“We let them into our systems,” Beta Batrix sel Gezbil stated. “That’s how they were able to hide not just their approach, but them breaching the hull and moving about the Bane. They took control of our sensors and showed us only what they wanted us to see.”
“Within limits,” Kergirik Dromitoura Virisos add...
2025-07-24 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTibs stepped into Karliak’s influence, holding the animal to his chest, and amused at the mishmash of parts of trees, bushes, grass, rocks and earth that turned it into something of an obstacle course.
It might make for an efficient first floor room.
It looked like the dungeon had taken his comment about making ...
2025-07-23 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJeremy remained still once he realized he was awake. He didn’t want to let them know he was going to—
A hand squeezed his. “It’s me, Jer” Gralgiran said.
He cracked an eye open, and the tension left him on seeing his Heart at his side. “You rescued me again.” Beyond him, fuzzy Kelsirians moved about ...
2025-07-22 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostLian dropped in the seat opposite Tibs and smiled, resting his elbows on the table and his chin in his hands. “I have a secret.” He
Lian dropped in the seat opposite Tibs and smiled, resting his elbows on the table and his chin in his hands. “I have a secret.” He sing-sang quietly.
Tibs raised an eyebrow a...
2025-07-21 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostPeople. LRK had forgotten how many people were out there. Not just in towns and cities, but on the roads going to them. His sense of water extended twenty-five kilometers around him, which was only a fraction of the forest he’d lived in, so he’d left his sense extended. Knowing where the animals were was useful, as was ge...
2025-07-20 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHelen and Silver are stunned when we exit the forest with our prisoner. Helen is pissed at Brandon when I let slip he knew well before the bounty hunter struck. It’s petty, I know, but he deserves it.
The story is now that he thought it was something I needed to get out of my system. That he followed me in case I coul...
2025-07-20 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Captain,” the comm officer said, bypassing the usual wait for his acknowledgment. “There’s a fire in officer lodging, it’s—”
“Have Emergency deal with it,” he cut them off, annoyed that a seasoned officer acted like this merited overriding his approving the incoming call.
“They’s on their wa...
2025-07-19 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“There you are,” the dungeon said as Tibs stepped towards the room he sensed under the ground ahead of him. There was clear impatience in the tone.
He’d walked until the sun was almost to its zenith, from where he thought the dungeon had been before. It had covered its tracks well enough Tibs couldn’t be certain...
2025-07-18 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostJeremy tasted the filling and made a face. Still too sour. He added more sugar and heated it some more. While it cooled, he rolled out the dough. His attempts were getting better. This one was holding together. He sent a message to Xenial for his friend to see about getting him some Jorinik fat. With preparing more of his own...
2025-07-17 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTibs sat at a far table, facing the door, enjoying the seared meat and vegetables, and studying the people in the tavern.
He hadn’t returned to it on arriving in the village. He’d spent time helping the refugees. Both because they needed help, and so there would be people to support his claim of having spent the day...
2025-07-16 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe male fell in step with Gralgiran, then leaned against him. “How much trouble am I in?” Toom asked. Gralgiran placed an arm around his
The male fell in step with Gralgiran, then leaned against him.
“How much trouble am I in?” Toom asked.
Gralgiran placed an arm around his friend’s waist. “None...
2025-07-15 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAs Darna had mentioned, easily more than half the town was fine with so many city folks living there, even with the strain on their food it caused. Even Rachel handed cuts of her kills to other taverns to prepare and share.
Tibs wanted to do more to help, but short of going out on his own and bringing back enough meat f...
2025-07-14 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI won’t say I’m fine by the time we reach the first town, but I’m better. I did consider, that first night, leaving before the others woke
I won’t say I’m fine by the time we reach the first town, but I’m better.
I did consider, that first night, leaving before the others woke and returning to Louisvil...
2025-07-13 13:00:32 +0000 UTC View Post/Author’s Notes
This chapter in LRK’s life is unfinished. This chapter is also the last of what I wrote for his life and I have no idea if I’ll return to it. At this point, all I have left if a vague sense of where the story should go. And I don’t know if I could recapture it.
There is an epilog...
Jeremy stared at the ceiling, trying to work out how this had happened. There had been screaming, insults, and accusations. He didn’t
Jeremy stared at the ceiling, trying to work out how this had happened.
