Hi all!
I was really hoping not to have to write this.
I've been sick all week, and for the longest time, it looked like I was going to be able to write all the chapters needed at a quality I was happy with. It was slow, it was tough, but I was getting there, with plans for a pair of big workdays to finish everything off strong.
Then I got almost literally no sleep last nig...
Night stepped back, and with a subtle shift of his body, went from my friend and student, to my commander.
“Sentinel Dawn. Please correct me if I am wrong. At this time, I suspect you are unlikely to be rejoining the services of the Exterreri Sentinels anytime soon. Is that correct?”
I wanted to do a double take, but Night was being a little too serious. I lifted an eyebrow.
... 2025-04-04 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostElaine opened her eyes and looked around, her skills scanning the place.
They were in an old prop plane, equipped in their normal clothes and a parachute. Four crates of supplies were along the wall, along with some rope and carabiners. There was no pilot, the plane flying itself.
“Black Crow take it all, the fairies again?” She swore, then spotted a familiar face. “Ariane! It...
2025-04-01 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
Mondays chapter is going to be posted on Tuesday instead. For reasons.
Daylights savings is also hitting, so chapters are back to the “normal” time
innocent whistling
See you all then!
Cheers!
Selkie
2025-03-29 17:42:48 +0000 UTC View PostI poured out two glasses of wine, and after an evil glare from Auri, grabbed a small wooden bowl and poured her a bit. Part of me was already regretting a drunk phoenix. I sighed in relief when she decided to ignite the alcoholic fumes coming off the wine, and simply stare at the flickering flames. My relief was short-lived as she divvied up the wine into a dozen tiny Lava bowls, and had them j...
2025-03-28 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI half expected everyone to come barging out the moment [Portcullis] opened up. The gate rolled up, and… nothing. It was easy enough to sense what was going on - everyone was playing a murder mystery game. Seeing what everyone was doing also let me see the answer to the game, which was one of the reasons I tended not to play it.
Fenrir did it in the tavern with a tsunami.
...
2025-03-24 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostMoving was hard.
Even though we were keeping our house and everything in it - [Manor] was stupidly strong - there were still all of the connections we had to slowly untangle. Let the community know what was going on, and why.
One aspect in particular surprised me with how difficult it was to finalize.
Favors.
Small communities like Orthus d...
2025-03-21 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a decade of being with Iona, I knew all her little habits. I knew all her little expressions, from ecstatic to morose. I could guess how much sleep she had the previous night by her temper, I knew what she wanted for dinner.
After over a century together, to say that understanding had deepened was a bit of an understatement.
Two years after Sara gained her first ...
2025-03-17 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostSara jumped when Artemis kicked the door in.
“My turn!” The bombastic Ranger announced.
“Artemis!” Elaine yelled. “The door!”
The Lightning [Mage] looked at the splintered remains.
“What door?” She asked innocently. Elaine was already putting her head in her hands.
“Why did I think this was a good idea?” She moaned.
...
2025-03-14 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Next three weeks the chapters are going to be possibly off an hour as daylight's savings desyncs everyone.
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Tomorrow was the big day for Sara. Her System was unlocking!
Iona and I had been blessed to see a thousand different teaching styles of the System to children over our lives. From books in the library to stories told by other students, from our ...
2025-03-10 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHi all!
This one's a little more of an eyeful than usual (May's going to be a mega eyefull), and I hope you all enjoy and remember what Iona tier incentives are!
Enjoy!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MiULwX-IUUVxPrgYhNSXa1fN8albulep&usp=drive_fs
Naturally, annoyingly, Arachne knew where my lines in the sand were. She did need to change a few votes of mine around halfway through the summit. As intelligent and well connected as the vampire was - on top of spying on everyone - there were a number of other players with their own agendas, doing their own manipulations in the background.
I was content to be a pawn with particula...
2025-03-07 15:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostI made it back to the second day of the summit about an hour early, only to get promptly ambushed by everyone and their cousin.
Lovely.
They were necessary talks, and I was of half a mind to tell everyone to just talk to me, and I’d individually process what they were saying with how many different ways I could think at once.
That was considered rude, ...
2025-03-03 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostI stood in front of Night and the rest of the High Council, next to [Healer] Silon. I could see that he was already wavering. I blinked.
Wow. Was the mere fact that Night was presenting me enough for him to consider dropping out entirely? Or was simply being contested enough to consider dropping out? Almost everyone on the High Council was ol...
2025-02-28 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
It's that wonderful time of year again - LAUNCH DAY!
Beneath the Dragoneye Moons: Immortal War is now LIVE on Amazon!
I want to thank you all for your continued support over the years. From those of you who've just subscribed, all the way to the dragon tier patrons who've been with me for years, THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart. I couldn't do this without you. Elaine's ad...
2025-02-24 15:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostKawaji stood up at the front of the room, a little later than usual.
