We all stare at the shredded spell circles for a moment.
Then Rezira says, “Oh, praise Rinviu. Now we can wait and find a sane way down.”
“You all might,” Zyneth says, grimacing as he shuffles through the papers. “I still need to make it to the relic’s delivery point in the next three days.
Damn....
2025-03-23 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“I SEE IT,” Ollie excitedly calls. “I SEE IT! LOOK THERE!”
None of the harpies have called anything out, there we’re all watching. According to the maps, we should nearly be upon Deltablue. I close my eyes and activate Psionic Sense to look through Ollie’s instead.
A flutter of excite...
2025-03-21 12:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostNek is not enthused by my next request.
“Fyre, forgive me for voicing my dissent,” he says as we head down the tunnel, smoked fish in hand. “But I’m not convinced the prisoners deserve the mercy you’re giving them.”
“I know,” I say. “And I understand the optics of offering Jorrians any degree of ...
2025-03-19 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostIn honor of Loose Kanin publishing on Amazon today, I'm releasing another Zyneth short story! This one takes place toward the end of Book 1, revealing what Zyneth was up to when he left Kanin alone in Harrowood to complete his job.
In cas...
2025-03-18 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostWhen we finish deciphering the first watchtower spell circle, Dizzi and Mirzayael are both equally excited to try it out.
“Let’s hook it up to the network, first,” I suggest. “And get these cracks fixed.”
In the couple of places where cracks intersect the runes, Dizzi and some of the other research...
2025-03-17 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Well! This has been an exciting adventure,” Noli signs over breakfast the next morning. “I suppose that means we’ll be making our descent today?”
“We will.” Zyneth flips the skewers of meat over to grill against the fire.
“Praise the gods,” Rezira mumbles.
“So what is the p...
2025-03-16 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe watchtower is covered with dust and loose pebbles, which the Dungeon Core happily licks up as I point out new areas in need of tidying.
While the tower comfortably fits within the Core’s area of influence, prior to today I’d only ever visited it through the Dungeon Core’s interface. The stairs in this to...
2025-03-14 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostI have to close both eyes when Ollie drops toward the ocean and the double vision becomes too dizzying.
“You alright?” Mirzayael asks.
“Yes.” Ollie is laughing in my head as he plummets several hundred feet before snapping his wings open and slowing his descent. “Just keeping an eye on things...
2025-03-12 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostWhat was originally a nondescript smudge on the horizon—and then obscured by low clouds for the next few days—gradually resolves into a coastline. Just about everyone in Fyreneth’s Fortress migrates from the city center to the outer walls to look down on the approaching land. We’re not heading directly toward the coas...
2025-03-10 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostEach layer we climb has grown smaller than the last. The current level we find ourselves on is full of fractured and overgrown stone ruins, more complete than anything we’d found below. None of the buildings have intact roofs, which makes me wonder if they’d all originally been built with glass ceilings, but many of them ...
2025-03-09 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostIt takes a while for Mirzayael to stop laughing.
My cheeks burn fiercely the whole time, but it’s all I can do to wait until she’s done, wiping the tears from her eyes. On the bright side, I suppose, that’s the most I’ve ever seen her laugh.
“Fyre, you can’t mean to tell me you don’t know...
2025-03-07 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“So what do you think?” I ask the next day. I spread the Jorrian’s map out over our main table in the red room. Torim brings over his own map that he’d sketched out in advance, setting it next to the Jorrians’. He pours over the markings on both.
“As far as I can tell, it’s largely accurate,” the dracid ...
2025-03-05 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostWe talk it over and decide not to send harpies down to speak with the ship. We don’t know how they would react to a flock of strangers descending on them from a giant floating city, and none of us want to risk the safety of a few of our scouts when we’d have no way to help or retrieve them should something happen. Besides...
2025-03-03 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostWe jump back down the stones, launching our glass ahead of us as one of the griffins darts in. Rezira backs up, fist raised, as the nearest beast spears straight toward her. Our glass catches it in its side. The griffin screeches as it’s knocked away, swiping at its invisible assailant as it crashes onto Rezira’s stone. R...
2025-03-02 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“The water system is nearly complete,” Torim reports during our morning brief that we’re still desperately struggling to normalize within our ever-shifting schedules.
We’re in the office next to the throne room; Mirzayael and I are still too uncomfortable to use the thrones except for when it’s publicly ...
