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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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Walkabouts
The city of Illuna was, thankfully, a city. It was large enough to give Izsha a private room in some unused stables outside the city. Brakkt and the other draken had not left Izsha’s side since arriving. Not even to sleep. Brakkt was sleeping on the same straw that the draken were and taking meals there as well. For three days, he had been out in the stables nonstop. Alyssa had been the one bringing him his meals. They were fairly good meals, bought from the same sort of people that the local nobility…-
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Unloading
Seeing the Black Prince out of his armor was an interesting experience. It wasn’t something Alyssa had really considered. She had other things on her mind most of the time and his armor rated low on the importance totem pole. And yet, seeing him without it was shocking. She had compared him to Darth Vader upon first seeing him and Vader was never seen without his armor. Brakkt stood in the middle of the stables, dressed in a fanciful robe similar to the dresses that Irulon wore to the Observatorium.…-
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Undefined
“I can’t believe we just let them leave. Shouldn’t we have captured them or something?” “Weren’t you the one who told them to go tell their comrades to expect doom?” Alyssa propped herself up on her elbow, frowning at Brakkt. He was on the bed next to her, eyes closed and resting. She was pretty sure that he had enough spatial awareness to know that he was getting a bit of a look at the moment. “You say that, but we were going to let them go anyway, right? Nobody would willingly come…-
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Turning the Tables
“You never told me you were a lich. I’m hurt.” Alyssa didn’t even bother glancing in Kasita’s direction. She was far too busy trying to keep her reassuring smile on despite feeling almost certain that she had just been insulted. But the eye vanished back into the darkness before she could say anything more. The peephole door opened fully. Alyssa had apparently misjudged Octavia’s age, but this kid had to be… a kid. No older than fourteen, surely. She stepped out of the tiny room,…-
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Trudge
“You don’t have to come. This is a bad idea.” “Not hearing you put forth any better ideas,” Irulon said, voice a bit terse as they walked over the top of the swamp. She had made a bridge from shifting shards of fractal glass, taking them right over the top of the knee-deep water. It was a strange spell. It looked like they should have fallen right through it. Or perhaps it looked like their ankles should have been flayed to bits. Yet it was solid enough that even Izsha, walking behind Alyssa…-
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Toymaker
“Good evening, monsters,” Irulon spoke in a loud voice, standing in the center of the room where the golden censer had once hung. It was now lying on the floor at her feet. Her visible feet. She had decided to remove her invisibility to better address the monsters. Iosefael stood next to her, shooting glares at the censer, but nobody could see the angel. “If I could have your attention…” It had Alyssa a little worried. Everything did, actually. The stairwell leading down here was blocked off…-
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Touching Base
“Brakkt!” Alyssa gave a cheerful wave to what might be, at this exact moment in time, her more favored of the two royal siblings. After all, he wasn’t upset with her at the moment. And really, there was nothing to be upset about. During her cleaning, she had apparently skimmed off just a little too much of Irulon’s floor. Which Irulon had promptly tripped over while levitating a fresh body in to her examination chamber. The metal table that Alyssa had created to replace her old wooden one was…-
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Toilet Talk
The first thing that hit Alyssa was the noise. Tenebrael’s world was quiet. Nearly silent, in most parts. A deserted military compound in the middle of a desert had no noise at all. Even the city, filled with people, didn’t have much in the way of sound. People talked, of course. Carriages bumped as their wooden wheels rolled along the ground. The horses carrying the carriages whinnied and their hooves clopped. But none of it could compare to the sounds of a jackhammer tearing up the roadwork…-
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