My question was not immediately answered. Just when I was about to give up the question and leave my quarters, an almost hesitant message appeared.
[The Administrator answers: There is much I cannot currently say, little fang. Suffice to say that the slight understanding that you have gained regarding the inherent diffe...
2024-07-09 05:31:38 +0000 UTC View Post“Desperation” is the most unique of fahvalo niches I have personally encountered, and the only one I have accepted personally as a representative of the Moonchildren. Though, fahvalo is such a rare title to bestow that I cannot think of any new fahvalo in my lifetime… perhaps it is time for the Moonchildren ...
2024-07-06 06:17:40 +0000 UTC View Post[Varali POV]
Varali had left the town well before sunrise that terrible day to ensure that she would get to the ideal hunting ground meadow before noon, when the scaled deer fawn was sure to be alone. The little one was damnably smart, surprisingly so, but it had been seen without its parents for days now, so she could ...
2024-07-05 07:37:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe familiar feeling of vibrating, nearly too-hot sands surrounding me took the edge from my frustration even before I consciously realized I’d been trying to hold onto my resentment. With a long sigh, I let the rest of my unreasonable rage fade, and not for the first time, I was grateful that here, in the evolutionary stat...
2024-07-04 06:06:36 +0000 UTC View PostSo sorry for the delay! I was just too tired. I'm posting this chapter now, and another tonight. Thank you for your patience!
With a swipe of my hand, I brushed the drying blood from my snout as I tried to gather myself. Nievtala’s words damaged me more than I expected every time I heard them, and I w...
2024-07-03 23:38:15 +0000 UTC View Post[Joral POV]
The True Alpha stood tall over the corpse of his foe, his majesty apparent as Joral screamed out his support. The Alpha looked down, obviously despising the dead body of his weak foe. With how easy he had made it look, Joral was sure he could have struck the Alpha pretender down with impunity, but then the T...
2024-07-02 06:43:59 +0000 UTC View PostHey, I won't be posting any chapters for the rest of the week--I'm currently on vacation with family, and I'd thought I would be able to do a fair amount of writing in the time that I have, but I... just don't have time. I will catch up on chapters, with a bonus chapter here or there, until I am back at ending each week on a ...
2024-06-28 02:25:35 +0000 UTC View PostI couldn’t say what I had been expecting, but I knew I’d thought there would be some… pomp, or presentation, or showboating. That was not what happened. Before I realized it, the hundreds of keelish of the swarm filled in around us, leaving only a circle maybe twenty feet across with Redael and I across from each other ...
2024-06-26 06:43:49 +0000 UTC View Post“Ashlani.”
Sybil’s voice roused me immediately, and I sat bolt upright, worried that something had happened. I’d thought I would dream before I had fallen asleep, maybe something about the torn and burnt keelish bodies, or the savaged human ones, or maybe still about my upcoming duel. Instead, I’d slept sound...
2024-06-25 05:19:34 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a quick bath, only long enough to cleanse my body of the stubborn clots of blood and viscera that had resisted being washed away by the light rains, I settled onto my bed. Only after I finished my businesslike bath and stepped out of the sands did I realize that Sybil had been one of those that had followed me back to t...
2024-06-22 02:39:35 +0000 UTC View PostSorry I'm late! In exchange, take this long chapter!
From the beginning, the Zaaktif Prime was incredible, but his majesty was firmly cemented and his legend truly established in the single day we now celebrate as the Ascension. That it took place during the change of seasons, during the lengthening of days,...
2024-06-21 07:34:49 +0000 UTC View Post“Thank you for following my command to exterminate these,” Redael paused, looking over the dead humans’ bodies with obvious distaste, “vermin. Now, I will be taking back the command of my swarm.”
A surge of defiant pride swelled within me, and suddenly, I knew, I could no longer stomach lurking in the shadows,...
2024-06-20 06:08:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe more time passed me by, the more the pulsating misery originating from my right shoulder began to fully occupy my mind. Of course it was my right shoulder. Was it ever not that? I let the hilt of the sword in my left hand fall to the ground, and with the originally disparate stone no longer magically strengthened and join...
2024-06-20 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe red spots that appeared on the full armor belonging to the Earthspeaker were muted and weak, but still they glowed. I instinctively understood that they were places that the armor itself was weaker, not necessarily places where I could easily land a strike. Took began to rush in and support me, but hissed my intentions to...
2024-06-18 04:27:12 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Father's Day to any of my fellow dads out there! Hope it was a good one! Enjoy!
The lavaline slowly stalked around her, and for the first time, Khall could actually size up one of these evolved lavalines. It stood at least as tall as she did, though not nearly as long as her, especially when consi...
