185 - The Betrayal Part 2
The dungeon was closed.
The trolls were coming.
Nevertheless, Lexie refused to panic. She suppressed fear with sheer willpower and thought about what she could do right now.
Kayday posts
184 - Get Out
The good news was that they weren’t trapped in the dungeon…yet.
A timer had surfaced on their SIs, and the time for the dungeon to resolve was still a few more days.
The bad news wa...
2025-09-09 23:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post183 - Stuck
Lexie barely slept a wink all night.
Between worrying about Theo, her melancholy about Uncle Max, and her worry about the growing tension between her and her friends, she couldn't relax. Not ...
2025-09-08 23:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post182 - Trust and Favors
Lexie wanted to fight someone.
Anger spiked as the images in her head vanished into nothing but darkness.
She jerked up in bed and glared at Xena, who was standing beside it...
2025-09-05 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post181 - Change
Vacek’s head snapped sideways at Aiden’s blow, but he slowly rotated it back into place. His expression was measured rather than confused or angry.
“Well,” he said. “I suppose I des...
2025-09-04 23:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post180 - The Betrayal
Aiden rubbed the bridge of his nose, an ache throbbing at his neck.
While he trained his skills, there was so much occupying his mind right now that he didn’t know where to start. Most of h...
2025-09-03 23:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post179 - Dungeon Work
Lexie blinked fast as she moved into the room, unable to stop her hands from clenching into fists.
The large man felt familiar but also not.
His aura filled the room, his grey eyes sett...
2025-09-02 22:37:53 +0000 UTC View Post178 - Back to School Surprise
The V’Sala looked disgruntled at being dragged away from whatever it was doing, but as Naem put it down, it still greeted, “Hello, Princess.”
“Do you have a name?” Lexie asked, and ...
2025-09-01 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post177 - Happy Ansing
The more Darina spoke, the clearer it became in Lexie’s mind.
The shadow realm existed as the inverse of the human realm, and the only access point was through its essence reflected h...
2025-08-29 23:25:10 +0000 UTC View Post176 - The Creation of Nothing
Aiden’s heart hiccupped, then went back to racing double-time.
For a tense moment, his mind went blank. This was a rare phenomenon. He was typically a quick thinker, but this was so unprece...
2025-08-28 22:51:09 +0000 UTC View Post175 - Shady Meetings
Lexie went back to the forum where she first spoke with Madswick and started with a simple ‘Hello.’
The response came damn near instantaneously as though Madswick had been waiting for the...
2025-08-28 00:31:26 +0000 UTC View Post174 - Ghosts and Shadows
“What do you mean?”
Theo didn’t respond, but a second after he spoke, Lexie got an alert on her SI.
THEO FIREBRINGER IS GRANTING ACCESS TO HIS SYSTEM SCREEN. DO YOU ACCEPT? [YES] ...
2025-08-26 23:22:29 +0000 UTC View Post173 - Revisiting
As always, the first thing Lexie could sense from Ganor's soul was waves of violence and rage, battering her mercilessly.
It was a different type of rage than she’d felt before with the oth...
2025-08-26 01:40:47 +0000 UTC View Post172 - Determination
The black eyepatch sat in Lexie's palm, freezing her brain for a hot second.
Torin's intense gaze scorched the side of her face, but she didn't look at him. Not yet. She had to process ...
2025-08-22 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post171 - Proof of Life
Aiden walked into the room, and Tate visibly tensed. He tried to sit up once more, but Aiden held out his hand.
“Please. Just rest,” he said. “I’m not here to interrogate you, I...
2025-08-21 22:42:44 +0000 UTC View Post170 - Explain The Game
Lexie didn’t quite know how to react to that announcement.
She blinked twice and said, “Oh.”
“Oh?” Tate rotated his head to eye her. “Is that all you’re going to say...
2025-08-20 23:28:31 +0000 UTC View Post169 - Death Sentence
Luckily, no more attacks came on their way home.
Lexie called her dad while they were in the van to let him know what happened and also to let him know that she was okay.
He seemed to h...
2025-08-19 22:55:52 +0000 UTC View Post168 - Hot Pursuit
Nathan gingerly swept Tate into his arms with little to no effort and straightened. Tate let out a groan, but he didn’t wake up, and Lexie w
Nathan gingerly swept Tate into his arms with li...
2025-08-19 00:07:41 +0000 UTC View Post167 - The Silent Soldier
AN: Okay something weird happened. I scheduled this to post last night, and I thought it posted because a comment came through but then I checked and it's gone! Weird. Anyway, here is the chapt...
2025-08-16 11:38:41 +0000 UTC View Post166 - The First Body Card
“Lexie?” Urmas spoke up, “You were saying something?” "Oh yeah, sorry.” Lexie exited out of her system screen to address Urmas. “Where was I
“Lexie?” Urmas spoke up, “You we...
2025-08-14 23:03:21 +0000 UTC View Post165 - Fights and Friends
“You seem deep in thought,” Naem told Lexie when they returned to the Orcish caves that evening.
“Yeah," Lexie responded. “I’m wondering how to befriend someone who loathes me. And ...
2025-08-13 23:38:18 +0000 UTC View Post164 - Chasing Shadows
“What?” Lexie wasn’t sure she understood what Theo was asking for. What did he want her to show exactly?
“The cards,” Theo answered. “The ones you were going to use to help me. I ...
2025-08-12 23:03:56 +0000 UTC View Post163 - Risky Experiments
“So,” Lexie asked Naem before they left the dream realm. “Who are we seeing today?”
“A new type of creature. We’re skipping a few to get to them. I thought we might fast-forward y...
2025-08-11 22:23:32 +0000 UTC View Post162 - Playing With Fire
Lexie was elated as she watched the small flickering flame encased in a transparent ball at the tip of her finger. She’d made fire. How exciting!
Okay, now to try to grow the fire.
Sh...
2025-08-08 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post161 - Firestarter
Unlike with the last two intents Lexie had perceived, this time she thought she knew exactly what she had to do.
First off, logically, the intent assumed that she couldn’t create the flames...
2025-08-07 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post160 - Discovering Fire
Lexie hugged her dad for as long as humanly possible. She felt like she hadn’t seen him in ages, even though in truth it had been just under a week since they last met. His familiar cinnamon scen...
2025-08-07 00:50:35 +0000 UTC View Post159 - Meeting the Firebringers
“So what do we do now?” Lexie asked Naem, tension leaking through her pores. Now that he’d explained it like that to her, she was terrified of the possibility of starting her own soul line an...
2025-08-05 23:28:45 +0000 UTC View Post158 - Reunion
“I can’t believe you’re not coming home with us,” Xena said, pouting.
Lexie was sitting beside her on the trolley with Dewie, Jace, and a few other students they didn’t know, ...
2025-08-05 00:20:09 +0000 UTC View Post157 - Meet The Alchemist
The Alchemist’s world was made of silver.
He lived in an isolated fortress, on an isolated island rich in magic-neutralizing silver ores that were buried deep into the Earth. The Isla...
2025-08-01 23:12:54 +0000 UTC View Post156 - Fate Points
Lexie was full-on gaping at Professor Madswick for what felt like an entire minute.
She was waiting for the shock to finish sinking in, but it was taking its sweet time. She just couldn’t b...
2025-08-01 01:02:55 +0000 UTC View Post