290 Results in the "Vacant Throne" category
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Chop Suey
“You…” Alyssa clung to the angel’s staff, using it to keep as much weight off her broken leg as possible. It wasn’t what she wanted to do. She wanted to flop to the ground, clutching her leg. Maybe crawl away from the angel as that old woman had crawled away from Izsha. Nothing in Irulon’s spell tome would harm the angel, not even if she knew exactly what spells it contained. She had little doubt about that. Angels were on another level entirely. The only hope she had was that Spectral…-
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A Deserted Conversation
“Undo. Cancel. Release. Be free…” Alyssa ticked her tongue in annoyance as she stared at Izsha’s unmoving form. Fractal Lock just wouldn’t come off. It wasn’t like she didn’t know what she was doing. She had canceled spells before. For instance, she had dismissed the Spectral Axe just a few minutes ago. But Fractal Lock was holding tight. Alyssa looked to the side, frowning. Without Irulon around to explain magic, she could only speculate. Fractal Lock had to be a spell that directly…-
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Warning
Alyssa could feel it. And she wasn’t the only one. Two days of travel had brought them much closer to their destination. Owlcroft was supposed to be a week out from Illuna. But that metric was based on horses moving at a steady trot. Izsha was much faster. And, without other people, they could travel even quicker than that. Izsha moved at its own pace, setting the schedule entirely, including when to stop for breaks and nights. The only real input that Alyssa had was when demons were afoot. And…-
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Tenebrael
“You can’t do this!” Tenebrael stared down at the angelic figure before her with a bright smile on her face. Poor Iosefael. Tiny crystalline teardrops formed at the corners of her eyes. It really detracted from her defiant stare. With how much her arms trembled, Tenebrael doubted anyone would take her seriously. If she would just be a little more selfish and a little more confident, she might actually make something of herself. For now, Tenebrael brushed her black fingernails over…-
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Entropic Decay
Alyssa charged through fields of wheat on Izsha’s back, fleeing from Illuna as fast as she could. The golden light of a single Kindness was still visible over her shoulder. It didn’t look like it was following her, but Alyssa wasn’t taking any chances. If it spotted her, she had a feeling that hundreds of the Astral Authority wouldn’t be far behind. The others were still in the city. Partially to warn off people from attacking the Kindness. Partially because Brakkt hadn’t quite finished…-
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Busy Days
Alyssa carefully measured out a thimbleful of nightmare dreams. Literal dreams. From a monster called a nightmare. A nightmare was apparently a horse-like creature about as scary as a gaunt. How they got its dreams into a bottle was a question that Alyssa had long since stopped caring about. There were so many potion ingredients like that in the storage room that Alyssa had started simply nodding her head and saying nothing more. Seeing Tzheitza bottle flame from Fela was one of those oddities that she…-
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Farce
“Prince Brakkt took me on a walk through the palace gardens yesterday. We had such a lovely time. You should have followed along.” Alyssa stressed the latter line, hoping that Kasita would get it. While the mimic was on the bed, Alyssa sat on the edge of her desk, trying to remain casual and avoid any trembling in her voice. Kasita blinked. Her eyes flicked from Alyssa to the Endless Expanse through the window then just a little to the side. She could probably sense something. But she didn’t…-
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Owlcroft
There was a certain peace to sleeping on top of Kasita and Izsha. Alyssa couldn’t move far from either of them without the protection of the staff failing. It made some… tasks more difficult than they needed to be, but she wouldn’t be here long. She could bear with it. It wasn’t a restful kind of sleep, but she got enough to do what needed to be done. Still, it was quite the change. When she first met Izsha, she had nearly fallen over herself in an attempt to get away. Those sharp teeth were…-
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Contract
“This is it,” she said, holding out a card. One of Irulon’s spells—or a copy of it that Alyssa had made. The spell, Contract, seemed useful. More than that, Alyssa wanted to keep a record of as many spells as possible. The more tools in her possession, the better off she would be, or so her logic went. Especially because her existing tools wouldn’t last forever. They could run out of uses or get damaged. It was almost assured that they would become useless sooner rather than later. “Contract.…-
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