off her onesie, right, when she looks me dead in the eye and says, ‘Do you want to see my collection?’ No context. That’s all there was. Like...
2025-09-21 07:06:32 +0000 UTC View Post“Arclight, stop!” I shouted, hauling Eryn to her feet. I grabbed and pulled her back toward the others as the two Primal Forms tumbled from the dissipating black smoke in a blur of golden fur a...
2025-09-18 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe world swam back into focus as the mattress moved beneath me. I blinked, my mind still foggy with sleep, seeing Eryn nearly bouncing up and down as she got dressed in her adventuring kit. <...
2025-09-16 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next few days we settled into a rhythm of stability, one I hadn’t known for a long time. While Dawnwatch buzzed with the frantic energy of repairs and reinforcements, our small circle tu...
2025-09-14 11:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostI smiled at Eryn where she sat across from me at the dining room table, nursing a mug with both hands as if it was the only thing keeping her alive. I’d never seen her hair this wild before. It l...
2025-09-12 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostFey stomped her foot angrily. I looked to Ragul for help but interestingly enough, the vampire seemed to be on her side for once.
“You haven’t shaved, and you stink,” she claimed. “Di...
2025-09-11 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostKnut’s room was crowded.
Nabeeh lay strapped to the reinforced bed, a forced, brittle smile on her face. Eryn held her hand tied down, while Knut stood guard by the door like a mounta...
2025-09-10 11:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostMy head hurt even more than the wound in my ribs. And it wasn’t just the hangover either. I was in the throne room sitting next to Seldon with Stein standing to my left looking at the crowded cha...
2025-09-09 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt was afternoon by the time I re
turned home. Sitting cross-legged on my bed, Roq rested across my lap. The house was quiet. Knut was out escorting Katherine to lunch before her big assist w...
2025-09-08 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Ragul,” I said. “The usual, please.” I looked over to my side where Arstemion was burning a hole into my chair at the bar. I didn’t want to say anything. I’d make new chairs. I had tim...
2025-09-07 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe last of the stew was scraped from our bowls and Ma’s lemon pie had been utterly vanquished by a king who had, for a brief period, been more than just a warhammer. He’d been a part of the fa...
2025-09-06 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTarga grabbed a golden soldier by the throat and raised him to eyesight. He smacked his twitching body into the ground, growled pulling his axe back, and then split the Quinta’s skull.
The ...
2025-09-05 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe officials and Harold left, leaving me to stand with Pa, Ma, and Edwin on the plot of land behind the smithy.
The commander clapped a hand on my shoulder.
“You’re not wrong, Ash,...
2025-09-04 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTowers of smoke rose from the Temple District. The ancient grounds of worship were now a stronghold for the north men. Except for Morgefah’s temple and a bit of collateral damage on the others, t...
2025-09-03 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“…and then the Emmets chased us for a long time. By the time we closed on the Ironclad Ravine, we had finally outrun them.”
I didn’t mention how Roq had carried Knut and I, while the ...
2025-09-02 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI never thought I’d see such a dawn. It felt like the sun itself served the Emperor and his fanatics by shedding its rays over the shining army to blind us. Shimmering, sparkling streams of Quint...
2025-09-01 11:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe tunnel was one giant, muddy throat, and we were being swallowed.
I’d been carving a path through the tunnel for what felt like an hour, but probably was only several minutes. Each step ...
2025-08-31 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe world became a churning, muddy, watery hell.
I was thrown end over end, the thick, soupy brown water a suffocating blanket. The gritty taste of mud and the foul stench of crushed eggs and...
2025-08-29 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post