It was fine. Nobody had left breakfast, although I sensed a few people higher up sleeping off a huge night of partying and drinking.
Oh, they were so fucked. This was not the time to sleep in and miss things. A part of me said I should let them sleep in and miss things, a benefit ...
2025-02-24 15:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“I would like to.” Wally the Warden said.
“I’ll come!” Royal the apista said.
Skye and Katarina traded looks.
“I think we’ve got some discussions first.” Katarina said. I stuck my tongue out at her.
“Really?” I complained. “No fun at all.”
Skye had a sour look on her face.
“Some of us aren’t specialists interested in ...
2025-02-21 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostWe descended upon the city in the middle of the night. Several blocks of apartments in the Nippon-koku style had been hastily constructed next to the gigantic arena, so fresh I could literally smell the paint. A huge ritual circle was traced on the ground, mountains of construction supplies piled inside. Wood and cloth, straw and nails, paint and varnish, just heaped around in huge piles. Even ...
2025-02-17 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
Sorry this one took so long to get out. Part of it was making it in a fancy format, a large part was getting overwhelmed with so much other stuff.
Sorry!
It's all done and shiny now! It'll be up for a week, before I need to take it down for KU reasons. Download it today!
You all support me a ton, and I'm super thankful for it. I do know some of you like suppor...
2025-02-17 13:01:48 +0000 UTC View PostAs usual, use discretion at work.
It would've been perfect if I put this out yesterday...
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-9sECvGunsmvRK9gp8eRRM1SxE6hzMel&usp=drive_fs
Night was here! I was going to skip over him sneaking in without knocking on the door. The prank was good, and the vampire shimmered back into existence in [The World Around Me], and I could suddenly sense him with the rest of my more mundane senses.
I wanted to say that was an absolute bullshit skill, but I had my fair share of those. What assassin couldn...
2025-02-14 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the nice things with [The World Around Me] and Sara is I caught any mischief she was up to before it got out of hand. There was always an element of judgment going on. If I cracked down on absolutely everything, that was a miserable way to live for a kid. If I ignored genuine harm, Sara risked hurting herself. If a rule being broken was too big,...
2025-02-10 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“If all of you could believe Iona’s story of ruling over a city and change, I think you’ll believe mine, no matter how outlandish it is.”
Artemis promptly took a deep swing of her drink, and I magnanimously allowed it. Raccoon shot me the ‘hurry up’ sign, and I rolled my eyes at the scoundrel.
Amber, Nina, Raccoon… Sara was going to give me a ton of sass in abou...
2025-02-07 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
I've mentioned a few times that I was working on updating my paperbacks. Well, the great spine wrap project is COMPLETE! I wanted to share the art with you all. There's still a small window for PROBLEMS AND ERRORS to be fixed if you spot any. This is stuff like "Fenrir's eye color is weird", NOT "Oh hey you should add Crow and Dove"
The goal of the w...
“My turn, unless there are any objections?” Iona stood up. I simply levitated myself as she did, sitting cross-legged in the air with my head still on my wife’s shoulder. I was a little tipsy, happily buzzed. This was nice. I was going to have a mango after her story, as a treat.
Wait.
WAIT.
Why wait? I could totally do TWO mangos. One for now, one for later. ...
2025-02-03 03:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
Getting this out at the very last second, I'm so sorry!
Iona tier incentive for January!
Hopefully the Feb one comes out in a more timely fashion.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-mE6wGmbIDJT8tD4889D7UkujextE7Oj&usp=drive_fs
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2025-02-01 22:00:36 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Reminder, I go to two chapters a week, no admin week, after this.
I was SO TEMPTED to have this week be the start of the two chapters week...
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“I don’t want my dinner to be mooing back at me.” I ribbed Iona a day later.
“It’s cooked! Rare is a thing!” She protested, turning the skewer.
“Yeah, it’s rare that the cows are still able to get ...
2025-01-31 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostI nestled into Iona’s arms, unhappy at all the layers of well-worn armor separating us.
It was an adamantium alloy, how did Iona get it so beaten up!? I knocked on her chest.
“Open up.” I asked, then teleported Iona’s armor to [Manor] a moment later, letting her strong arms wrap around me.
“I missed you.” She said.
“I missed you...
2025-01-29 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostSara’s question was like a gut punch. I sat back and looked out into the distance, able to make out the sparkling waters of Bloodmoon Bay from here.
“The question is complicated.” I finally answered, the coward’s answer. “You’d need a significant medical and ethical background to understand my reasoning. I can try to explain, if you’d like. However, I’m not going ...
2025-01-27 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostArachne was on my side, but probably more than a little irritated with my extra-curricular activities in Ithil. I was a strong proponent of after action reports, analyzing what I did and why, along with trying to figure out weaknesses… but I was going to wait until later to analyze my actions. Sara needed me, and I was going to focus on her and the rest of my family right...
2025-01-24 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post