It really was quite soothing, for want of a better word, to know that Kory was safely ensconced in our room at the Academy, unmolested by other acolytes or apprentices and no longer have the lightsaber hanging over her neck for failing to complete a trial in a satisfactory manner. With her safety as ensured as was possible, under the circumstances, I could devote the entirety of my focus on per...
2025-03-17 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostTo say that the lazy enjoyment of the day’s ride, and the anticipation of seeing the bunker, had been utterly ruined by the yong pauna’s violent interference would be a significant understatement. What’s worse, to Leksa’s mind, was how sullen and silent Klark had become when their flight had come to an end. Oh, she had shown them to the bunker, as promised, even hel...
2025-03-09 18:09:55 +0000 UTC View PostA sword clattered to the ground, strong steel pressed to dusky skin, the sound of heavy breathing and the dim noise of the crowd the only things she could hear. Hands upraised, a gesture of supplication.
“Yield! I…I yield.”
A horn blared, signaling the end to the match, and Caris kom Sangedakru blinked to herself, withdrawing her blade and offering her free hand to her ...
2025-03-09 18:09:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe clack of wood on wood filled the air of one of the many private courtyards in the Palace, interspersed with grunts, shouts, and other exclamations of effort. All of which was treated without much in the way of attention by the various staff and guards, the overwhelming majority of whom went about their duties without pause or much more than an absent glance in that direction. After a...
2025-03-09 18:08:29 +0000 UTC View Post“We can’t tell Niylah.”
Those were the first words the fell, instinctively and entirely without her input, from Ontari’s lips, even before she had fully absorbed the immense gravity of what she had been told. Klark was the Sky Princess? Pretty, awkward, inexperienced Klark...
2025-03-09 18:07:55 +0000 UTC View Post“Damnit! They must have already moved it, it was sitting right there not an hour ago!” Williams, the young woman from the distress call it seemed, cursed and clenched her hands on her borrowed rifle as she glared at the bare dais sitting in the middle of the digsite like it had personally offended her. Which, honestly, was somewhat fair. Her entire unit, save one injured corpsman, had gotte...
2025-03-01 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAkuze
2177 AD
Entering atmosphere was never the most comfortable experience, even with mass effect systems doing their part to smooth the ride out, but none of the fifty marines aboard the large drop-ship complained. They were used to it, after all. Besides, the Major and the Drop-Master were both within earshot, and the first one to belly-ache would probably get a...
2025-03-01 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostSeething Hatred.
Worlds destroyed, billons slaughtered, an empire extinguished. Nothing remains. They would be forgotten, their glory erased.
Faces uplifted, they cried out for their gods to save them, cried out against the cruelty and unfairness of their fate. Clung together with loved ones, stood defiant without hope as their worlds were drenched in fl...
2025-03-01 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“So, we’re all in agreement then? Shepard is the pick?”
“I suppose so.”
“You disagree?”
“No, of course not, I’ve known that girl for years, since she was fresh out of ICT and itching to get back to the 101st. I’m just surprised he isn’t arguing about it, that’s all.”
“She’s reckless, aggressive, far too casual with the chain of command, enti...
2025-03-01 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe Normandy was quite the sight as she dropped through the cloud-cover to hug the treeline, skimming low over the terrain like a particularly large and metallic falcon, the sun gleaming off of her white-and-black paint, the quiet -relatively- hum of her thrusters falling over the forest. Or, at least, should would have been quite the sight, if there was anyone to se...
2025-03-01 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe fallout of the slave raid on Mindoir, Aethyta’s resultant ‘un-retirement’, and what amount to the armed invasion and conquest of an independent world by her private army of a mercenary organization was significant, to say the least. Significant enough to change the face of galactic politics and cause an upheaval to Citadel space that hadn’t been seen since The Morning War three cent...
2025-02-18 22:38:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe Rivenroad.
A group of sky-borne, magically-airborne islands in the Eastern Highlands of Coerthas, near the border to Mor Dhona. Not a particularly popular group, it must be said, too small and lacking in resources to be worthy of any sort of presence from the Eorzean Alliance, unlike the far larger and more lucrative Sea of Clouds.
Perhaps that was what had made it such a lucrat...
2025-02-11 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostMalora strode purposefully through the winding corridors of the academy, acolytes and lesser apprentices scattering out of her way, sensing her foul mood and dark intentions. None of them knew what had happened nor who had earned her ire, but none of them were remotely interested in finding out, either. A wicked grin played across her lips as she saw and sensed their fears, saw them throwing th...
2025-02-08 19:54:18 +0000 UTC View PostThere were a lot of places that Cassandra Jackson had been on her adventures, most of them less than enjoyable given the circumstances that she had found herself visiting them. It was quite hard to enjoy the Hoover Dam when you’re being relentlessly hunted by the immortal skeleton warriors, for example, and that was before you even factored in the whole ‘defying a prophecy to save to lives ...
2025-01-31 19:27:34 +0000 UTC View PostCrown of Slaves
Chapter Sixteen
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My ancestor hadn’t been wrong that Kory and I had obligations to deal with the day after our arrival, but fortunately for me (and far, far more so my cute little plaything, sore and limping after a night of helping me christen our dorm room) it wasn’t anything particularly physical. Instead, it was...
