Chapter 11 : Late Afternoon
“Wait... Are you serious!?” questioned Kianna as she followed Anton up the stairs.
“Of course I am.” chuckled Anton as he reached the landing and turned down the second floor hallway “Why wouldn't I be?”
“...You, you really wanna go ...
2023-08-15 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 10 : Night
The fading light of the waning evening found Anton sitting up against the headboard of his bed with his arms wrapped reassuringly around a sobbing Kianna's slender frame. After curling herself up in his lap, the devastated dark elf had hidden her face as she cried sof...
2023-07-16 00:54:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 9 : Morning
Fiona scrunched up her face in irritation as a loud series of obnoxious beeps began to ring in her ears.
“Will somebody turn that shit off!” she growled as she tried to block the sound by covering her head with the folds of the blanket she had been sleeping...
2023-07-01 11:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 8 : Night
Stepping through the portal and into the house's foyer, Anton sighed softly as he looked about at the familiar sight of the house's entryway.
“Home sweet home...” he muttered quietly as he stepped past the open sitting room and spied Tessa's sleeping form in th...
Chapter 7 : Night
“I held out for as long as I could. But eventually my mind was lost...” said Olivia in a soft tone “I don't remember exactly when it happened, or what finally did it... But at some point... I was theirs... And they became my entire world... I wanted them. More th...
2023-06-01 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 6 : Late evening
The room was silent for a long moment as the three motionless beings all stared at one another.
Without a word, Anton shifted his eyes away from Olivia and locked them with the huli jing's.
The fox girl stared back at him for a moment before raising ...
2023-05-15 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 5 : Evening
“You know, Olivia...” said Anton as he set his wineglass down “I have to say that I'm a bit surprised that you wanted to meet with me like this. Not that I didn't think we'd eventually need to have a talk, of course. I just wouldn't have expected such a casual ...
2023-05-01 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 4 : After Midnight
Fiona gasped audibly as her eyes shot open wide. Staring up at the ceiling above her bed, she breathed out a sigh of relief at finding herself back in the familiar space of her room. Relaxing enough to let her head sink further into her pillow, she began to me...
2023-04-15 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 3 : Morning
“Okay, so... Not that I'm really complaining here, cause this is actually pretty good...” said Fiona as she lifted a forkful of long noodles up out of her bowl “But why are we eating soup for breakfast?”
“Because it's what came out of the breakfast bu...
2023-04-01 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2 : Early Evening
“You two stay right here. I'm going to go get Mica and Tessa.” said Anton as he stepped around the dark elves “When I get back we'll all make our way to the dungeon to repair the ward.”
“What, no! We'll come with you!” cried Fiona “We need t...
2023-03-15 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1 : Morning
Fiona had a thin grimace on her face as she stood at the edge of the archway that led into the front siting room. Gazing into the room, her eyes narrowed in suspicion as her ears slowly pointed themselves straight back.
Situated in the far back corner of the ro...
2023-03-01 08:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHello, everyone!
This is just a quick message to let everyone know that starting tomorrow we will be moving on to the third arc in the series...
The Mothers and Daughters Arc.
I hope everyone has been enjoying the story so far, and I just want to say thank you to everyone here fo...
Chapter 32 : Late Afternoon
Bursting through the portal and into the backyard at top speed, Mica frantically tried to gain her footing, but hitting the ground at a run proved to be too difficult for her, and before she could even manage a few steps, she began to tumble and fall. Landing...
2023-02-15 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 31 : Afternoon
Jumping back and away from the now shimmering mantis, Mica tossed the empty bottle aside as a wide, excited smile spread across her face.
This glow coming from the mantis began to quickly build up on itself until the whole area was awash with the bright gold...
2023-02-01 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 30 : Afternoon
Mica had been silent for some time now. Sitting at the table across from Anton, she had patiently listened to everything he had to say before dropping her gaze to the tabletop and going still.
Kianna and Fiona were both standing off to the side where they co...
2023-01-15 08:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 29 : Early Afternoon
Glancing down at his watch and seeing that they were only about twenty minutes out from when they were supposed to meet with Leopold and Ila, Anton nodded and turned to Fiona and Mica.
Standing all together in the kitchen, he and Kianna were each weari...
2023-01-01 08:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 28 : Late Afternoon
Anton hummed quietly to himself as he ran the metal bristles of the cleaning brush across the barbecue's grates.
After their excursion in the dungeon, he and the dark elves had all taken a bit of a long breather before getting themselves cleaned up and ...
2022-12-15 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 27 : Morning
“God's alive! I
2022-12-01 21:03:59 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 26 : Morning
The low groaning sound of stressed wood filled the air a second before Mokai ripped all of his claws out of the floor in a single instant.
Watching as tiny bits of splintered wood fell to scatter around the tsuchigumo's feet, Mica's confidence wavered a bit at...
2022-11-15 08:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 25 : Morning
Mica and the dark elves all stood in stunned silence as the purple sheet slipped away from Mokai and revealed him for what he truly was, a very large tsuchigumo.
With a humanoids upper body mounted atop the cephalothorax of a gigantic spider, a full grown tsuc...
2022-11-01 07:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 24 : Early Morning
Anton grumbled to himself as he reached over to his nightstand and shut off his phones alarm.
Still several hours away from dawn in their part of the world, the room around him was completely dark, so before pulling his arm back to himself he grudgingly ...
2022-10-15 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 23 : Afternoon
“Alright, personally!” said Fiona as she led the way through the double sets of automatic doors that separated the mall from the outside world “With a project like this I think it's best to start with the first layer first.”
...
2022-10-01 07:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 22 : Early Afternoon
“Miss Mica.” called Solassi as she opened the door to the waiting area “We're ready for you now.”
“...Mm, wish me luck. I guess.” muttered Mica as she rose out of her seat.
“Yep. Have fun...” mumbled...
2022-09-15 07:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 21 : Early Morning
Stretching out his legs as his waking mind found its way back to full consciousness, Anton cracked open his eyes as he felt Kianna begin to stir next to him.
Tucking herself in underneath their blanket, the dark elf wiggled back and forth as she wrapped ...
2022-09-01 07:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 20 : Early Evening
“...Stop fidgeting, Mica.” mumbled Anton as he slowly shifted the tiny dental mirror back and forth as he looked over the backsides of Mica's teeth in her top jaw.
Holding her mouth open for him, Mica had a miserable looking expression on her face as she...
2022-08-15 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 19 : Afternoon
In the instant the dome fell away, Reality was lost.
Fueled by the connection they had to Anton, Fiona and Kianna spared no thought to conserving their power as they unleashed the full might of their combined auras out into the world aroun...
2022-08-01 07:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18 : Afternoon
The three shinoccubi standing at the portal were all slightly taller than Mica but were otherwise very similar to her in appearance. Two of them, like Mica, were female kiochi while one was clearly a kiogah.
The kiogah stood in stark contr...
2022-07-15 07:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 17 : Afternoon
“Kianna.” called Anton as he tilted his head to the side to crack his neck “If we could get another 30 minutes, please.”
“Of course, Master!” replied the dark elf as she again set up the timer on her phone.
...
2022-07-01 07:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 16 : Afternoon
Mica twisted back and forth at the waist before bending forward and dropping her upper body down so that she could touch the toes of first one foot and then the other.
Once again tied back into a multi-banded ponytail, her raven-black hair...
2022-06-15 07:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 15 : Afternoon
“Ugh!” cried Fiona as she dropped down and sat on a bark-less fallen tree trunk “Did we seriously have to hike out miles and miles just so we could get to nowhere! We couldn't have just done this shit in the backyard!?”
“No...
2022-06-01 07:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post