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Interloper
No one moved. Not Kasita. Not Tenebrael. And certainly not Alyssa. All three of them knew that this was bad. Even Kasita, who had read through the notebooks Alyssa had been making during her stay in this world. Seraphim were protectors of the Throne. The final line of defense. Tenebrael had said that their power was second only to the Throne itself. They were able to destroy planets with a thought or tear reality itself apart. Once deployed, the Seraphim never lost. According to Tenebrael. Though she…-
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Parallel
“Tenebrael sure looks less impressive than I originally imagined.” “Excuse me? I’ll have you know that I can look very impressive if I want,” Tenebrael said with a hefty huff. She spread her wings just a bit. Enough that Alyssa might have thought it was just a natural and unconscious reaction caused by small shifts in her posture were it not for the fact that Tenebrael was a deeply unnatural being. An angel didn’t make unconscious movements. While Alyssa had long assumed such a thing, for…-
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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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Oppressive Machine
The Throne. The massive machine of flames and clockwork. Ignoring it worked surprisingly well considering how… oppressive its very presence was. It was almost strange how easily it faded into the background when she had other tasks to focus on, like Tenebrael and Kasita. She had to wonder if there was some kind of meaning or reason behind that. Like… did the Throne deliberately hide itself from mortals? That would certainly explain why the angels insisted that it was ever present and everything, yet…-
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Soul Engine
Alyssa knew what was going on. It was something she had experienced before. That same sensation of being adrift in an empty universe that came when she started connecting with Tenebrael. It was a floating feeling. A bodiless experience. One without time. Without sound. Without sight. It was a dimension of mind. Or, as she now suspected, a dimension of soul. The things she had thought she had seen or felt in those attempts before were nothing more than impulses acting on her soul while her body remained…-
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Fela
They were gone. Spots in Fela’s eyes from the blinding light of Alyssa’s strongest spell were still here and there. She thought she must have missed them riding off. One moment, Alyssa and Izsha had been standing right next to a silvery wall, protected from the arrows. The next moment, they were gone. Not just them, but the silvery wall as well. Fela looked left. Fela looked right. She could see nothing but the enemy army. Strange things were happening to them. As she watched, dozens of them just…-
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Witness
“Truly brilliant. A mortal came up with this?” “You don’t have to call Irulon ‘a mortal’. You know her name. I know you do.” “Yes, but for me, her status as a mortal makes this far more impressive than simply saying her name. Thus, not calling her by name is a term of honor and endearment.” “Uh huh. I think she would find far more honor in knowing that you remember her name at all. And calling her a mortal is… disingenuous, I think. Like, because she is a mortal, Irulon…-
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Deadlock
Bastiel’s four wings spread wide. Whatever ‘discouragement’ was supposed to mean, it clearly included rushing head-on toward Alyssa. Spectral Chains lashing out slowed the angel for a moment. Only a moment. Her body shuddered as the chains burst into fragments of twinkling light. Cricking her neck to one side, Bastiel resumed her charge. She wasn’t moving as fast as Alyssa had seen Tenebrael and Iosefael move during their fight. For that, Alyssa was thankful. It gave her the opportunity to…-
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Escalating Discouragement
The chaos of a battlefield wasn’t entirely foreign to Alyssa. She had gone through her fair share of fights. As such, she knew what to do. It was almost instinct at this point to go invisible. Having essentially planned for this exact outcome since first connecting with Tenebrael and even more since relying on Tenebrael’s power to replace spell cards—directly by casting miracles instead of regular spells or indirectly by creating the spell cards themselves—Alyssa had her backup deck of cards in her…-
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Dawn
The morning light of the sun peeked over the horizon, casting a wave of light over two gathered armies. Without a cloud in sight, not even a small shadow fell over either side. Medieval wars were, quite possibly, the stupidest things Alyssa had ever seen. Lyria’s army was standing in a number of rows. Bowmen, pikemen, knights, arcanists… All just lined up like they were going to get lunch at the school cafeteria. Most stood in silence. Some whispered to their neighbors in some kind of nervous yet…-
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