Getting himself in a cell in the same building as Charlie only required that Tibs, acting drunk, punched one of the guards exiting that
Getting himself in a cell in the same building as Charlie only required that Tibs, acting drunk, punched one of the guards exiting that building. He was easily subdued, brought in, and thrown into a cell that happened to be the one facing the fighter. Onc...
2025-05-23 13:00:32 +0000 UTC View PostWell, we made it. The end of book 1 in Jeremy and Gralgiran’s story. Right off the bat, I'd like to know if you read my comments on the chap
Well, we made it. The end of book 1 in Jeremy and Gralgiran’s story.
Right off the bat, I'd like to know if you read my comments on the chapters. if so, do you feel they add anything? or am I wasted your time with them?
This was inter...
2025-05-22 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostSetting the groundwork for the nobles’ arrival started with finding out when a caravan from the appropriate city would arrive. As a city
Setting the groundwork for the nobles’ arrival started with finding out when a caravan from the appropriate city would arrive. As a city close to the kingdom’s border, Brokentia’s roads connected to seven other cities, months away as caravan trav...
2025-05-21 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post“You told Bob to drag me out of the ship, didn’t you?” Jeremy asked as soon as the call connected. “I didn’t tell him to drag you,” his
“You told Bob to drag me out of the ship, didn’t you?” Jeremy asked as soon as the call connected.
“I didn’t tell him to drag you,” his friend countered.
He chuckled. “Really, semantics?”
“I was worried you...
2025-05-20 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“You have got to be fucking kidding me.” Uzoma glared at him. The expression hadn’t improved as Tibs explained what he’d done as
“You have got to be fucking kidding me.” Uzoma glared at him. The expression hadn’t improved as Tibs explained what he’d done as Fleet Fingers and the role he could play in the job.
“Take it easy,” Charlie said.
“I’m with him,...
2025-05-19 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostGralgiran took the brush out of his mouth. “And that’s all you have planned for our time at the station?” As had become their habits, he
Gralgiran took the brush out of his mouth. “And that’s all you have planned for our time at the station?” As had become their habits, he and Jeremy were talking while getting ready for their work. He returned to brushing his teeth.
“I...
2025-05-17 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostToo tired. He’d let himself get too abyss tired if he hadn’t noticed the life essence in the room until now. He had to give it to Charlie
Too tired.
He’d let himself get too abyss tired if he hadn’t noticed the life essence in the room until now.
He had to give it to Charlie, as the fighter leaned forward in the chair and cast his face in shadows. He could definitely l...
2025-05-16 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“What do I want to do to that man?” Jeremy chuckled at the question. Leiha hadn’t asked about him as often as he’d expected, since he’d told her about Omar Seywan, but as she had now, when she did, it took him by surprise. “I want to wring his neck, throw him in that cursed machine and let him see just how good it feels to be ‘healed’.” He took a breath. “I guess that doesn...
2025-05-15 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Stop fidgeting,” Herns said, attaching cut fabrics around Tibs’s arm with needles. “I’m sure you’ve been poked by sharper things.” Tibs
“Stop fidgeting,” Herns said, attaching cut fabrics around Tibs’s arm with needles. “I’m sure you’ve been poked by sharper things.”
Tibs was more concerned with having to explain the lack of blood, if the tailor noticed ...
2025-05-14 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe call came in while Gralgiran was dressing. The display told him who it was, and he smiled. “Hi.” “I hate him,” Jeremy said, sounding les
The call came in while Gralgiran was dressing. The display told him who it was, and he smiled.
“Hi.”
“I hate him,” Jeremy said, sounding less than his usual healthy self.
“Who?” He went over what he remembered of...
2025-05-13 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostTibs looked into the theater through the open high shutters, keeping the rain from going in. He tried to see and sense anyone out of place, but he didn’t know the people who were part of the theater well enough.
Neither Charlie nor Uzoma had been at the tavern they’d agreed to meet at. Which had to mean something had gone wrong. If they’d been captured, those who had done that now k...
2025-05-12 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe table materializes the way objects do in some of the science fiction movies in Bases’s collection. Seemingly out of nothing. He has them grow out of the floor, or the counter, or table, when those are already there. The only thing he doesn’t do that with is food. He never grows that before us.
Freaks people out, he told me when I asked why not. And it is kind of gross, I have to a...
2025-05-11 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Hi mom. I don’t even know if you are going to get this. My friend tells me there’s bound to be ways, but somehow I doubt that after what
“Hi mom. I don’t even know if you are going to get this. My friend tells me there’s bound to be ways, but somehow I doubt that after what they did to me, those people are going to make it easy for anything I have to say to make it to Earth. ...
2025-05-10 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCharlie staggered into Tibs under the strength of the wind as they exited the tavern. He let the impact throw him to the ground, then
Charlie staggered into Tibs under the strength of the wind as they exited the tavern. He let the impact throw him to the ground, then accepted the fighter’s hand. He looked to the graying sky as he stood.
