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Crown of Slaves Chapter Fourteen

Crown of Slaves

Chapter Fourteen

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The room that Spindrall had claimed for himself, unlike the rest of the tomb, looked almost exactly like it had in the game. A small cul-de-sac, utilitarian lighting and durasteel grating providing the lighting and space required for...

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Crown of Slaves Chapter Thirteen

Crown of Slaves

Chapter Thirteen

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Destroying the K’lor slug nest, with Cormun and his infantry helping, was actually astonishingly simple. Between other roving bands of acolytes and the beasts’ tendency to tear each other to bits at the slightest provocatio...

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Crown of Slaves Chapter Twelve

Crown of Slaves

Chapter Twelve

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“Hey, you. Looks like you’re finally awake.” a soft feminine voice said from across the way, and I gave a rough chuckle as I opened my eyes with a small smile.

            &nbs...

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Crown of Slaves Chapter Eleven

Crown of Slaves

Chapter Eleven

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Asmu-Nikal watched with her heart in her throat as Vestara meditated deeply under the direction of Lord Ergast himself, so deeply in fact that her presence in the force was a muted ember compared to the warm, fierce fire it was meant to be. Sh...

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Forsaken Chapter Five

Forsaken

Chapter Five

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Bianca didn’t know what it was that woke her, only that something had happened that resulted in her shooting upright in bed, wholly awake and searching the room around her with senses beyond what even most demigods could hope f...

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Nothing Is True Chapter 16

Nothing Is True

Chapter Sixteen

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Clarke Griffin woke slowly, blearily, wondering at the warm softness that surrounded her, the sunlight streaming in through a window. It was probably one of the best feelings she had ever experienced. A level of comfort that she had only experienced once be...

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Crown of Slaves Chapter 10

Crown of Slaves

Chapter Ten

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                “My Lord?”

The voice of his apprentice, his most valued and talented of every apprentice he had ever had at that (not that he would ever tell Cor...

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Shadows and Dust Chapter Five

Shadows and Dust

Chapter Five

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Mindoir Defense Headquarters

2170

Private Joseph P. McDonald, nineteen-year-old native of Mindoir and one of the few people in the garrison who was both a native to Mindoir and wasn’t particularly interested in...

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Nothing Is True Chapter Fifteen

Nothing Is True (Save For The Blood We’ve Shed)

Chapter Fifteen

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“What do we do now?”

Kostia’s words, first spoken to her lover alone, and repeated again and again and again by Leksa’s advisors as each of them were brought into the room holding The ORACLE an...

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On Ashen Wings Chapter Five

On Ashen Wings

Chapter Five

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Reaching the above-ground portion of the temple was quick and easy, lacking anything in the way of unpleasant surprises, which was really rather nice. Or, at least, it would have been, if the mutual distaste that Shadowheart and Gale were ra...

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Crown of Slaves Chapter Nine

Crown of Slaves

Chapter Nine

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“…seems, based on the reports from those you sent to observe her, that your honored descendant wishes to bring her concubine and slave to meet you, My Lord, and discuss the works of another Lord named Ergast, but it has been deemed too dangerous ...

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Nothing Is True Chapter 14

Nothing Is True (Save for the Blood We’ve Shed)

Chapter 14

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To say that Clarke was nervous as their little group of three approached the outskirts of Polis was an understatement. Intellectually, of course, she knew that her secret was safe, with all the proof that mi...

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Shadows and Dust Chapter Four

Shadows and Dust

Chapter Four

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Mindoir

A bell, sharp and clear, rang loudly through the halls of the Theodore Roosevelt Jr. High School. A sound that had been engraven into the cultural memory of humanity long be...

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On Ashen Wings Chapter Four

On Ashen Wings

Chapter Four

Distractions and Detractions

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The scream, as it turned out, had come from a pair of what looked like servant girls, ones that had (by all appearances) survived the nautiloid’s crash, and seemingly had emerged from the wreckage r...

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Forsaken Chapter Four

Forsaken Chapter Four ############################################################# “It’s a hell of a situation, and I don’t envy Cassie a b

Forsaken

Chapter Four

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“It’s a hell of a situation, and I don’t envy Cassie a bit. God, I don’t envy an...

