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The Endless Expanse

by Tower Curator — Alyssa stayed for ten minutes, just sitting and waiting for something to go wrong. Accelero was still active—if something did go wrong, she wanted the extra speed. That meant that she would have to wait another thirty minutes before canceling the spell, but that might just be worth it. So many things came to mind. From the Justice having compromised the structural integrity of the sliver before it left reality proper to lesser members of the Astral Authority portaling their way in to try to kill…
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The Demon

by Tower Curator — The main room wasn’t so bad. Not so long as Alyssa held onto the staff anyway. The second she started down the closest hallway, she started to feel nervous again. The staff couldn’t even block out the source of her nerves. There was moaning. Had she said that to some of her coworkers back on Earth, they probably would have stifled some of their giggles… or they might have been brash and irreverent. But this wasn’t that kind of moaning at all. It was like… Perhaps it was just because of the…
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The Conjoined Souls

by Tower Curator — “She’s hiding herself.” “Definitely hiding herself.” “Why?” “Unless she is dead? I know you don’t like entertaining the idea.” “She isn’t dead.” “If she is, she isn’t as dead as most corpses.” “She isn’t dead.” “I don’t think we can say that for certain given everything we know. In fact, what do we even consider the state of death? The point at which the body ceases function? When Tenebrael claims the soul? Or maybe when—” “She isn’t…
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The City

by Tower Curator — Alyssa stopped and gaped. She couldn’t help it. Two weeks of trudging through open plains and a forest, tripping over branches and brushes, being eaten alive by insects, and carrying several pounds of supplies on her back had all taken its toll. Frankly, she would be perfectly happy if she never had to camp again in her life. At least she hadn’t run into anything truly dangerous. No monsters since the harpy. Not even a regular bear. The main roads were kept generally safe thanks to the efforts of some…
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The Burning Shadow

by Tower Curator — The little guard shack on the Brechen Overlook had a small table inside. Where there once had been cards scattered all over its surface—playing cards, not the magical spell cards—there were now weapons. A bandoleer covered in orbs. Three daggers. A modern combat knife. Two pistols. An assortment of ammunition and a handful of Rank Zero spell cards. The only thing missing was Alyssa’s shotgun. Of course, Alyssa’s captors hadn’t just left her with her primary weapon. The leader of the group was…
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The Blacksmith

by Tower Curator — Alyssa wasn’t sure what she had expected to find when she thought of a medieval blacksmith. A fire of some sort. Anvils, probably. Obviously there would need to be someone at one of the anvils, hammering away at a piece of metal. She was right about all three things. She just didn’t expect the scale. The smithy was a massive stone structure set next to the river. On one side, a waterwheel turned with the flowing current. Black smoke billowed from a round turret the size of a hot tub attached to…
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The Black Prince

by Tower Curator — Alyssa stumbled over her words again and again. Every mess-up only served to make her more nervous, resulting in more and more mistakes. She wasn’t even sure if she was still intelligible, but the prince hadn’t interrupted her so she hadn’t stopped. When the Black Prince had first turned to her and asked what had happened, she had nearly fainted. It was like being addressed by Darth Vader. He had such an imposing presence. An aura of terror radiated from his armor, filling her with a dread that…
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The Bedehouse

by Tower Curator — The bedehouse. It had taken a few days to find. Alyssa hadn’t wanted to ask anyone she knew about it. Kasita, under various guises, managed to get the location from a guard. The building wasn’t close to the city. Not like the blacksmith, anyway. That was within an easy walking distance. The bedehouse wasn’t as far as Teneville, or even the nearest village. It had still taken Alyssa and Kasita four hours of straight walking to get to it. Setting her eyes on it, she wished it had taken a little…
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Tess

by Tower Curator — Tess sighed. She was getting looks again. Pitiful looks. This was one of those days. Princess Irulon had returned from her day’s activities with a bright smile on her face. A few of the other servants even reported humming. Normal days saw the princess return from the academy with a blank expression at best. Maybe a vapid smile with no real joy behind it. Her actually smiling threw up red flags for Tess’ fellow workers. Being a servant girl wasn’t easy. Being Irulon’s personal servant even…
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Tenebrael Appears

by Tower Curator — A queasy sensation welled up in the pit of Alyssa’s stomach as she stared down at the obviously broken neck. Alyssa turned away, fumbling around in her pocket for her cell phone. It wasn’t there. Right. Back on the couch. She stumbled, shaking knees failing to support her. Letting herself sit on the floor for only a moment in an attempt to quell her nerves, she couldn’t help but let out a slight laugh as adrenaline flooded out of her body. Using the abandoned bed as a handhold to get up, Alyssa…
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