It was lucky he’d calmed down.
If he’d tried to kill the bright-spitter like he’d imagined doing earlier, he wouldn’t have come to his realization.
But, standing there holding a...
2021-06-18 22:29:30 +0000 UTC View PostJagged rock bit into Alex’s hands as he scrambled back down.
Pebbles rattled down the wall as rubble and dust were disturbed in his rush to reach the crevice floor. He imagined the flying s...
2021-06-17 20:26:03 +0000 UTC View PostSelina had barely spoken a word for days.
Now, at the breakfast table, she, Theresa and Alex ate with a heavy silence over them. Even Brutus—eating nearby—seemed to be in a poor moo...
2021-06-16 20:56:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe Ravener’s hunter had been seeking its quarry for a long time now.
At first, it hunted with its siblings, each staying in close communication as they moved beyond the territory of their ...
2021-06-15 22:45:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Zachariah Khan!” one of the teachers called.
Selina Roth jumped a little in her chair as the name echoed through the auditorium.
Zach—one of her friends—was the first to be bro...
2021-06-12 20:41:44 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turned out, swallowing one’s pride had some serious benefits.
Going from sculpting alone or in the same area as his little sister, to working together with her had vastly imp...
2021-06-11 21:03:24 +0000 UTC View PostAlex paced back and forth in front of the golem workshop.
It was early morning. Crack of dawn, really, and much of the City of Generasi was still waking up from their night’s sleep. A light...
2021-06-10 21:20:50 +0000 UTC View PostAlex Roth stood in front of the small mirror in his room—with the windows firmly shuttered and door latched—staring at himself half in disbelief. His belly grumbled in hunger—as it always see...
2021-06-09 22:50:50 +0000 UTC View Post“I would imagine.” Khalik’s tone was sharp. “That they have concerns as well. There are more people than there are kings and queens. More nobles to appease. Generals. Armies. Merch...
2021-06-08 23:54:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Wait…” Alex started to take a step back. “You’re a what?” His words dropped to a whisper.
“A devil, boy!” Hobb’s voice boomed. “And no need to whisper, it’s no...
2021-06-05 23:49:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe grad students poured their mana into the cauldron, this time reaching deep into the metal vessel. Alex could sense the mana travelling lower toward the bottom of the pot. Then the glyphs flared...
2021-06-05 23:41:37 +0000 UTC View PostAs the last of the glyphs were traced and filled with mana, there was a subtle shift in the mana in the air around the cauldon’s rim. It was so faint, that Alex doubted he would have detected it ...
2021-06-05 23:36:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Stage Two of the brewing process is not delicate, but we’ll have to be quick today,” Professor Jules addressed her squad of graduate students like she was a general. She looked at Alex. “W...
2021-06-05 23:29:12 +0000 UTC View PostAlex opened his notebook to a new page, then—using meditation techniques to navigate The Mark’s interference—he cast forceball, counting his heartbeats to time the completion of the spell. It...
2021-06-05 23:24:49 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh, uh, thank you,” Alex said. “The box was pretty fun to work on, actually. Like a puzzle. What’s the offe-”
“‘Fun’, he says!” Professor Jules burst out laughing, which qu...
2021-06-05 23:14:45 +0000 UTC View PostQuicksilver poisoning was a nasty thing.
There was a fairly extensive section on it in Dexter’s textbook.
One of the nastier things it did was kill you, but if you didn’t d...
2021-06-04 18:47:42 +0000 UTC View Post“So.” Professor Val’Rok looked over the entire class of MANA-1900.
“Dun dun dun!” he said for effect. “It’s time to show off your progress with your glyph boxes. This assignment...
2021-06-03 20:24:58 +0000 UTC View PostThey appeared on top of the escarpment they’d gathered on after Baelin’s test. This time the benches were already there, awaiting their arrival.
“Sit down, sit down.” the chancellor g...
2021-06-02 22:10:50 +0000 UTC View Post“Watch yourself. Seriously,” Alex said to Theresa. “There’s all kinds of nasty things that live out here, and we don’t know what might be hiding where. The moment you see anything 2021-06-01 23:35:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Except for the death of his parents, Alex’s life had been a fairly safe one, generally speaking.
Until their escape from Thameland and his encounter with the mana vampire, he’d never been...
2021-05-29 22:26:53 +0000 UTC View PostBaelin had not been exaggerating about the impact the mana vents would have.
The moment Alex stepped through the portal, it felt like he’d walked into a wall of thorns that pricked at his m...
2021-05-28 22:39:50 +0000 UTC View Post“A wizard will spend much of their life in hazardous surroundings,” Baelin said to the class. “Which you will train for today, with your chosen entourages.”
It was another hot day—h...
2021-05-27 21:36:45 +0000 UTC View Post“What’re you trying to make?” Selina peered at Alex’s crooked, strange looking creation. “It looks like a bug that got run over by a wagon.”
“Hey!” Alex grabbed the mostly fin...
2021-05-26 22:11:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Mr. Roth, have you studied alchemy before you came to Generasi?” Professor Jules asked.
They were alone in Cell-207, and she was looking at him pointedly. Not a hostile look, but simply ...
2021-05-25 22:58:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe Cells loomed before him across the grass.
Though it had been long fixed, the stone was still blackened in parts from previous accidents. There seemed to be a dangerous energy surrounding ...
2021-05-22 21:38:59 +0000 UTC View Post“The key to meditation, according to my professor,” Theresa said, sitting cross-legged across from him on a blanket on the balcony floor. “Is that failure is your friend: the point of meditat...
2021-05-21 21:57:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe box that professor Val’Rok had assigned in Mana Manipulation didn’t prove to be a very worthy adversary.
Alex concentrated on it, guiding his mana through the specific pathways built ...
2021-05-20 21:33:42 +0000 UTC View Post“Alright, I think it’s time for the next folk to have a turn,” Sim cleared his throat behind them.
“Alex?” Theresa poked him, her worried eyes watching him through the bulging lense...
2021-05-19 22:30:06 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes, life was generous with its coincidences.
Alex had thought that before: there were times where he’d go through months of everything proceeding as normal and uneventful.
Then...
2021-05-19 00:31:37 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey, I recognised your accent in class!” Carey said cheerily. “Good to meet someone from home here, especially in these dark times—when Uldar’s voice seems so far away. Have you been to ...
2021-05-15 23:47:42 +0000 UTC View Post