Pandy was pointing at a small table not far past the tranquil lake of her blood. On it rested a statue of Ismara, marble hands outstretched, palms up. On those hands sat a small wooden box. A very flammable small wooden box, thank you very much, Edgar, you slightly morbid pyromaniac.
“That’s it?” Isidor a...
2025-05-28 02:40:00 +0000 UTC
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Isidor hurried after her. “Hey! Bu- Um, Pandy? Where is this place? Why are we here? How do we get back?” He was casting worried glances behind him, as if realizing for the first time that he’d left Eleanor behind, though Pandy was certain that the princess was being watched.
Pandy paused long enough for him to ca...
2025-05-27 01:14:08 +0000 UTC
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Pandy grinned, glad to be able to turn the tables on the secretive boy. “Come on, and I’ll show you.” His eyes narrowed, but when Pandy led the way back toward the classroom wing, he followed.
Small Groups were everywhere today. Usually, teachers spent most of their time talking, or giving the students small, prac...
2025-05-24 00:11:55 +0000 UTC
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Just letting everyone know that I'll be on vacation next Friday through the following Tuesday (May 30-June 3). My family is heading to Texas for Chupacabracon, which I honestly think my husband only picked because he liked the name. That means no chapters for those days. My next vacation won't be until mid-July, when we'll he...
2025-05-23 04:44:47 +0000 UTC
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“Today, we’re going to play a game,” Pandy told the five children. As usual, Thaniel was seated beside her on one of the benches, while Eleanor and Geraldine sat on the other nearby bench. Isidor and Abbington stood further away, and, as had become usual, Brook wandered around near Abbington, trying to determine what, i...
2025-05-23 04:27:30 +0000 UTC
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Wednesday passed much as Tuesday had, except that Pandy remembered that she was supposed to attend dinner as Ms. Wellington. Fortunately, when Shifting Faces reached level three, its duration also increased to two hours, so she just barely managed to do everything she needed to do before poofing back to Bunny.
Apparentl...
2025-05-22 01:07:35 +0000 UTC
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“What’s the best kind of Fire elemental?” Geraldine demanded, eyes intent.
“Best or most powerful?” Pandy asked absently, eyes caught by another patch of shadow. Had something moved there?
“What’s the difference?” Geraldine said, twisting so she could stare up into the tree Pandy was watching. “W...
2025-05-21 01:13:52 +0000 UTC
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After Governance and Leadership came Small Group, which meant it was time for Pandy to play the part of Ms. Wellington again. So, while Thaniel happily chatted with his classmates, taking full advantage of the free time Mrs. Lovett gave them, Pandy found herself focusing more and more on the upcoming class period. What was sh...
2025-05-20 03:32:25 +0000 UTC
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Kaden was a terrible tutor. He hovered around his sister like a particularly obsessive mosquito, paying no attention to anyone else. Lian, on the other hand, knew everything, and was perfectly willing to share his knowledge, though he had no patience with foolishness. By the time the hour was up, Geraldine and Thaniel looked ...
2025-05-16 20:48:14 +0000 UTC
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Dragon food was spicy. Not spicy as in hot – though it was that, too – but spicy like Indian food, with a complex combination of flavors that wasn’t always to Pandy’s taste. Still, she ate, and lapped up the golden liquid, which was sweet and probably not alcoholic, because she didn’t feel woozy after drinking it. P...
2025-05-16 05:26:46 +0000 UTC
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The dragon took Pandy with him to the library. This worked out, since she had nothing else to do, but she was a bit miffed that no one bothered to ask. The dragon just scooped her up – his skin felt like completely normal human skin, not scaly at all – and carried her off to his lair, where he completely ignored her while...
2025-05-15 04:06:22 +0000 UTC
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Pandy sat bolt upright in the chair, then came to her feet, already stammering out something that might have been a greeting, or an apology, or possibly an order for takeout. None of the three responded, though Professor Beeswick crossed to the desk and picked up the copy of The Courteous Mage’s Guide to Elemental Balan...
2025-05-14 01:58:09 +0000 UTC
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Pandy burst into the classroom, and only then remembered that she was supposed to be the calm, cool, and collected Ms. Wellington. Dropping her skirts into place, she cleared her throat, attempting to level a disapproving glare at the students. This proved difficult, since they were just sitting in their chairs, not hanging o...
2025-05-13 00:13:03 +0000 UTC
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“King Elliott was how old when he took the throne?” Mr. Rowe asked, looking around expectantly.
<Eighteen,> Pandy thought lazily, rolling over to expose her belly to the narrow beam of sunlight edging its way in through the classroom window.
“Eighteen,” Ellie said, after a protracted silence made it ...
2025-05-10 04:07:26 +0000 UTC
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The door to Ms. Wellington’s office swung open beneath Pandy’s hand, and she all but leaped inside, slamming the door shut behind her before pressing her forehead against it. Everything was fine. Fine. She would just-
“Are you all right?” The voice from behind her made Pandy jump and squeak in a very un...
