32. Basil - Recovery
Chapter 32
Recovery
The room we found was in the lower levels, unassuming, and tucked away from the regular thoroughfares of the Palac...
2025-08-16 19:35:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 32
Recovery
The room we found was in the lower levels, unassuming, and tucked away from the regular thoroughfares of the Palac...
2025-08-16 19:35:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 31
Barging In
I tottered toward my room, managing to feel both wretched and satisfied at the same time. My younger self was a ...
2025-08-13 02:04:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 30
Seeing Red
I stalked after my Souls as they battered Felstrife from one end of the ballroom to the other, the crunch of glass agai...
2025-08-10 02:38:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 29
What’s Underneath
I stared at the forever-long staircase and my body rebelled. If I tried to walk down that thing I’d end up rolling...
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Chapter 27
Ways and Wiles
I sat on my bed and tried to focus on the notebook I had taken from Hestorus’s vault. I’d started off lying down ...
2025-07-29 23:57:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 26
Common Ground
It was amazing to me that after only a short time in Hull’s presence, I felt more myself than I had in days, pe...
2025-07-27 01:35:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 25
Work Out After All
Basil wasn’t right. He wasn’t himself. I saw it in the way he’d barely reacted when he’d been given Esmi’...
2025-07-23 02:26:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 24
Arrival
The jubilee was a tangled mix of wights, vampires, and other oddities, but I hardly gave them a thought when I spotted Hull. M...
2025-07-19 16:33:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 23
Shedding
“You’re here!” I said to Esmi the second I was close enough. “How are you here?” I was half tempted to pull her int...
2025-07-16 02:36:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 22
Guests
The vampires knew how to set the stage for a party, Curly would give them that. The drapes and carpet had all been replaced, the ...
2025-07-13 00:21:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 19
Old Man
I felt torn inside. Not in some oh, what do I do now kind of bullshit way, but like some muscle or organ deep inside me...
2025-07-09 02:04:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 20
Asked and Answered
It didn’t take long for us to encounter more undead as we traveled the enemy occupied hallways. There were skelet...
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2025-07-02 23:16:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 19
Torn
I wanted to laugh. I wanted to scream. I wanted to snap off her horns and punch her face into a red pulp like I’d done to that ...
2025-07-01 23:13:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18
Persuasion
Hull had been here, just outside the room I was held captive in. I would have been none the wiser if not for the Master Ass...
2025-06-28 23:19:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 17
Gifts and Bargains
“I think that’s everything,” I said, peeking out into the corridor for the hundredth time. Still no one in si...
2025-06-25 00:19:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 16
Battle Ready
“Only two,” I lamented, staring up at the pair of Air Source that lazily circled my head.
Justine was jogging in ...
2025-06-21 22:29:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 15
True Respect
We walked up the broad, yellow-carpeted stairs forever. I wasn’t keeping track of the steps, but it felt like a longer cl...
2025-06-18 02:49:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 14
Elevation
It could have been the middle of the day or night for all I knew, trapped in my mirrored prison, Felstrife working me to the...
2025-06-15 01:12:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 13
Stupid Risks
“They can’t make you do this,” Afi said as we walked through the sewers, the reek of ten thousand shits so strong i...
2025-06-11 01:44:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 12
Tutelage
After Afi’s brief infiltration, Felstrife worked me even harder than she had before, and I welcomed every minute of it. Our...
2025-06-08 00:32:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 11
Plans Inside of Plans
“I must admit I’d hoped to see you again under better circumstances,” the Queen said, breathing heavily as w...
2025-06-04 02:36:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 10
A Welcome Guest
Hull was alive, alive. Who else could it be in the Lows, summoning demons, and strong enough to defeat an Epic?...
2025-05-31 18:50:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 9
Stronger
The door that led up from the sewers into the City Watch headquarters was banded with steel and likely protected by Artifact t...
2025-05-28 00:14:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 8
Hearthflame
“She’s been shed? Are you sure?”
Those were the first words Curly heard as she was summoned into the sitting ro...
2025-05-24 19:13:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 7
Allies
“If both of us have realized that the sewers are the best way to get around, others will have as well, and they might not be f...
2025-05-21 00:27:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 6
Guards, Guards
Cards.
I loved cards.
The comfortable weight of them, the glass-slick feel, the perfect i...
2025-05-17 23:51:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 5
Tight Spots and Traps
“The Big Man deigns to grace us with his presence,” said Brin Jagorin, the hulking don of the fighting pits. ...
2025-05-14 02:57:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 4
The Workshop
I didn’t have to wait long to find out what happened to the gifted girl from Burlon. By the next day, she had joined m...
2025-05-10 22:02:14 +0000 UTC View Post