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On Ashen Wings Chapter Three

On Ashen Wings

Chapter Three

Hand to Helm

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If Ciri hadn’t already hated monsters that had captured them, the ‘mind-flayers’, she certainly would have starting hating them when her innocent attempts to save a young woman, trapped inside of a pod just like the one she and ...

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Crown of Slaves Chapter Eight

Crown of Slaves

Chapter Eight

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Unfortunately for my plans, going to the Tomb of Ergast was still thoroughly impossible due to the raging Force Storms that the Temple’s opening had started. Even on foot it was still deemed too dangerous, between the wind and hail and ...

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Nothing Is True Chapter Thirteen

Nothing is True

Chapter Thirteen

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“You’re serious?” the words were incredulous, the tone was baffled, the looks were bewildered, and the body language was disbelieving.

“Deadly serious, Miss Blake.” The response was flat, unyielding in it’s emotionless ...

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On Ashen Wings Chapter Two

On Ashen Wings

Chapter Two

Ascent From Avernus

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Ciri huddled at the base of her pod, hugging herself against it’s protective bulk as the heat washed over her, her fingers twisting as she instinctively warded herself, the shimmering dome of Quen rippling as flames ...

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Shadows and Dust Chapter Three

Shadows and Dust

Chapter Three

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Earth

Approximately 1 year post-First Contact War

“You know, Benezia said that you were ‘pretty unusual’ as far as asari went, but this isn’t exactly what I pictured when she said that. Do y...

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Forsaken Chapter Three

Forsaken

Chapter Three

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Camp Half-Blood was a scene of chaos, barely coordinated but energetic, as anyone and everyone spilled half-dressed and barely awake from their cabins, summoned by the shouts of the camp staff and the Goddess of the Moon herself. ...

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Crown of Slaves Chapter Seven

Crown of Slaves

Chapter Seven

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The three of us were still kneeling on the ground staring at one another, breathing hard as we continued struggling to recover from the psychic impact of the Dark Temple being disturbed, when another pulse of Force energy swept across u...

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Nothing Is True Chapter 12

Nothing Is True (Save For The Blood We’ve Shed)

Chapter Twelve

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The throne room of Polis was a simple one, despite it’s lofty title and the nature of what happened within it’s expanse. Seats and spaces designated for standing lined the sides, positions for guards and ...

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An Oath, Timeless Chapter One

An Oath, Timeless (And Forged By Souls)

Chapter One

A Dragon, Born

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Frea of the Skaal was feeling rather bored, something that was becoming increasingly common of late, despite living life as a constant struggle against both Nature and the All-Maker’s less int...

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Oskoreia Chapter Two

Oskoreia

Chapter Two

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Randvi had been right, of course. The mere suggestion that Eivor intended to go a-viking, never mind hunt down Kjotve himself, had led to a strict command that she stray no more than three miles from the walls of Fornburg by any means or for any cause. That...

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Dovah-king or Dovah-queen?

So, the bug for An Oath, Timeless (And Forged Between Souls) bit me hard, and I've been digging out my old outlines and chapters. I am considering slowly, casually, posting it here exlusively to Patrons for a while, just like I am with Forsaken. However, I wanted to ask you guys the following:

I know I have a lot of yuri with futa stories...

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Shadows and Dust Chapter Two

This chapter will be a series of scenes, covering moments of the First Contact War. I fully intend to have there be snippets, interludes, or even a small side-story covering the conflict more broadly in the future, but I don’t want to get bogged down in a half-dozen chapters of the FCW like so many Mass Effect stories do. As such, only...

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Forsaken Chapter Two

Forsaken Chapter Two

Forsaken

Chapter Two

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Artemis was seething as she reconstituted on Olympos, within her temple-house. Much like her cabin in Camp Halfblood, the interior was spartan in the extreme. Even more so, perhaps, because she spent even less time here than she did at the Camp, p...

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Dawn Is Just A Heartbeat Away Chapter Four

Dawn Is Just A Heartbeat Away

Chapter Four

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Hades didn’t try to hide his amusement as the blushing, stuttering child tried and failed to get a proper apology for ‘ignoring him’ out, remembering another individual that could be a clever-tongued, quick-witted show-w...

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Crown of Slaves Chapter Six

Crown of Slaves

Chapter Six

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I had to admit that, once we were away from the slave market, I started to have fun. Shopping had, admittedly, never been something I loved doing. I preferred to go to stores with specific items, specific sections at the very wo...

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