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Interlude 3.2: Caution
King of Auden 11th of Third, 3478 Forget my doubts. Forget my bravado. The enemy is indeed a...
Interlude 3.1: Caution
King of Auden 2nd of Fourth, 3476 Since my father’s death involved much more frothing at the...
Chapter 86: All I Suffered
Raimie The journey was much shorter this time. In the last month, I’d made it many times when...
Letter: Wife
Wife, It is done. Our spy, our Emir, is in position, and I am become nothing more than an escort...
Chapter 83: Meeting Him
Rhylix Raimie's monotone demand to leave his splinter be echoed in the room around me. I stop...
Chapter 82: How Reality Works
Rhylix Getting Raimie into bed had required far too much pleading and cajoling, but somehow, ...
Chapter 81: What Are We Now?
Eledis Why does the heart betray us so? Even when we know better, it returns, like a hopeless...
Chapter 80: A Shockingly Easy Resolution
Raimie I’d almost caught up when the stranger stopped, slumping. “I wondered if you’d detect...
Chapter 79: Disaster
Raimie When I accepted Shadowsteal’s offered grip, the world crawled to a stand-still, which ...
Chapter 78: The Investiture
Raimie These damn robes were extraordinarily heavy. After Ring finished smoothing out an unse...
Chapter 77: Consequences
Kylorian Around the corner and at the end of the hall, I waited with my back pressed into res...
Chapter 75: Confession
Kylorian As I waited outside the room where Raimie had been taking his meetings for the last t...
Chapter 76: Help for a Friend
Raimie Kylorian had stopped talking, obviously waiting for my reply. Unfortunately, I was a l...
Adventures of the Hand 4.4
Middle Taking fistfuls of Little’s jacket, I pulled him uncomfortably close to me. “You were...
Adventures of the Hand 4.3
Middle “Ring!” I hissed. I glanced back as the door to her bedroom thumped closed behind us. ...
Adventures of the Hand 4.2
Middle I found Eledis on the other side of the palace, but the old man wasn’t alone. Gistrick...
Adventures of the Hand 4.1
Middle Even though it was only halfway through the morning, I was drained, and there was stil...
Chapter 74: Unfortunate Circumstances
Raimie, Rhylix Raimie “—hope!” My shout was drowned out by the howl of the wind. Shivering,...
Chapter 73: Fixing a Rip in Reality
Raimie Swallowing hard, I stared at the broken tear in front of me. “Wow,” I said with a dry...
Chapter 72: A Broken Tear
Raimie Silently, I watched my friend climb a hill, on his way back to Qena. Sending him away ...