The main cathedral of Halspus was a towering structure, hewed from white marble in centuries past, spires reaching up to scrap the sky. Six of them at each corner of the hexagonal temple stretched ...
2024-12-13 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe grate didn’t take long to melt. After that had been the wards, a pair of them laid perpendicular to each other, ready to trigger the moment they were crossed. I hurriedly chipped away at the ...
2024-12-11 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I stumbled out of meeting the drakes, my face was numb, my leg sore, and my taste buds obliterated. Voltar waited in the front room, talking calmly but insistently with some guards.
“M...
2024-12-09 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time the multiple guards who joined the first had finished, I was actually still in better shape than when Melissa had worked me over.
Oh sure, every inch of my face ached, but they’...
2024-12-06 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Lily,” my uncle replied stiffly. “You finally show your face after abandoning your family for five years? After leaving the care of your mother to a diabolism-wielding lunatic, it’s only a...
2024-12-04 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning, my head felt much better.
At least by now, it felt like a mere needle plumbing in the depths of my grey matter to cause me pain. Still an agonizing feeling, but less than th...
2024-12-02 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostAfter I’d finished emptying the contents of my stomach all over poor Doctor Dawes’ shoes, they’d settled me down at the tea table. Voltar had cleaned it up and returned, while Dr. Dawes poure...
2024-11-29 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I woke up, it was blinding.
Light scoured my eyes, a searing brightness that felt like hot pokers being pushed into their sockets. Something moved near me, and I tried to scream. All tha...
2024-11-27 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostI moved, running back towards Dawes and Malstein, hoping I could make it.
Two steps and the ground beneath me shifted as the low rumble of the earth elemental grew. My hoof stepped on a secti...
2024-11-25 03:02:57 +0000 UTC View PostMore had survived than I thought.
Calamities always seem worse at first glance, and this had been no exception. Plenty of those I’d thought were dead had turned out to be alive.
As soon as that Malstein was yelling, already quelling a brewing panic.
“Everyone starts cutting blindfolds now!” he roared. “I want them ready and able to be donned at a moment’s not...
2024-11-20 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Malvia?” someone asked me. I couldn’t tell who, but I got my laughter under control.
“Sorry,” I said as I passed the piece of paper back to Dawes. “I simply can not believe...
2024-11-18 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt took quite a bit of time to get Kalasyp out of the tomb he’d been placed in. It had proved too risky to take him through the tunnel we’d dug, so we needed to remove the planks. I’d gone un...
2024-11-15 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThis wasn’t going to be subtle.
Watchmen marched down a tunnel, the sound of dozens of boots on stonework cacophonous to the point I’d covered my still-enhanced ears. They’d broken out ...
2024-11-13 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“I can’t really blame whoever was supposed to do research on us for missing that information,” I said, leaning forward on my chair, head resting on my hands as I grinned. “We ran quite a ga...
2024-11-11 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI’d had to wait nearly an hour for the Watch carriage to take me to the Coffin.
Waiting that long had been an hour of impatience, but going alone was out of the question, so instead I had t...
2024-11-08 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostHalf an hour after deciding on this plan with Elise, I became convinced we were heading for disaster.
The alterations had gone well. At first. Then the staff had knocked on the door and telli...
2024-11-06 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostI was halfway across the records room, weaving in and out of patches of Hellfire, when I realized something important.
The list I had was circumstantial evidence that Lord Montague had been r...
2024-11-04 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostI hurried over to Martel, grabbing the back of his bonds.
“Not a word,” I hissed as I dragged him with both hands, stuffing the list of Lord Montague’s titles into my pockets using my t...
2024-11-01 16:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post“Spppf!”
I paused, the edge of my teeth lightly poking into his skin. The archivist was nodding vigorously while also screaming loud enough that it sounded like a hog squealing.
... 2024-10-30 02:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostGregory sat numbly among the bodies, watching as the two shapechangers flew across the sky.
They didn’t remain in the air for long, already making for a rooftop. It made sense. There were t...
2024-10-28 16:36:22 +0000 UTC View PostFinally, some of what Gregory and Elise described matched reality.
I stood next to a bookshelf, using the ladder and a nearby cart loaded with returns as cover. Someone would be back to finis...
2024-10-25 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostGregory stared mutely as Malvia’s body twitched, a finger-blade pushing through her eye.
Screams broke out. The fake Elise twisted her finger, grinning as the other fingers on that hand elo...
2024-10-23 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostI had to hand it to the archives. Whatever they may have skimped on, the quality of their bookshelves wasn’t one of them.
Several inches thick, it was proving difficult to rot through at a ...
2024-10-21 16:00:28 +0000 UTC View PostGregory Montague considered the person across from him in the carriage as they rode, while a discordant orchestra played in his head.
Rebecca Barnes had talked to him only a little since they...
2024-10-18 16:00:35 +0000 UTC View PostFor once, I shared a carriage with a Montague who wasn’t Gregory.
Elise Montague was very much like her brother, mainly in the sense I’d had to remind myself thrice now that staring into ...
2024-10-16 16:31:52 +0000 UTC View PostWaking up felt….weird.
I’d always slept best on my back, even with that awkward pressure on my tail, but waking up without that felt even more off.
My eyes opened. I forced down tha...
2024-10-14 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostToday was a day of staying indoors.
The last three days had been nothing but that, and I wished I could pretend it was simply me preparing for the upcoming infiltration of the Archives.
It didn’t take long for the screaming to start.
Whatever lull had occurred in the immediate aftermath of the first explosion had ended before I even made it a hundred feet. A few isol...
2024-10-09 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostEars ringing, I lay on the ground, the dirt road rough underneath me as I groaned.
I could remember the explosion, just as I’d begun to turn. I’d been far away but the forced must have sh...
2024-10-07 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post