Tellak ended up being the only person to join Ana in approaching the Waystone, though with three empty slots Ana also invited Wandak and Kaira into her Party. They were the most likely to put themselves in harm’s way if things got hot.
As a group they’d decided that no more than two should go, so as not to look too ...
2025-11-18 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostDraka: 12,899 words
Splinter Angel: 13,196 words
Starmind: 4,056 words
Other: 1,104 words
Draka: Chapter 287
Splinter Angel: Chapter 137
Starmind: Chapter 49
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2025-11-17 17:58:22 +0000 UTC View PostWhen we woke down in that lightless chamber, my internal clock told me that it was night. The burning pain in my side had reduced somewhat to a miserable gnawing ache, but I desperately wanted my hoard. Grace had seemed to think that Presence would heal with time alone in this magically saturated place, but I knew in my bones...
2025-11-17 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostWaking up was terribly disorientating. Ana was no longer in the street where she’d gone to sleep, and she’d never noticed being moved. Messy now lay to Ana’s side with a foot of space between them, instead of Ana being cuddled up to her; to Ana’s other side was Touanne, who slept soundly.
Ana propped herself up ...
2025-11-15 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostFor a moment I stood, paralyzed by grief and horror at the loss of my wing. Behind me I heard Behold Her coming closer, not using her breath, just using brute strength to tear through the forest, knocking aside any tree she couldn’t easily go around. Soon she’d be on me, and that would be that.
Conscience, ...
2025-11-14 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! Managed to get another chapter finished just in time. It's pretty raw and has only been lightly proof-read, so I hope there aren't too many mistakes in it. Happy reading!
//AB
The following day everyone rose early, to have as much time as possible to finalize all of our preparations. Tomorrow we’d leave...
2025-11-12 17:00:27 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey, Petra,” Ana said gently, clasping the dying woman’s hand. It was cold and clammy, and sticky with blood. “Can you hear me? Varinus said you asked for me.”
Petra’s eyelids slowly fluttered open. She started turning her head, but it looked so hard for her that Ana shuffled on her knees until she was in f...
2025-11-11 20:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI tore through the sky, skimming the treetops of the northern side of the high city. Ahead and to my right was the tallest point, where lay the palace grounds. To my left, the open sea stretched to the horizon. And behind me, closing with terrifying speed, was Behold Her And Know That All Things Must End.
There was no w...
2025-11-10 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostAna heard what the man, most likely the Earthbreaker, said. She understood him. But it was incredibly hard to care when she was close, so very close, to ending this bitch who’d promised to murder Messy horribly. The only thing that made her momentarily relax the pressure closing off the flow of blood to the Iro...
2025-11-08 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Conscience alerted me that Behold Her had made her move, I didn’t think. I just acted. It wasn’t for the sake of propriety that I scooped Herald up in my arms to fly. It was simple, practical necessity. I wasn’t leaving Herald for the trolls, but I also wasn’t going to waste two minutes running back to the glade ...
2025-11-07 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI got it done in time, so here's the first chapter of book 2! Now, since I'm writing this as a book, there will be some reminders and such here and there. If you read this shortly after chapter 46 they may seem a little bit forced, but I hope not.
Enjoy!
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2025-11-05 17:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe Iron Warrior came straight at Ana with a roar of fury, and a wave of fear broke and washed around Ana as she felt the effect of what must be a high-Level Intimidate Skill. Beyond the veil of her Enhancement, Fearless, and despite her Willpower, s...
2025-11-04 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostDraka: 21,427 words
Splinter Angel: 16,742 words
Starmind: 7,019 words
Other: 1,824 words
Draka: Chapter 282 or 283, depending on how I break this up
Splinter Angel: Chapter 133
Starm...
2025-11-03 22:35:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe Shrine was almost entirely silent for a long while after we all settled inside. Once Herald got the last few sniffles, sobs, and hiccups out of her system, the loudest sounds were the nervous brays and whimpers of the mules, and the rasp of a small, improvised shovel as Sarina and Marvan cleared out the manure. The poor a...
2025-11-03 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostTen miles. Ana could do ten miles. Twenty miles at a dead run had almost killed her three weeks earlier, but ten? She could do ten and still be fighting fit. At least she hoped so, because she was committed now, her Party far behind her and following at their own best pace. She hated leaving them behind, she really did, but a...