2025-01-26 22:47:55 +0000 UTC View PostShadows and Dust
Chapter Eight
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Omega Nebula
Sahrabarik System
Omega
Omega Departure Lane Alpha
60 Hours post Mindoir
Wrex, Clan Urdnot, was an old man. A very, very old man, who had seen more than just about anyone else still...
2025-01-16 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostNothing Is True (Save For The Blood We’ve Shed)
Chapter 21
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Clarke's eyelids fluttered open as the warm sunlight caressed her face. She blinked, momentarily disoriented, as her eyes adjusted to the golden glow filling the room. Soft animal furs tickled her bare skin, and she became acutely aware of the warm body pressed again...
2025-01-10 17:31:32 +0000 UTC View PostNothing Is True (Save For the Blood We’ve Shed)
Chapter Twenty
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Clarke had known that The Clans were far more sexual than the world she was used to, having significantly less in the way of shame or restraint and considerably more in the way of free-love and fetishistic indulgence. She’d even known about the ins...
2025-01-10 17:31:03 +0000 UTC View PostNothing Is True (Save For the Blood We’ve Shed)
Chapter Nineteen
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Niylah couldn’t help the cheerful humming in the back of her throat as she bustled around her stall, making sure her finest products were displayed in the most attractive way possible, and they were very fine products indeed. Relics of the Old Wo...
2025-01-10 17:30:26 +0000 UTC View PostCrown of Slaves
Chapter Seventeen
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I should have known better than to tempt Lady Fate, for though she was beautiful, she was terrible in her beauty, and known to take confident statements of security as an invitation to cause me as much trouble as possible…which, given the situation I was in, was quite a bit.
&nbs...
2024-12-07 06:10:27 +0000 UTC View PostShadows and Dust
Chapter Seven
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Aria T’loak, Queen of Omega, prime warlord of the Terminus Systems and ‘secret’ lover of Councilor Elana Tevos of the Citadel Council (who was the ‘father’ of her very, very secret daughter Liselle), was doing the same thing she did every day: lounge comfortably in h...
2024-11-28 03:45:41 +0000 UTC View PostOn Ashen Wings
Chapter Seven
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To say that Gale, former lover of the goddess Mystra and current walking magical Armageddon, was less than pleased would be something of an understatement. Today had not gone the way that he had wanted it to. First, he had woken up to find the lovely Ciri rather entwined&...
2024-11-19 03:48:44 +0000 UTC View PostNothing Is True (Save For The Blood We’ve Shed
Chapter 18
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“C’mon, doc, you gotta let me out of the Palace. I’m going to go insane if I keep sitting around like an invalid all day!” Clarke groused as the head ...
2024-11-04 01:58:29 +0000 UTC View PostCrown of Slaves
Chapter Fifteen
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Emerging back into the blazing sun of Korriban after several hours in the cool, dimly-lit rooms and halls of Ajunta Pall’s tomb wasn’t a pleasant experience, and I swore rather viciously and threw an arm up over my eyes. An action, I saw, that was mirrored by Kory, though she didn’t re...
2024-09-27 15:05:26 +0000 UTC View PostShadows and Dust
Chapter Six
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Five minutes. Three-hundred seconds.
That’s how long it took for Cassandra Shepard and Liara T’soni to go from enjoying a fun day out at the movies in Mindoir’s capital of Landing City, to running for their lives as the world collapsed in on itself in fire and smoke and fear.
... 2024-08-29 19:59:36 +0000 UTC View PostOn Ashen Wings
Chapter Six
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The enormous statue, white marble gleaming in the light of the setting sun even through the wear of ages and the green vines wending across it’s surface, was beautiful in despite it’s simplicity. Beautiful, and unnerving, for it depicted a robbed, skull-headed figure holding a ...
2024-08-11 23:02:45 +0000 UTC View PostLike the title says, I really want to try and get a handle on what stories people are supporting me for! While I'm not going to abandon a story because of a lack of financial incentive, I do want to know what stories people hold in the highest regard/have the most interest in!
2024-08-06 22:57:42 +0000 UTC View PostBring Me That Horizon or Stand Together and Smile (As Heroes Do)
Chapter One
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My death could have been a more impressive one, that much was certain to be true.
Granted, I don’t know how I died, but the last vestiges of my old life linger into my new one as sheer,...
2024-08-04 00:44:40 +0000 UTC View PostNothing Is True (Save For the Blood We’ve Shed)
Chapter Seventeen
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Clarke was not sure what she was expecting Lexa and Costia’s private suite to look like, but she didn’t expect it to look like this. ‘This’ being normal, by every reasonable measure, perhaps even a tad understated. Oh, the quality wa...
2024-07-27 16:38:32 +0000 UTC View PostWell, I wasn’t planning on coming back to this anytime soon. Have my hands full with other projects both fanfiction and professional alike, but then someone went and did a youtube review of this story before mentioning to me. If someone is going to go and do that, and mention that they really want to see how the Nine get handled, I suppose I really must handle the Nine, mustn’t I? 2024-07-21 21:43:24 +0000 UTC View Post