Azalea was gone when I got back, and the family was too. I stopped at the threshold, staring at the empty seats, then up to the scenery rolling past. Chasing the lavender-haired menace down was my ...
2025-11-10 07:07:44 +0000 UTC View PostTickets, as it turned out, were very much available. Not the nicer tickets, no, but the other rooms, the simple rooms. The rooms I’d hoped the average person would use. Those were defini...
2025-11-04 07:48:46 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I had hoped to have this out this past weekend! Instead, we lost power Saturday and most of Sunday, and when editing, I decided to more or less rewrite and rebuild this chapter. It...
2025-10-30 02:37:14 +0000 UTC View Post
I slid the window shut after Azalea slipped through.
She landed on the rough stone floor silently red eyes blinking in the dim, dusty light. “Where are we?”
“The cellar, specifica...
2025-10-23 05:05:22 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m going to visit Grayriver today,” I told Mother over breakfast.
Once again, Shale was nowhere to be found, presumably training. I felt an odd, uncomfortable mixture of threatened an...
2025-10-19 19:40:19 +0000 UTC View PostBy morning, the hunger was… well it wasn’t gone. I’d tried all throughout the night and eventually came to the conclusion that the hunger would never truly leave me. Vitae was both m...
2025-10-17 03:12:25 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hi all! Apologies for the lack of SoW recently, but I had to cram Garden of Silk in the weeks leading up to its launch. The good news? I am (tentatively) back to writing 1000 words...
2025-10-15 05:47:21 +0000 UTC View Post
A/N: There's a chapter posted just before this! Don't miss reading that one first!
Schist Graystone was, in essence, the man I always presumed I ought to be. Tall, br...
2025-10-15 05:30:58 +0000 UTC View PostRather than the dining room, Mother took us to her favorite salon. Bright morning sun shone through the open windows, the plants around us green and vibrant despite the time of year. Never mind tha...
2025-10-15 05:27:16 +0000 UTC View PostI bit down on my tongue to stifle any response.
“So, what did you do?” He circled me, looking up and down like he had some idea of what he was doing. When he poked my cheek, I jolted, bar...
2025-10-13 04:49:45 +0000 UTC View Post“This is where we part ways.” I gestured down the hill, toward a faint hunting path. The town nearest our estate was still half a day away, but I didn’t dare take chances since we were now ou...
2025-10-11 06:15:06 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hey! A bunch of chapters just got posted, so if you've arrived here via the latest notification, you may want to check the tag and read the other chapters posted today! Also, this ...
2025-10-08 04:38:18 +0000 UTC View Post
“Why do you have that?”
Azalea looked at the signed pencil-sketched portrait of me and then back again. “Never mind that; does this help or not?”
She and I sat cross-legged in t...
2025-10-08 04:33:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Aren’t you gonna go after him?”
I looked down at my bloody robe—the silk of my guise had stitched back together—and back up at Azalea. I’ll think about that later. “No...
2025-10-08 04:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Silk?” Azalea pressed again.
“It’s his blood,” I hissed, or tried to. I lacked the mouth parts to properly—wait, why am I even—
“Silk.”
“What?”...
2025-10-08 02:31:52 +0000 UTC View PostI’d killed someone.
Not just someone, a Third Ring cultivator. Someone who could take on a small army, had he been given another few months to adjust to his strength. True, h...
2025-10-03 05:10:21 +0000 UTC View PostI didn’t feel the cold—not in the same way. The chill lingered on my hands, dusted the carapace of my spider limbs, but it didn’t penetrate. Not even with the wind as I ran, kicking off trees...
2025-09-25 19:21:33 +0000 UTC View Post“You have no roof.”
Out of all the things Lillith could have said first, I hadn’t expected those particular words. The Sovereign of lust appeared like a dull comet out of the blur of a ...
2025-09-23 05:51:21 +0000 UTC View PostMy reflection in the glassy surface caught my next breath.
At first, she looked like some long-lost sister. But that was only for a fleeting moment, before the details set in. That same porce...
2025-09-16 16:35:54 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hi all! I have in fact been writing, just taking enough breaks to avoid burnout and I am finally starting to get back into the swing of things. New SoW soon, but until the...
2025-09-12 05:36:47 +0000 UTC View Post
It’d been a long time since Lillith was in Edath, or Ordia for that matter. Zarenna’s territory was unfortunately close to her demesne, but needs must.
For now, at least, Merenet...
2025-08-25 07:31:14 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I returned home to Astrye, I circled over the castle’s tower. Sey wasn’t there, and our bedroom was as we left it—mostly empty.
I’d thought of Astrye as home, hadn’t I?
W...
2025-08-22 06:13:28 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Enjoy! This chapter went through a TON of editing rounds before I felt it was right.
“Slate!”
I looked up at my father. Schist Graystone was a wide-sho...
2025-08-12 05:58:09 +0000 UTC View PostReturning to Astrye was a little bit strange. I wasn’t shooed off the balcony that was no longer mine, and Seyari had packed all our belongings into two boxes at the foot of the bed. There were s...
2025-08-10 02:37:36 +0000 UTC View PostI purposefully didn’t fly as fast as I could toward Utraxia’s demesne. Purely for the practical reason that while I brought urgent news, it was not so urgent as to cause alarm, of course. At ab...
2025-07-25 18:27:20 +0000 UTC View Post“You did what?” Brazz’s voice sliced through the small room’s silence.
“I… did what I felt I needed to,” I answered demurely, glancing out the window at the snow-coated...
2025-07-22 05:53:12 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Here's the next part! Writing progress is slow and steady. Still looks like I'm on time to keep a September-ish release date on RR/SH, and a chapter dump here (probably for Soverei...
2025-07-16 05:07:21 +0000 UTC View Post
I didn’t expect to wake up in my and Sey’s bed in Castle Astrye, but that familiar ceiling was what I saw when I opened my eyes.
We killed an angel.
I sat up and hugged my ...
2025-07-07 05:07:16 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Whaaaat? A new title? A chapter number? Yes indeedly folks, there's a new series in the works! It's been in the cooker for a while, and is finally getting ready! You folks...
2025-06-30 04:23:03 +0000 UTC View Post
We coalesced out of my fire near the edge of my demesne, above an alpine meadow. Blanketed for the winter, it stretched along the saddleback of two rocky peaks, flanked by glaciers. Below the treel...
2025-06-25 00:32:12 +0000 UTC View Post