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“You want to leave here, right?” Serenity figured he’d better ask. He was pretty sure what the answer was, but sometimes he was wrong.
Helen nodded slightly, shivering. “Yes.”
“Then stay wit...
2022-11-10 23:56:24 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Helen missed the whole “being a slave” experience.
It wasn’t that she wanted it back; no, she’d literally slept through the whole thing. She remembered going to bed at the end of the Phase; she wasn...
2022-11-09 23:56:57 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“Finally figured out how to use a phone, even though you couldn’t while you were still on Earth?” Tek’s voice was familiar to Serenity even though it had been quite a while since they last spoke.
“I n...
2022-11-09 00:10:59 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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It was more than a few days before High Priestess Karin was able to arrange for Serenity to talk to any of the people who’d been kidnapped from Earth. During that time, Rissa and Serenity toured a different part of...
2022-11-08 00:02:24 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity stopped in the doorway to stare at his fiancee. It was so good to see her. Did she have a glow or was he projecting his joy?
Either way, Rissa was clearly pregnant now; she had a noticeable baby bump in...
2022-11-07 00:03:59 +0000 UTC View PostThis was late due to ... the next book being difficult to kickstart. I was concentrating hard on getting Serenity off Zon so my brain is still stuck there instead of Lyka!
Naturally, my attempt to get the post together was then interrupted b...
2022-11-06 00:17:14 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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[Challenge Resolved]
[Serenity has ascended to the Rule of Mornmot]
[You may alter your Rule type at the City Node]
Serenity picked himself up from ...
2022-11-04 23:07:44 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The route was not nearly as confusing as it sounded, but Serenity could understand why the demon had a hard time describing it; there were no street signs or even straight streets. Instead, they were headed in a fair...
2022-11-03 23:07:26 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The injured demon was blessedly silent for a moment, but it didn’t last. “No. No, definitely maybe? What is a demon like me? Not many have my focus, my dedication, my obsession!”
Obsession? The word sound...
2022-11-02 23:11:05 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity was ready to head out now except for one thing. He had the same problem with his second form as he’d had when he was the Demon Thorn. What was he to do with it?
He couldn’t carry it as a crystal h...
2022-11-01 23:12:50 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Channeling anger meant knowing where to use it and where not to use it.
What deserved his anger right now? Of those, what could he do something about, and what could he work towards?
The man who tried to k...
2022-10-31 23:06:08 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity wasn’t about to try entering a city of demon termites in his chimera form. That seemed remarkably foolish; if they welcomed other demons, he’d see something other than termites.
He could try taking...
2022-10-30 23:02:11 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The towering multihued yellow Demon Thorn of Pain never even seemed to realize it was in trouble.
It fired more Minute Thorns at Serenity, but after about a minute it seemed convinced it had shot him enough tim...
2022-10-29 22:50:09 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Moving as a Demon Thorn of Pain was weird.
Serenity could move the top half of his body almost normally; he was more than a little stiff, but the motion itself was still normal other than his arms. They could mo...
2022-10-28 23:09:54 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Gigantic tower-thorn demons were the only things Serenity could make out at this distance, but they didn’t really tell him much. It wasn’t that he couldn’t think of what they might be; instead, the problem was ...
2022-10-27 23:02:41 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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It wasn’t all that long after Serenity left the flame wolf behind when he started seeing distorted areas out of the corners of his eyes. They wouldn’t resolve into anything more concrete even with Aide’s hel...
2022-10-26 23:24:32 +0000 UTC View PostSo, I was writing tomorrow's chapter and lost track of time.
It's a little ironic since what I was writing includes Time manipulation...
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Ansera woke up.
She hadn’t really expected to. She knew sakt...
2022-10-25 23:25:39 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity shifted to his normal human form. There wasn’t any reason to go to the effort of his disguise, but at the same time he didn’t want to scare anyone and be mistaken for a monster. Zon seemed effectively ...
2022-10-24 23:11:06 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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It wasn’t really a question of safety. Serenity doubted that there was much that “Lost Regrets” could or would do that could harm him.
Instead, it was only a question of which would waste more time. Trave...
2022-10-23 23:07:42 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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More than anything, they looked like mutated monkeys. The group of six monkeys had long hair, enough that they almost looked more like a mobile mop than an animal, but most of it was silky. It was obvious that they ...
2022-10-22 23:04:06 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Message from Rissa Latimer to Serenity
Serenity,
High Priestess Karin - you know, Ekari’s mother - has been looking into the missing people who ended up on Lyka. She’s fo...
2022-10-21 23:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Alanok watched as Maerite flopped onto the sofa in the richly furnished room Innat had set aside for the effort to recover the kidnapped enslaved Earthlings. She didn’t even glance at Alanok, even though he was the ...
2022-10-20 22:56:25 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The only changes I have found so far, other than the format change, are located in your eyes and your hands. Your visual sensors now natively observe a far larger portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and ...
2022-10-19 23:05:32 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Tell me about Lacuna, please.
It was the last one on Serenity’s short list, so it was a good thing to check out next. So far, nothing he’d found was needed and several of the more obvious options w...
2022-10-18 23:04:39 +0000 UTC View PostHad a long power outage (~10 hours) on Saturday. (There were storms; everything's fine here, other than the power cut). This put me behind on writing, so yesterday's chapter was finished the morning of and I just finished today's chapter instead o...
2022-10-17 23:13:37 +0000 UTC View PostThis doesn't immediately affect anyone here, but if you leave my Patreon and return it might: I've moved to what Patreon calls "subscription billing". This means that Patreon will bill you on the monthly anniversary of your previous payment instea...
2022-10-16 23:12:55 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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There was absolutely no way Serenity was waiting a year and a day to see Rissa, even if a month of that time had already passed. Not only did he simply want to see her, he wanted to be there when their child was born...
2022-10-15 23:07:52 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Duke Lowpeak was surprisingly accepting of Serenity’s Death magic, at least as long as he promised not to do anything to harm Lowpeak. It was enough to make Serenity wonder if the Duke had known another Death mage ...
2022-10-14 23:12:54 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Andarit and Serenity were led to a holding area that looked more like a small cottage than anything else. It was a little ways up the actual road from the river, but the river was still visible in the distance. Fro...
2022-10-13 23:10:05 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Travel over the brushland between the swamp and the planted fields was more pleasant than the trip through the swamp, especially for Andarit. During the time in the swamp, she was inundated by various insects, mostly ...
2022-10-12 23:04:32 +0000 UTC View Post