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Rhylix Please, Eriadren, forgive yourself for something you had no control over. Left holding a sword as familiar to me as my body, I thanked my lucky stars that I’d remembered to keep the damn thing away from my bare skin, clutching it to my chest wit...

Rhylix Before I lose myself again, I must set this into writing. Glancing over the gaping Council members in front of me, I lifted an eyebrow, ready to get this show on the road. “I’m assuming one of you has the serum for the Joining?” I asked. Lifting...

Raimie Having returned to a world of black, I wasn’t surprised to find one of my arms nearly freed from its hold. When I’d last been here, I could wiggle my fingers, and that had been a week ago. Why wouldn’t more be free now? Still, I couldn’t lift the li...

Raimie After waiting for several minutes to regain my energy, I felt ready to stand again. Someone ruined this before I could try. “Hell, you’ll be one of those types, won’t you?” A sigh filled the air, quickly followed by. “Again, I ask. Why are you out...

Raimie I wanted out. Out of this town, carved into the mountainside. Out of this new life with its uncertainties and expectations. Out of this turmoil, raging like a gale inside of me. Unfortunately, I could only escape from one of those at the moment, and...

Raimie Everything hurt. All of my muscles were crying of overuse, and the small bruises forming under my skin would soon mark any slight damage I'd received. Still, I followed Rhylix with a spring in my step. “So, what am I gathering again?” I asked. “Cham...

Raimie The chamber I entered was quite cozy, or it would have been if not for the room’s occupants. Bending over a paper-strewn table, Eledis had gone red in the face, repeatedly jabbing a finger at the map below his hands. One of the men on the Council mat...

Raimie I followed my twin anomalies through Allanovian. Presumably because I’d invited them to stay, Bright and Dim didn’t vanish when other people filled the corridors, but they never spoke a word to distract me, which was good. Because the further along ...

Eriadren Gasping from my sprint, I leaned on the fence outside of my friend’s estate, willing my body back under my control. Bodies didn’t work like that, of course, so I was forced to wait for a return to normalcy instead. My mother hadn’t wanted me to co...

Eriadren Graduation. The day I’d long anticipated had finally come, and I was running late for the main event. For once, though, no one could fault me for my tardiness. No, the blame for that lay entirely at the feet of the woman in front of me, but I could...

Eriadren My latest customer departed, leaving his farewell ringing in my ears, and I basked in a sensation that had yet to lose its fascination for me. I’d done it. Years spent in a brawler’s den, both fighting and practicing my healing arts, and I’d not o...

Eriadren The war was over. Four years of fighting, of sneak attacks on human supply lines, and of pitted battles to liberate occupied cities. Of one massacred village, the horror of innocent lives deliberately ended never to be forgotten. Four years of lau...

Raimie On the third day of our trip beneath the mountain, I’d begun to think that I’d made a mistake. For what had seemed like forever, we’d followed a set of mine tracks deep beneath the earth, and with each passing day, something distinctly dangerous had ...

Raimie “Hello?” I called into the darkness. “Are you there? I’m sorry it’s been so long.” Glancing around the inky landscape I was lying on, I sought out the wraith, a tad concerned about what I’d find… Holy shit, I’d moved my head! Laughing, I sent my ha...

Raimie After Rhylix and I had joined the others in our scouting party, I took note of their foreboding expressions and silently sighed. For two days, these people had encountered nothing on their quests into the dark, and something had come up on the day th...

Raimie I didn’t know how no one landed a blow on me before I reached a space absent violence, but soon, I shot out of a spreading pool of it, stopping with my hands on my knees. Gasping, I glanced over a mass of Zrelnach, fighting with civilians in their m...

Rhylix For when I next see you, I may not have control. After the display with the tear two days ago, I could say, without a doubt, that this latest ally terrified me. When we'd been beneath the mountain, I'd run off after Raimie unsure what the hell the...

They were going to lose this fight. Ixix, Corrupted God of the Harvest, roared their fury at the group with their tangle of vined hair flying around their writhing face, and despite how much the people around the god had been wailing on them, they looked none ...

Elliot,   Remember to breathe, love. In: one, two. Out: one, two. And repeat. Keep doing this until you’ve calmed down. You’ve always forgotten how much you need air when you’re upset. All right, my love. Are you focused? I need you to be before you contin...

As I took one wavering step after another on top of the garden wall, I cradled my precious burden to my chest, making my fingers a cage for their wriggling bodies. One would think that after so many times making this crossing, doing it now would come naturall...