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The werebadger had been out for a while. Since it didn't seem to be doing him any harm and was probably doing him some good, and since the Bloodstones had very much had other things to attend to, policy had more or less been to let him sleep it off and use the time to deal with all of the other...

Aimee had grown up. By most accounts, she still had some growing up left to do, but Rhetta's memory still wanted to superimpose an adolescent over the young woman who was currently curled up on a couch, nursing a cup of something and possibly a hangover. Rhetta wasn't going to blame her for...

Everything was fucked up, in all the wrong ways. It wasn't that Rhetta didn't expect things to be screwed up. That was the default state of things, as far as she was concerned. She'd been raised in the Bloodstones. Something was always screwed up, and someone always had to sort things out...

Ethan was awake. He was not entirely certain if he'd been sleeping or not. He hadn't really felt like he had woken up, just like he had noticed, rather suddenly, that he happened to be awake. Maybe he had been for an hour. Maybe he had been for a week. Maybe he'd just woken up. He...

So. This was the team he was supposed to save the world with, this time. Zahir Torven was not impressed. He was choosing to be unimpressed in the same way as his mother, who would have said nothing. This was, perhaps, better than being unimpressed in the same way as his quite formidable...

Blind|Fold The first thing you need to know is that there's things out there. Beyond our world, beyond our knowledge. Maybe it's something you've heard of in stories that you know can't possibly be true. Maybe it's something you had a dream about - or a nightmare. Maybe it's something you...

Throughout time, there have always been three Incarnations: The Fury, The Beast, The Scholar Throughout time, there have always been three Roles: The Hunter, The Hunted, The Arbiter Time changes, once cycle closing in on the next. The Incarnations never change, nor do the Roles, but which...

"Is Emma available to talk to?" It was not, undoubtedly, the sort of question that men were expected to ask here, which was why Kiaran had phrased it so specifically when he asked after her. "I can wait. If need be. Or you can let her know I asked after her." He wasn't surprised to be...

"Ivan!" The meeting had ended, people had started going home or to work or wherever it was that people went, and by all accounts, Cailet Suibhne should have been doing the same. To everyone who knew her at all, it would be no surprise whatsoever that she was doing something entirely...

If you're reading this, your mother is gone. I'm sorry. It's okay to feel conflicted about that. If I'm gone, it's all right to feel conflicted about me, too. I don't know if you will. Your mother is very good at what she does. I hope, before you read this, that we had a chance to tell...

There were more people here than Kiaran Summit thought he'd seen in his life. He'd known that Dubhcarrick was getting bigger; it seemed like every train that came in on the new track didn't just bring tools or supplies, it also brought people. Never too many on a train, maybe a crew, maybe a...

Dubhcarrick, Iveria, 1763 Forty years ago it wasn't even a town so much as a collection of shanties. The only thing Dubhcarrick has to speak of is the coal from which it gets its name. Mountainous, rocky, with little growing but pine that chokes out most other vegetation and renders the soil...

Sunrise was a good time to see what people were made of. That and sunset. People knew how to fight when it was light, and they knew how to fight when it was dark. The change in light meant having to adapt on the fly, and Rhetta wanted to see how the prospects handled it. She hadn't told...

Things seemed to have settled down after the trip out to the Den, which had been far more eventful than it needed to be for a place that was currently an abandoned fire scar. It'd been fine for a while, and then there'd been magic and extradimensional corpses and werebadgers. Admittedly...

The infirmary was starting to feel like a cage. Ethan had been feeling like that for a while, but he didn't feel stable enough to do anything about it. That, and he had the feeling that if he tried, someone would just find a better cage. A real one, this time. Still, it was a steady stream...

Things weren't normal. Rhetta wasn't sure when they would be, but she'd started to get little glimpses of... something. It wasn't exactly the way things had been, but there were a few similarities, maybe enough to turn into something more. There were a lot of things she was missing, a lot of...

As a training ground, the railyard didn't leave as much to be desired as Rhetta might have expected. She didn't need much - mostly just open spaces and closed spaces and people to beat the hell out of until they learned to do it right and be worth the patch they were wearing, or hoped to be...

The place smelled like piss. It also smelled like bleach, in a more recent way, in a manner that said someone had probably made a pretty good effort to try to get the smell of urine out, but that sort of thing, long term, soaked into the drywall and the flooring, and getting it out was going to...

Lutetian Armed Response Department, March 21 2019, 3:12pm "Right. Sit down." Around the room, there was the sound of scuffling and scraping as the team took their positions, eyes forward and faces a mix of grim determination, anticipation, nervousness. At the front, the speaker cleared his...

The apocalypse was probably our fault. No one is sure, of course. The conditions were right for it - countries on the brink of war, climate on the brink of collapse - we had been sitting atop a precipice for quite a while, thinking it was the top of a mountain. It wasn't until it was too...