290 Results in the "Vacant Throne" category
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Nox
Alyssa stared at an array of spell cards laid out on the table in front of her, wondering just what was different about them in comparison to what she was doing with Tenebrael’s connection. And she was having a hard time coming up with anything. Aside from the obvious, of course. The cards needed the paper and a drawn pattern while all she needed to make use of Tenebrael’s magic was a verbal… prayer. But… wasn’t that what the Enochian on the cards was for? Spell cards had definite and…-
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Beneath the Fractured Dome
The bubble fell. The little sliver of reality that had protected their troupe shimmered, broke into shards, and vanished. Brilliant golden light from the Justice forced Alyssa to squint as it chased away the moonlight. It felt all the brighter now that she had spent an hour in relative darkness. A small Light spell that they had sparked up couldn’t compare. At least the bubble had done its job. Alyssa, along with her companions, sat on a small patch of untouched land. All around them, trees, earth,…-
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Of Thrones and Deities
“It’s been twenty minutes,” Kasita said, staring at Alyssa’s phone. “We’re almost to the point where we can leave, according to Irulon.” “Let’s give it another ten, just to be safe.” As Alyssa spoke, she stared around their sphere, watching, trying to decipher exactly what the angels were doing off in that other world. The vast majority seemed to simply fly about, usually toward or away from the main tower. Every once in a while, two angels would stop and chat. Sometimes it looked…-
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Bathhouse
If there was a more blissful feeling than taking a long, hot bath after getting sweaty and dirty, Alyssa didn’t want to know what it was. Everyone who had gone to the Justice was sitting in a deep pool of water within the Illuna guest house, just relaxing. Not even the slightly murky water ruined the experience. Using the not-quite-power washer spell, Alyssa and Irulon had mostly cleaned out the ash in their hair and from the draken and Fela. It wasn’t perfect, which was why they had all decided to…-
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Discussions Over a Drink
“Prince Brakkt, Alyssa, Kasita.” Martin greeted them in the manor’s foyer, wearing a comfortable robe instead of the more militaristic garments Alyssa had seen on him recently. Although he looked about ready to turn in for the night, he appeared to be in a good mood. He was far more relaxed than he had been at the wall the night before and was even smiling as he looked to Fela. “And hellhound. I apologize, I never actually caught your name.” “Fela.” “Fela, excellent. I do believe the…-
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Finding Minotaurs
The apophis was… long. Really long. About as long as a freight train… Though given that freight trains could have a variable number of cars, that probably wasn’t a very good descriptor. Regardless, it was far larger than Alyssa would have expected after hearing Rokien’s statement about it being able to fit into a hut. Yet it wouldn’t reach even a quarter of the distance from the monster camp to the city as Brakkt had suggested. It did seem longer than the shed skin, though a bit smaller in…-
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Handshake
Even knowing that the apophis hadn’t randomly murdered humans and wasn’t likely to go around randomly murdering humans, taking the apophis back to Illuna was still an iffy idea at best. A gremlin could be easily ignored by the general populace as a quaint curiosity. They were half the size of grown men and not particularly strong either. An apophis hanging around the camp, big enough to easily spot from the farmland north and east of Illuna, would surely start rumors spreading. Not the idle…-
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Formation
Although she had agreed to not do anything that might draw the attention of angels to what they were doing, Irulon was not content to simply sit and watch the panels of the Endless Expanse like they were television channels. She had watched for a while. A good hour, even. Irulon could not see the angels—not even the massive wheel-like ones—but she had been able to see the Throne. Or it’s housing structure. The tall tower that was simply there from every angle. She had commented on the shape of the…-
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Fractal Mirror
The Royal Observatorium of Demonic, Divine, and Miraculous Phenomena. Alyssa would be lying if she said that she wasn’t nervous. Her life had become so surreal. Angels, alternate worlds, monsters, magic. She had even helped stop a war, or something close enough to it. Sure, the Black Prince would probably have cleared out all the monsters without too much trouble, but the ringleader would have gotten away. And the shadow assassins… Alyssa still wasn’t sure what they were. Some sort of invisible…-
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Confessions
Sometimes, in fiction, people who were on the receiving end of being mind controlled couldn’t remember a thing they had done once freed. A kind of amnesia for a block of time. Sometimes, they could remember but pretended that they couldn’t because whatever they had done or discovered was embarrassing, awkward, or otherwise inconvenient to let people know they knew about. At the moment, Alyssa really wished that the fairy’s mind control would have wiped Oxart’s memory. Waking Oxart had been…-
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