Mirage’s PoV – Eyrarháls – Mid-morning to mid-afternoon Second Day
The morning had seen the cadre’s compound awash with faithful whose shock had worn off. While the initial surge of Ebusuku’s presence—somehow felt by them—had braced them through the initial aftermath, it fell away after a night’s fitful rest. The words Mirage had heard offered during brea...
2022-05-20 07:31:57 +0000 UTC View PostIsa – Outlands – Evening First Day
The ordinarily calm wind of the Outlands echoed strangely across the chasm. Its clean-cut sides looked like someone had scooped hundreds of kilometres out with a laser cutter. Here and there the wound in the Outlands was healing as the Plane’s energy regenerates the lost ground.
War hosts that had long operated from it have a...
2022-05-17 21:18:20 +0000 UTC View Post197 - Editing (it's a long chapter so will take a bit - 8.3k when I finished writing it tonight)
198 - Set out and filling in sections at present
2022-05-15 12:31:05 +0000 UTC View PostAggie’s PoV – Thebes
“No!”
At Aggie’s shout, Alfarr dropped the Manes’ copper amulet and it cluttered across the craft master’s stone table. The rest of the group turned in surprise, a rush of motion having sent her chair crashing to the ground. Yngvarr hadn’t hesitated in rising as well, and Pit just reappeared. Going from calmly waiting for the gui...
2022-05-13 22:31:06 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV – Limbo – Monastery of Will’s Hand
With the marks handed out, the guest examiners filed from the training hall, leaving the class to clean up the ritual circle. When the door clicked shut only Lezekus exhaled sharply—nearly an unseemly cheer among the Githzerai—the girls all having worked on their composure over the years.
“Know I thoug...
2022-05-12 20:13:42 +0000 UTC View PostCurrently working on editing: 195
Which isn't the chapter I had originally intended.
In re-writing the Aggie PoV I had intended 195 to be, the chapter ended up feeling weird. While working it over, I realised that a lot of the content was setting up things for a much later arc, so it wasn't essential to give the details now (Plus they'd likely end up forgotten).
I'...
2022-05-11 11:58:43 +0000 UTC View PostElliyna’s PoV - Limbo - Monastery of Will’s Hand.
“Weren’t you going to skip their rematch this time?” asked Duurth, as he sat down next to Elliyna. Her now dark black hair and smooth skin made it look as if he was sitting next to a female far younger than his years. After the last half-year contest, she’d had to head off rumours he’d been courting her—she...
2022-05-10 19:12:19 +0000 UTC View PostEbusuku’s PoV - Outlands - Domain
The nearest streamers of light rising throughout the Domain wipe away all shadows from my scroll. A glance across the tallies reminds me of when we’d gone from keeping count in companies instead of platoons. We’d been so few that now among the dozens of companies already through training we have some larger sized platoons. Though no...
2022-05-07 20:28:01 +0000 UTC View PostSo that happened...
Having a bit of fun with the software I use for writing at present. I've used an online version for a while so I don't have to worry about backing up (so I thought), and so I can get the documents from various locations. Except it's barfed and has overwritten, some chapters that were in progress with other chapters that were also in progress.
Got to love a...
2022-05-06 22:35:07 +0000 UTC View PostMirage’s PoV - Cemna
Sage picked another gloomy location for a regroup point, on the edge of a petrified forest where the pebble-strewn beach extends into the mainland behind us. Out on the central isle of the crescent bay, flashes of light come followed by booming explosions and are, I hope, a sign that Sidero’s playtime is going well. The weaponry she controls havin...
2022-05-06 22:17:32 +0000 UTC View PostBalnérith’s PoV - Ijmti - Sisterhood Stronghold
Deep beneath the stronghold was a chamber that only one entity still in existence had seen. There was no flat surface anywhere in the room, though its artificial construction was clear. Twisting around every curve and cresting across sharp edges were adamantine runes quenched in primordial blood. Amid their malevolent glo...
2022-05-03 08:42:24 +0000 UTC View PostLezekus’ PoV - Limbo - Monastery of Will’s Hand
Crossing the Portal’s threshold brought a sigh of relief from Lezekus and she stepped to the side. It wasn’t an action needed by protocol but prompted by concern given her parents had both accompanied her to the last transfer point. After the arguments over the break, she wouldn’t put violating the rules past them ...
2022-05-01 05:18:57 +0000 UTC View PostCurrent chapters in-progress (main PoVs)
190 - Lezekus (start of 2nd year)
191 - Balnérith
192 - Mirage - being summoned by the Daughters
193 - Ebusuku (end of next year - starts with reviewing reports)
194 - Elliyna (towards the end of 4th year - a perspective of Amdirlain's new psi strength, and healing progress)
195 - Aggie ( Review of Clean up of the Man...
2022-04-29 23:31:58 +0000 UTC View PostCurrently,my brain has me bouncing around between ideas for 12 chapters (was only 11 when I started writing this status)
190 - 50% written
191 - 50% written
192 - Started - main points set out filled in some sections
193 - some segments written.
194 - start written
195 - planned
196 - 80% written - going to tweak a bit
197 - 75% written
198,...
2022-04-29 23:25:33 +0000 UTC View PostLivia’s PoV - Limbo - Monastery of Will’s Hand
Between time spent talking and training together, the five days I promised Eb I wouldn’t exceed passed quickly. Finding myself in an outer courtyard on the receiving end of a fierce hug, I can only wonder where all the time went.
