“Erind sweetie,” Mom said, “it might not be right to call the story interesting. Well, I suppose that it is. But it’s also tragic. Very much so.”
“And very dramatic,” I said. “It can be made into a movie.”
“Oh, you and your expansive imagination,” said Mom. “I recall that your childhood dream was to be a film director. Having second thoughts about law school?...
2026-02-04 14:29:04 +0000 UTC View Post“You took after your Aunt Jemma, dear,” said Mom, combing my hair with her fingers, as she always did when talking about my height. “And no, don’t comment on what you didn’t inherit from Jemma,” she hastily added, noticing me looking down on my chest with a smirk on my face.
“I wasn’t going to,” I said, grinning.
Inside jokes between mother and daughter. ...
2026-02-03 10:29:10 +0000 UTC View PostI didn't tell Deen what Mom looked like, turning this into a game. This was a stroke of genius on my part—a ploy to distract Deen from discussing not seeing her own mother for quite some time. She’d been on about her parents for several minutes, ranting about their communication, or lack of it.
I'd rather not open that can of worms. Or any can of worms at all. Not that worms...
2026-02-02 11:19:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Why did you bite me?” I checked my bleeding finger… which wasn’t bleeding anymore. I didn’t have any wounds.
I could’ve sworn that her teeth cut into my skin. There was even blood! Or was this her lipstick? I felt the substance, rubbing it between my index finger and thumb. Red liquid that was becoming sticky. But it couldn’t be blood because I didn’t have a wound. Was I ...
2026-02-01 09:41:08 +0000 UTC View PostI transformed into Pino, leaving behind my Erind body slumped on the floor. Deen screamed as she knelt beside my Erind body. Surprise was an understatement to describe her reaction. Whoops. I should’ve explained things before putting on the Pino mask.
Deen hugged my Erind body as she looked up at me. “Erind…? Is that you? You’re Pino all along?”
“Yep,” I said in my met...
2026-01-31 00:21:57 +0000 UTC View PostTuesday morning was uneventfully uneventful. A much-needed time of peace and consistency before my set life would be disrupted by Mom coming to visit. I went through the motions of law school, a welcome change to the life-and-death situations I had experienced so far. It wasn’t fun for the movie to be all action.
The afternoon was different. No, there wasn’t any action; not the ...
2026-01-30 11:18:57 +0000 UTC View Post“Excuse me?” My ears were probably not working. Did I even have ears? Feeling the sides of my head, I found rigid ears attached to the sides of my head that didn’t have holes when I poked into them. “Did I hear that correctly? Are you going to ask for an artificial Core from Dario? Why? And how is that going to work?”
“Not me.” Kelsey pointed at me, her scales fluttering in ...
2026-01-28 23:30:36 +0000 UTC View Post“What do you mean?” Deen asked. “Are you thinking of connecting to me and cutting off my hand?”
“No, no!” Actually, yes.
Since Deen was being annoying lately, with her closeness and stuff. I had the license to bother her back, as per Rule #4: I could bother someone only if they bothered me. I didn’t have an easy way of doing it because we were best friends, an...
2026-01-27 05:47:27 +0000 UTC View Post“We’re having this conversation again?” I asked. “Yeah, Deen and I are straight. I’ve dated guys, though that was years back. And Deen’s dating Adrian. Right, Deen? Are you still—?”
“Went out on a few dates with him,” Deen said. “But it doesn’t mean that we’re dating. In fact, I haven’t gone on a date with Adrian or any guy this semester.” She displa...
2026-01-26 01:44:03 +0000 UTC View PostWe moved to the small space in front of the couch. I sat down, unwrapping the bandage around my right hand; I had told my law classmates that I had an accident in the kitchen. It raised people’s impression of me, while making a nifty and literal cover story for my growths. Now, people thought that I was a capable cook, handling big knives and such, while also being quite badass, not minding a...
