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“You want to leave here, right?” Serenity figured he’d better ask. He was pretty sure what the answer was, but sometimes he was wrong.
Helen nodded slightly, shivering. “Yes.”
“Then stay with me.” He was about to head out of the room when a nasty thought occurred to him. “You haven’t...
2022-11-10 23:56:24 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Helen missed the whole “being a slave” experience.
It wasn’t that she wanted it back; no, she’d literally slept through the whole thing. She remembered going to bed at the end of the Phase; she wasn’t about to stay up for it when everyone said there was no reason to. She couldn’t stay up that l...
2022-11-09 23:56:57 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“Finally figured out how to use a phone, even though you couldn’t while you were still on Earth?” Tek’s voice was familiar to Serenity even though it had been quite a while since they last spoke.
“I need help,” Serenity admitted. “I’m not sure I would have called otherwise.”
“I was e...
2022-11-09 00:10:59 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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It was more than a few days before High Priestess Karin was able to arrange for Serenity to talk to any of the people who’d been kidnapped from Earth. During that time, Rissa and Serenity toured a different part of Lyka each day. They toured Abiding 17, which Serenity would have categorized as a working class are...
2022-11-08 00:02:24 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity stopped in the doorway to stare at his fiancee. It was so good to see her. Did she have a glow or was he projecting his joy?
Either way, Rissa was clearly pregnant now; she had a noticeable baby bump in her otherwise lean form.
She looked up when the door opened. For a moment, she looked puzzled...
2022-11-07 00:03:59 +0000 UTC View PostThis was late due to ... the next book being difficult to kickstart. I was concentrating hard on getting Serenity off Zon so my brain is still stuck there instead of Lyka!
Naturally, my attempt to get the post together was then interrupted by a cat rescue ... good news (?): I now have an injured, seriously underweight but hopefully no long...
2022-11-06 00:17:14 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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[Challenge Resolved]
[Serenity has ascended to the Rule of Mornmot]
[You may alter your Rule type at the City Node]
Serenity picked himself up from the remains of his meal, the remains of his enemy. He wasn’t certain what to think right now. He h...
2022-11-04 23:07:44 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The route was not nearly as confusing as it sounded, but Serenity could understand why the demon had a hard time describing it; there were no street signs or even straight streets. Instead, they were headed in a fairly consistent direction: towards the center of the city.
It was the direction he’d have gues...
2022-11-03 23:07:26 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The injured demon was blessedly silent for a moment, but it didn’t last. “No. No, definitely maybe? What is a demon like me? Not many have my focus, my dedication, my obsession!”
Obsession? The word sounded all too plausible right now. Serenity glanced at the demon. “Are you an obsession demon who stu...
2022-11-02 23:11:05 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity was ready to head out now except for one thing. He had the same problem with his second form as he’d had when he was the Demon Thorn. What was he to do with it?
He couldn’t carry it as a crystal hilt as he’d done that time and he definitely couldn’t float along beside himself. Even ignoring ...
2022-11-01 23:12:50 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Channeling anger meant knowing where to use it and where not to use it.
What deserved his anger right now? Of those, what could he do something about, and what could he work towards?
The man who tried to kill Rissa was … huh. He was missing, not dead, wasn’t he? Serenity wondered what happened to Mac...
2022-10-31 23:06:08 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity wasn’t about to try entering a city of demon termites in his chimera form. That seemed remarkably foolish; if they welcomed other demons, he’d see something other than termites.
He could try taking the form of one of the worker termites, but after the experience in the first city he didn’t real...
2022-10-30 23:02:11 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The towering multihued yellow Demon Thorn of Pain never even seemed to realize it was in trouble.
It fired more Minute Thorns at Serenity, but after about a minute it seemed convinced it had shot him enough times and came closer to Serenity. It stuck out one of its leaves again, but this time it wrapped it ar...
2022-10-29 22:50:09 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Moving as a Demon Thorn of Pain was weird.
Serenity could move the top half of his body almost normally; he was more than a little stiff, but the motion itself was still normal other than his arms. They could move far more flexibly. He was going to have to practice; they were literally boneless and could bend ...
2022-10-28 23:09:54 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Gigantic tower-thorn demons were the only things Serenity could make out at this distance, but they didn’t really tell him much. It wasn’t that he couldn’t think of what they might be; instead, the problem was that he could think of half a dozen different things that might form individual thorns and be called...