2025-02-28 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostOpal is relieved when we finally reach the Jorrian’s fourth and final healing session later that week. While I’ve been present, at least, neither of them have tried to attack us again, but I can’t blame Opal for wanting to be done with them. Of course, Ragna still hasn’t allowed us to heal her arm. After Gardi’s ses...
2025-02-26 12:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostMirzayael leads me back to her chambers, increasingly ratcheting up my confusion.
“What could you possibly have in here that you want the Dungeon Core to eat?” I ask. One of her weapons, so those could be tracked on the interface? That wouldn’t surprise me, but she would have taken me to the (admittedly meag...
2025-02-24 13:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostWe launch ourself at the beast, colliding with it midair and crashing to the ground on the other side of Attiru. Glass screeches and the animal shrieks as we tumble across the stone. The animal is thrashing in our grip—twice our size, but less than half the weight of our glass. Claws and a beak slash at us, then a powerful ...
2025-02-23 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostI pinch the bridge of my nose. I can already feel a headache coming on. “When did she pass?”
“Just a few minutes ago,” Opal says, lowering her voice. “I felt it happen. I’m not sure if the other prisoners are even aware yet. I could feel her fading so I tried again to go help, but the other two tried to atta...
2025-02-21 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time I need to return to my duties in the fortress, one of the younger harpies, Meritis, arrives to play with Ollie in my stead. Though he’s barely a teenager himself, he’d helped in the battle against Jorria and had become rather fond of Ollie ever since. (Although, to be fair, pretty much everyone was fond of Oll...
2025-02-19 13:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“COME ON, FYRE!” Ollie calls. The white dragon vanishes in a swirl of mist as he plunges into a nearby cloudbank. “RACE YOU!”
“I am slightly preoccupied at the moment,” I mentally reply. “We can play after I finish taking these measurements.”
“B...
2025-02-17 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostOur next bout with danger happens the second day on the Drifting Isles. A swarm of oversized hornets attacks when we stumble upon their nest, though thankfully their increased size makes them easier targets. Noli picks them off with her arrows, and Zyneth cuts through any that make it close. I stand by, ready to support if ne...
2025-02-16 13:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello, friends! Just wanted to give you an update on the expected post schedule for the next few months, now that the first book of Nyte in Shining Armor has finished.
Nye unfortunately hasn't done well on RoyalRoad, so completing their trilogy will probably be put on the backburner in favor of finishing F...
2025-02-14 15:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post[1 Month Later]
The Moonfall capital is like nothing I’ve ever seen. The castle is built on top of a cliff face, made of the same red clay of the surrounding land. Its dozens of spires have an organic look to them, like stalactites stretching for the sky, and it towers over the valley below, but it’s what’s beneat...
2025-02-14 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostFrom there, it becomes a lot of politics. We treat with the Oasis officials and Moonfall representatives, and the conversation makes my eyes glaze over. Luckily, they let Quell to bring advisors with him to these talks, so all I have to do is stand against the wall and look tough. I’m pretty good at that—doubly so when I ...
2025-02-12 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone!
Thank you guys so much for everything you've done to support me over the last year. You guys made it possible to publish Glass Kanin last month. And now Loose Kanin, Book 2 of Glass Kanin, will be going to KU on March 18th, 2025! As a show of thanks, I wanted to give you all a free copy of Loose Kanin!<...
2025-02-11 21:19:41 +0000 UTC View PostMy arms are wrapped around Quell’s waist as we race across the desert on the footbird. The creature is a lot like a mix between an ostrich and a lizard: a two-legged thing with scaly legs, a long feathered tail, and an intimidating beak. Or maybe I just find all steeds intimidating. I’d never ridden on an animal before co...
2025-02-10 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostAs we strike out into the Drifting Isles, I examine the new stats I earned from my latest level up. Between this and all the glass magic I’ve been doing with Caecius, I’m actually starting to feel like a contributing member of the team.
[Name: Kanin]
[Class: Arcane Attendant]
[Level: 24]
[HP: 10/10...
2025-02-09 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI stalk toward Constance while his back is turned. The fight has turned, and he’s crashing his sword against Darian’s in brutal strikes, sending her stumbling back. All at once, her sword snaps, and the metal flings away. Empty handed, she retreats, glancing toward her allies. Earnest and Xamireb have finished tending to ...
2025-02-07 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Undoing the illusion is going to achieve nothing but draw this out,” Constance says, looking through me to his brother. “We could have already finished this without anyone having to die.” His gaze slides impassively over to me. “Well, without many people having to die.”
“Why?” Quell asks, his voice crac...
2025-02-05 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