2025-05-09 02:16:18 +0000 UTC
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Charm was one of many stats that Pandy had considered and discarded as being essentially worthless. Clara ‘needed’ at least ten levels of it early in the game, but it was replaced by more specific stats like Style and Talent later on. Like Innate Magic, it was meant to teach you how the game worked rather than really bein...
2025-05-08 03:07:35 +0000 UTC
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When Keros had appeared beside Pandy, she wasn’t really afraid. In spite of his rippling muscles and casual use of power, she could tell that he was harmless. Or at least mostly harmless. Now, the space filled with billowing fabric, oodles of hair, and warm, fleshy bits that Pandy didn’t want to think about too much...
2025-05-07 01:09:21 +0000 UTC
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Keros was chained to a rock. That was an odd thing to happen to anyone, especially a god, but Keros was an odd god, at least in Pandy’s admittedly very limited experience. He didn’t seem to be in danger – there were no eagles slurping down his liver, for instance – so Pandy would have noped out of there, if she had an...
2025-05-06 02:00:55 +0000 UTC
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<Stats,> Pandy thought, staring down at the piece of paper pinned beneath her ink-stained paw. It was only faintly illuminated by the tiny Spark she’d cast more than an hour ago, but Pandy didn’t need light to see the words that formed before her eyes.
Name: Pandy
Race: Rabbit? (...
2025-05-03 06:53:11 +0000 UTC
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By the time Pandy managed to get out of the pond – it turned out that undead rabbits could swim as well as they had when alive, and Pandy had always been a dog-paddler – she was soaked and muddy, but no longer covered in blood. Thaniel had started into the water after her, but been held back by Geraldine, who reminded him...
2025-05-02 03:15:31 +0000 UTC
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So, I was thinking I might use a locked channel on my Discord to screen share when I'm writing. You would have to tell me your Discord handle, and I would give you the role that would allow you to enter the channel. It could be limited to Patreon in general, or I could make it available only to certain tiers.
This would...
2025-05-01 03:01:40 +0000 UTC
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The children gathered around Pandy, bright eyes shining as she related a somewhat sanitized version of the storyline of Gacha Love. Not that Clara and her love interest ever did anything more risqué than kiss, but Pandy found that she just couldn’t tell them certain details. All mentions of romance were cut entire...
2025-05-01 02:31:23 +0000 UTC
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Wake up at 7
breakfast at 8
the chancellor speaks at 8:55-9 (ish)
Homeroom classes 9:10-12:50 - reading/grammar & comprehension, writing (letters and spelling), math, history (just the facts)
lunch at 1-2
Thaniel and Abbington have Combat T...
2025-04-29 20:57:44 +0000 UTC
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Pandy had read more than a few isekai stories. Mostly free ones, found on websites where wanna-be authors posted their efforts and waited with bated breath for the reaction of the wild denizens of the internet. Some of them were excellent, but to be absolutely honest, most of them were…not.
And almost all of them, exc...
2025-04-29 20:47:20 +0000 UTC
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Something in Pandy rebelled against the idea of ‘wasting’ much more of her time with Shifting Faces, but she did think it was a good idea to do one more check of the room, and this time she was going to look around the office as well. So, with one last look out of the window, she dropped back to the unyielding surface of ...
2025-04-29 01:38:44 +0000 UTC
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Fortunately, the door swung outward, so Pandy used her impressive Agility score to remain behind it as it opened, summoning her clothing as she did so. She was pretty sure Augustus Blackwood hadn’t gotten an eyeful this time. Maybe half an eye, at most.
Several seconds passed until the chancellor said, “Ah, Ms. Well...
2025-04-28 03:23:57 +0000 UTC
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My dog died of heart failure today. I'll try to make today's chapter up this weekend, but today I just need to be sad. I'm really sorry.
2025-04-25 22:47:01 +0000 UTC
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Pandy just couldn’t bring herself to use Bite rather than the knife, so she focused on Minor Heal for the rest of the night, only stopping once an hour to test Shifting Faces. Six hours later, the spell had reached level twenty-two, she had forty-three more Mana, and she’d also noticed that her Mana pool was refilling muc...
2025-04-24 21:26:54 +0000 UTC
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For the first time since Pandy realized she really needed to be grinding her skills, she was able to do exactly that without worrying about anyone catching her. Both Thaniel and Isidor knew she wasn’t just a rabbit, and while Tempest still watched Pandy closely, the tortoise didn’t seem to be actively suspicious any more....
2025-04-23 21:45:50 +0000 UTC
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“Bunny!” Thaniel exclaimed. He scooped her up, snuggling her as he turned toward Isidor. Biting his lip, he said, “Um, she-”
Isidor shook his head, his expression a study in surprise and something akin to resignation. He closed the door, then motioned to the bed, saying, “We should probably talk.”
Than...
2025-04-22 21:31:25 +0000 UTC
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