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Rhylix Since our disastrous experiment, I've been trapped in Corruption's sway. The morning's march was slow and hard. As we traveled through the forest on this side of the Fractured Peaks, those injured beside the tear required a languid pace, and from ...

Rhylix Every day, its madness overtakes more of my mind. It took a few hours, but when the sun was halfway to the horizon, we reached Paft. The farming village had seen better days. Half of its fields had been left untended for long enough that weeds had...

Rhylix I don't know how much longer I can resist its influence When I caught up, neither Raimie nor I said a word. I didn’t, as a general rule, tease people, but hell, if I wasn’t tempted to do it now. In the end, though, I decided to abstain from that...

Rhylix But in the end, how can I do that? Raimie’s splinters had left, and after another five heartbeats of quiet, I lowered my hands, grateful to see only one version of my friend in front of me. Suddenly tired beyond measure, I sank into the grass befo...

Raimie For six days, we marched, quickly establishing a routine. The group rose with the dawn, breaking camp before setting off. We usually stopped for a midday meal, but that was the only rest we enjoyed before it was time to set up camp for the night. Ev...

Raimie At the end of my next weapons training session, I made my goodbyes while accepting Dath’s offer of sharing a drink later that evening. The invitation ignited a glow in my belly. Could I find another friendship with him? I knew how contradictory that ...

Raimie I was back. It had been weeks, and gods, I’d missed this place. Or maybe it was more that I’d missed someone who was only found here. At the thought, I laughed, and it reverberated back to me as something far less pleasant. “Are you here?” I called....

Rhylix I'm fighting a god. I couldn’t breathe. As I staggered away from the tent, I sucked and sucked at the air, starving for it, but it wouldn’t come. It wouldn’t come! It wouldn’t-! A splash of life dove down my throat, and I expelled it again in a c...

Raimie Waking up didn’t come as a surprise to me. It should have, given everything that had happened. I should have been marveling at every pull of air into my lungs and every thought that passed through my head, but the fact was that ever since awareness h...

Raimie Disoriented, I woke up with a snort. What on earth had happened? I’d only meant to lay here for a little while, not fall asleep. And why the hell was my hand already on a weapon’s hilt? Had the last few weeks’ dangers so thoroughly influenced me tha...

Raimie Rhylix still looked like I’d smacked him in the face with an unpleasant truth, but he forced himself to focus, shaking his head to clear it. “Well, here is where I’d help you pull Ele to yourself,” he said, “but since you’ve already done that, we ca...

Rhylix Instead, I marshal the remnants of my sanity to delay Corruption. After Raimie woke up, we gave him two more days to recover, and then, it was time to run again. The delay had made anyone who was aware of Teron's pursuit antsy, seeing as how it ha...

Rhylix One last fight to convey my wishes before I no longer can. I was beginning to think that I’d made a mistake. A week had passed since my ‘argument’ with Raimie, and no one in the conspiracy had approached me. Not only that but tonight, the group ha...

Raimie Sev was the strangest place I’d ever seen. To be fair, it was the only human city I’d visited, which might have something to do with the awe I was feeling. I’d thought Fissid was a wonder of civilization, but seeing this place, I knew differently. S...

For the first time in years, Nylion emerged into the world. He took a moment to enjoy it, breathing in fresh air with a tang of salt in it, but then, his head banged into something, flaring pain beneath his skull, and he remembered why the real world sucked. ...

Raimie All I could consider in the moments after waking up was the dull throb behind my eyes. I tried to scan my surroundings, vaguely recalling a sense of danger from before, but my head wouldn’t let me, making me clutch at it until the pain had faded enou...

Raimie The fight didn’t last long. I fended off two questing stabs at my innards, noting with surprise that the Zrelnach warrior was standing on the sidelines, before a host of additional enemies flooded into the waystation. As soon as I could, I dropped S...

Eriadren As I wandered through the ruins of a human village, I searched for survivors, although I couldn’t move as stealthily as I should. The last few hours had left me numb, drifting in a fog. Only my orders kept me on my feet, and I had to carry them out...

Eriadren After Lirilith and I had gotten married, we’d pooled our resources to buy a house in the merchant’s district. It wasn’t much—a narrow, two-story building with little to differentiate it from its neighbors—but it was ours, an oasis from the scorn th...

Eriadren Now that things in my shed had gone quiet, I was stuck in place with fear singing in every part of me. Fear worse than the moments before a battle. Fear worse than facing down an empire’s leader. Lirilith hadn’t come to help me and Arivor, but I c...