Act 3 • Scene 9
“Hey Trent, you have a visitor.” It was his mother’s soft voice and gentle, Taein accent that called into his room. Odd. Usually it was Brad trying to get him to meet with people. His mother would just...
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It may have been big and had a scary last name attached to it, but Carey Farm burned just like the rest. Stephanie had plenty of practice by now in tuning out the sounds of screams by focusing on the …...
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“Today’s the big day, isn’t it!” Rena was up and chipper, for the moment ignoring the huge mess of papers she’d spread out on the kitchen table (but paying rapt attention to the cup of coffee in her...
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Mythril turned another page in the book she was reading. The paper, weathered and fragile, was made of a material that was very different than the parchment used at the Tower. Each movement ached with...
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He hadn’t been close enough to be caught up in the attack, and for that Brendon was quietly counting his blessings, but he did arrive soon enough to see the acid still sizzling across thatched roofs...
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Nikolas missed having friends. It wasn’t like he had ever had a lot of them, but those he had tended to be the tough and loyal types that would stick around, experience his ups and downs alongside him,...
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Grenin was a small town with a small population nestled on the outskirts of a forest. Though its residents had heard word of the growing conflicts nearby, they thought little of it. The Chitin and...
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She’d spent so long in front of this door. She could hear the lapping of water from the reservoir room a mere wall away. In any other circumstance, it would have been calming, if not bewildering, to...
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It was so hot above the clouds. Trent wiped the sweat off of his forehead with a spare shirt he’d removed earlier. As he replaced it over his shoulder, he looked over the yard he was working on. The...
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Time was a strange thing. One moment Nikolas was doing some light reading before bed, then he was slamming the hilt of his sword into the skull of an armored Binder barely older than he was with a...
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