Hiverock night passes. Some other hunter team is sent out to investigate the closest drop zone. My team is given a while to rest, with of course the exception of myself and Penelope. We’re eating breakfast, anticipating the branch leader to come looking for us. Remus hasn’t stopped being a problem just because another problem has been added ...
2021-03-16 17:59:03 +0000 UTC View PostYou’d think that having Templars swarming all over the city would be a bad night for thieves. You’d be wrong.
Oh, it’s bad for stealing from most places. Me, though? It’s perfect for me. I just wish Vita had been able to stay home and guard the kiddos for Hiverock night. I’ll just have to trust in Ro...
2021-03-15 19:13:02 +0000 UTC View PostHiverock floats abnormally close to our island. It skims just barely above the great mountain Claw Peak, which crested a few thousand feet above the walls of Skyhope. I've heard that closeness, as well as the abundance of farmable land on Verdantop, is what makes our island so appealing for those invaders. Yet who really knew?<...
2021-03-13 02:13:07 +0000 UTC View PostI open the door for Penelope, walking in afterwards. The branch leader is a portly man, completely with impressive jowls. I haven't seen a lot of jowls before, but I immediately decide I don't like them. He's got thin, graying hair, and is sweating enough to stain his shirt, yet he gives me a big smile when I walk in, opening h...
2021-03-12 01:11:29 +0000 UTC View PostI stare at the words. Rowan looks on with concern as Lyn tries to hold in a laugh. I pick up the small rat in my hands. She squeaks happily, nuzzling me.
Then I hug my beautiful rat-daughter.
"I hereby name you Vitamin," I declare, squeezing her carefully to not break the dead bones. "For you are like me, but ...
2021-03-10 20:53:03 +0000 UTC View PostWe return to Skyhope unaccosted, and I am immediately thankful Penta stopped me from fucking around with my soul. I don’t know if other people would be able to sense that, and, for some reason, Templars were everywhere.
Is it war? Doesn’t seem like it. They didn’t stop Penelope or me at the gate, so they’re probably not after me ei...
2021-03-10 00:52:10 +0000 UTC View PostA monster looks around with my eyes, flexes my hands, and inhales with my lungs. For once, it’s not even me.
“Wow,” the slime comments, voice sounding as if I was trying to copy Penelope’s tone and cadence. “You’re very short.”
Hey, fuck you, I think, mentally grinning. It doesn’t take at first, b...
2021-03-08 20:20:29 +0000 UTC View Post"Chill out!" my body laughs against my will. "Her memory's pretty good, there’s a lot here to sift through. Oh, fuck. She’s…”
My instinct takes over, fear surging through me. Can’t let it say “Necromancy.” The little black slimy soul has notes of springiness underneath, orange and bouncy. &nbs...
2021-03-06 23:25:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe constant danger leaves me a shaking wreck when we finally make it to my home, which is a place I’ve never been before. Skyhope. So familiar and yet so alien. I know so much, I’ve seen it so many times, and yet seeing it now is still the first time. Remus and I have never had a chance to talk about what we truly ar...
2021-03-06 01:30:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe colony is important. That is simply how it is.
Dig, dig, dig. Protect when it is needed, expand when it is not. This is life. Dig, eat, dig, sleep, dig, eat, dig…
Pain. Pain in belly. Badness. Walking is hard. Digging is hard. It is not time to rest, but…
Death. &nbs...
2021-03-06 01:16:30 +0000 UTC View Post“The first misconception about magic you need to disabuse yourself of is the idea that it is at all mystical or inscrutable,” Orville lectures, pacing around with his hands clasped behind him. “Magic is as much part of the world as the things it affects. It is real in the same way that heat is real, or sound is real, or you are real. What ...
2021-03-06 01:13:12 +0000 UTC View PostDinner had long since ended, and I’m still sitting around in my room waiting for Penelope to leave the bathroom. It’s been over an hour and I’m starting to get a little worried. What was going on in there?
Normally I would just leave her to hang out in the bathroom. That’s not my business. Today, though, I f...
2021-03-06 01:09:35 +0000 UTC View Post