Chapter 75
(She pulled the dead man in the way, his flesh taking the sword blow, and ripped the corpse’s pistol free. She aimed a shot at the lictor in the doorway and - a ripple in the air , then her bones...
2025-01-24 05:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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Chapter 74
“It doesn’t matter,” Maryam snarled. “It doesn’t matter.”
Hooks spoke not a word, only staring at her seemingly stuck halfway between terror and astonishment. That made i...
2025-01-17 05:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 72
It took an embarrassing amount of time to wiggle all the way to Izel so Tristan could get his hands on the man’s knife and cut free of the rope around his hands and feet.
Once the last of i...
2025-01-03 05:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 71
The lamps guttered out one after another. Like a curtain being pulled, dark fell over the private archives.
Maryam stood alone on the roof before the face of three gods and the absence of a f...
2024-12-27 05:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 70
Four twenty-seven. Tristan closed the brass face of the watch.
It was easy, that was the worst part. Tristan had always hated the way some philosophers wept at the difficulty of taking a life...
2024-12-20 05:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 68
It was infuriating that he’d not immediately gone to her when he arrived, and thus only fitting he suffer the consequences of this slight. Maryam kicked his ankle: boot tip right on the bone, and...
2024-12-06 05:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 66
It was not a difficult climb, skill-wise, but that did not make it any less taxing.
Though the scaffold-tower hugging the western wall of Tratheke had been built with care and precision, it w...
2024-11-22 05:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 65
On the fourth morning of his captivity, Tristan Abrascal began the plan.
It was quiet, despite Rhea’s attempt to welch. All it took was beginning to raise his voice while speaking of cards ...
2024-11-15 05:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 64
On the second day of his captivity, Tristan woke to the sensation of someone briskly jabbing him in the ribs. He startled awake, eyes stinging, and found a dark-haired woman in a padded brown surco...
2024-11-08 05:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 63
Angharad went dressed in men’s clothes: hose and a doublet under a long coat with a tricorn pulled down as far as she could, her hair bundled up. There was no hiding the walking stick, but being ...
2024-11-01 04:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSix Week Pause
Hello!
My fiancee is currently giving birth, so we're going on the six week break I mentioned in the earlier post.
Chapter 61
“Huh,” Maryam said when the tale was done, honestly a little impressed. “That’s not just a fumble, it’s a disastrous fumble.”
“I am not unaware,” Song replied through gritted ...
2024-08-30 04:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 60
The orphanage opening had not been a joyous thing.
Such institutions were not, Angharad learned, paid for by the Lord Rector or the local ruling lord but by whoever cared to offer coin to the...
2024-08-23 04:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 59
It was for the best.
By morning tomorrow Maryam would arrive at Black House, and with the signifier’s return the secret Song had kept would finally out. Evander Palliades would be told of t...
2024-08-16 04:59:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 57
It was not a pleasant surprise to be woken up in the middle of the night and the quality of the ensuing surprises had only since worsened.
“If we go to Captain Wen right now,” Angharad sa...
2024-08-02 04:03:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 56
They skipped Black House’s communal breakfast, instead bothering the servants for simpler fare served directly in Song’s room. There were only two chairs in there, so Maryam brought her own bef...
2024-07-26 04:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 55
The thing about being the lowest rung on the ladder was that everyone stepped on you.
It was Tristan’s fourth day as a Kassa traveling man, which meant he was still swallowing an awful lot ...
2024-07-19 04:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAnnouncement: End of Book 2/Book 3
Hello there!
Since we're approaching the end of the second book in the Pale Light series, "Good Treasons", I'm bringing up the usual end break. For those of you new to the Patreon, I usu...
2024-07-13 21:32:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 53 (Explicit Content)
Mistakes had been made.
“A satyrian, Lady Angharad!” Cleon Eirenos exclaimed for the fourth time, eyes bright as stars. “Between that and the robbers, it was an encounter worth...
2024-07-05 21:19:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 52
By the end of the first day, Angharad would have been willing to fight another gray mirror for the prize of never again having to ride a coach.
It was no reflection on the coachman, a grizzle...
2024-06-28 04:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 51
Come night, Tratheke looked like a sea of lights.
Black House was not so tall that the view from the roof garden was not cut into by higher edifices still, but the spread offered to Song’s ...
2024-06-21 04:05:45 +0000 UTC View Post