“Your arm’s no longer black, Lord Lacheart.”
The words echoed in Aiden’s ears, but he knew better than to be distracted in this moment. In fact, he doubted that distraction would do much to hinder him. If anything, he was doing his b...
2025-11-29 17:49:40 +0000 UTC View PostJoleleh woke up with a dry throat. He missed his traits as a tribreed already. Doomed to the life of a [Prisoner], jumping from world to world at the behest of his captors, he was growing tired.
It was a difficult thing always having to star...
2025-11-25 21:05:25 +0000 UTC View PostPain flared in Estabel’s side as a tail as wide as she was tall, maybe wider, slammed into her. The blow sent her flying, soaring through the air.
She slammed into a tree beside the thing that had fallen. The small crater it had created ha...
2025-11-24 11:09:41 +0000 UTC View Post[Anomalous World Enchantment Detected]
Pain seared through Aiden’s blackened arm as if with a personal vendetta—as if the arm had wronged it somehow. He dropped to his knees. The fingers of his normal hand dug into the b...
2025-11-20 22:33:57 +0000 UTC View PostAiden sidestepped, dodging what would’ve been a glancing blow. The paw blurred into motion once more, aiming for his head. Fueled by his weave of speed, he dodged the blow easily, then stepped into the monster. With his blackened arm, he struck ...
2025-11-18 15:10:57 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a cool night, the moon was absent in the sky. Tosin stood with a semi-automatic in hand, guard to a building he hadn’t even entered. Beside him Emmanuella was eating nuts.
“You’re really not sharing?” he asked her.
Blue ...
2025-11-13 14:23:56 +0000 UTC View PostAnji’s hands were still shaking. It had been a few days now since he’d met this man who had asked him if he knew what an Oath was.
He looked down at his hands, seeing them even in the darkness of the night. They stared back at him, tremb...
2025-11-12 06:38:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe thud as the bag hit the ground was very loud in the silence. Melmarc’s jaw dropped as Ark locked the door behind him.
Melmarc stared at the room in front of him. It was only the living room but it was beautiful. White walls, an amazing...
2025-11-08 20:40:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe room was quiet for a long while. It settled all over the room like a dead thing. Ark remained silent, there was no sign that he was breathing. His only sign of life was in his ever deepening frown and the blinking of his eyes.
Melmarc re...
2025-11-05 07:47:00 +0000 UTC View Post“You good?” Ark asked, giving him a curious look. “You haven’t said anything in a minute.”
Melmarc shook his head. It was less of a response and more about dispelling his thoughts. He had fought a Demi-god before, it had been all h...
2025-11-04 09:11:31 +0000 UTC View PostAurora was getting tired. She’d even missed Melmarc’s call at some point.
Where are you David?
Deoti had no idea, and she couldn’t disturb the woman too much since she was in tracking down her own lead in figuring out th...
2025-10-31 12:12:08 +0000 UTC View PostFor those of us not in the discord channel, I write this to offer my deepest apologies for the disappearance. Coupled with work stress, I fell sick. I'm getting better now and have returned to writing. I truly appreciate your patience. There would...
2025-10-29 11:49:20 +0000 UTC View PostAlobam had lost interest. Aiden could see it in how the colors in his eyes seemed to dull and die out. The giant’s smile waned a little. It almost dipped into a frown but he kept it in place.
He held it for what seemed to last forever befo...
2025-10-29 11:45:54 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: My deepest apologies for the disappearance. Coupled with work stress, I fell sick. I'm getting better now and have returned to writing. I truly appreciate your patience. There would be no this without you all.
Wit...
2025-10-27 21:14:09 +0000 UTC View PostBeing an easy man to read was never a compliment. It did not matter what situation. Even among lovers, Aiden could never see the compliment in it. Shewa, his ex in his past life, had used that sentence on him once before and things hadn’t ended ...
2025-10-16 22:18:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe endless dark blue was a sight Boten could not get accustomed to. He’d been standing here, doing nothing, saying nothing, for hours now. The beauty of what he now was lay in the fact that time was not a problem. He could stand here for what c...
2025-10-13 21:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostNaymond counted his words carefully.
“Well,” he said, very cautious. “I’ve been going around destroying labs like this.”
Madness looked at him from his place sitting on top of a very corpulent man. Naymond knew that the man w...
2025-10-09 17:08:11 +0000 UTC View PostPacing was one of the few things that Okoro truly disliked. It was a show of annoyance, often times, impatience. To him, those qualities showed a lack of control.
“For the love of the fallen can stop doing that,” Mrs. Talwort groaned in ...
2025-10-09 08:09:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Hello, Marc.”
The entire hall was spacious and scanty. There were maybe a handful of people moving about, heading from one destination to another. There was a waiting area with chairs aligned side by side that currently held no applican...
2025-10-07 10:37:00 +0000 UTC View PostMonday morning was a testy morning for Melmarc. Tired and not really wanting to, he slipped on a jacket after his shower. He’d been waiting for Monday morning since getting his probational admission on Friday. Why? Because while he could make a ...
2025-09-29 11:10:20 +0000 UTC View PostIt was midday, the sun high up somewhere in the sky. Still, the hearth was lit, flames burning and wood crackling. The smoke rose into the tunnel that guided it out through the chimney. Mrs. Talwort sat, nestled in a high-bakced chair, its carved ...
2025-09-25 07:35:33 +0000 UTC View PostTwo days, Aiden thought with a frown. They’d been in the forest for two days. His frown deepened, wrinkles forming on his forehead as he forced himself to calm down.
It’s not like I’ll need them to get the heart, he r...
2025-09-21 19:28:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been a day since Ted and Aiden had returned to the group. Zen’s question about who nightcrawler was had been left by the side of the road. Aiden saw it on his old friend’s face that he had chucked it up to Ted just say confusing things....
2025-09-19 15:22:49 +0000 UTC View PostTed’s footsteps were quiet as he approached Aiden. He walked slowly, cautious but not stealthy. At least Aiden didn’t think he was trying to be stealthy.
Aiden took a moment to raise his head up from the enchantment he was engraving. He ...
2025-09-17 11:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostSinepore was tired. So very tired.
It had been so long, too long to remember. He had lived through more than five civilizations. Once upon a time, he had been young, beautifully young. He had soared through the skies, basking in the agility ...
2025-09-14 06:42:44 +0000 UTC View Post“I have a task for you,” Aiden said to Oncot, his jepat moving at a steady walk. “A path you will—”
“That’s a pretty bird,” Ted muttered.
A bird, feathered in rainbow colors, zipped through burning trees. It heral...
2025-09-12 10:26:37 +0000 UTC View Post“Why Fallen High?” Isaiah asked on the big screen.
Okoro folded his arms over his chest while he lounged back on his seat, doing his best not to swivel as swivel chairs were designed to.
The conference room was filled with those wh...
2025-09-11 10:33:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe entire space was empty. It left him wondering if the [Telepath] was really alright or if this was just another part of the test.
Melmarc looked at the door once more, wondering if at any point in time it was going to open.
Sitting ...
2025-09-06 11:52:09 +0000 UTC View PostAriadne hated her life.
She frowned as she knocked the trashcan cover over. It clattered to the ground, loud in the dark night. This was not her life. She was done with life in the slum. She had been done with it for a very long time.
...
2025-09-06 03:10:44 +0000 UTC View PostLooking back once more, Melmarc scratched his head as he walked down the hallway. He’d just walked through a wall, seen a man go from translucent to physical and gotten the room of examiners worried. How much of the room, he wondered, was just a...
2025-09-02 08:56:13 +0000 UTC View Post