2026-01-24 11:24:19 +0000 UTC View Post(Author’s Notes: Test chapter of a new story I’m mulling about. This will be added to tier benefits in the future. I’m not rushing to release this to RR/SH. I’ll work on this with your help. We’ll write a REND regular chapter after this. This story is a litrpg/tower climber with a female MC. Not a psychopath because I don’t want an Erind 2.0.)
When I first encountered magi...
2026-01-23 04:48:15 +0000 UTC View PostDeen and I picked our chairs and sat. This was a meeting of non-humans. Very cool. Maybe I should transform into Blanchette to add to the cool vibe? But I wouldn’t be able to talk if I did that.
“Sorry, we don’t have much to offer in terms of Fletcher hospitality,” Kelsey said. “I was itching to cook now that I’m back. I had thought of baking something nice since Erind loves p...
2026-01-21 08:44:11 +0000 UTC View Post“What’s the difference between an apartment and a condominium?” I asked Deen as we entered the apartment building where Myra lived and headed to the stairs. Her room was on the third floor. “They’re practically the same, right? I suppose that condominiums are usually taller and apartments are shorter.”
“I’m a condominium building,” Deen said, her voice shaking from restr...
2026-01-19 10:19:05 +0000 UTC View Post“You don’t have to make up anything, Myra,” I said, glancing at Deen. My best friend turned girlfriend sat tight-lipped, putting on a grumpy face. But Deen didn’t say anything even though I could sense the rants boiling in her mind.
Deen kept to her promise to be open to forgiving Myra. Not actually forgiving Myra. Just being open to the possibility of doing so. Better than nothin...
2026-01-17 05:15:46 +0000 UTC View PostMonday was the day I learned of a mind-shattering fact. ‘Smore’, the name of the marshmallow cracker sandwich, was actually a contraction of the phrase ‘some more’. Some more! Because it was that good.
I previously thought ‘smores’ was French or something that meant toasted marshmallows. The name was coined by the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. Not too surprising. They’re the o...
2026-01-16 11:52:33 +0000 UTC View PostDid I hear that correctly? Spooky Erind would also die? That didn’t make sense. I frowned and said, “Are you messing with me?”
No, no, no… Why would I mess with myself? Spooky Erind walked over to my side and knelt behind me. I’m telling you the truth, yet you don’t believe me? She hugged me, wrapping her arms over my shoulders and around my neck.
“Wh...
2026-01-15 07:46:44 +0000 UTC View Post(Author’s Notes: This increases the advanced chapters for Patreon. Regular chapter out tomorrow.)
“Wha-what time is it?” I groggily asked, blinking my eyes to get used to the darkness.
Actually, it wasn’t that dark. And the light wasn’t only from our Cores. Staring towards my feet and out of our makeshift shelter, I could see that it was no longer nighttime. Then I looked ...
2026-01-14 05:41:02 +0000 UTC View Post“If you feel like you’re getting taken over,” said Deen, “promise that you’ll tell me.”
“I promise.” I was promising Deen a lot of stuff tonight. This might probably come back to bite me in the ass someday.
“I’ll call for your mind with my Core. I don’t know how it worked the first time, but we’ll try it again. We’ll find a way for your Core to reverse—wa...
2026-01-13 08:16:57 +0000 UTC View Post(Author’s Notes: This increases the advanced ExD chapters for Patreon.
The previous chapter was too forceful a push into ExDxM. I tested using the pacing of actual smut stories, and it appears that it was too fast for ExD. Here in ExD, it took quite some time for Erind and Deen to develop. We should take pace it realistically with Myra as well.)
It was as if Myra were in a t...
2026-01-11 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostMyra Fletcher
What the fuck’s going on in there? Myra Fletcher stopped herself from knocking on the door of Erind’s room.
Erind and Deen had been inside for around half an hour already. They were just supposed to change, right? Cool down a bit, and then, they were going to resume their talk. Myra was anxious to get this over with. She felt incredibly ba...