2022-10-27 23:02:41 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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It wasn’t all that long after Serenity left the flame wolf behind when he started seeing distorted areas out of the corners of his eyes. They wouldn’t resolve into anything more concrete even with Aide’s help so Serenity continued onwards.
It was a bit over an hour after the first distortion when Ser...
2022-10-26 23:24:32 +0000 UTC View PostSo, I was writing tomorrow's chapter and lost track of time.
It's a little ironic since what I was writing includes Time manipulation...
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Ansera woke up.
She hadn’t really expected to. She knew saktiin’s progression better than most and she was well into the stage where any day, any moment, coul...
2022-10-25 23:25:39 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity shifted to his normal human form. There wasn’t any reason to go to the effort of his disguise, but at the same time he didn’t want to scare anyone and be mistaken for a monster. Zon seemed effectively completely human-settled.
The houses were sturdy, well built and well maintained, but that was...
2022-10-24 23:11:06 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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It wasn’t really a question of safety. Serenity doubted that there was much that “Lost Regrets” could or would do that could harm him.
Instead, it was only a question of which would waste more time. Traveling through the middle of a Time-warped area could well cost far more time than the shortcut gained...
2022-10-23 23:07:42 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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More than anything, they looked like mutated monkeys. The group of six monkeys had long hair, enough that they almost looked more like a mobile mop than an animal, but most of it was silky. It was obvious that they groomed regularly. Serenity wasn’t certain how they managed that, because the first difference bet...
2022-10-22 23:04:06 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Message from Rissa Latimer to Serenity
Serenity,
High Priestess Karin - you know, Ekari’s mother - has been looking into the missing people who ended up on Lyka. She’s found some, but apparently they are in seclusion following their acceptance of Lykandeon and cannot me...
2022-10-21 23:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Alanok watched as Maerite flopped onto the sofa in the richly furnished room Innat had set aside for the effort to recover the kidnapped enslaved Earthlings. She didn’t even glance at Alanok, even though he was the only other person in the room and was already on the same sofa. “Forty-seven.”
“That’s...
2022-10-20 22:56:25 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The only changes I have found so far, other than the format change, are located in your eyes and your hands. Your visual sensors now natively observe a far larger portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and there appear to be secondary sensory modes that I do not yet understand. The alteration to your hand...
2022-10-19 23:05:32 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Tell me about Lacuna, please.
It was the last one on Serenity’s short list, so it was a good thing to check out next. So far, nothing he’d found was needed and several of the more obvious options were terrible. If this continued, he was going to choose the one he wanted instead of trying to pick ...
2022-10-18 23:04:39 +0000 UTC View PostHad a long power outage (~10 hours) on Saturday. (There were storms; everything's fine here, other than the power cut). This put me behind on writing, so yesterday's chapter was finished the morning of and I just finished today's chapter instead of finishing it yesterday. I'm actually really happy to be getting this out more or less on time; I w...
2022-10-17 23:13:37 +0000 UTC View PostThis doesn't immediately affect anyone here, but if you leave my Patreon and return it might: I've moved to what Patreon calls "subscription billing". This means that Patreon will bill you on the monthly anniversary of your previous payment instead of always on the 1st.
For everyone already subbed, since you signed up under 1st of th...
2022-10-16 23:12:55 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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There was absolutely no way Serenity was waiting a year and a day to see Rissa, even if a month of that time had already passed. Not only did he simply want to see her, he wanted to be there when their child was born, plus as much of the pregnancy as possible. Rissa hadn’t mentioned how her pregnancy was going, b...
2022-10-15 23:07:52 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Duke Lowpeak was surprisingly accepting of Serenity’s Death magic, at least as long as he promised not to do anything to harm Lowpeak. It was enough to make Serenity wonder if the Duke had known another Death mage in the past, although it was also entirely possible that he simply respected the distinction between...
2022-10-14 23:12:54 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Andarit and Serenity were led to a holding area that looked more like a small cottage than anything else. It was a little ways up the actual road from the river, but the river was still visible in the distance. From the outside it looked well maintained.
“This is the quarantine cabin. Stay here and wait; ...
2022-10-13 23:10:05 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Travel over the brushland between the swamp and the planted fields was more pleasant than the trip through the swamp, especially for Andarit. During the time in the swamp, she was inundated by various insects, mostly mosquitos, that simply couldn’t penetrate Serenity’s armor’s scales. He had a couple of bites ...
2022-10-12 23:04:32 +0000 UTC View Post