“What Eidolon fuckery was that?”
Nix ran through the streets to get away from the ritual chamber. If anyone found it, she couldn’t have them tracing it back to her. It would ruin her.
She’d merely opened a crack in her name and...
2025-02-04 23:51:34 +0000 UTC
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Nix enjoyed her time with Dan and Ari. It was fun to just speak with other people that didn’t — as far as she knew — have ulterior motives. It was something she’d had far too little experience.
Not wanting to scar them with the stigm...
2025-02-04 21:34:37 +0000 UTC
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The four boys might as well have been a parade of ritual lambs as they strode up to Nix. They had all the confidence in the world, and yet she knew they had nothing to back it up. Considering the names they had, lambs had more use.
Of course...
2025-02-02 08:02:17 +0000 UTC
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Nix woke late. By the time she’d left the confines of her bed and made her way to the kitchen, the dorm was mostly empty.
The day after Naming was supposed to be busy. Those who’d gone with the cultists the day before were likely still w...
2025-02-02 08:01:23 +0000 UTC
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No! I was supposed to have an entire week.
Nix stood before her mirror and searched her body up and down for any mutations beyond the feathers. Her hands slid through the plumage, relieved that there was no inklings of a nub yet, bu...
2025-02-02 07:59:45 +0000 UTC
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“You know there’s a secret entrance, right?” Dan said, voice hushed.
For a few long moments, Nix just stood with her jaw slightly agape. One of her ward-mates had actually spoken to her? Civilly? The only time they ever spoke to her wa...
2025-01-31 06:41:40 +0000 UTC
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Nix slowly peeled the blood and sweat soaked camisole from her chest as she sunk beneath the foamy water. She pulled up the once stylish gown. The chemicals in the bath had already eaten through most of the blood, but that hadn’t returned it to ...
2025-01-31 06:27:34 +0000 UTC
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As I tumble towards the earth, the lizard finally stops flinging its scales my way. It knows I’m coming, and reorients its wicked body my way.
With my body as heavy as it is in this form, I gain incredible momentum. Air whistles past me an...
2025-01-31 04:43:58 +0000 UTC
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By the time Nix reached the massive metal shutters of the Rearing Ward, her sweat had mixed with blood and left her gown smelling fierce. She’d been exhausted from both attempting to climb Still Tower, and the eventual fight she’d had with the...
2025-01-30 03:05:57 +0000 UTC
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Nix didn’t know what to feel.
Relieved, probably, but she was also annoyed that the cultist — Tarchon? — had left without answering any of the questions his words had left spiralling through her mind.
She doubted Tarchon was his ...
2025-01-30 02:36:48 +0000 UTC
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Seven foot tall and heavy enough that Nix could feel the ground tremble with his steps, the giant of a man stepped through the still bubbling pool of blood, crunching severed pieces of flesh beneath his boots.
Panting and on her back, Nix co...
2025-01-30 00:19:55 +0000 UTC
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Right. Nix was going to take on an amalgamation with nothing but her weak, sickly, emaciated body. Nothing could go wrong.
She’d survived being eaten by a damn Eidolon God, after all. How could one of the weakest manifested beasts pose a p...
2025-01-29 12:24:03 +0000 UTC
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Like a pot of oil, her blood simmered. Bubbles rose and popped, spreading the puddle with each splash. Occasionally, a droplet would reach too far, and burst into smoke before it could land.
Nix only stared. This shouldn’t be possible. The...
2025-01-29 11:01:45 +0000 UTC
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From beneath the giant legs of the tower, it was far more daunting than it appeared from a distance. The structure rose straight up, like a needle pushing towards the pupil of stars.
The twisting mass of metal held only narrow sets of ladder...
2025-01-29 10:58:12 +0000 UTC
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There were few things more annoying in the world than knowing you were schizophrenic — knowing the things you saw and heard were mere figments of your imagination — and yet remaining unable to keep your fiction separated from reality.
