Lucilla was in the charred remains of the plaza she’d walked so many times with Ky over the last few months, training with her guards. There had been some discussion among not only her guards, bu...
2022-01-05 22:35:32 +0000 UTC View PostOutside Devnum
A hundred horses thundered across the field overlooked from a slight rise, which was currently topped by a handful of officers on horseback. At a trumpet call ...
2022-01-03 22:19:37 +0000 UTC View PostWe had our first game back Thursday night and for us, it was an important one, since it was the last one of the regular season and would determine if we made it into the playoffs. We were on the bu...
2022-01-02 15:27:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe Northern Road
They were a day out of town and making good progress, especially for this number of men on foot. He was far behind the progress he’d made on his last trip...
2021-12-31 15:11:49 +0000 UTC View Post“… and he tripped over a loose cobblestone, landing face-first in a pile of horse shit,” the guard said, finishing a story about a thief who had tried, and failed, to get away from the city g...
2021-12-29 15:50:20 +0000 UTC View Post***The middle of this chapter has a change, shortly before the shooting, where he is walking from his apartment the next day (from saying he doesn't have a car to talking about a car he own...
2021-12-27 18:06:46 +0000 UTC View PostKy had hoped to slip out of town with his normal guards and a hundred Praetorians who would be taking the place of the legion currently manning the border. It was a large crowd, but he’d assemble...
2021-12-27 17:54:59 +0000 UTC View PostMonday morning was our first day back after the holiday. Considering how the year had gone so far, I should have expected a curveball, but I guess the break had been so good that I’d put it out o...
2021-12-25 19:41:47 +0000 UTC View PostWe got back to the beach house, but all three of us were too keyed up to go to sleep. This was pretty much the last day of our trip, since the next day would mostly be spent driving home. We had to...
2021-12-22 17:21:19 +0000 UTC View PostKy had to leave the camp the next morning and return to town for his final meetings with Hortensius and the other business leaders before he left town. If it was up to him, he’d stay in the field...
2021-12-20 15:16:02 +0000 UTC View PostWe spent the rest of Thursday hanging out with Seth, Marco, and Lyla, just relaxing and talking about the show. It had been the biggest thing any of us had played, and we were all hyped up. Eventua...
2021-12-17 15:57:33 +0000 UTC View PostKy arrived at the colosseum the next morning to find it ringed with legionnaires, Praetorian Guards, and even a good number of Picts. The men guarding the arena looked serious, which was understand...
2021-12-15 16:00:31 +0000 UTC View PostWe couldn’t go to the club right away, since I needed a shower and the girls declared they weren’t dressed to go out. I thought they looked fine. At the few parties I’d gone to everyone dress...
2021-12-13 22:32:01 +0000 UTC View PostWashington, D.C.
“How do you want your eggs?” Taylor called out from the kitchen.
It had taken two days to get back to the US, followed by two more days of debriefi...
2021-12-11 17:33:49 +0000 UTC View PostHofyo, Somalia
It was a few hours after dark when they got near the village. Taylor learned that he’d been lucky not to be spotted on his first trip down here.
Barsan...
2021-12-11 17:33:17 +0000 UTC View PostWajideeb, Somalia
“I was told you were the man to speak to,” Gehdi said into the phone, while looking at Taylor and the two men flanking him on either side.
Taylor ...
2021-12-10 14:25:29 +0000 UTC View PostWe got a late start the next day, mostly because there wasn’t any specific thing we had planned. Mostly Hanna wanted to just look over the campus and talk to someone in the business department, i...
2021-12-09 17:02:30 +0000 UTC View PostWashington D.C.
Kara rode back on the bus, trying to work out what she was going to do. There were a lot of things she needed to work out before she could do something about ...
2021-12-07 17:50:27 +0000 UTC View PostWashington D.C.
It was getting late and Kara was about to pack up for the night. Packer had made several more calls throughout the day, but most were routine and didn’t see...
2021-12-05 22:36:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the week was one of those weird situations where it seemed to fly by, not leaving enough time for me to get everything I needed to finish done before we left. All the same, time dragged...
2021-12-03 17:51:18 +0000 UTC View PostWashington D.C.
“We have a problem,” a voice said, coming through Kara’s cell phone scanner.
She’d been back out early this morning, all of the equipme...
2021-12-01 13:57:43 +0000 UTC View PostHe drove back slowly keeping an eye on the terrain and trying to remember how things had looked when they’d gone north. The last thing he wanted to do was come driving back over the ridgeline and...
2021-11-29 14:44:28 +0000 UTC View PostI didn’t get a chance to talk to Hanna, since she’d mentioned she was heading home right after school to find out what was going on with Kat. I still wanted to talk to her about the festival, b...
2021-11-25 13:42:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe plan started to fall apart almost as soon as they got moving. The truck that was only making a pass once an hour or so came and went around the compound, but Webb never signaled. They waited al...
2021-11-23 03:00:57 +0000 UTC View PostSaturday I swung by Hanna’s on the way to the Blue Ridge, to check on Kat. We’d talked for a few minutes before they’d gone home, but Mrs. Phillips had asked that we give her a couple of days...
2021-11-20 08:52:31 +0000 UTC View PostWoqooyi Galbeed Province, Somalia
They made good time the rest of the march and made it to the compound only a few minutes behind Stone’s timetable. Considering the stop to...
2021-11-18 17:22:05 +0000 UTC View PostKy, formerly Lt. Commander Ky, stood in the Emperor’s box of the colosseum, looking down at the platform erected in its center, a line of men in tattered togas and tunics lined up at its base. 2021-11-16 14:12:45 +0000 UTC View Post
The Marib’amal, Sailing the Gulf of Aiden
Taylor had never been much of a boat person. Although he never had trouble on planes or high-speed vehicles, something about the r...
2021-11-14 18:07:48 +0000 UTC View PostI was almost at the Blue Ridge when Kat called, so I just went in to talk to Chef instead of calling. He understood why I couldn’t train and he’d expected it, since Mrs. Leighton had called him...
2021-11-12 15:30:39 +0000 UTC View PostCamp Lemonnier, Djibouti
Stone was standing outside the hanger, waiting for Taylor when the MPs escorted him back, looking equal parts annoyed and angry.
“Where the h...
2021-11-10 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post