There had been screaming, insults, and accusations. He didn’t remember when he’d grabbed the Kelsirian ...
2025-07-12 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostStarting with this chapter, and going on for a few, will be a brand new section to the story, effectively a draft 1, so it's going to be rougher around the edges.
Enjoy
Tibs was stopped by guards only hours from leaving the city, and questioned. The way they asked them, he worked out th...
2025-07-11 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate? He tapped on his tablet, not paying attention to the Kersosterans arguing in front of the adjudicators.
He’s at a gym, talking with a pair there.
That was good. Him interacting with people on the ship would strengthen his position that Jeremy wasn’t suffering from anything, or being h...
2025-07-10 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTibs caught sight of the occasional guard through the small window. He sensed four of them, plus her in his attic. The fabrics that made out
Tibs caught sight of the occasional guard through the small window. He sensed four of them, plus her in his attic. The fabrics that made out his costumes were no longer hanging fro...
2025-07-09 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWith a scream of frustration, Jeremy let go of the bar and sat. He couldn’t get his machine to increase the weights until he had to work at
With a scream of frustration, Jeremy let go of the bar and sat. He couldn’t get his machine to increase the weights until he had to work at it. The sensor adjusted everything to...
2025-07-08 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTibs crouched on the roof, within the chimney’s stretching shadow, and looked over the plaza. The etching wrapped around him ensured none of the roof watchers looking his way could make him out.
He would have preferred pulling off this demonstration in a market, because those had more people to watch, and then talk ab...
2025-07-07 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWho are the United Supers? July 18th, 1951, Reuters July 15, 1951. All fighting between North and South Korea came to a stop when four figur
Who are the United Supers?
July 18th, 1951, Reuters
July 15, 1951. All fighting between North and South Korea came to a stop when four...
2025-07-06 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe return to Louisville is…odd. To me, at least. I don’t think the others feel the same. There’s just this…disconnect I can’t seem to
The return to Louisville is…odd. To me, at least.
I don’t think the others feel the same.
There’s just this…disconnect I can’t seem to resolve. I wonder i...
2025-07-06 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostKal made sure Finn was comfortable before setting back on his way. He used the alleys to make his way around the temple. The doors were closed and guarded by far more guards than Kal expected were there under normal circumstance.
This confirmed whoever the Voice was, they would be in the temple. Fortunately for him, the...
2025-07-06 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostJeremy was happy the training uniform that had been made for him was so sturdy, because he was confident the violence with which he put it
Jeremy was happy the training uniform that had been made for him was so sturdy, because he was confident the violence with which he put it on would have ripped anything else.
H...
2025-07-05 13:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe group’s leader walked among the other shoppers in the market, making it easy for Tibs to follow her. She was dressed as someone of
The group’s leader walked among the other shoppers in the market, making it easy for Tibs to follow her. She was dressed as someone of
The group’s leader walked among the oth...
2025-07-04 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Captain,” the comms hunter said, looking at him. “The leadership is contacting us, demanding to speak with you.” Demanding did not bode
“Captain,” the comms hunter said, looking at him. “The leadership is contacting us, demanding to speak with you.” Demanding did not bode
“Captain,” the comms ...
2025-07-03 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe woman sneaking through the alley wasn’t horrible. Tibs only had to prevent one guard from coming across her, and it wasn’t because she made a mistake, but on account of the guard breaking off from his team to take a piss. If Tibs hadn’t caused a disturbance in the opposite direction, he’d have been putting himself...
2025-07-02 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe cell block had to be uncomfortable for Kelsirians, Jeremy decided. While nowhere small, by his standard, the corridor leading to the
The cell block had to be uncomfortable for Kelsirians, Jeremy decided. While nowhere small, by his standard, the corridor leading to the cells was smaller than even the ‘crawlspace...
2025-07-01 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTibs looked at the people among the crowd he followed, trying to identify those mistreated by the ruling class. In other cities, those
Tibs looked at the people among the crowd he followed, trying to identify those mistreated by the ruling class.
In other cities, those people were easier to find. Those abused by t...
2025-06-30 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe tent village was nothing like Kal’s camp.
He used military rules to set up the tents in rows, with lanes on each side for easy movements. Rain barrels were set up by each other tent for collection and so everyone had access to it. Everything kept in mind they had limited resources.
The tents here were set u...
2025-06-29 13:00:36 +0000 UTC View Post
