thundamoo

59. Chicken Soup for the Undead Soul

A little under a week later, Lyn ‘scrounges up’ a little over two pounds of metal, and I just about faint.  You could make a national treasure with this, if you knew a blacksmith....

58. Family Meeting

“It’s none of your business, Vita,” Rowan insists.

“Well if it’s none of my business, then you’re not getting any of my money!”

Rowan and I had managed to make it back to ...

57. Soul Surgery

“Is that the place?” I ask, pointing towards an utterly nondescript building in front of us.

“Indeed, oh work of art!  Your vision sees true!”

I frown, nodding without look...

56. Head Full of Sky

I slip my tendrils inside of Squigs and Frigs, ready to instantly kill the two closest enemies to me if this becomes a fight.  Two more tendrils prepare shards of my soul; anyone that attacks ...

55. Draken's Den

“Fancy-looking place,” I comment, staring up at the massively wide one-story building that apparently serves as the base for the Broken Drakens.

I’m not entirely lying, either.  Su...

54. Fragile

“Be careful with that flower, Lark,” the Claretta tells me.  “If you squeeze it that hard, it’s going to die.”

I loosen my grip immediately, a growl of worry escaping from unde...

53. Big Happy Family

“You fucking parasitic monster!” Theodora screeches, following up her first punch with an immediate second.  The blows are amateurish, but more than enough to knock the slime-Revenant flat...

52. Twisted Love

“Shouldn’t we have changed for this?” I ask grumpily, descending down the stairs after Penelope.

She glances up at me, her grin gleaming in the dim light.

“Vita, please!  H...

51. A Lark's Story

“This is a Lark’s story, content yet seeking more…”

“Shut up.”

“The Lark... flies... far for she... loves naught but to explore...”

“Shut up!  Shut up, shut...

50. Stacking the Deck

“‘Conventionally attractive?’  What does that even mean?  What are you doing to me?”

Penelope’s revelation is not sitting well with me.  A biomancer fucking ...

49. Things that Matter

Lyn and I exit the lower room to find my team getting along with the kids.  Bently and Norah race each other while giving piggyback rides.  Orville patiently allows two of the girls to br...

48. Do No Harm

My throat is parched and raw.  I can’t sing a single second more, no matter how hard I try.  No matter how much biomancy I toss at myself and the surviving members of my team, it doesn�...

47. Work-Life Balance

“Well, shit, here we are,” Norah comments happily.  “Is it just me, guys, or was this mission way easier than the last one?”

The rest of us trudge out of the forest behi...

46. A Hunter's Song

“What do you mean there’s nothing in front of us?”  Baldreg asks.

“How is that ambiguous?” Ivan drawls back.  “There’s nothing in front of us.  No movement.  ...

45. Lonely Genocide

She’s dead.  My friend is dead.  Penta’s soul floats lifelessly inside me, like so many others have and will.  She died in there, so I never even had to collect her.  Her bo...

44. Worst Nightmare

Eventually, I feel Theodora go to sleep.  Penta and I sneak over to Seong’s house, pour enough from the Everfull for them to do their thing, and return to our room undiscovered.  Taline...

43. Penultimate Practice

Penelope and Theodora are still talking by the time I finish my soul-cuddling session, so I head their way.  The wispy, tattoo-covered Theodora seems to be quite animatedly enjoying a nerdy ma...

42. Hugs and Horrors

I grab Melik and drag him somewhere I’m confident no one can overhear, turning on him before he can have a chance to talk.

“All right, kid, three things.  One: I know you’re not a ...

41. No Better Option

Okay, sitrep.  There’s a lot going on here right now, and I need to lay it all out in my head.

Penelope and I are here to kill all the Nawra, or failing that, retrieve Remus’s sword....

40. Family of Lies

“Vita, come on.  The mists aren’t getting any thicker.”

Penelope waits impatiently on a ramshackle, swaying rope bridge hanging over the deadly abyss.  I, meanwhile, have my f...

39. Lines Drawn

I claw at Gladra’s armored hand, trying to get a breath in to answer.  Choking, I pull at her fingers with one arm as I hold the other away from her body, my tentacular soul fleeing down my ...

38. Deus ex Anima

Every human I have ever felt has a core to their soul.  While I have the vague insight that souls are more than their apparent shapes, the space in which a human's soul resides is always more ...

37. The One Below All

More days pass, the wagon plodding along little by little as the islands float by overhead.  We break free of the forests near the start of the seventh day, the horizon appearing surprisingly ...

36. Suspicions of Danger

As the penumbra of the next island hits, we find a clearing to rest and start a fire for the night. I help the Templars go around collecting kindling and before long the strongest thermomancer ther...

35. Future Promises

I do not, unfortunately, get to rest for long, as I am soon brought screaming into wakefulness by the pain of getting immolated alive.  I spasm, trying to run, but something grabs me ...

34. Trapped Inside

Well, I’ve been surrounded by Templars for a solid half hour and I’m not dead yet, so I’m now willing to bet they can’t passively see I’m an animancer somehow. Penta also hasn’t died, s...