Lexie did not sleep throughout the night.
She and Pvilycht spent most of it working out possible pathways for the living card, and after brainstorming, they finally put it together, with Lex...
2025-12-03 23:44:28 +0000 UTC
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The adults stared at the kids with a range of expressions, but it was Stein’s fierce disapproval that had Dewie shifting closer to Lexie.
Lexie stared back at Stein just as fiercely, ...
2025-12-02 23:47:24 +0000 UTC
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Dewie blinked several times. “Huh?”
“I’ll explain on the way there,” Lexie told him. “But we need to leave now, before the portal closes.”
“Portal?”
“Yeah. I t...
2025-12-01 23:18:38 +0000 UTC
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Unlike before, when Lexie had explored Dewie’s pathways, this time he wasn’t on the medication that suppressed his soul magic; now it suffused his pathways, concentrating on those in his brain ...
2025-11-28 01:59:40 +0000 UTC
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Vacek nodded, accepting Lexie's demand. "We'll go to him first thing tomorrow. You'll need to work quickly, because I get the feeling we're getting to the end."
"The end of what?" Lexie asked...
2025-11-27 00:57:25 +0000 UTC
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Lexie held the Fae Ambassador’s gaze for as long as she could, without breaking eye contact.
The Fae Ambassador also continued to stare down at her, and the mixture of his natural arrogance...
2025-11-26 01:02:23 +0000 UTC
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Lexie instantly grabbed Tate’s arm, keeping him from going further.
“What is it?” he asks.
“There’s a dungeon underground,” she says. “Just appeared underneath our f...
2025-11-25 00:54:53 +0000 UTC
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Naem and Lexie stared at each other silently, while Lexie analyzed the emotions trickling through her.
The Eldritch part of her didn’t feel much for him. She was no longer attached to him, ...
2025-11-21 00:00:19 +0000 UTC
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Aiden caught his daughter’s arm before she could leave.
“You’re not going anywhere, missy, before you tell me what you’re about to do,” he said sternly, and Lexie raised an eyebrow....
2025-11-19 23:48:24 +0000 UTC
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Mane gave Lexie an indulgent smile like one would give to a kid who’d just said something silly.
In fact, a few of the staff did the same thing, and Theo even ruffled her hair as Mane said,...
2025-11-19 00:06:34 +0000 UTC
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Lexie’s simple denial seemed to throw them all for a loop. Even Vacek and Aiden shot Lexie looks. The Fae did not show their shock easily, but Lexie had lived with Ryn long enough to know what th...
2025-11-17 23:15:25 +0000 UTC
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Dewie’s knee bobbed anxiously inside the Road Rocket.
He was staring out the windows, his hands folded in his lap because he was trying not to bite his nails. They were already short, round...
2025-11-14 23:34:56 +0000 UTC
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Lexie had her eyes closed when the door opened again.
She wasn't asleep. She didn’t think she could sleep, at least not without help from Ryn’s special tea. But she’d closed her eyes be...
2025-11-13 23:16:43 +0000 UTC
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Lexie was having a little trouble breathing.
She didn’t know if it was because of how hard Aiden was squeezing her during their extended hug, or if it was because of the chaos storm.
...
2025-11-12 23:53:23 +0000 UTC
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“The Mundane isn’t half bad,” Top Dog said to make conversation as they waited for the next match to start. This was the match he’d been waiting for all day, the one he really came to see.&...
2025-11-11 23:06:45 +0000 UTC
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“Thank you for agreeing to meet with me, Ambassador,” Dominic Vacek said as Ambassador Raz-Ro-Nan walked into the office. He was so tall that he barely cleared the door, and he looked comically...
2025-11-10 22:47:05 +0000 UTC
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A ruddy-faced, hairy man cut a tall and imposing figure against the starry sky. He was standing at the rooftop of one of his city lodgings, a half-finished glass of ale in hand, and though the burn...
2025-11-09 22:31:22 +0000 UTC
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The poison rushed through his blood, the metallic taste stinging his mouth.
He knew almost instantly what it was, and it was his very first guess. Blue Nightshade. A classic torture device, o...
2025-11-08 22:12:10 +0000 UTC
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A land card.
It sounded so obvious that Lexie was kind of surprised she didn't think of it instantly. The Mountain had said that Lexie could not exist as what she was in the human world.
<...
2025-11-07 00:05:22 +0000 UTC
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Aiden sat on his front porch and waited for Tate, who was walking down the lane looking more relaxed than usual. He also looked cheerier, though it did not show on his face.
He’d been goi...
2025-11-05 23:40:12 +0000 UTC
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Neqal’s lab was a mess, which was likely a reflection of his mental state.
He had essences and wasted chaos strewn about, the outerdarkness whispering and moaning.
Naem picked his fe...
2025-11-04 22:18:50 +0000 UTC
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The Mountain was not at all what Lexie expected. She’d been expecting something grand, something terrifying, a monster without a million grotesque faces.
Not this vaguely humanoid thing wit...
2025-11-04 00:11:56 +0000 UTC
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Arthur snuck out near midnight.
It took two carriages and a donkey to get to his destination. It was deep in the Weston lands, a place he used to call home.
They said stars in the...
2025-11-02 20:20:13 +0000 UTC
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“Feel my wrath! Stab! Stab! Stab!”
Arthur was greeted at the door of his home with swift thwacks to his calf courtesy of his seven-year-old sister and her new obsession, a wooden sword th...
2025-11-01 19:45:08 +0000 UTC
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Lexie started by attempting to send Little Fae home.
She knew this would likely be hard because she wasn’t sure how close the dungeon was to the Fae Planet. If it were too far away, it woul...
2025-10-30 23:48:26 +0000 UTC
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The group was silent, and Lexie was more than a little disappointed that they weren’t immediately impressed by her genius.
And that’s what her plan was...genius.
But may...
2025-10-30 01:48:12 +0000 UTC
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The knock on Aiden’s door wasn’t wholly unexpected. He’d been expecting Vacek to visit for some time now. The paranoid man wouldn’t be satisfied with his spies reporting that Aiden had been...
2025-10-29 00:24:38 +0000 UTC
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Uncle Max had his gun in hand and his other hand ready to flip open his eyepatch.
Lexie walked to the door and saw a serpent-humanoid in the courtyard, surrounded by dozens of other animal-hu...
2025-10-28 01:13:38 +0000 UTC
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Lexie was getting impatient. The hooded figure still hadn’t spoken, and he hadn’t revealed himself either.
“Did you hear what I said?” Lexie asked, wondering if she should use &...
2025-10-23 23:48:43 +0000 UTC
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At the ultimatum, Pvilycht and Lexie stared at each other.
Lexie was annoyed, and Pvilycht was passive and more than a little smug. Plus, sadistic. Now that he was no longer bonded with her a...
2025-10-23 00:55:34 +0000 UTC
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