Chien
It took us a few weeks to get deep into the subject of magic, but it was fun. I got to teach little Adia not only what I knew about her powers, but what I knew about the wilds. Perhaps I was no master woodsman, but over the years I'd a...
2025-05-02 03:03:05 +0000 UTC View PostChien
I looked at the child and her small satchel.
“So... you have everything you need?” I asked.
“Mommy helped me pack it, said not to bring much though,” she complained.
“We won't need much, mostly we're going t...
2025-05-01 03:16:42 +0000 UTC View PostIsha
“Whatever we choose, she needs training,” I informed my husband after we'd put our child to bed. There were things you simply didn't need to discuss before them.
“Yes... I could.”
“Justin, you spoil her more than y...
2025-04-29 15:24:19 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Hi everyone! I'm here to let you know that I'll be slowing the rate of chapters for Machinist slightly over the next bit while I work on the storyboarding for book 3 and give Elevation some much needed TLC. They won't stop, and we'll be ba...
2025-04-28 11:01:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe soldiers were unamused by my joke, but I was clearly no goblin, and grandfather soon landed near us. It seemed I'd actually lost him for a bit there, the plane not being quite as fast as the out of control train, surprising honestly.
“...
2025-04-24 17:48:19 +0000 UTC View PostIsha
Thankfully Adia was alright, finding her out cold on the ground had nearly made me faint. However she was merely asleep, unlike her friend, who was crying up a storm. A quick once over had shown that he was the one covered in blood, not...
2025-04-22 19:59:45 +0000 UTC View PostThere was no wind in my sails for my grim work. I reloaded and moved to the next cart, cutting one more free. I'd considered leaving it, but that was senseless, what if one of the goblins got back in there and did hid or something else foolish? No...
2025-04-21 02:00:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe train lurched as the first of the cars fell away, the reduction in mass noticeable throughout it. That had not been intended, nor was it welcome in the least. Had I known... no, I probably still would have cut the car away, no need to expose t...
2025-04-18 14:25:35 +0000 UTC View PostIt took only minutes for the plane to be back in working order and I looked at our runway.
“It's short,” grandfather said.
“It's what we have, and it should be long enough,” I returned, but he was right, it was shorter than I'd...
2025-04-16 21:09:33 +0000 UTC View PostAdia
I sighed as I looked around at all my friends, and our one open chair. Lunch was so long ago so where was he? Daddy always came to see me after lunch for tea, always. Well, I guess sometimes he missed it, but if he did he would tell me ...
2025-04-14 16:04:59 +0000 UTC View PostOur plane ate the miles as fast grandpa's flight had, and significantly more comfortably. It seemed one moment we were in the hangar, and the next we were over the city, looking for our landing place. The men there had been kind enough to lay one ...
2025-04-11 13:18:12 +0000 UTC View Post“What's going on,” I asked as we escorted Ignus into the hall.
“The short version is this, they made it through the portal and managed to escape the fortress on the far side. I'm still unsure how they knew, but the gate was scheduled t...
2025-04-09 02:49:06 +0000 UTC View PostAdia
I crept from room to room, looking, watching. Mommy was somewhere, and if I was going to get to the kitchens and get any snacks I'd need to keep her from seeing me. She didn't like it when I got snacks in the middle of the day.
Da...
2025-04-08 03:44:08 +0000 UTC View PostTime seemed to slow to a crawl. We had nothing we could do, nowhere to go, and other than comforting each other there was no action we could take that would accomplish anything at all. My grandfathers were too old to join in the fighting, myself t...
2025-04-07 04:14:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe fighting lasted for seconds and nothing more.
“Another strike?” one of the men nearby asked.
“Much closer than the previous ones. That way?” I told them, pointing.
For a moment I saw the duke pale, eyes following my h...
2025-04-04 03:14:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Greetings,” Ignus said, meeting us at the entryway to the duke's palace. He didn't look particularly pleased.
“Good day, before we continue, could you please ask your men to lower their weapons.”
Behind the leader of the duke'...
2025-04-02 15:05:13 +0000 UTC View PostWith my wife now aiding me I gave her a lot of documentation and got back to what I was currently actually doing. I felt bad about having to put together and then dump upon her so much info, but she had asked for it. It also wasn't like I was actu...
2025-04-01 10:00:56 +0000 UTC View PostI moved along the rooftops, something normally quite frowned upon. There were many people who could've done it but running along the tops of people's houses didn't make you many friends. However now was an emergency, so rules were quite a bit loos...
2025-03-28 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostArthur Shadestone
As my boy carried the daughter I'd never known nearly well enough away I watched, pushing back the tears. What was done was done, and it was time for me to go, to finish this. Steeling my resolve I began to cast like never ...
2025-03-27 14:24:39 +0000 UTC View PostI'd never managed to own an M2 back in my previous life, but the Ma Deuce was legend. A weapon that had served in war for almost a century with no sign of stopping any time soon. This weapon wasn't exactly that gun, sizes between worlds were certa...
2025-03-25 13:36:43 +0000 UTC View PostKaylee
I waited in the odd, machine-filled room. Something must have gone truly wrong for lord Percival to have run off like that. After the explosion it had gotten all quiet, not that you could hear anything down here, but the silence was a...
2025-03-24 12:46:09 +0000 UTC View PostIsha was mostly uninterested in my fabrication facilities, such as they were. Most of the things I did I did with purely magic, having neither the know-how or the tools for machining things. Instead a lot of my work was cast or forged, shaped by w...
2025-03-24 12:45:10 +0000 UTC View PostAs the scout finished we all stood stunned. Beasts that seemed devoted to nothing but killing, and ones that were of the size he described, almost unheard of. Sadly almost was an operant word in that, as there were monsters like that in this world...
2025-03-20 07:03:42 +0000 UTC View PostI held Kaylee for just a moment as the first screams of panic reached me, then I looked her dead on and spoke.
“Stay here, something is wrong.”
She made a move to grab onto me, to keep me from going, but I was far faster than her a...
2025-03-18 02:56:08 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Sorry for the delay everyone, was traveling and had some internet issues, dropping multiple today
Weeks passed without incident, turning into months. My infrequent breaks sadly didn't coincide with a good chance to return home. ...
2025-03-18 02:55:16 +0000 UTC View PostConstruction of my first flying machine was proceeding apace, and by that I mean slowly. There was so much that went into any sizable build that it took time, time and patience. Oddly some of the other elders in the city had too little of the latt...
2025-03-12 15:56:45 +0000 UTC View PostSasha
The nest was always growing, always expanding, but I was getting worried. At first I hadn't noticed, but it seemed Father had been allowing some of our brothers and sisters to breed unchecked. Our hunters had of course been going out f...
2025-03-10 13:28:19 +0000 UTC View Post“OOF!” I flew across the arena skidding along the ground painfully.
This wasn't the first time I'd missed a strike today, in fact there'd been several now. It was however the roughest one I'd taken, as it seemed Sir Kendrick was getting ...
2025-03-09 12:29:50 +0000 UTC View PostArthur Shadestone
I sat in my office, unable to even wish my son goodbye as he returned to that school of his, unable to face him. It wasn't fear, no, for I wasn't afraid of what he would do. That boy had known about my indiscretion and kept...
2025-03-04 13:32:09 +0000 UTC View PostThere were different levels of elders, and while it was a group I'd just joined Jina was an old, old hand to it. That was a good part of why I needed her.
“So you want me to reinforce our entire border?” she asked as we moved through the...
2025-03-03 08:24:48 +0000 UTC View Post