Tristan had never been the sort to find mindless labor soothing. He had seen too many people break their bodies stacking stones and scraping canals to believe there was anything noble about work, n...
2023-11-10 05:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostSong was the first back to the cottage.
She came in, wiped her boots and hung her cloak. Her musket was placed against the wall – until a proper weapons rack could be acquired ...
2023-11-03 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMusa Shange and his three were the first down.
Angharad would give him this: the man might be arrogant, but he was no coward. It was but moments after he disappeared down the stairs that the ...
2023-10-27 18:39:11 +0000 UTC View PostDue to some troubles on my end Chapter 17 will be posted tomorrow, most likely early in the afternoon EST. Sorry for the delay!
E.E.
2023-10-27 00:53:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe legwork took around an hour and a half.
Some of it was hitting pavement and casing the place without looking suspicious, but the real sweat came when Tristan had to consider how it would ...
2023-10-20 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe Chimerical was open, not that Tristan had ever seen it close. Did devils even sleep?
“Oh, this place again,” Fortuna enthused. “I just love that hanging crocodile, you should see if...
2023-10-13 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAngharad sat on a bench to eat alone with her thoughts, which was no mercy.
Half her cabal was long gone, and the last member... Much as the noblewoman disliked sitting there brooding and bit...
2023-10-06 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThey looked like ghostly vines, faint curls of smoke that were reaching hungry hands.
Song could see them creeping across the checkered, cracked floor of the entrance hall. The god was everyw...
2023-09-29 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostAngharad woke to the smell of breakfast.
Tossing aside her sheets – where Tristan and Maryam had found such a profoundly ugly shade of brown, she had no idea – she pushed herself up. Thou...
2023-09-22 04:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“The pork?”
“Nine coppers a pound,” Abrascal replied as he slid onto the bench.
The tip of Song’s reed pen scratched against the paper, adding the latest price to the list. Po...
2023-09-15 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a half-hour walk, most of it following the road to Scholomance.
Angharad had paid little attention to the path once they left the paved avenue, busy quietly seething at the fact they h...
2023-09-08 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Song suggested they go to the Emerald Vaults for breakfast and conversation, it was not really a suggestion.
She had that look on her face, the one Maryam had learned meant the decision ...
2023-09-01 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt was pleasant out.
The Grand Orrery lights were blue and bronze, brushing softly against the pavement stones, and a breeze too soft to push against the morning mist trailed down ...
2023-08-25 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostAdarsh Hebbar was quick on his feet and not half so careless as he looked.
He also was not heading back to Hostel Street, if the way he headed straight for the broken shrines behind the Old P...
2023-08-18 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“To join the court of cats,” Tristan hummed, “is most easily done.”
There were exactly forty-two people down in the Old Playhouse, barring himself and Tredegar. Of these ten were serv...
2023-08-11 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Not here,” Song firmly said.
The watchwoman at the desk was leaning in, eyes bright at the prospect of gossip. Maryam would not have minded airing out Tredegar’s dirty little secrets, ...
2023-07-28 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostBefore her house’s demise, Angharad had only twice journeyed at sea.
Once to visit her distant kin in House Bethel – a trip two days long by ship but three weeks by horse - and the other ...
2023-07-21 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostSong had found Captain Alejandra Krac’s cabin a haven of elegance and learning.
Lined with heavy rows of books and two hung maps – one of the Trebian Sea, the other of Radamant’s Reefs ...
2023-07-14 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTristan woke to the gentle rocking of the ship.
It was dark inside the cabin, his bedding pulled tight around his body in deference to the coolness of sea winds. The thief’s eyes stayed clo...
2023-07-07 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey there!
So the Pale Lights AMA will be happening tomorrow on the Discord at noon EDT. For a direct link to the event you can click 2023-07-01 14:32:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again!
We're now officially finished with the first book of the series, Lost Things. As mentioned in the last announcement updates will resume the 7th of July as we begin the second boo...
2023-06-02 04:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostHe’d never liked the Rookery.
It was a purely personal dislike, Captain Osian Tredegar would admit if pressed. He had spent half a year down in the Lanes after enlisting, becoming fit for d...
2023-06-02 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey there!
First the announcement: the first book of the the series will be ending next Friday, on June 2d, in the form of an epilogue.
I'll keep off the spoilers, but I can at least te...
2023-05-26 04:05:59 +0000 UTC View PostFour, Tristan counted as the blade went through Augusto Cerdan’s throat.
Though he allowed himself a moment to bask in the satisfaction of yet another Cerdan put in the ground, som...
2023-05-26 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe woods around Cantica had been cleared, leaving no true cover close to the palisade.
The five of them instead gathered around a half-abandoned firepit about thirty feet out, roughly to the...
2023-05-19 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a tight squeeze, but Tristan limped out into the alley.
He was third out of the hole in the wall the mayor made trying to murder Tupoc – an admirable undertaking, regardle...
2023-05-12 04:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostShe could not tell the difference between it and a dream before she woke.
/The lock popped open with a soft sound, Yaretzi brushing past a kneeling form and creeping in with a rag in hand to ...
2023-05-05 04:15:16 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a small mark, barely the width of half a palm, but that ‘C/C’ might just get them all killed.
“Trouble,” Lady Angharad Tredegar slowly repeated. “What do you mean?”
T...
2023-04-28 04:03:51 +0000 UTC View Post“Gods be my witness,” Mayor Crespin harshly said, “but if I either of you draws a sword I will have you shot.”
Angharad’s lips thinned, back straightening as she glared down at the ...
2023-04-21 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post