2024-06-17 07:31:27 +0000 UTC View PostKhall panicked as the birds began to pick her up once again. No! She wouldn’t let them kill her! In her terror, she opened her mouth wide and sprayed out a jet of flames that immediately seared the bird. It tumbled to the ground, and she fled as the creature began to rise up, to chase her! As she began to run, to protect he...
2024-06-15 08:05:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe Divine Path is now live on RR! I'll link it below, but I'm a bit nervous about how this goes! The first ten chapters are going to go live over the next hours, and if it hits 150 favorites before Monday night, I'll post a chapter every day there (and here too! Gotta stay ahead, ya know?) next week! Other than favoriting th...
2024-06-14 23:34:34 +0000 UTC View PostBack to Ashlani POV. You're welcome!
I led the charge up the hill, and I could see Took simply charging on the other side, disregarding the humans that stood in her way. When one brave, foolhardy Flamespeaker began a Calling, perhaps thinking he could scare her with the flames, Took simply closed her ey...
2024-06-14 21:55:07 +0000 UTC View Post[Marata POV]
Though the unproven hunters had nearly broken as the gibbering, screeching monsters burst through the jungle, Marata had planned for that. No matter how complete and flawless a plan, people like these well-meaning but terrified villagers could never be counted on to follow directions under ...
2024-06-13 23:24:23 +0000 UTC View Post[Shemira POV]
Sybil had long learned how to control her body language, to hide her anxieties and frustrations and so on, but after Shemira had spent so much time working alongside her, she knew how to read the tension in Sybil, even without the intrinsic understanding of others’ emotions that came to ...
2024-06-13 05:59:29 +0000 UTC View Post[Korali POV]
He’d had to fight to get to sleep the night after he’d seen that… beast. Even then, he’d been struck with nightmares of hordes of massive keelish swarming through the streets of his home, of Varali crying for help as he was frozen, of Marata swarmed and felled by the creatures, of h...
2024-06-12 05:41:08 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the burrow was finally up to her standards, Khall fell to her belly and sighed happily to herself. At last, her belly was full, and though her own blood slowly leaked from the torn scab on her chest, she was mostly comfortable where she laid, and she knew that the wound would quickly heal. Around her, the glittering of h...
2024-06-11 05:36:34 +0000 UTC View PostSybil reacted with much more grace than I, as she stood, rose from the sands entirely, and nodded her head to Rulac in what could only begin to be called a bow. Once Sybil had stepped away from me and out of the baths, I took a moment to gather myself before standing and whirling to look into Rulac’s face. As I moved, the s...
2024-06-11 03:32:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been a minute for this, huh? I've got no real excuse, but I hope it's still enjoyable!
As days continued to pass, Khall had recovered enough to hollow out a burrow for herself. The huge wound through her chest was still scabbed over, but at the edges, where the scabs were beginning to peel away, th...
2024-06-09 08:09:12 +0000 UTC View PostThough it was a nameless town that suffered that loss at the hands of the deceitful Keel, the results of that loss are called the Massacre of Tiliel. The Massacre! Do not forget what that word means! Never forget what they did to our people! Whenever the foul “moderates” raise their heads and dare to suggest t...
2024-06-08 06:02:33 +0000 UTC View PostWhile they didn’t consider me to be their true Alpha, the leader of the swarm, all the Alphas that had been assigned to my command recognized me as someone with power and leadership. Given that, all the Alphas had remained close once they’d realized that there had been serious casualties on tonight’s scouting. They want...
2024-06-07 06:56:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe Bloodsoaked Mother Narsha’at,
She leads her daughters
The Cindered Father Huldtar,
He leads his sons
They lead our people, no other.
Though once they dared to try
To unite while in the skies,
The moon and suns
Were not the ones
To suffer....
Sorry, no chapter today. I'm about halfway through it, and my fever is kicking up. Sorry, yea, I'm sick. Dunno if i've said that. I'll get a chapter up tomorrow, and probably wnother oone too, since I'm behind for you guys. Sorry! just another 600 words for tmoorrow. see you then.
2024-06-06 05:11:59 +0000 UTC View PostThough I hadn’t been thinking about it specifically, when I looked through my [Status], I was slightly surprised to see that none of the new keelish that had become my subordinates considered me their leader, even if disputed. Beyond that, though, was [Quaking Claw]. I could understand, at least partially, the [Skills] that...
2024-06-05 05:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostWhile I had no idea what this wind expelling thing was, Arwa shared none of my hesitation or surprise, seemingly. Without a word from me, she rushed forward just about as quickly as the mystery creature had. As my wolf companion disappeared into the brush, I decided to take care of the quoll before chasing after Arwa. The quo...
2024-06-04 05:05:08 +0000 UTC View Post
