If there was anything that could be said for Sev's team, it was that they didn't hesitate to act when it counted.
All they needed to hear was the Shadesplitter trying to speak.
Sev directed the light towards the Shadowskitter. Misa appeared in front of the Shadesplitter, putting her b...
2023-09-18 17:33:10 +0000 UTC View PostThere's a certain amount of existential horror that comes with having your allies picked off right in front of you, with little you can do about it. In that sense, Ahkelios is right — being able to shrug things off is an important skill for someone looping through time.
My thoughts flicke...
2023-09-18 17:31:22 +0000 UTC View PostIf not for Quicken Mind, I might have spent a few too many seconds staring, dumbfounded. I can sense no outside Firmament at work here, and Premonition hasn't alerted me to any new danger. Whatever just happened, it's something specific to Guard.
I just don't know what it is.
Even if I hadn't grown sharply between my last attempt at exploring the Fracture and my current one, Guard and Tarin's presences are enough to make the first three hundred meters of the Fracture a cakewalk. Guard by himself would probably be more than enough — the more I watch him fight, the mo...
2023-09-18 17:29:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Cosmic was kind enough to draw a ...
2023-09-13 22:17:35 +0000 UTC View PostAhkelios doesn't tell me what happens, exactly. He can't — not with Guard there. Instead he sends filtered images and impressions to me, enough that I have a decent idea of exactly what happened, and everything about it makes my blood boil.
It takes everything I have not to run right back...
2023-09-11 06:17:44 +0000 UTC View PostShe-Who-Whispers calls her home a palace. She isn't wrong.
Her home is the highest shard in Isthanok. It floats above the city like a mirrored citadel, though with far less regal majesty. Instead, it's a mess of silver fragments that spike into the air, like debris from a meteorite strike c...
2023-09-11 06:16:57 +0000 UTC View PostAbout three minutes after Thys leaves — it takes a lot of convincing, and makes me wonder briefly if Thys actually has any other friends besides his siblings — someone attempts to murder me. I almost wonder if this is intentional and a part of Tarin's training, too, but I'm pretty sure it isn...
2023-09-11 06:16:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe fight ends quickly and without fanfare. The crowd, I can tell, is disappointed. Me, I'm just grinning like a madman. I made sure to make my victory look like an accident, too, so Tarin should still be able to bet against me in the next match. I wonder how many people he can convince to go dou...
2023-09-04 16:01:23 +0000 UTC View Post"So she's holding it hostage," I say.
Miktik's apparently been checking the core's position every day she can, and she finds it at the same place every day, trapped inside a vault. It's part of the reason she was so devastated when She-Who-Whispers destroyed her pocket oracle — slim crack...
2023-09-01 11:35:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe learn a few things over the next couple of minutes.
One, Rotar and Ikaara are both safe — or at least as safe as they can be. Being half a step out of phase with everything else comes with downsides, obviously, but it also comes with the upside of nothing being able to interac...
2023-08-29 12:20:00 +0000 UTC View PostI made a bunch of changes to Book 2, mostly in the first half of the book to tighten up the characterization and descriptiveness. It should feel a lot better to read now. No real retcons, I think, but some details are more relevant/less forgotten about. Here's the revised manuscript if you're int...
2023-08-25 02:32:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's hard to describe exactly what Miktik does.
She feeds her Firmament into the orb — that part I can read easily enough with my Firmament sense — but imbued within the orb is a blob of Firmament that looks nothing like any imbuement I've seen so far. It looks almost like a spiderweb. ...
2023-08-25 02:27:18 +0000 UTC View PostIn retrospect, a quick discussion with Tarin about information security would probably have been a good idea, although I understand that he trusts Miktik implicitly. My understanding doesn't stop me from putting a hand to my face, nor does it stop Ahkelios' own incredulous groan.
"Tarin," I...
2023-08-25 02:26:37 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the pre-final manuscript (meaning it has all the changes I want but hasn't been through a line/copy editor yet) for Die Respawn Repeat. Changes are mostly in the first 20 or so chapters to improve plot and character consistency. Some minor retcons:
- The number of people pulled into ...
