Banjin Colle clicked open his pocket watch and looked down at it. He was appalled to realize that even this wasn’t enough to lighten his mood. He clicked it closed and shoved the watch b...
2023-06-13 05:49:54 +0000 UTC View PostAs Kalan walked away from the embassy, a deep sense of relief washed over him. While he liked the duke, he also felt wary about the man. The nobleman was too mercurial. He’d manipulated nearly ev...
2023-06-13 05:31:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Wait! Where are you going?” the woman from the sect shouted as she ran down the road after Sen.
Sen kept walking as he pointed down the road and said, “That direction.”
The stu...
2023-06-12 23:43:46 +0000 UTC View PostSen made only two brief stops on his way out of the village. The first stop was at the small market to stock up on some extra food. Sen had acquired a bit of a taste for the local fish and suspecte...
2023-06-12 16:13:54 +0000 UTC View PostSen procrastinated for almost two weeks. He didn’t call it procrastination, of course, and he made good use of the time. He helped Luo Min and Luo Ping in their fields, doing more heavy labor in ...
2023-06-12 01:11:52 +0000 UTC View PostLuo Ping was frowning down the road. “There’s a big part of me that wishes you had killed him.”
Sen gave her a sympathetic look. “I would have. Hells, I probably should have....
2023-06-11 16:26:11 +0000 UTC View PostSen breathed in and out, his mind guiding the ever-more precise execution of his cultivation pattern. Yet, for all that he had improved on using it, and all the flaws he could sense but not yet ide...
2023-06-11 04:57:25 +0000 UTC View PostAs he lifted the cup of Dragon Well tea to his lips, Elder He Mingze took a moment to enjoy the warmth of the cup and the smell of the tea. It was calming in its familiarity. He knew that the next ...
2023-06-10 17:01:13 +0000 UTC View PostSen made a point to put on a show of cooking for a few days. Somehow, he always managed to cook at least three times as much as he needed. Although, for Sen, it was only mostly a show. He ...
2023-06-09 22:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostSen did know the next day. While Luo Ping’s leg hadn’t healed completely, nor had Sen expected it to, it was substantially better. Most of the inflammation was gone and Luo Ping herself reporte...
2023-06-09 15:49:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone. I'm dealing with an internet outage in my area this morning. I’m posting this from my phone. With any luck, they’ll get it resolved quickly, but it could be a few hours. Just know...
2023-06-09 12:19:05 +0000 UTC View PostFrom nearly the moment Sen applied the poultice to the older woman’s leg, he was in crisis mode. It was a constant race between him and doom. He raced to make elixirs that would shore up the woma...
2023-06-08 18:25:02 +0000 UTC View PostLuo Min made a few, very halfhearted attempts to refuse the money before she plucked the coins from Sen’s hand. Sen pretended he didn’t notice the way that a veritable mountain of stress seemed...
2023-06-08 14:41:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe inside of the hut was little more than one big open space. Some attempts had been made to establish areas of privacy with old, tattered clothes hanging from the ceiling. It appeared that the sl...
2023-06-07 23:22:14 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Kalan stepped back into the hall, it wasn’t quite utter chaos. It was the next best thing to it. There had to be nearly two dozen people milling around Edmus. To the man’s credit, he was c...
2023-06-07 19:44:19 +0000 UTC View PostIt was Sen’s turn to cock his head to one side. The question struck him as absurd, given that he’d said he would pay and there was silver in his hand at that very moment. He decided to...
2023-06-07 16:11:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, so I got a little distracted this morning by the arrival of new artwork. The next chapter will arrive shortly. In the meantime, meet Master Feng. I feel pretty good about this image, but what...
2023-06-07 14:43:53 +0000 UTC View PostSen passed a few hours at the small inn that seemed to pull triple duty as an inn, restaurant, and tavern for the locals. He finally managed to order and eat a hot meal that consisted of dumplings,...
2023-06-07 03:25:39 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a bit late and the lighting wasn't ideal, but this was yesterday's dinner. A chicken taco salad with homemade pico de gallo!
Yes, it was awesome and delicious enough that I went ba...
2023-06-07 00:49:04 +0000 UTC View PostFor those of you who have access, I've uploaded revised versions of the Epilogue for Volume 1 and 2023-06-07 00:08:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Sen and Bigan spent one final night camping. Yet, the young man had become all but mute in the wake of the confrontation with the bandits. Sen supposed that the facts of the situation had shattered...
2023-06-06 19:01:38 +0000 UTC View PostSen was pleasantly surprised to discover that Bigan was far less chatty the next day. It seemed that the young man was struck by an unusual case of reflectiveness. It didn’t have the same kind of...
2023-06-06 15:12:21 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, it took me a bit longer to lock in an artist for this one than I expected, but Master Feng artwork is happening. Finger crossed, it'll be done before the end of the week.
2023-06-06 04:33:28 +0000 UTC View PostFor the first two hours, Bigan tried to talk to Sen. The cultivator indulged some questions, but mostly he just grunted noncommittal noises at the chatty wagon driver. The young man eventually figu...
2023-06-06 02:42:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe ambassador ushered Kalan and Edmus into a private office and immediately banished his underlings. No doubt, he was hoping to take credit for anything the embassy did on behalf of Lord Alland. K...
2023-06-05 15:56:31 +0000 UTC View PostFixing the wheel turned into a much longer production than Sen had originally intended for it to be. Initially, he’d been set on just doing the work himself. After all, the faster it got done, th...
2023-06-05 13:09:06 +0000 UTC View PostDespite his intention to simply sleep until he woke up, it was barely mid-morning when angry shouting brought him to full consciousness. For a moment, he thought that someone had discovered his loc...
2023-06-05 03:28:23 +0000 UTC View PostOh yeah! A little spicy California roll pre-game before I write today's second chapter.
It took a little convincing at the gate for the guards to let him out. In the end, Sen made up a story about his sick grandmother, silently praying that Grandmother Lu never caught wind of the tale...
2023-06-04 16:28:17 +0000 UTC View PostWhile the man didn’t speak or leave, just sat there looking annoyed and put upon, Sen hovered on the very cusp of violence. He ached to just draw his jian and put an end to one of his frustration...
2023-06-04 00:25:31 +0000 UTC View Post