Jinn peered around the corner, then motioned for Kyla and Reina to follow. They sloshed through water that reached Kyla’s thighs, which made it very difficult to move quietly. Still, they tried, and Kyla supported Reina the ten steps it took to rejoin Raff’s sister.
“Thank you,” Rei...
2024-07-18 00:44:41 +0000 UTC View PostRaff sighed deeply. “Never known a woman who could get into so much trouble in such a short amount of time,” he muttered. Staring from Kaz to Chi Yincang, he ran his hand over the short bristles on his chin.
“I… can’t,” he finally said. “It’s bad enough that I’m here now, ...
2024-07-17 01:21:15 +0000 UTC View PostGetting Li ‘registered’ was surprisingly easy. They had to go back to where Raff signed them up in the first place, and give money to the harried people controlling the tables there. The greatest length of time was spent waiting for an animal handler to come look Li over. Fortunately, there w...
2024-07-16 01:40:38 +0000 UTC View PostAs the hisses and shrieks of dying lizards dwindled away, the rain swelled, wiping away ash and blood. Kaz and Raff slept in their beds, surrounded by other warriors, and though their sleep was light, it was restful. It was almost like being in a den full of other kobolds, secure in the knowledge...
2024-07-13 03:36:31 +0000 UTC View PostNOTE Lianhua will be Thinking of Love in the beginning of this chapter. There may be mention of kissing.
Lianhua watched Yingtao. Yingtao pretended not to notice. Lianhua was supposed to be writing an outline of the paper she would need to subm...
2024-07-12 02:43:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Done! I increased the contrast of the knife and shifted it to be slightly purplish (it should be blue-gray, if anything, but the purple makes it more visible). You'll also note that there are two versions. The closer one is for Royal Road/ScribbleHub, since RR has a maximum size of 400x600 pixels...
2024-07-11 21:10:28 +0000 UTC View Post
I shortened Kaz's face, made his and Li's craniums a bit larger, and lengthened Li's neck. I also swapped out the knife for a version of the Woodblade, rather than the Broken Knife. Is it better?
2024-07-11 02:18:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Who. Are. You?” Jinn asked again, and this time, her voice was low and angry. The growl was almost worthy of a kobold. Then confusion tainted the fury, and she asked, “Who sent you?”
Kyla poured more of her dwindling power into her shield, trying to figure out how lon...
2024-07-10 20:07:29 +0000 UTC View PostSomething was going on in the city above, and Kyla didn’t even want to know what it was. Mei had stopped foraging for metal and other edible, and was now hunkered against Kyla’s leg, whiskers quivering every time the tunnel shook around them.
Frankly, it was terrifying. Every kobold kne...
2024-07-09 20:39:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been working on a new cover for TBK. This will probably be used for the first book when I actually publish, but I've also had some readers say the original cover looks kind of like a Furry (a person in an animal costume). Which I don't really see, but....
In any case, do you like this ...
2024-07-09 00:05:23 +0000 UTC View PostKaz and Li returned to Raff, following the trail of char left by the salamander’s passage. Along the way, they encountered another of the beasts, a little larger than the first, and dispatched it as well. Kaz dug out its core, but strangely, he felt no urge to eat it. His body was still cycling...
2024-07-08 18:53:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe whole city seemed to have devolved into a bizarre combination of stillness and chaos. As Kaz and Raff watched, every human who could dropped everything and fled, leaving the streets emptier than they had been in the several hours since Kaz arrived. Meanwhile, escaping animals fluttered, slid,...
2024-07-06 01:54:19 +0000 UTC View Post“We need another guard at 3rd and Main.” Pandy’s radio crackled, and she fumbled for it, trying to remember which button she was supposed to press to talk. The heavy brick tumbled out of her grasp, bouncing painfully off her knee and into the grass.
Heaving a sigh of relief, she squat...
2024-07-05 05:21:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt was almost dark by the time Raff led Kaz and Li back out into the city streets. Some shops were closed already, shutters or bars drawn over the doors and windows, while others were open and thriving. Kaz noticed these mostly sold food, but there were a few with armor or weapons on display. Lia...
2024-07-04 21:53:50 +0000 UTC View PostKaz didn’t even notice when Raff let the horses go. They were there when they entered Cliffcross, and gone by the time they signed up for the tournament. Raff said someone would find them, ‘steal’ them, and sell them again. Kaz felt a little guilty, wishing he could be so certain. In his ex...
