Chapter Five Hundred and Twenty -
“Do you have any idea how little mana I have left?” the man asked.
Sometimes it wasn’t hard to sense that someone didn’t want to be very helpful. Like this man we had met just outside the very same city building that Booksie and I had been waiting in before the wedding started. Apparently it was the nearest and best place to...
2024-12-10 03:07:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eighty-Two
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The next day was... quiet.
It wasn’t like I could afford to do nothing, but nothing is exactly what I did. I think I slept a solid ten hours, grabbing Lucy close and not letting her go, even when she complained sleepily about having to get up.
I couldn’t sleep without her close, and... I didn’t want to admit it, but may...
2024-12-09 18:56:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Three
“Okay!” Sharp said the moment we were back home. She raised her arms over her head and stretched hard until her limbs shook. “That was kind of fun! Plus now, I’m basically a gun expert, right?”
I snorted. “Hardly,” I said. Then I was distracted as I had to greet my cats. Cyanide ran up for nuzzles and Mercury ski...
2024-12-08 22:38:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eighty-Eight
“We’re ready to go, captain!” Twenty-Six said. Her face was displayed on a little screen currently capturing the inside of the engineering room at the back of the Sappho. She grinned and gave them a wave before falling back onto a seat and buckling herself in.
The bridge was pretty quiet at the moment. Ivil was in the captain...
2024-12-08 18:45:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Eight
When her magic pushed into an area, there was always a slight bit of feedback. It would take over the dark, making it her own.
There were few circumstances where shadows were owned by someone else. Most people didn’t think of their own shadow, and if asked, wouldn’t place much importance on it. It had happened that monsters and powerful entit...
2024-12-07 17:44:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Two
“So, my range is the best around, it’s single-proprietor, and I take a great deal of pride in keeping it clean and in toi-top,” Clemus said as he walked Sharp and I towards the main shooting gallery. “Which leads me to being a smidge urious, you see?”
“Curious about what, Mister Clemus?” Sharp asked. She was walking next to the older ...
2024-12-06 18:34:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eighty-One
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I ended up asking the Family if they could spare a ride back to the Big Gun. My mech was loaded onto the carrier, with a bit of difficulty, and sent off towards home. I’d given the carrier instructions to park itself out on the porch, for ease of access later. I would move the mech into the garage when I got home and could supervise it a lit...
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2024-12-04 20:56:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eighty-Seven
Ivil was in the sanctuary provided by her captain’s quarters, alone except for Sonic Spectre who stood at attention a step and a half away from the door.
She was carrying herself with all of the poise and dignity afforded to her by being the Empress of Mars.
That is to say... Ivil squealed and did a tippy...
2024-12-04 14:54:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-One
I was right, Sharp’s taste in clothes was questionable at best.
It wasn’t so much that she picked poor pieces. She found some nice pieces. A blouse here, some nice pants there. She had a good eye for what fit, though she did lean more towards the baggy side of things, and had a clear preference for things with many pockets...
2024-12-04 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Five Hundred and Nineteen -
I kept moving around the reception while keeping an eye on Booksie and Rhawr. There were a few awkward moments where people with more guts than common sense overstayed their welcome around the couple. And of course, Booksie and Rhawr eventually approached his mom.
There was a lot of wailing and the huge...
2024-12-03 12:57:11 +0000 UTC View PostVasilisa the Brave - Chapter Fourteen
She was home, in a sense.
They were in the streets of Pripyat, the city she’d grown up in, or so her memories said, sometimes. It was a familiar place, a city she knew, only as she looked around now, this place here felt more familiar, more like home.
Did that make any...
2024-12-03 05:13:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eighty -
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“Myalis, is that thing dead?” I asked.
Death confirmed. Points deposited.
“How many?” I asked even as I allowed myself to slump back. There was some crap on my seat that dug into my back. Oh, and I could see the sunlight through the walls of my mech, which meant that ...
2024-12-02 13:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty
“This is the plan,” I said.
We were in the living room, and I was standing on the coffee table while Sharp sat on the edge of one of the sofas. Before me was my tablet, fully charged and laid out for me to use. It’s had to have Sharp go into t he settings and adjust it so that it used the ‘poor eyesight’ mo...
