“Your arm’s no longer black, Lord Lacheart.”
The words echoed in Aiden’s ears, but he knew better than to be distracted in this moment. In fact, he doubted that distraction would do much to hinder him. If anything, he was doing his best to stay his hand. His anger was working on him in this moment.
Ted and Zen were only the g...
2025-11-29 17:49:40 +0000 UTC View PostJoleleh woke up with a dry throat. He missed his traits as a tribreed already. Doomed to the life of a [Prisoner], jumping from world to world at the behest of his captors, he was growing tired.
It was a difficult thing always having to start afresh. Most people liked to say that if you had climbed to the top before, then you could do it a...
2025-11-25 21:05:25 +0000 UTC View PostPain flared in Estabel’s side as a tail as wide as she was tall, maybe wider, slammed into her. The blow sent her flying, soaring through the air.
She slammed into a tree beside the thing that had fallen. The small crater it had created had raised a cloud of sand and dust that was yet to settle so she could not see what exactly it was. H...
2025-11-24 11:09:41 +0000 UTC View Post[Anomalous World Enchantment Detected]
Pain seared through Aiden’s blackened arm as if with a personal vendetta—as if the arm had wronged it somehow. He dropped to his knees. The fingers of his normal hand dug into the blackened one, as if trying to rip the pain out.
“Aiden.” There was panic in Ted’s voice,...
2025-11-20 22:33:57 +0000 UTC View PostAiden sidestepped, dodging what would’ve been a glancing blow. The paw blurred into motion once more, aiming for his head. Fueled by his weave of speed, he dodged the blow easily, then stepped into the monster. With his blackened arm, he struck it in the chest. This was the fourth time he was doing it, striking the exact same spot. The previou...
2025-11-18 15:10:57 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a cool night, the moon was absent in the sky. Tosin stood with a semi-automatic in hand, guard to a building he hadn’t even entered. Beside him Emmanuella was eating nuts.
“You’re really not sharing?” he asked her.
Blue eyes smiled at him. Her brunette hair held up in a tight bun, Tosin could see every feature of her f...
2025-11-13 14:23:56 +0000 UTC View PostAnji’s hands were still shaking. It had been a few days now since he’d met this man who had asked him if he knew what an Oath was.
He looked down at his hands, seeing them even in the darkness of the night. They stared back at him, trembling things beyond his control. He wrapped one in the other, then vice versa. The trembling didn’t...
2025-11-12 06:38:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe thud as the bag hit the ground was very loud in the silence. Melmarc’s jaw dropped as Ark locked the door behind him.
Melmarc stared at the room in front of him. It was only the living room but it was beautiful. White walls, an amazing white ceiling with white lights. Black leather sofas, a television set so wide it had to be more th...
2025-11-08 20:40:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe room was quiet for a long while. It settled all over the room like a dead thing. Ark remained silent, there was no sign that he was breathing. His only sign of life was in his ever deepening frown and the blinking of his eyes.
Melmarc remained quiet on the bed as his half-folded clothes stood witness to what was about to happen. He had...
2025-11-05 07:47:00 +0000 UTC View Post“You good?” Ark asked, giving him a curious look. “You haven’t said anything in a minute.”
Melmarc shook his head. It was less of a response and more about dispelling his thoughts. He had fought a Demi-god before, it had been all he’d needed to know that there were gods. The problem now existed in the possibility of his new kno...
2025-11-04 09:11:31 +0000 UTC View PostAurora was getting tired. She’d even missed Melmarc’s call at some point.
Where are you David?
Deoti had no idea, and she couldn’t disturb the woman too much since she was in tracking down her own lead in figuring out the drug that had made its way into the country. A drug that was linked to the Romanian cartel that wa...
2025-10-31 12:12:08 +0000 UTC View PostFor those of us not in the discord channel, I write this to offer my deepest apologies for the disappearance. Coupled with work stress, I fell sick. I'm getting better now and have returned to writing. I truly appreciate your patience. There would be no this without you all. I understand that this was not fair of me, and better is expected of me...
2025-10-29 11:49:20 +0000 UTC View PostAlobam had lost interest. Aiden could see it in how the colors in his eyes seemed to dull and die out. The giant’s smile waned a little. It almost dipped into a frown but he kept it in place.
He held it for what seemed to last forever before he just deflated.
“Did it have to be that?” he asked. “There are a million more thing...
2025-10-29 11:45:54 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: My deepest apologies for the disappearance. Coupled with work stress, I fell sick. I'm getting better now and have returned to writing. I truly appreciate your patience. There would be no this without you all.
Without further ado, here is chapter 166: A Patient World.
Luscious green and mud brown. It ...
2025-10-27 21:14:09 +0000 UTC View PostBeing an easy man to read was never a compliment. It did not matter what situation. Even among lovers, Aiden could never see the compliment in it. Shewa, his ex in his past life, had used that sentence on him once before and things hadn’t ended well.
Aiden gritted his teeth and prepared himself for what Elami’s bargain was going to be....