Charlie grinned as he looked up. “Told you...
2025-05-09 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostGralgiran watched the Earther step out of the Psychologist’s office and didn’t entirely recognize the male. The furtive wariness was gone,
Gralgiran watched the Earther step out of the Psychologist’s office and didn’t entirely recognize the male. The furtive wariness was gone, or at least not at the surface. It wasn’t entirely calm he was seeing, but there was a sense Bob the So...
2025-05-08 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTibs was surprised when the muscular woman by the door simply nodded him onward before focusing on pulling the rope and raising the large
Tibs was surprised when the muscular woman by the door simply nodded him onward before focusing on pulling the rope and raising the large bundle of something containing a lot of metal essence to a man in the rafters. He’d expected to have to justify h...
2025-05-07 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJeremy contacted his friend with as little thoughts put into it as he could. There had been three aborted attempts because he’d tried to
Jeremy contacted his friend with as little thoughts put into it as he could. There had been three aborted attempts because he’d tried to plan how he’d do it, and the programming had picked up on enough to send him into a panic spiral.
This ti...
2025-05-06 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“More Ale!” Charlie yelled over the room’s conversations. Tibs had planned for them to go over the job. Workout what had gone their way,
“More Ale!” Charlie yelled over the room’s conversations.
Tibs had planned for them to go over the job. Workout what had gone their way, what had caught them unprepared, since it had been their first one together.
The others had, ...
2025-05-05 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMonths and years passed.
Lars kept an eye on Leo, but his son was careful from the moment he received the warning, and in time, he stopped talking to his father about the water as if it had feelings. This was about the time Leo began paying attention to the boys in the town, and complained about his sister stealing all of them.
Lars did smile at that, as Alaine did have most of them...
2025-05-04 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostGralgiran sat at an unoccupied medical station, trying to focus on the information on his tablet. He’d tried to work, but when word reached
Gralgiran sat at an unoccupied medical station, trying to focus on the information on his tablet. He’d tried to work, but when word reached him the Psychologist had joined the Doctor while they looked over Bob, he’d had to come and find out why....
2025-05-03 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTibs leaned against the shop’s wall, watching stall displaying sewing tools on side and one with yarn on the other. He dressed in the rough,
Tibs leaned against the shop’s wall, watching stall displaying sewing tools on side and one with yarn on the other. He dressed in the rough, but refined clothing that was typical of the area. The people here couldn’t afford the good fabrics, ha...
2025-05-02 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostJeremy had worked out they’d reached their destination not through an announcement—the captain didn’t usually broadcast information about
Jeremy had worked out they’d reached their destination not through an announcement—the captain didn’t usually broadcast information about the hunts—but by the increase in power usage throughout the ship. It had initially taken him by surpr...
2025-05-01 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe house Charlie took Tibs to was a few blocks away from the city’s largest market, instead of an office on Office street, or one of the
The house Charlie took Tibs to was a few blocks away from the city’s largest market, instead of an office on Office street, or one of the business in the market, since they were all open at this time.
The neighborhood was one where people Tibs...
2025-04-30 13:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostGralgiran heard the readiness of his hunter in the shifting suit material as they prepare for whatever happened next. The offensive array
Gralgiran heard the readiness of his hunter in the shifting suit material as they prepare for whatever happened next.
The offensive array had them well covered, so any act of aggression would have consequences. They would act if he ordered it, or ...
2025-04-29 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Herns,” Cynta greeted the older man with a hug. “How are you doing?” “Good, as always. I see you took good care of what I made you, J— Who
“Herns,” Cynta greeted the older man with a hug. “How are you doing?”
“Good, as always. I see you took good care of what I made you, J— Who’s that?” The air of camaraderie turned sufficiently brittle, Tibs expected to...
2025-04-28 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe blizzard hit without warning.
El had been traveling for a week since destroying the bandit camp, making good time south. The sky had been clear, the pressure high moments before things changed. Under a minute, the pressure dropped. The sky was covered by clouds so thick it felt like dusk as the temperature dropped. Then snow fell, and the winds picked up.
He hunkered down, figur...
2025-04-27 13:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostXander’s clearly reading something.
“Did you give him a pop-up?” Brandon asks.
“You said that ruins have them when an explorer steps in,” Dardanus replies, “so yes.”
“Just him?”
“The woman to his left is also an explorer, so she got it too.”
“That’s Rowana. She often works with him. Wait, how did you know she’s an explorer?”
“I...
2025-04-27 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“We’re approaching the coordinates, Captain,” Toom said. “Scans?” Gralgiran asked. “Nothing,” Wiuramsfick Jiaowel Dierim answered. “If this
“We’re approaching the coordinates, Captain,” Toom said.
“Scans?” Gralgiran asked.
“Nothing,” Wiuramsfick Jiaowel Dierim answered. “If this is where they want to meet us, we’re here early.”
Only, t...
2025-04-26 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post