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After the assembly had concluded, I wandered to the lobby of House Drav’s headquarters in a haze. I wasn’t worried about my new, supposedly ‘horrible’ fate, half convinced that past incidents of this phenomenon were coincidences, and I was used to getting serv...

From an initial scan of the hangar, I’d say the Chosen kept a neat base of operations. Everything here was in its proper place with each surface scrubbed clean, which was unusual for a place like that. Typically, shuttles and strike ships came through a hangar...

An hour or two into the flight, I was still agonizing over whether leaving my family behind had been a good idea. Yes, this part of my plan might be dangerous, exceedingly so, but still, keeping them in the dark felt like a betrayal. Even so, I wouldn’t have b...

For a supposedly irradiated to hell part of Lutov, the Tainted Lands seemed to be thriving, to my eye at least. The verdantly green and yellow grasses of the Azuwell Plains stretched out all around me, and seeing how much of it there was, I might have worried ...

I stumbled toward the dropship, only now noticing how much my body had started trembling. That was bad, wasn’t it? I thought that was bad. As I came closer, I noted signs of the fight that had taken place outside of the dropship. Bits of corroded armor were s...

Throughout my life, I’d speculated about what the Collective would be like, but who wouldn’t do that? Given what little we knew about it, who wouldn’t, on occasion, think about one’s existence after death? From what little we did know, one’s identity was inco...

I’ll skip a few months here. I honestly don’t have much to tell you about them. When it came to my mission’s targets, I’ll just say that I wasn’t kind, but then, you’ll see that soon enough. I had a reason for everything that I did, just as I had one for gett...

My current set of targets was playing it exceedingly safe, which had made hunting them down difficult. I’d been tracking them for almost a week, compared to the typical day or two that I’d needed since starting this mission. Of course, the difficulty I was ha...

When I came back into view, my target was trying to escape, but of course he was. In his situation, who wouldn’t? The crunch of my feet in the twigs had him jerking his head my way, and when I started pulling what I’d need form my pockets, he burst into tears....

Korix and Leski looked… I didn’t know how to describe how they looked. I couldn’t focus on their facial expressions because as I came closer, all I could see was them. It had been four months since we’d last been together. Besides a single message to let them...

Something unexpected dragged me out of my dreams, but then, dealing with the unexpected had become my new normal lately. Ignoring my family’s disapproving stares, I sat up, doing my best to shuck the exhaustion that was screaming protests throughout my body, a...

Before investigating Calia’s safehouses, I had to finish my hunt for the targets I’d been trailing when she’s requested the meeting. I was so completely focused on that task, one might say deliberately so, that I almost forgot the other chore I’d have to compl...

Leski followed me as I made for where Kolb scouts had last spotted my targets. I wasn’t sure how long this hunt would take me. Sure, the last one had taken a week, but usually, I only needed a day or two. When it came to timing, I was hoping this hunt would ...

It was quiet when we arrived. No one was outside of their homes, and there was no breeze to stir the air. I couldn’t be sure how many of these people were complicit in this plot, whether willingly or under force, so I was careful while moving between houses w...

When we reached House Kolb’s headquarters, Korix took one look at us before pulling Baely into a hug. “What happened?” he asked over the top of her head. I was halfway to answering when Leski barreled over me. “Your student showed us everything that he’s ca...

It took quite some time, but eventually, I extracted myself from the apartment, heading for House Kolb’s headquarters. I thought it best to give myself the length of the walk to settle into the Lokke Vitras role once more, and after that was done, I had to adm...

Two months had passed, and once again, I found myself exhausted beyond measure. This time, however, I was in a fight. Not that this was unusual for me. I was exhausted while fighting at regular intervals. What made this situation unique had nothing to do with ...

The person making the connection request must understand why my answer had been so delayed because I was able to put quite some distance between me and Baely before accepting it. “Whoever you are, you have thirty seconds to explain why I should maintain this ...

After three months of repeating it, I was getting sick of having this conversation. Over my palm, Leski’s image wavered the slightest bit as she blew a strand of hair out of her eyes, and internally sighing, I waited for her to make the next move in this bout ...

When Baely and I arrived at the dissenter’s island, Korix was waiting for us with his hands folded in front of his waist and an easy smile in place. This stance wavered when our daughter emerged from the skycruiser, running so that they could engulf him in a h...