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2024-12-01 05:56:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Thirty-Nine
I was sitting on the control board for my old fold-out treadmill. It was a little awkward, since the board was at a bit of an angle, and it was bouncing with each step Sharp took. “Come on, you’ll never hit that next level of Body if you don’t sweat a little more,” I said.
“I’m... sweating... plenty...
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2024-11-30 00:01:24 +0000 UTC
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Author’s note: This is an interlewd. It’s lewd. There’s not just handholding, cuddles and sweet kisses... there’s sex.
This is NOT canon. This is a figment of Ivil’s overactive imagination.
This is meant for entertainment purposes. Don’t try this at home... I mean, do, if you can, but like, don’t come cr...
2024-11-29 22:27:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seventy-Nine
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“Eyes open!” One snapped. It was the first time he sounded actually concerned. “Medic, check on Charlie Four.”
A soldier ran over to the dead man on the ground, but... yeah, there wasn’t much that could be done there. That dude was very dead. Then they surprised me by taking apart the upper ch...
2024-11-29 04:58:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Seven
As they continued to walk forwards, the ash thickened and lessened. It really was less like snow than she’d initially imagined. It was more like sand.
She had visited Hypertense Breakpoint’s home in Egypt a few times, at least before the girl moved out of the region and further out into the Sahara where she could b...
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2024-11-28 05:51:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eighty-Six
[Warning: Bit spicy]
Sometimes a discussion ended before it had truly ended. This was one of those moments.
Aurora insisted that regardless of what they did, being near Uranus was the first thing they should do. That meant preparing the Sappho for an immediate launch. That was, of ...
2024-11-28 01:56:27 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude One
She awoke feeling strangely... floaty. It was a novel sensation, like tipping over in a chair without going so far that she lost her balance. It was dancing on the knife’s edge of falling and not. It took her a moment of shifting around to realize what was going on.
It was the bed.
Fasmine had never slept ...
2024-11-27 03:49:13 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Five Hundred and Eighteen -
Awen’s mom looked between Awen, me, then Booksie and Rhawr above her. Her little tongue slipped out between her lips, wetting them like a mouse poking its head out of a hole only to notice a lion waiting for it. “Perhaps we can have this conversation somewhere a little more private?”
I was ready t...
2024-11-27 02:26:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seventy-Eight
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Cavalier’s last known location was just ahead. There was a sort of... I think it might have been a resort? There was definitely a restaurant to one side, with a large patio that was partially covered, as well as a dining room within. To the side of that was a parking lot and then a fancy store that looked like it exc...
2024-11-26 00:43:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eighty-Five
Aurora really knew how to worry.
Ivil had to restrain herself from smiling as she watched the woman stand up from the comms console and start to pace the room. She did so while still holding onto a saucer and tea cup, so her every step trailed faint, tea-smelling vapours. “We need to take a step back and look at the ...
2024-11-25 05:01:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Two
Taylor clenched her fists as the shockwave from the explosion rippled through the air. The sight of the blast and its aftermath made her insides twist with a mix of frustration and fear. She had anticipated trouble, but this? Suicide bombers? It was worse than she’d imagined.
Asajj leaned forwards and was practically pressin...
2024-11-24 22:55:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Thirty-Seven
I got my Nine Lives before we made it to my place. Mostly, that came about because we had to switch from riding the train to taking a bus, and the bus was not going to show up for a solid half hour, and only if it was on time... which it wasn't going to be.
We were out of Boston Two, however, some smaller city to the north,...
2024-11-24 03:34:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Thirty-Eight
“Alright,” I said as tensions started to ramp up. “Let’s show Sharp the living room, and we’ll talk this out, shall we?”
The three cats before me considered it, but it was Arsenic, my loud baby, that spoke. “I suppose. Is ‘Sharp’ your pet?”
I glanced up to Sharp. “Can you...
2024-11-24 03:30:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seventy-Seven -
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The Family squad ahead of me landed in an open roadway. Three quadcopters coming down with military-grade precision in the centre of an intersection with their fronts turning so that they formed a sort of triangle.
I brought my mech carrier up and into the centre of that formation, then let the clamp...
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