2025-11-01 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Halloween! No monsters in this chapter, I'm afraid, unless you count me for being so cruel to my poor characters.
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“Who are you?”
I couldn’t think of anything that Mother could have possibly said to terrify me more than those three words. And...
2025-10-31 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe two Earth-mages accompanying Messy, Rayni, Petra, Marra Falk, and the dozen-odd armed men and women with them Shaped, and the center of the stone barrier keeping them from entering the square withered and crumbled apart with the hiss and tinkle of sand and small stones falling to the cobbles. The scene that greeted them a...
2025-10-28 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Sun Need Not Rise In His Presence wasn’t hurt. He wasn’t wounded, or injured. Such words were nowhere near enough. They were too limited — too easy to understand. Presence was ravaged. He was a ruin of a dragon, to the point where it was a testament to his sheer fortitude — and possibly one or more Advanc...
2025-10-27 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“They can’t leave,” Messy said. There was a vicious satisfaction in her voice that she hadn’t put there intentionally. “They put in all this effort, caused all this damage as a distraction, and now they’re stuck.”
“Yeah, they’ve figured that out,” Rayni said, hushing Messy so she could listen to what...
2025-10-25 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostWe waited in the same spot where I’d spoken to The Sun Need Not Rise In His Presence. It was nowhere near as visible as where we’d waited for Indomitable and Sandstorm, so to make sure that we’d be seen we had done a few circles above the area the two males had claimed for themselves. Even so, we waited, and waited, and...
2025-10-24 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI haven't had much time for anything outside my main series lately, but I've had a draft of this chapter ready for a little while. I needed something to get me started today, and decided to edit it. Enjoy!
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I do not know if you’ve heard of Lady Marixa before, with her bein...
2025-10-23 16:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning Temeri left again, this time taking Bekeri with her. Bekeri was going to look at a bunch of machines that weren’t working great. I wasn’t sure why Temeri was going, but when I asked her she said that Tammeron had offered to go through the project’s command protocols with her. Temeri must have been reall...
2025-10-22 16:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostMessy woke to a sound like the world ending.
Her first instinct was to grab for Ana, but Ana wasn’t there. She was alone, and she almost panicked before the adrenaline hit and reason and memory kicked in with a vengeance. Right. Of course she was alone. Ana had gone to hunt down the escapees. As for Messy herself, Tou...
2025-10-21 16:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostNote: I've made some very small edits to chapters 257 and 263 to address that fact that poor, neglected Avjilan is also a magic user, and should have been affected in some way by the magical explosion.
To summarize: Avjilan felt energized the way Kira did, but didn't exhibit the inner glow that Herald, Mak, Tam, and to ...
2025-10-20 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the growing darkness, and with no Ana-deprived Parties to slow them down, Ana and her ten hunters moved fast. She started them off slow to warm up, but soon set the same six-minute mile pace as when she’d taken Deni, Lesirell, Perrion, and Petra to run down the Stolen, and nobody complained. If anyth...
2025-10-18 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Wake up, little one!” Mother’s urgent command burrowed into my sleepy brain, forcing me to open one eye to look toward the door. “There is no more time for sleep! The peace of the conclave has been violated!”
“Hmm? What?” I asked, rising as gently as I could so the humans resting against me could settle r...
2025-10-17 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHi all! This is just a short notice that, as I've mentioned previously, I have increased the price for new members from $5 to $8. At about 16k words per week, I think it's justified. However, and this is the reason I'm making this post at all, this only applies to new members. If you're a longtime member and ...
2025-10-16 16:58:31 +0000 UTC View PostI got this finished and (sloppily) proofread in time! Hooray! Unfortunately I can't make any promises about next week. I wish I could, but it depends entirely on how the writing goes overall this week.
I really don't want to miss one, though. I've got a streak going!
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So I know there's already been two posts mentioning this today, but did you know that Shadows of Gold, Book 3 of Draka, released today? True story! Available on Audible, Kindle, and in print!
Also, ...
2025-10-14 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostIt's launch day! Shadows of Gold is finally out! Now, I'm dropping this early in the day so it doesn't collide with the regular chapter of Splinter Angel, but I don't suppose anyone's surprised by me rele...
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