“I don’t know, you come for a visit and steal a teacher,” teases Amdirlain, her...
2022-04-28 03:22:05 +0000 UTC View PostErwarth’s PoV - Tunnels of Ternòx
Since their entrapment, the Grottos’ music has stayed synchronised to the planar wheel instead of the night sky. Each one’s music rings out with subtle differences, countering the local energies working to corrupt and twist the inhabitants.
When I appear at our meeting point, I find my father standing far too close to the edg...
2022-04-24 11:09:21 +0000 UTC View Post188 - 45% written (Erwarth)
189 - started (Livia)
(I've also got a couple of future chapters that wouldn't leave me alone written - but need to work on them a bit more. No idea what chapter numbers they'll be as yet, but my brain told me I needed to write them out.)
Chained - 17 - started
Chained - 11 is now available for Ascended Patrons
2022-04-20 14:18:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe northern lights danced across the sky, greens with hints of red. It's a sight that I remember from my Mortal life. Yet it's like so many things; it's the same but different. On that trip, I’d needed a digital SLR to see them so distinctly; here, with new regular sight, they are so bright—a push of my Wyrm Senses and the colour shifts close to the Dragon’s memories. Minute increments o...
2022-04-20 01:15:05 +0000 UTC View PostLivia’s PoV - Limbo - Monastery of Will’s Hand
The third bowl Amdirlain hands me looks like it contains a lumpy fist-sized hunk of river mud. “What flavour is this?”
“Double choc fudge,” says Amdirlain, already scooping out a spoonful.
“Side benefit of hanging out in Limbo—you can at least eat foods you remember?” I ask teasingly, not sure wh...
2022-04-19 02:25:22 +0000 UTC View Post187 and Chained - 16 are both at 50%.
188 - Will be another Erwarth PoV - I just started this morning.
Spent a lot of time this week reviewing early chapters and started work on re-writing Emerging.
The first twenty-five chapters are consistently in need of a re-write, to paint a clearer picture of places and situations. Though there are a couple of chapters, I don't wan...
2022-04-15 02:56:30 +0000 UTC View PostEbusuku’s PoV - Outlands.
For whatever reasons the Domain has continued to expand away from Amdirlain’s overlook, instead of in all directions. Blue and golden lights streamed upwards through the trees behind me, and among the already towering buildings growing from the grasslands. Heedless of their beauty my attention stays on the Gate and the strange girl who doesn...
2022-04-14 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Limbo - Monastery of Will’s Hand
Holding her at arm’s length, Amdirlain gave Livia a beaming smile before waggling a finger at her. “I told you I was here healing.”
“Eb told me you were doing better, and I needed to see you for myself,” responded Livia, deliberately not looking at Cyrus. “Why does he look like Master Farhad when all...
2022-04-11 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMy brain was jumping around again this weekend, so between it and family commitments, this weekend didn't hit 100% with any single chapter.
185 - nearly ready - editing to do. Amdirlain's PoV. Should be ready for release before the next RR chapter goes live.
186 - 75%. Ebusuku's PoV
187 - 25%. Livia's PoV
Chained - 16 - 25%
Also had two future chapters that m...
2022-04-10 08:53:12 +0000 UTC View PostSome prey is the most thrilling challenge, especially in desperate times seasoned by hunger. So much depends on my success today. I’m up for the hunt, but there will only be one chance.
Slowly creeping forward, I freeze as a breeze tickles its way through my whiskers, and I can but hope no scents betrays. Counting slow breaths, I pray that the wind does not condemn me to the sleeping al...
2022-04-09 09:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostSarith’s PoV - Limbo - Monastery of Will’s Hand
The gathering in the outer courtyard was clear from several buildings away because of the dozens clustered close in silence. Their presence blocked her view so that it was when Sarith got within a staff length from Master Duurth that she caught sight of a strange Human girl in their midst. Master Duurth stood amid the pr...
2022-04-08 22:31:18 +0000 UTC View PostSoranus’s PoV - Aegina - Paláti of Apollo
Letting the door shut behind him, Soranus walked along each of the four rows of workbenches. At each station, he checked the piece being worked on with a glance. A few he gave instructions for minor corrections, but most he ordered destroyed if he spotted the slightest fault at all.
When he finally reached Argyros, where ...
2022-04-07 08:23:01 +0000 UTC View PostChained - 15 has been released so Chained - 10 and earlier is now available for Ascended Tier.
The crunching of ice and snow underfoot while I move in the already fading sunlight sets an odd sensation across my skin. Memories of snow trips, home and abroad, icy wind scouring flesh, and the welcome warmth of the ski lodge’s fireplace.
Cold. I can’t even tell when it should sink its teeth into someone now, and my immunity to fire makes it the same. The extremes that would kill mo...
2022-04-04 18:25:13 +0000 UTC View PostMy brain was skipping between ideas this weekend, so my current writing progress is at:
Chapter 183 - 75%
Chapter 184 - 45%
Chapter 185 - 30%
Plus a future chapter that wouldn't get out of my brain, so I had to write it. Though it's not edited there is plenty of time for that to occur.
Chained 15 - Editing
Amdirlain’s PoV - Limbo - Monastery of Will’s Hand
Elliyna’s door opened to reveal a room nearly empty of its usual clutter of furnishings.
“Leaving already?”
“Know I wished to be packed ahead of the year-end break. Do you still plan to practice your pattern for the twenty days?” Elliyna asked from the sole long couch present in ...
2022-04-02 12:42:37 +0000 UTC View Post