290 Results in the "Vacant Throne" category
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Idyll
Alyssa woke to blinding sunlight, an unfamiliar ceiling, and the drums of war thumping inside her head. Without even moving a muscle, she closed her eyes and tried to will away the pounding. It didn’t work. If anything, consciousness only made it worse. Her tongue stuck to the dry roof of her mouth in an unpleasant manner. Sweat coated her body despite her feeling a little chilled. Even with that chill, there was a warmth to the side of her body, with her left arm being weighed down. By…-
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Hunting and Hunted
Chasing a suspect through a city should have been easy. Should being the key word. Alyssa had magic. She had a way to find people through walls with her ability to see souls. Draken and Fela were unbelievably fast and could smell anything from miles away. The Pharaoh and Irulon were Rank Six arcanists who, despite Alyssa’s best efforts, had an even wider range of available spells than she did. The Pharaoh in particular. He had tried using time magic, both to speed himself up to the point where he blurred…-
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Home Sweet Home
“I bring you here out of the goodness of my heart. I saved your life. I even saved the lives of those other humans at your request. And how do you repay me? You go blow a hole in my beautiful moon!” Alyssa rolled her eyes. She had been wondering when Tenebrael would show up. Frankly, she was a little surprised that it had taken so long. The meeting with seemingly the entire royal population of the palace was still ongoing. She sat at a large, round table. Polished stone. Maybe marble? Her spot was…-
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Home Sweet Home
Home sweet home. Sort of. Seeing it surrounded by grass with the wooden fence cut off a few feet away from the walls in a perfectly smooth line gave it an uncanny feeling. Even more eerie, it felt empty. Alyssa hadn’t gone inside yet, but just looking at it from where the street should be, it held an air about it like it was lost to time. Though it was actually from the future, relative to the technology level she had seen anyway. It was a shame the driveway had been left behind. Since both of…-
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Home Away from Home
Alyssa sat on the living room couch. The cushioned leather seats were a stark contrast compared to everything that existed outside her transplanted house. Padding just wasn’t much of a real thing in Lyria. They tried. The people of this world definitely tried. And they even tried in different ways. Some inns or homes used straw stuffed into burlap-like sacks. Yzhemal’s inn, perhaps because of the many sheep that the village tended to, filled their beds with wool. Alyssa wasn’t sure how the palace…-
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Hilltip Watchpost
A hundred monsters marched away from Illuna. The number didn’t represent absolutely every monster that had arrived at Illuna roughly a month ago. Some, like Iona, had decided to stay behind. Not many. Five, perhaps. Ones who had been treated well by the humans and found something worth sticking around for. Inversely, a few dozen humans went with the marching monsters, bolstering the number. The march was much more of an energetic thing now than it had been on the way to Illuna. Everyone was in much…-
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Highwaymen
Accelero was not the best spell to use in a situation like the one Alyssa found herself in. To begin with, casting a spell that required physical touch wasn’t the easiest thing when she needed to be touching a half-dozen people. Three draken—Red was on Musca at the moment—a hellhound, and a cursed sword all had to gather around and make sure they were touching some part of Alyssa when she cast the spell lest they be left behind in ‘real’ time. All them crowding around hadn’t been that much…-
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Helpless to Help
“You aren’t leaving it to him. That would be foolish in the extreme.” Alyssa blinked, not having expected a response, she momentarily struggled to form a proper sentence. “I have to do something. I can’t just stand around waiting. The deadline is tonight, according to Cid. If I haven’t taken action, then I’ll be the one who… has action taken against her?” That didn’t quite come out right, but she shook her head. The meaning got across. That was all that mattered. “Which is why…-
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Help from Above
Iosefael hovered in the air high above the group of mortals. She stared down with piercing eyes, just as unblinking as Irulon’s. Both of them were focused on Izsha’s body. Or rather, both were focused on Izsha. Irulon couldn’t see souls and Alyssa doubted that Iosefael cared much about bodies. She had not returned empty-handed. One of Iosefael’s hands was wrapped up in that golden glove that stretched halfway up her arm. Her other hand held a familiar staff. Adrael’s golden staff matched…-
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Heightened Reality
Alyssa lurched into a sitting position at the same time as she lurched into reality. Soft grass beneath her. Starry night sky above her. With the pale grey moon hanging high over her, Alyssa knew that she was back. Really back. She could feel the chill of the night’s air on her skin and could hear the splashing of something making noise in the nearby lake. It should have been relaxing. Calming. After spending what felt like forever inside that empty place she had dubbed the adrift, reality was a…-
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