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No, it's published on amazon. Kindle unlimited makes you take down any instances of a story to prevent their scrapers from pinging it as plagiarized. The first 13 books in the series are on KU, and the first seven are on Audible.
It took me three days to successfully undo the corruption. Well, it took US three days. I used Dan to deconstruct the process and Wisdom of Solomon to simulate possible solutions, and between them and the soul of the creature (whose name was apparently Steve, of all things, though my dad refused...
“So…you’re refusing to talk, eh?” Bethy said menacingly to the creature as she loomed over it. Despite her being a full rank plus lower than it was, it looked DEEPLY uncomfortable with her attention. Of course, the currently babyfied Demigod Manticore on her shoulder probably didn’t help its...
I’d never seen a manticore before. Not like this. When it first emerged from the door, it was almost underwhelming. I spotted the sleek, powerfully built monster prowling through the sky like a fish winding through a river, and I wasn’t impressed. Except the more I looked, the more terrifying it...
Dan and Wisdom did their thing. It didn’t take too long, but what they came back with wasn’t exactly encouraging. “A manticore?” I groaned. “How would that even WORK? Where did they get one of those? Like I feel like that should be hard.”
Based on a whole bunch of disparate bits of information...
Returning to the refuge was a matter of about twenty minutes. We took our time, but it wasn’t that far without needing to track Amy. When we got back, I headed to sleep for a quick recuperative nap and when I woke up, I stockpiled my scrolls and then dug into the Clover problem with Genesis...
I used Dantalion to track her, obviously. But it wasn’t fast or easy. Her flame was VERY impressive, and while I’d been able to catch her inside Murmur’s radius, tracking her through an abandoned hallway was a lot less viable. I could still do it, obviously, but it wasn’t exactly a walk in the...
“Ok back up,” I held up a hand. “What traitor? We need to know more about the city before this is going to make sense, I think. What happened here? What is the land of endless summer you mentioned?” I tried not to show my fixation on that last question. I knew some things, but not enough, and...
Amandine (my mom insisted on calling her Amy) led us back through the hallways with a shocking level of speed and familiarity. No wonder her dad had her out looking for food on her own, between her stealth and this level of skill, anything short of me or Lark wouldn’t have had a chance at...
We kept the trip slow as we made our way down the hallway that Beel had located for us. It was a long hall, made longer by the sense of creeping dread and the slow pace we needed to keep Murmur effective, and the distance wasn’t helped by the deafening silence of our group as we moved.
The...
We headed back to the doorway slowly, keeping watch for any surprises. When we arrived, we found my parents waiting there for us. They hadn’t come across, but they were posted up inside the door, my mother’s body flickering with white flame and my father sheathed in a mirror plating that told me...
“Shane, you ok?” Abel called as he stood guard in front of the gate. The others had fanned out, securing the entrances to the chamber, and he was the closest to me personally. “That was…really impressive actually. And trust me, I know what I’m talking about. I know enough about space to be...
Entering the Moonfiend Grotto was definitely an experience. One moment we were in the spiraling hallways of the labyrinthine hospital, and the next we were emerging onto a small, dark sanded beach.
The grotto, or at least the part of it we’d stepped into wasn’t exactly what I’d expected. I’d...
The formal dinner was unsettling. We were offered seats of honor next to the Doctor, which was odd on its own because he shouldn’t have even known who we were beyond ‘friends of Stanley’. Despite that, though, he was fawning over us as politely as possible, making it clear he recognized us as...
“So,” Stanley said as we took our seats across from him. “We have your meeting scheduled for the Moonfiend Grotto. We’re not on the best terms with the owner, but he’s not EXACTLY an enemy. You’ll need to pay the entrance fee yourselves, but without us, you’d never have gotten the chance.”
I...
I woke up the next day feeling refreshed. It felt…good to sleep properly, to let myself unwind. Now that we were so close, I felt like I could breathe for a minute. Not too long, mind, I had work to do, but it was nice not to feel like an axe was hanging over my wife’s head for a minute...
The interior of the Ralkyne house was just as unsettling as the outside. The same black stone and red veins permeated the inside of the house, but more than just the materials made it jarring. Somehow, the angles of the place seemed wrong. Jagged lines where none should be disrupted the flow of...
We spent a while at The Pumpkin. Bethy DID, in fact, try pumpkin beer, and she drank way too much of it, and we all universally agreed that Bethy wasn’t allowed to touch beer ever again because whatever Maenad nonsense made her immune to wine didn’t work on the stuff apparently. We weren’t...
The Hollow Pumpkin was surprisingly crowded. I don’t know why the word hollow had convinced me the place would be completely empty, but when we stepped inside, I was shocked by just how noisy and energetic it was.
Groups of Ascendants at tables, doing shots, playing cards, occasionally doing...
We were attacked six times on the road to Bloodcrest. None of the attacks were particularly successful, and Lark didn’t even need to get involved, but it was still a stark contrast to my relatively peaceful journey on the Void roads not too long ago. It didn’t bode particularly well for…well...