290 Results in the "Vacant Throne" category
-
Chapter
Questions and… Answers?
“Traitorous scum!” Alyssa sighed. She was about done listening to this guy. From the intelligencer, she knew that he was a mercenary, a hired bounty hunter. She knew his mission was to kidnap some of the monsters from the camp for Yora. After an hour of trying to get some information out of him, she hadn’t learned what had actually happened to his fellow bounty hunters, but she really didn’t need to. Tenebrael was back in play. Once she picked up her little black book from Iosefael, Alyssa could…-
988.2 K • Completed
-
-
Chapter
Questions and Answers
“The old man hasn’t woken up yet?” A… person—Alyssa had trouble referring to anyone in this world as doctors—shook his head. “Not yet.” She had been a bit nervous about bringing the bearded man to the so-called medical professionals of this world. Her memory of the field hospital after the Juno Federation attack was still far too fresh in her mind. Leeches, no sanitation to speak of, people lying in the dirt with open wounds, people throwing up on each other, filthy blankets and…-
988.2 K • Completed
-
-
Chapter
Pushed to the Limits
“‘Tess, my bath? Tess, please prepare my meal. Extra meat today, I think. My clothes, Tess. Oh Tess, dress me.’” “Will you desist.” To say that Irulon sounded a little annoyed would be an understatement, but Alyssa couldn’t help it. She chuckled. While awake, the princess acted stern and focused. That wasn’t to say that she couldn’t laugh, but they were often serious sorts of laughs. Or cruel sorts of laughs. It was hard to tell the difference sometimes. But half asleep… First…-
988.2 K • Completed
-
-
Chapter
Pursuit
“I see them,” Alyssa said, trusting Izsha to keep her in her seat while she focused on the binoculars. Or rather, focused on what she saw through her binoculars. “Just as you said. Three people riding horseback. Looks like Oxart is draped over the one in the middle, unconscious, I think. Maybe dead, but I don’t know why they would carry around a dead body like this. I don’t see the fairy.” “It is small enough to be easily tucked away in some container or pocket.” “They don’t…-
988.2 K • Completed
-
-
Chapter
Prophecy
The vanguard for the Juno Federation included two familiar faces. Made up of only thirty people, Alyssa had to wonder at them sending two arcanists with them. She could honestly not remember either of their names. The man who had been captured by Brakkt and later freed during the incident at the palace was right at the head of the vanguard group. Just to his side and back, the woman who had been with him rode along. They were all on horses. Most of which were wearing some kind of armor over their heads…-
988.2 K • Completed
-
-
Chapter
Projector
After slipping back down to her room a few days after the lesson with Tenebrael, Alyssa found a servant waiting for her. A servant with a plethora of requests for more meetings. All very formal looking, they were written out in flowery ink and signed in a big round hand. Unfortunately for about half of the meeting’s participants, she had more important things to be doing today. So she redirected the servant off to find Kasita while Alyssa worked. She was getting close. Instead of creating a pizza…-
988.2 K • Completed
-
-
Chapter
Primordial Ooze
Tenebrael, for once, did not have a smile on her face. She stared at Alyssa with all the intensity of a starved and crazed weasel. Her arms, one gloved and one bare, were crossed over her chest with a few fingers drumming on her elbow. Alyssa didn’t break her stare. She met the angel’s eyes and didn’t flinch back or shift her posture. It was a bit of a pain in the neck. Literally. Alyssa sat on her bed while Tenebrael hovered upright a short distance away. The small elevation forced her to tilt…-
988.2 K • Completed
-
-
Chapter
Praying for a Cure
“So she just comes down the stairs and guess who is right there with her! The Tenebrael-damned princess! I was so shocked I didn’t know what to do. By the time I decided to throw myself to the floor in front of her, she was already walking past without a glance in my direction. And Alyssa was just staring at me like I was some kind of idiot.” “She ain’t wrong. Yer an idiot, Ozheim.” “Both of your voices grate on the ears like a rusty knife,” Irulon said as she walked around a chair in…-
988.2 K • Completed
-
-
Chapter
Potionspeak
Being back in Lyria was nice. Having a proper roof overhead while sleeping just made Alyssa feel secure, even if she knew in the back of her mind that the palace had just been attacked a week ago. At the very least, she didn’t have to worry about the rain that had started up overnight. A small part of her had worried that she would wake up to find herself in chains and tossed to the dungeons, but that didn’t seem to be the case. Rather, she woke up to a full meal of bread, meat-filled stew, and…-
988.2 K • Completed
-
-
Chapter
Potion or Placebo
Most of Alyssa’s initial anxiety with returning to Lyria had died down over the past three days. No one had come to arrest her. She hadn’t woken up to find herself dragged out of Tzheitza’s potion shop in chains in the middle of the night. Best of all, she hadn’t heard a single whisper of the Waters Street gang. Decorous, in charge of the majority of the city guard at the moment, had apparently cracked down on them. The Taker hadn’t been found and neither had Octavia, but there had been several…-
988.2 K • Completed
-
- Previous 1 … 8 9 10 … 29 Next