Their procession, small as it was, began at Salt’s Mane. It began with them waiting on Rose, whose squad was not letting her depart without many hugs, promises of letters, and the re-pinning of t...
2023-06-23 15:21:28 +0000 UTC View Post“They’re calling themselves the Blood Commoners,” the Captain of the Guard groused, over drinks.
The Blood Commoners, like they were some kind of dramatic and self-sacrificing oppositio...
2023-06-16 02:50:22 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re late,” said the Lady. She sat on a bleached trunk of driftwood, one leg crossed over the other. “I’d almost announced your death again.”
Aaron stood before her, panting, t...
2023-06-09 02:09:13 +0000 UTC View PostAaron gave John the letter from his mother. John gave Aaron its reply, and honey rolls. It might not have been friendship, exactly, but it was at least a truce.
* * *
The investigation ...
2023-06-01 15:07:55 +0000 UTC View PostAaron returned to the enclaves for a third time, with a smile and a new letter and a griffin cloak upon his shoulders, which earned him quite the range of reactions. Mostly the sort that would get ...
2023-05-16 02:16:47 +0000 UTC View Post“Stop dying,” Rose commanded. “This is an order, not a suggestion.”
“It’s not as if I meant to,” Aaron said.
“Are you going to tell me,” she said, “that you weren’...
2023-05-09 02:03:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe Winter Lord came at them. Not as a subtle stalking thing, but with the crashing of something large that didn’t care over much for the little things crushed in its wake.
The kaibyou ...
2023-05-01 18:42:33 +0000 UTC View PostBaby update: little girl appears to be doing well; follow up MRI in two weeks to check how well her skull is healing, but she seems to be past any immediate danger and back to comp...
2023-04-24 00:01:21 +0000 UTC View PostMother in law came to help with the new baby.
Mother in law dropped the baby on her head.
Baby has a skull fracture.
THAT IS NOT HELPING.
We are home from ...
2023-04-06 00:11:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe kaibyou ate the rabbit babes bones and all, then licked herself clean with a certain daintiness. She did all this while staring directly at Aaron, which made him simultaneously both mo...
2023-04-02 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhen he woke, John’s twin was gone and the griffins were back up their tree, probably until nightfall made leaving a safer affair. Waking was good. Waking after a clear delay was less good becaus...
2023-03-25 15:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostVolume one is officially on Amazon/KU 2023-03-21 16:24:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Enclave weaponsmiths were legendary. Or so Aaron had been told by Mabel, at length, when he’d gotten her started on the topic over lunch the last he was in Salt’s Mane. Dragons had been coming ...
2023-03-18 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostJust a head's up: the first book of Fox's Tongue (chapters 1-48) will be moving to KU just ahead of the official release; that means they'll be taken down from Patreon and Royal Road.
Mini-Muffin 2.0 has arrived!
Yes I am already typing over her, why do you ask. Guest-s...
2023-03-11 23:23:38 +0000 UTC View Post“You didn’t tell me you had a brother,” Aaron said, the next he was at Onekin. The trip had been pleasantly uneventful, and made entirely on the feet of horses rather than upon his own sore h...
2023-03-11 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostAaron arrived at Salt’s Mane rather behind the news of his own death. Which made for an awkwardly pointed conversation with the guards, who’d watched a lone traveler approaching—suspicious en...
2023-03-04 17:56:43 +0000 UTC View PostHis first bounding step inside, and there was already a leshy waiting for him. Right in his path, where it looked to have always been, but certainly hadn’t a moment ago. Aaron stopped, his flanks...
2023-02-25 16:53:20 +0000 UTC View PostNews!
Aaron had a bad feeling. Which was the sort of irony he didn’t much appreciate, really. He was back on the road, with a reply for Connor from his brother, and a letter for Rose that she’d not a...
2023-02-18 15:24:49 +0000 UTC View PostThey arrived back at Salt’s Mane with a stunning lack of roadside excitement. Riding all day every day for days on end was, it turned out, rather boring when nothing was stalking you from the sky...
2023-01-06 00:56:54 +0000 UTC View Post“So,” Aaron said, casual as can be. “Are you going to out me to our father soon as you open your mouth?”
Because she’d certainly wasted no time in doing so to all those lords and la...
2022-12-22 16:08:18 +0000 UTC View PostTLDR: I am very preggers, updates will be slow, so Patreon payments are PAUSED. You will still get updates. Just slowly. And for free.
Thank you for your pat...
2022-10-12 00:54:11 +0000 UTC View PostThey’d stuck a crown on Prince Connor. A little one; no jewels, or anything so gaudy, and nothing near the regalness of the king’s. Just a thin band of gold, worked into the semblance of two dr...
2022-10-04 23:21:53 +0000 UTC View PostIt went for Adelaide first, which was a thing she probably wouldn’t like him feeling grateful for, but there it was. She jerked her horse’s reins towards the forest. Almost made it, too. But th...
2022-09-20 00:17:16 +0000 UTC View PostJessica—Jeshinkra—had received a letter. That was how it started. She’d been expecting friends of hers for a visit. Three from her unit, traveling a bit on their way home, leaving the safety ...
2022-09-04 22:26:42 +0000 UTC View PostJust before dawn, Aaron put on his wolf cloak and slipped into the forest through a crack in the town’s gate, quickly closed. There was new growth brushing his shoulders and old decay damp under ...
2022-08-31 23:51:34 +0000 UTC View PostAaron was to ride messenger horses on his way back to Onekin, changing for fresh mounts at towns along the main road. Messenger horses were bred for speed, the stablehand said. Ours are particularl...
2022-08-25 00:25:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Also known as "Who's My Half-Sibling Hopscotch". I really think the Queen missed an opportunity here, to complete the circle with a few select liaisons with Unknown Women. Or did she.
2022-08-17 00:01:56 +0000 UTC View PostOrin handed him a neatly tied stack of letters as the meeting broke up. Each bore the crown’s seal: a dragon rampant, caught in the spiked ring of a crown.
“As we discussed,” he said, a...
2022-08-16 23:56:44 +0000 UTC View Post