2026-01-11 05:55:18 +0000 UTC View Post(Author’s Notes: This increases the advanced chapters for Patreon.)
I followed Deen to the dark nowhere, wondering if I should just turn around and get captured by the BID. Oh, right. I was an Adumbrae. They’d kill me. I had decided that I should get this over with, so I should stick to that decision.
But I really don’t want to, I whined in my head.
I’d be in...
2026-01-10 13:02:48 +0000 UTC View PostAmber Deen Leska
Is the BID following us? Amber Deen could think of only one reason why Gabe gave so many instructions. If they were in the clear, Gabe would be quiet.
But how could the BID know where they were? They had left the compound before the helicopters landed, and Blanchette ran faster than a galloping horse. Deen estimated that they were now more ...
2026-01-09 05:54:29 +0000 UTC View PostI roared, a short burst this time, as my mind pieced together the puzzle that would make a very problematic picture. The danger level of the threat that the Guardian Angel warned us about grew as minutes passed. The threat didn’t seem to be posed by the PCM.
It’s the helicopters, I thought, roaring again. There’d come a point when Deen and I couldn’t escape if they got cl...
2026-01-07 13:14:35 +0000 UTC View Post“An alliance?” Deen repeated as she looked at me for guidance.
“Both of you,” said Dreyfus.
I continued looking at Dreyfus and Cecilia, unmoving and silent, to show that I was unfazed by their offer. This was one of the possibilities outlined on Deen’s cheat sheet, though it didn’t include the PCM offering to ally with her as well. I could see why they did that—this Dr...
2026-01-06 10:23:31 +0000 UTC View PostAnd I did tell most of the truth. Though I didn’t mention Spooky Erind—come to think of it, Deen didn’t know about Spooky Erind. Should I tell her about that, too? But I didn’t have a way of showing Deen the existence of Spooky Erind. I’d just let it be, for now.
Recounting what happened at Sanders Mall, I narrated that I turned into my Blanchette form and fought Myra, biting he...
2026-01-04 11:56:27 +0000 UTC View Post“What…?” Deen asked in a whisper. Her mind wasn’t prepared to process this bombshell of a revelation.
What the fuck was I supposed to do in this situation? Not much, I guess?
Myra had already mentioned it; I couldn’t return that into Pandora’s Box anymore. I had to handle Deen’s reaction so that the Three Bs would turn into Three Bitches and ruin the quiet san...
2026-01-04 03:04:17 +0000 UTC View PostI’m taller than Deen, I celebrated in my head as we walked side by side.
Upon transforming into Blanchette, I was already a couple of inches taller than her. But after several minutes of growing more, our height difference was around half a foot, not counting my furry ears wriggling this way and that, picking up sounds from our surroundings. I should’ve told Overdrive to take...
2026-01-03 10:12:35 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ve never been in this area before,” I said, leaning forward in the passenger’s seat. I hadn’t even toured much of the city, much less its outskirts. “Are you sure we’re heading in the right direction?”
I squinted my eyes trying to see through the heavily-tinted windshield. Gangsters and their tints. I think this level of darkness for a tint probably wasn’t road-wo...
2026-01-01 05:45:21 +0000 UTC View PostAmber Deen Leska
“Kelsey? Kelsey Fletcher?” Amber Deen scanned the purple Adumbrae’s face.
Despite the scales and the sharper features, like angular cheekbones, sharper jawlines, and wedge-like brows, she did look like Kelsey. The tall nose was there. The intense eyes, though they were purple now. The oval-shaped face. This explained the uncanny feeling...
2025-12-30 13:55:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe three of us—Deen, Myra, and I—were inside the elevator. We casually chatted about Myra’s car that had broken down, how long it would take to be repaired, and so on. Just pretending that Deen and I didn’t have a session at the theaters earlier. That was long enough to be considered a session, wasn’t it? Thankfully, Deen had lost the flush on her face. She was super red whe...
2025-12-29 02:39:13 +0000 UTC View Post