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“What’re you thinking?” Rissa stirred and twisted, facing towards Serenity instead of leaning against him.
“Did you have a nice nap?” Serenity smiled at Rissa. He couldn’t believe how lucky he was som...
2022-07-16 22:52:08 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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While Russ, Phoebe, Aki, and Janice all talked about how they were going to handle the Child of Time Essence Seeds, Serenity and Rissa headed back to their residence. Serenity was completely uninterested in how the...
2022-07-15 22:52:41 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity spent some time comforting Rissa, then worked with Aki to make another Unbound Fate Essence Seed. He didn’t know if it would work for Phoebe, but it wouldn’t hurt to try.
Serenity was grateful that...
2022-07-14 22:52:31 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Lady Andarit,
Your presence is expected at a reception for the Prince’s birthday. As this is his twenty-fifth birthday, your absence will be noted. We will be leaving the Dukedom as a group on th...
2022-07-13 23:11:09 +0000 UTC View PostI've been meaning to rewrite part of Chapter 15 for a long time; it was my most controversial early chapter, and I was never quite happy with it. There's a lot going on there, and much of it is stuff Serenity doesn't know.
When I wrote chapt...
2022-07-13 00:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostPulled from a hopeless (if powerful) future back to the moment of Earth’s integration to try to improve the outcome, Serenity has met unexpected threats and unexpected allies - even friends. Everything is different this time.
It’s been a...
2022-07-12 23:38:38 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Commentary on Lost Secrets
After the absolute paperweight that was Arc 5, Arc 6 feels positively short - but when I go back and compare it to what came before, it’s similar in length to Arcs 3 and 4, or to Arcs 1 and 2 ...
2022-07-12 23:36:56 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Current To-Do List
Building the dungeon into a home - Raz, Aki; input only
Rissa’s pregnant - what the heck do I do about that? Is there stuff I should do for a kid?
Decay creature...
2022-07-12 23:35:03 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
As always, if I've missed someone, please let me know!
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Character List of Lost Secrets
This list includes people mentioned in all Arcs to date.
It does not incl...
2022-07-12 23:19:09 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“Please tell me you didn’t just say what I think you just said.” The inspector looked at Agent Price as though she couldn’t believe what she’d just heard.
“If you think I just said that the seco...
2022-07-11 22:56:13 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity was still trying to wrap his head around the Voice enforcing Quest terms by killing someone who had probably once been a deity when Red gasped. “You have a hole in your chest. How are you still standing...
2022-07-10 23:01:17 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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With more than a little help from Serenity’s built-in GPS, they found Red’s residence. It was a surprisingly normal-looking suburban house. Serenity had expected it to be done in the stereotypical “southwestern...
2022-07-09 23:16:42 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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[Failure Consequences: Required to cease all attacks on Rissa Latimer and permit her to enjoy the sunlight once more. Required to remove the blessing/curse applied to ALL of her relatives. Required to remo...
2022-07-09 23:13:35 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Helios was running out of time.
Well, really, he’d already run out of time. There were only four portals left, and four portals was unlikely to make a difference. He wished he knew if he were winning or losing...
2022-07-08 22:52:51 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity had underestimated how long it would take to close the last portal: it took closer to two weeks than one. The problem with the last few portals wasn’t closing them; the armies and other obvious problems had...
2022-07-07 23:00:40 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Twenty-seven portals was a good number. Helios was certain he was ahead or at least catching up; there was no way his challenger could be keeping up that kind of pace. Most of the ones he’d taken care of were &nb...
2022-07-06 22:58:18 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity, Rissa, and Russ were met at the small airport by two policemen and a man in a black suit. “Mr. Rothmer?”
Serenity turned towards the speaker, who turned out to be the man in a suit. “Yes?”<...
2022-07-05 23:05:53 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity stopped and changed the Affinities he was using. Liminality would make a better wall. That was what it meant, after all, and it was a far better Affinity for him. He’d made shields from Energy once upon a t...
2022-07-04 22:51:13 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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:Why is it called a Mind Thief?: Rissa pulled out her own flashlight and started playing it across the creature.
:All of those people in there? And whatever wildlike it managed to trap? A lot of them are still ali...
2022-07-03 23:10:08 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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It was a long walk in the snow, more of a trudge than a walk. Since Serenity was both the strongest and the only one of the three who wouldn’t tire, he was out front pulling a small, individual sled; either Rissa ...
2022-07-02 23:05:19 +0000 UTC View PostToday is the 1-year anniversary of my first post of this story. Hard to believe it's been that long - and also hard to believe I've somehow managed to put out a chapter every day since then (plus another almost-fifty for a Patreon)!
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Fortunately, the urgent need for a shower delayed Serenity enough for Rissa to organize the reporters into a miniature press conference; he only had to go through the questions once instead of once per reporter. Once ...
2022-07-01 23:02:23 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“The options you’re offering are for the people who live in the city to leave or die?” Serenity moved his hand to his side, where his Crystal Hilt hung by his side. It’d taken a good bit of effort to get his ...
2022-06-30 22:57:55 +0000 UTC View PostPathed has reached 20 chapters as of this month, so they will be getting one chapter a day.
Chimera is only at 47 chapters ahead, so I'm planning 3 more advance chapters in July. That will bring us to 50, which is my goal.
Since I'm fi...
2022-06-29 23:05:17 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Blue Claw fed another monster core to his greedy Totem as he drug himself the rest of the way out of the Hungry Ground. He’d come so close; why had the Spirits decided to turn his Storm of Life into Hungry Ground? ...
2022-06-29 22:54:35 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Nothing happened.
The wall of lightning simply split around Serenity, as if it weren’t even there in the area he was passing through. There was a minor change in the charge levels in the air, but not enoug...
2022-06-28 22:59:33 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“So, we just need to deal with the person at the center of the lightning storm?” Rissa fidgeted with her armor, making sure everything was where it was supposed to be.
“Yes, but you can’t come with me....
2022-06-27 22:55:13 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The camera wasn’t the sort of threat he was worried about, except that it increased the man’s exposure to any dangers Serenity missed. The fact that the man was outside the trailer said good things about his bra...
2022-06-26 22:46:47 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Strangely, none of the reporters asked Serenity for an interview; instead, they each wanted to record a short introduction about who they were and why they were there, along with Serenity introducing himself and his ...
2022-06-25 23:44:50 +0000 UTC View PostToday's second chapter should be out in the next half hour or so; I don't like the current cut off point so I'm trying to fix it up to be a better one.
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It wasn’t on the way, but Serenity visited Serenity Se...
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