2025-10-16 22:18:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe endless dark blue was a sight Boten could not get accustomed to. He’d been standing here, doing nothing, saying nothing, for hours now. The beauty of what he now was lay in the fact that time was not a problem. He could stand here for what could seem like eons and his mind would not cave under the pressure of time.
As for Jang’Uk, ...
2025-10-13 21:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostNaymond counted his words carefully.
“Well,” he said, very cautious. “I’ve been going around destroying labs like this.”
Madness looked at him from his place sitting on top of a very corpulent man. Naymond knew that the man was still alive because the man had woken up twice and gotten a fist to the face both times.
Ma...
2025-10-09 17:08:11 +0000 UTC View PostPacing was one of the few things that Okoro truly disliked. It was a show of annoyance, often times, impatience. To him, those qualities showed a lack of control.
“For the love of the fallen can stop doing that,” Mrs. Talwort groaned in exasperation. “The carpet is over a century old. All that pacing is going to ruin it.”
Oko...
2025-10-09 08:09:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Hello, Marc.”
The entire hall was spacious and scanty. There were maybe a handful of people moving about, heading from one destination to another. There was a waiting area with chairs aligned side by side that currently held no applicant.
The receptionist was a lady so young that Melmarc could’ve sworn she was a student. It wa...
2025-10-07 10:37:00 +0000 UTC View PostMonday morning was a testy morning for Melmarc. Tired and not really wanting to, he slipped on a jacket after his shower. He’d been waiting for Monday morning since getting his probational admission on Friday. Why? Because while he could make a phone call and find out what exactly the probational requirements of his admission were, he was more...
2025-09-29 11:10:20 +0000 UTC View PostIt was midday, the sun high up somewhere in the sky. Still, the hearth was lit, flames burning and wood crackling. The smoke rose into the tunnel that guided it out through the chimney. Mrs. Talwort sat, nestled in a high-bakced chair, its carved oak arms worn smooth by years of hands before hers.
The room around her breathed history. Ston...
2025-09-25 07:35:33 +0000 UTC View PostTwo days, Aiden thought with a frown. They’d been in the forest for two days. His frown deepened, wrinkles forming on his forehead as he forced himself to calm down.
It’s not like I’ll need them to get the heart, he reminded himself, watching Zen and Feira as they sat sweating by the tree.
Feira didn’t just ...
2025-09-21 19:28:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been a day since Ted and Aiden had returned to the group. Zen’s question about who nightcrawler was had been left by the side of the road. Aiden saw it on his old friend’s face that he had chucked it up to Ted just say confusing things.
Aiden’s intention to start training Ted on the use of the blink dagger had been from a plac...
2025-09-19 15:22:49 +0000 UTC View PostTed’s footsteps were quiet as he approached Aiden. He walked slowly, cautious but not stealthy. At least Aiden didn’t think he was trying to be stealthy.
Aiden took a moment to raise his head up from the enchantment he was engraving. He paused, but his hand continued to move. With his knife, his hand continued to engrave, carving the e...
2025-09-17 11:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostSinepore was tired. So very tired.
It had been so long, too long to remember. He had lived through more than five civilizations. Once upon a time, he had been young, beautifully young. He had soared through the skies, basking in the agility that came with youth.
Now, here he was, older, too old. Waiting to die.
Sinepore sighed,...
2025-09-14 06:42:44 +0000 UTC View Post“I have a task for you,” Aiden said to Oncot, his jepat moving at a steady walk. “A path you will—”
“That’s a pretty bird,” Ted muttered.
A bird, feathered in rainbow colors, zipped through burning trees. It heralded a notification.
[Fate is Unwoven]
Hands tightening on the reins of his jepat, Aiden ...
2025-09-12 10:26:37 +0000 UTC View Post“Why Fallen High?” Isaiah asked on the big screen.
Okoro folded his arms over his chest while he lounged back on his seat, doing his best not to swivel as swivel chairs were designed to.
The conference room was filled with those who were actually in charge of making the final decision of which students were going to be fully admi...
2025-09-11 10:33:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe entire space was empty. It left him wondering if the [Telepath] was really alright or if this was just another part of the test.
Melmarc looked at the door once more, wondering if at any point in time it was going to open.
Sitting forward, he rested his arms on his knees and sighed deeply. He was hungry, not necessarily starved, ...
2025-09-06 11:52:09 +0000 UTC View PostAriadne hated her life.
She frowned as she knocked the trashcan cover over. It clattered to the ground, loud in the dark night. This was not her life. She was done with life in the slum. She had been done with it for a very long time.
Now, she’d been thrown back into it. What was worse was that Naymond had done everything in his po...
2025-09-06 03:10:44 +0000 UTC View PostLooking back once more, Melmarc scratched his head as he walked down the hallway. He’d just walked through a wall, seen a man go from translucent to physical and gotten the room of examiners worried. How much of the room, he wondered, was just an illusion?
Was the whole room an illusion?
The people in the room were real, though, th...
2025-09-02 08:56:13 +0000 UTC View Post