...
2025-01-28 13:05:54 +0000 UTC
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I've gone back and written a bit more in chapter 3, which ended up making the chap long enough to split, so every chap gets slid up one.
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When the last of Nix’s ward-mates receive...
2025-01-27 15:08:26 +0000 UTC
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There it was.
The announcement that would leave Nix branded as a lost cause and irredeemable for as long as she lived… at least until they discovered how good of a sacrifice she made.
She didn’t gape. She didn’t break down and fa...
2025-01-27 01:55:31 +0000 UTC
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patreon kinda stuffs up the formatting a little on this chap. No way to transfer align middle or such. Anyway, please enjoy. :D
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The hallway was as clean as it was quiet. Nix’s ro...
2025-01-26 12:20:45 +0000 UTC
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Nix stared at the single budding feather sprouting from the side of her midriff.
The inch long tube was like an oversized hair and hard to the touch. Splitting from the tip, small red tendrils already showed themselves, ready to blossom into...
2025-01-26 11:21:17 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys, thanks so much for sticking with me!
This is the first chap of my new story. I've learnt a lot from my last two stories, and I hope this one will be even better!
Summary: As the perfect sacrifice, it is only natural ...
2025-01-26 07:32:21 +0000 UTC
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As many of you may know, YF book 1 released on amazon a few weeks back. I went into the launch probably more hopeful than i should, so when it flopped, hard, I was a little crushed.
I hate coming here and saying this, because you guys have a...
2025-01-20 13:43:35 +0000 UTC
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Ceph stepped over the dead pair of rodents that had just jumped them, rubbing her tentacle where their teeth had almost punctured.
The creatures were weak. Something only a rookie mercenary would find difficult to face. Yet Ceph and her team...
2025-01-20 11:57:24 +0000 UTC
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Reigning in the power of my presence while also relying on it to speak at all is impossibly difficult. It’s like trying to bite, without closing my mouth.
I slither along the surface, ignoring the collapsing earth behind me. My mind falls ...
2025-01-15 11:58:50 +0000 UTC
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As I stand over the fresh cliff only a few dozen metres from the mercenary’s barracks and headquarters, I can’t help myself from looking back over my team. It feels wrong to leave almost as soon as we meet again.
Leal looks decidedly un...
2025-01-13 08:42:41 +0000 UTC
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Ceph and her team stood at the ledge of the unreasonably deep pit. Behind them, down the hill, the Mercenary Order’s local headquarters stood before the city beyond; a staunch defender of the people from the beasts from below.
Well, from m...
2025-01-11 12:52:40 +0000 UTC
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With permission from the Mercenary Order leaders, Remus leads Leal and I out of the chamber after my elders. A bunch of unsettled looking politicians remain. Though, amongst them, there are those that appear as if they expected such an outcome. Im...
2025-01-10 09:49:21 +0000 UTC
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As I snap my fangs down on the neck of another beast, I question whether there is another way.
It is something I have spent many cycles contemplating. Following the promise of the Beyond to return Scia to the living, I have done nothing besi...
2025-01-08 07:29:54 +0000 UTC
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Happy to announce today, that Book 1 is live on amazon, KU, and Audible!
If you already have KU, or are interested in buying, please leave a rating or review. It really helps
Thank you for all your support. It's been a long time comin...
2025-01-07 09:19:22 +0000 UTC
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The flames visibly avoided Jeriece’s cone of negative pressure. They were not as fast as her, and often fell victim to the void before they could retreat, revealing its effectiveness. With how fast she flew through the hall, she could start clea...
2025-01-06 03:13:56 +0000 UTC
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Jeriece had been a part of the Inner Circle for the better part of a century. Long had it been since she’d experienced the expectation of fragility that most hold toward her race. Her presence makes sure of that. But she’d seen enough underest...
2025-01-02 14:04:02 +0000 UTC
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