Chapter 14
They began to feel the bite of the missing supplies on the third day.
Angharad had measured her portions from the start, planning for four days’ worth of meals. Formal registration with the...
2022-10-21 04:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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Chapter 13
Lady Ferranda Villazur, wide awake and miffed at rats invading her camp, pointed her pistol at him.
Though she must be a decent shot, Tristan was more worried by Sanale carefully aiming his l...
2022-10-14 04:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 12
It was an unusual experience, Tristan mused, to be treating others using a poisoner’s kit in ways he had largely learned through study of interrogation. Not that anyone could tell the difference....
2022-10-07 04:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 11
The sharp crack echoes against the stone, smoke billowing past the open door.
There is a grunt of pain but men still rush past the threshold: tall, becloaked, bearing blades. Mot...
2022-09-30 04:00:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 10
It was an old road, nibbled at by the elements the way crabs would nibble at a corpse, but it had held up well.
Enough so their pace across the plain was swift even though two of their crew w...
2022-09-23 04:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 9
They’d not left the campsite for half an hour before it got worse.
“We agreed to pool our men together, Ferranda,” Augusto Cerdan shouted. “You would go back on your word?”...
2022-09-16 04:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 8
Lieutenant Sihle had said the road began half a mile ahead and that was where they found it.
Tristan was no tracker, not so far from dirty alleyways, but though the ancient paving stones were...
2022-09-09 04:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 7
People could be funny about death, Tristan thought.
Dozens died in Sacromonte’s gutters every day and no one batted an eye, but if you tossed forty bodies on pyres and made people look at t...
2022-09-02 04:00:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 6
Teeth shattered most satisfyingly under her boot, the mantic whimpering as it fled. Angharad added a flourish to her wrist purely for effect, spearing the spirit from behind and nailing it to the d...
2022-08-26 04:02:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 5
Tristan needed a way in.
The infanzones had claimed a corner of the hold and were entertaining the sole foreigner they’d decided was worth their time, mere feet away but far beyond his reac...
2022-08-26 04:02:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 4
They were waiting for her at Fishmonger’s Quay.
Every street had a pair of redcloaks watching passers-by, forcing any hooded or veiled to show their faces before they were let through. Angh...
2022-08-26 04:02:40 +0000 UTC View PostPale Lights and Patreon Changes
Hello again!
I'm back from my break with another series for you to read, as promised. The first book of Pale Lights, titled 'Lo...
2022-08-20 15:27:31 +0000 UTC View PostEnding Announcements
Hey!
First off, as was mentioned in the pitch for the perk in question the extra chapters that were Patreon-only are on the main site now that the book is over. If any of you didn't enjoy rea...
2022-02-27 17:25:54 +0000 UTC View PostScriven
“Beware the gap between the lesson taught and the lesson learned.”
- Delosi saying
Eudokia mostly remembered being hungry.
She wasn’t sure how she had ended up on t...
2022-02-08 05:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostExtra Chapter Delay
Due to the size of the final chapters of the series (usually around twice my usual chapter length) there's going to be a delay to the February extra chapter's release. Instead of coming out on the ...
2022-01-28 22:50:02 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary Extra Chapter
Here's the poll for the February extra chapter. One vote per patron, it will close on the 14th. Since Book VII is still scheduled to end in February, this will likely be the least of the extra chap...
2022-01-07 20:39:27 +0000 UTC View PostDisinter
“You don’t want to be the best sword on Calernia, kids. That’s the one everyone’s always trying to kill. No, if you want to make a career of this aim to be the fifth finest sword – hi...
2022-01-07 06:18:07 +0000 UTC View PostExtra Chapter Delay
Due to delays brought about by my recovery from Covid and the crunch of ending the last book, the January extra chapter will be coming out with the second update of the month, Friday the 7th, inste...
2022-01-04 04:30:32 +0000 UTC View PostJanuary Extra Chapter
Here's the poll for the January extra chapter! One vote per patron, it will close on the 10th.
Scriven
A look at Eudokia as a young girl and what drove her to become th...
2021-12-03 21:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostTomb
“Hatred is more reliable than love for even good men may become ingrates but few will renounce a grudge. To make hatred for the sake of being loved is to trade iron for tin.”
- E...
2021-12-03 05:01:13 +0000 UTC View PostDecember Extra Chapter
Here's the poll for the December extra chapter! One vote per patron, it will close on the 9th.
Tomb
A look at the drow general that became Mighty Rumena, from the last ...
2021-11-02 04:07:51 +0000 UTC View PostChallengers
“To be good?
An empty boast.
To be good at!
There is the glory,
even in devilry.”
- Extract from the play “I, Triump...
2021-11-02 04:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostNovember Extra Chapter
Here's the poll for the October extra chapter! One vote per patron, it will close on the 9th.
Challengers
The Calamities held Callow against all comers for decades. A p...
2021-10-02 16:38:01 +0000 UTC View PostHunt
“We fear Evil as we fear the wave that drowns us, but it rests atop an ocean of smaller evils.”
- Extract from the transcript of the 'Sermon of the Shores', as spoken by Sister S...
2021-10-01 05:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostOctober Extra Chapter
Here's the poll for the October extra chapter! One vote per patron, it will close on the 11th.
Legacy
A look at how Akua Sahelian was raised and how she came to be the ...
2021-09-04 16:14:46 +0000 UTC View PostStranger
“The only true kindness is that offered to a passing stranger, when there can be no expectation of reward.”
- Melete the Stern, Atalante philosopher
Hanno did not feel as i...
2021-09-03 04:01:24 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember Extra Chapter
Here's the poll for the September extra chapter! One vote per patron, it will close on the 11th.
Stranger
A piece centered on Hanno and Antigone, set in the years they ...
2021-08-04 21:31:13 +0000 UTC View PostFettered
“Good and Evil are a false dichotomy, each claiming to perfect while the other is imperfect. Neither holds any meaning: imperfection was seeded at the heart of Creation before its first breat...
2021-08-03 04:00:48 +0000 UTC View PostRefuge II
“How many will ever see a devil in their lifetime? Evil first the province of men, for it is we who inflict it to each other.”
- Isocrates the Harsh, Atalante preacher
Cons...
2021-07-02 04:00:40 +0000 UTC View PostAugust Extra Chapter
Here's the poll for the August extra chapter! One vote per patron, it will close on the 8th.
Stranger
A piece centered on Hanno and Antigone, set in the years they spen...
2021-07-02 04:00:33 +0000 UTC View Post