2024-07-04 00:35:24 +0000 UTC View PostLianhua was exhausted. Not physically, but emotionally. How long had she been waiting, so close and yet so terribly far from her goal? Lifting her teacup to her lips, she gave the queen of Holiander a small, sympathetic smile.
“I’m so terribly sorry to hear that your daughter is missing...
2024-07-02 20:53:31 +0000 UTC View PostRaff led the way through the streets, with Kaz close on his heels. Humans parted around the large male like a river around a stone, but Kaz was tossed around like a clump of dry moss. Only by staying very close to Raff could he be certain they wouldn’t be separated. That meant that most of his ...
2024-07-01 21:04:10 +0000 UTC View PostAs you know, I've been considering doing some songs, as well as doing my own audio books. I do intend to make those audio books, and hope to start when the kiddo goes back to school in August. The chapters for those will only be available at the $10 tier, so the tier description will change at th...
2024-06-30 19:41:16 +0000 UTC View PostKyla crouched beneath a heavy cloth spread over several boxes. She’d been there for a good while now, and she was beginning to regret her choices.
When she decided that spending her spirit hunt in the world outside the mountain would be even better than spending it on the mid-levels, she...
2024-06-29 02:24:45 +0000 UTC View PostHow could there be so many humans? The howls said that humans bred like fuergar, but this… how could Kaz possibly have prepared himself for this?
After they finished breaking down the carriage into unidentifiable pieces, the small group had set out. They didn’t really need the ...
2024-06-27 21:27:31 +0000 UTC View PostQuick Note Kaz and Raff will briefly discuss sex in a very general way in this chapter.
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Kaz handed Li another piece of the meat pulled from the skewer Raff had just handed him. It was still sizzling, but the dragon ignored the heat, swallowi...
2024-06-26 21:25:51 +0000 UTC View PostMy kiddo is now out of both school and summer school, so we're going to be running amuck, going to the pool, and all the good things. I will write every day, as usual, but chapters will be much more likely to be posted very late, if I have to finish working after she goes to bed. I ...
2024-06-25 20:46:05 +0000 UTC View Post“But what was he wearing when he transformed into a human?” Lianhua demanded, her pen scritch-scratching at the paper in her book. Raff was certain that she’d already asked that question, along with every other conceivable one, and from the look on Blue’s face, he was also mighty tired of...
2024-06-25 20:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt was strange being human-shaped. The ground was too far away, and when he washed the charcoal dust from his body, the touch of the cool water against skin that was not only bare but meant to be bare made him shudder. He much preferred his own shape, his own fur, and very definitel...
2024-06-24 21:03:49 +0000 UTC View PostKaz had a very good idea exactly how those two runes got mixed up, if that was the right term for it. He had two conflicting desires, however. He truly did long to tell Lianhua about the vision he got when he touched Qiangde’s core, but he also wanted to perfect his image of himself as a human,...
2024-06-21 19:24:29 +0000 UTC View PostAs the darkness drained from Chi Yincang’s eyes, Kaz turned to Lianhua. She gave him a smile that would have been more reassuring if it hadn’t been so shaky.
“He just wants to ask you more questions,” Lianhua said, and Kaz nodded before glancing at the two males. Chi Yincang was as...
A hovering light orb illuminated a neatly folded stack of cloth beside the stream, with a glistening golden dragon perched on top of it. Li was fairly bubbling with excitement, and little puffs of mist emerged from her nostrils with every breath. Moisture darkened the green fabric, and Kaz reache...
2024-06-19 21:36:42 +0000 UTC View PostDisjointed thoughts filled Kaz’s mind for the rest of the ride. He ate food when it was pressed into his hands, drank water when Lianhua handed him a cup, but he barely spoke, even to Li, who was clearly worried about him. The dragon kept trying to help him put his memories in some kind of orde...
2024-06-18 21:10:22 +0000 UTC View PostAround him, the humans relaxed, though the horses’ eyes rolled, showing the whites around their dark irises.
“Wolves,” Raff said, shrugging his shoulders to loosen them. His hand was on the hilt of his sword, but he hadn’t drawn it yet. “If they’re not starving, they won’t att...
2024-06-17 22:11:35 +0000 UTC View PostI'm working on today's chapter, but something has been bothering me, so I thought I would ask you guys what you thought.
I'm debating starting a TikTok channel. I've seen plenty of videos, but I've never really gotten into it. I do know there's such a thing as BookTok, but as far as I know,...
2024-06-17 17:30:21 +0000 UTC View Post