If there was anything that could be said for Sev's team, it was that they didn't hesitate to act when it counted.
All they needed to hear was the Shadesplitter trying to speak.
Sev dire...
2023-09-18 17:33:10 +0000 UTC View PostThere's a certain amount of existential horror that comes with having your allies picked off right in front of you, with little you can do about it. In that sense, Ahkelios is right — being able ...
2023-09-18 17:31:22 +0000 UTC View PostIf not for Quicken Mind, I might have spent a few too many seconds staring, dumbfounded. I can sense no outside Firmament at work here, and Premonition hasn't alerted me to any new danger. Whatever...
2023-09-18 17:30:40 +0000 UTC View PostEven if I hadn't grown sharply between my last attempt at exploring the Fracture and my current one, Guard and Tarin's presences are enough to make the first three hundred meters of the Fracture a ...
2023-09-18 17:29:17 +0000 UTC View PostAhkelios doesn't tell me what happens, exactly. He can't — not with Guard there. Instead he sends filtered images and impressions to me, enough that I have a decent idea of exactly what happened,...
2023-09-11 06:17:44 +0000 UTC View PostShe-Who-Whispers calls her home a palace. She isn't wrong.
Her home is the highest shard in Isthanok. It floats above the city like a mirrored citadel, though with far less regal majesty. Ins...
2023-09-11 06:16:57 +0000 UTC View PostAbout three minutes after Thys leaves — it takes a lot of convincing, and makes me wonder briefly if Thys actually has any other friends besides his siblings — someone attempts to murder me. I ...
2023-09-11 06:16:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe fight ends quickly and without fanfare. The crowd, I can tell, is disappointed. Me, I'm just grinning like a madman. I made sure to make my victory look like an accident, too, so Tarin should s...
2023-09-04 16:01:23 +0000 UTC View Post"So she's holding it hostage," I say.
Miktik's apparently been checking the core's position every day she can, and she finds it at the same place every day, trapped inside a vault. It's part ...
2023-09-01 11:35:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe learn a few things over the next couple of minutes.
One, Rotar and Ikaara are both safe — or at least as safe as they can be. Being half a step out of phase with everything else comes wi...
2023-08-29 12:20:00 +0000 UTC View PostI made a bunch of changes to Book 2, mostly in the first half of the book to tighten up the characterization and descriptiveness. It should feel a lot better to read now. No real retcons, I think, ...
2023-08-25 02:32:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's hard to describe exactly what Miktik does.
She feeds her Firmament into the orb — that part I can read easily enough with my Firmament sense — but imbued within the orb is a blob of ...
2023-08-25 02:27:18 +0000 UTC View PostIn retrospect, a quick discussion with Tarin about information security would probably have been a good idea, although I understand that he trusts Miktik implicitly. My understanding doesn't stop m...
2023-08-25 02:26:37 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the pre-final manuscript (meaning it has all the changes I want but hasn't been through a line/copy editor yet) for Die Respawn Repeat. Changes are mostly in the first 20 or so chapters to i...
2023-08-25 02:25:15 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, I'm really sorry about this, but this week's chapters are delayed as well - a lot happened over the past two weeks and suffice to say it burned me out something fierce. I have wri...
2023-08-14 13:49:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe Great Cities, Tarin explains, are a set of seven cities situated inside the Barricade, which is apparently their name for the massive wall that encircles this section of the planet. The cities ...
2023-08-05 03:31:37 +0000 UTC View PostI appreciate the silence as we speed through the scenery. Both Ahkelios and Tarin can see that I'm not in the mood to talk, and while they seem like they want to ask me what's on my mind, they've b...
2023-08-05 03:30:49 +0000 UTC View PostIt turns out that Mari knew what she was doing. Sort of.
Tarin can still move fast while he's... drunk. Or high. I don't exactly know what those berries did to him, but he seems to b...
2023-08-05 03:29:38 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! This week's chapters might be a little late - I've been trying to figure out everything regarding the Edge Cases launch and additionally need to work on the Edge Cases Book 2 manuscript f...
2023-07-30 14:15:19 +0000 UTC View Post
The book series I've been working on for the past year and a half is finally out - or, well, the first book of it, anyway. Really love the cover, super excited to have it narrated by Travis. You gu...
2023-07-26 14:03:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe village of Halis was disturbingly empty.
Sev's heart sank as they wandered cobblestone streets, looking into every building to see if they could find any survivors — and more and more i...
2023-07-23 23:08:10 +0000 UTC View PostDays passed. Sev was still waiting on a response from Novice, who had promised to get back to them and then gone silent for several days in a row; from what he'd heard from Misa, Novice was fine, b...
2023-07-23 23:06:51 +0000 UTC View PostSev was worried.
This wasn't anything new. He was always worried. But his worry now was something that gnawed at him; he looked out at the world and he saw that it was wrong. Flashes...
2023-07-23 23:06:09 +0000 UTC View PostWe're making very good time. We've had to stop for a few breaks, mostly because running at this speed costs a lot of energy even with Firmament. We've had to stop a couple of times for the...
2023-07-23 23:04:35 +0000 UTC View PostTarin's packed up and ready by the time I get back. Mari shooed me off after our conversation, telling me she needed to go visit some of the other crows in the village to get our supplies ready. I ...
2023-07-23 23:02:52 +0000 UTC View PostRotar is missing.
Tarin and I went to check out his hut, and no one was present. None of the other crows around report any memory of him leaving, and they all seem equally worried. I'm just a...
2023-07-23 23:01:42 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note:
There are a lot of tough chapters in this book, and I keep underestimating how much time it'll take me to get it written in a way I'm satisfied with. I'm sorry...
2023-07-17 14:53:28 +0000 UTC View Post"Ethan!" Tarin squawks at me, dusting himself off like he hasn't just been tossed like a cannonball directly into monsters that could kill him with a glance. I know he's strong, but I don't know th...
2023-07-17 04:14:18 +0000 UTC View PostBefore I can react, Premonition activates again, and I leap out of the way just in time; the monster crackles through the air, static Firmament bursting out of every scale in a cloud of bristling e...
2023-07-16 02:10:06 +0000 UTC View Post
