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Devlan’s voice was pleasant and urbane, but his eyes were hard and cold. He wasn’t some sophisticated gentleman, even if he dressed up like one. This was a ruthless thug, and he would have absolutely killed us if he thought he could get away with it and had a reason. Unfortunately for him...
The path up to Yettin was long, and it was made longer by the constant attempts to sell us things. Animal had mentioned space here was at a premium, but I hadn’t considered the logical (or illogical, considering the fervor) conclusion of that concept. Namely, EVERYTHING in Yettin was for sale...
Yettin was…big. We’d come up from out of the ground on top of a hill. The trek over had been on a slight incline, but we’d traveled so far I hadn’t realized how high we were until we emerged from the caves. Turning to look though, I was able to see the city from above, and looking at it was...
We waited for the others to report back before getting up. Bethy and Abel had divided the group in two, and with them running things I wasn’t too worried. Bethy could scout pretty well when she needed to, given her mist form, and I’d her running point on recon. She might mess around sometimes...
Reversing the process of converting the formation into a void shallow was time consuming and complicated. Back in the dungeon, the thing had been old and established, which was what made it stable enough to use the mist as a carrier to spread across the entirety of the screeching shoals. This...
We walked for quite a while, but we weren’t attacked again. Everyone was tense, ready for battle, but despite our sharpened senses and focus, we didn’t end up stumbling on anything for the next few miles. As we walked, the black trees became sparser, the air became colder, and the ground beneath...
The stabby bugs didn’t attack right away, to my surprise. Instead, their creepy eyes pulsed in time with each other, and an otherworldly cascade of overlapping voices rang out. “Halt, intruders. You enter the territory of the Anatta Mantis Clan. Retreat if you value your lives.” They had no...
The first hint that something was wrong wasn’t an attack. We were waiting for that, but it never came. We walked for about ten minutes, taking turns along the path, and we passed a small pond with a bright orange fish in it. We avoided it, continuing our trek, and ten minutes later…we passed a...
After a few repetitions of the technique, my sister and the dryads had opened up an idyllic path for us to follow. To my surprise, rather than reveal the golden sphere we’d been waiting for, the path led further into the oasis. The small copse of trees, like everything else on this planet, was...
We avoided the kobolds in the next few chambers. Between Dantalion and Callie’s Path, we were able to safely navigate the other groups. We DID hear several violent confrontations through the caves. Or rather, we felt them. Those kobolds were WAY more dangerous than they looked, and I wanted no...
The kobold wizard was staring intently at me from across the cavern. Not smug, or mocking, but focused. The lungs hanging around his neck pumped like bellows, glowing as the dragon skull manifestation became clearer. Behind him, the skull began to expand. A spine appeared, and then a pair of...
“So, this is going to be a bit tougher than expected,” I told my friends as we came to a stop in the middle of the plains. I had us under Murmur, so we weren’t exposed, and it was safe enough to stop to plan our approach. There were a LOT of people ahead of us. “Belsara, any information on who...
We DID end up having dinner early. Callie was awake when we got back, and she raised an eyebrow at our new friend, but didn’t say anything else. Belsara was practically glowing with smugness over how quickly I’d gotten the Animal (he tried to get us to call him Mal, but Abel informed him it...
After my shower, I was about to try to take a nap, but I was cut off by a call from Belsara. I answered with an annoyed grunt. “What?” I asked with exasperation. “I thought we were meeting in a few hours for dinner?”
She grinned sheepishly. “We were,” she admitted. “But I got a call from one...
The rest of the battle was fairly clean. There wasn’t much time left on the event, and before long, it ended, granting me a pretty decent windfall of points. I was up to twenty five points total now for the succession war, though I had no clue if that was good or bad. Still, it couldn’t hurt to...