2023-08-25 02:25:15 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, I'm really sorry about this, but this week's chapters are delayed as well - a lot happened over the past two weeks and suffice to say it burned me out something fierce. I have written some, but I'm not currently happy with the state of the chapters and I don't really want to put...
2023-08-14 13:49:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe Great Cities, Tarin explains, are a set of seven cities situated inside the Barricade, which is apparently their name for the massive wall that encircles this section of the planet. The cities are numbered one through seven, though the numbering is unofficial — officially, the city...
2023-08-05 03:31:37 +0000 UTC View PostI appreciate the silence as we speed through the scenery. Both Ahkelios and Tarin can see that I'm not in the mood to talk, and while they seem like they want to ask me what's on my mind, they've both chosen to give me space for now. I appreciate it — I'm not sure I'm ready to confront the whir...
2023-08-05 03:30:49 +0000 UTC View PostIt turns out that Mari knew what she was doing. Sort of.
Tarin can still move fast while he's... drunk. Or high. I don't exactly know what those berries did to him, but he seems to be enjoying himself a lot. The key thing here is that the traveler's berry — as he called it —
Hey guys! This week's chapters might be a little late - I've been trying to figure out everything regarding the Edge Cases launch and additionally need to work on the Edge Cases Book 2 manuscript for submission, since I'm making a bunch of developmental changes - cleaning up continuity, adjusting...
2023-07-30 14:15:19 +0000 UTC View Post
The book series I've been working on for the past year and a half is finally out - or, well, the first book of it, anyway. Really love the cover, super excited to have it narrated by Travis. You guys don't have to buy it, of course, but I'm sharing here anyway in case any of you are interested. I...
2023-07-26 14:03:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe village of Halis was disturbingly empty.
Sev's heart sank as they wandered cobblestone streets, looking into every building to see if they could find any survivors — and more and more it was looking like there weren't any, despite both Derivan and Vex claiming that they could sense li...
2023-07-23 23:08:10 +0000 UTC View PostDays passed. Sev was still waiting on a response from Novice, who had promised to get back to them and then gone silent for several days in a row; from what he'd heard from Misa, Novice was fine, but incredibly busy managing the intricacies of Fendal and Teque. Apparently, their request would tak...
2023-07-23 23:06:51 +0000 UTC View PostSev was worried.
This wasn't anything new. He was always worried. But his worry now was something that gnawed at him; he looked out at the world and he saw that it was wrong. Flashes of old memories ate at him, telling him how different everything should have been. Everywhere he lo...
2023-07-23 23:06:09 +0000 UTC View PostWe're making very good time. We've had to stop for a few breaks, mostly because running at this speed costs a lot of energy even with Firmament. We've had to stop a couple of times for the crow equivalent of energy bars — which are long, very hard sticks packed together with Firmament ...
2023-07-23 23:04:35 +0000 UTC View PostTarin's packed up and ready by the time I get back. Mari shooed me off after our conversation, telling me she needed to go visit some of the other crows in the village to get our supplies ready. I don't question her — this version of her doesn't know me as well, and I imagine she still wants so...
2023-07-23 23:02:52 +0000 UTC View PostRotar is missing.
Tarin and I went to check out his hut, and no one was present. None of the other crows around report any memory of him leaving, and they all seem equally worried. I'm just as worried — I don't know if Rotar was missing at this point in time in any of my other loops. I di...
2023-07-23 23:01:42 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note:
There are a lot of tough chapters in this book, and I keep underestimating how much time it'll take me to get it written in a way I'm satisfied with. I'm sorry I'm taking so long on chapters - I'll keep trying to catch up.
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Vex glanced at his f...
2023-07-17 14:53:28 +0000 UTC View Post"Ethan!" Tarin squawks at me, dusting himself off like he hasn't just been tossed like a cannonball directly into monsters that could kill him with a glance. I know he's strong, but I don't know that he's strong enough to survive a direct blow from any of these. "You here!"
"Where else woul...
2023-07-17 04:14:18 +0000 UTC View PostBefore I can react, Premonition activates again, and I leap out of the way just in time; the monster crackles through the air, static Firmament bursting out of every scale in a cloud of bristling energy. I try to ignore the way the cactus cracks, and wrack my brain to understand what's happening....
2023-07-16 02:10:06 +0000 UTC View Post