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Chapter Forty - Double, Double, Toil and Trouble

The library was open, but no strange teachers lurked there. Instead, an elderly man introduced himself as Sir Zachary, and said he was a retired librarian. Now, he covered the libraries at any of the schools when one of the current librarians was ...

Chapter Thirty-nine - Secrets That Lie Between Words

Thaniel and Eleanor went their separate ways after promising to see each other at breakfast, and Thaniel took Pandy to his room. There, the boy – with great reluctance – pulled out some of the books Lian had told him to study and began to read...

Chapter Thirty-eight - Never Judge a Book by Its Magic

As soon as the doors closed behind them, Suzanne stopped, offering the two younger children a deep bow. “I’m terribly sorry,” she said. Her voice was unusual; slightly husky, with a bit of an accent.

That was odd, because all of the ch...

Chapter Thirty-seven - What's in a Name?

The dining hall contained only three tables for students, and one long table for teachers. Only Eleanor and Thaniel sat at their table, while the other two contained a few older students. No other first years were present, as far as Pandy could te...

Chapter Thirty-six - Pantheon Postal?

“I don’t know,” the god said, eyes narrowing as he stared at Pandy. She was fairly certain this was the first time he’d ever really looked at her, and he seemed to be examining something that lay beneath her fur. It made Pandy’s...

Broken Knife Chapter Three hundred sixty-nine

<That’s it,> Li said, settling back on her haunches. Her graceful crown of horns gleamed as she stretched her neck toward the sun, closing her eyes in relief. It had taken nearly three years to locate the last of her siblings, and by that ...

New Tier names and images

Now that we're well and truly into Lucky Rabbit (I hope you're enjoying it!), I'm going to change tier names and images. I thought I might make the tiers as elements (Fire, Nature, Water, or Lightning) and the images would be selecte...

Chapter Thirty-five - Just When You Thought You Knew What Was Going On

Thaniel spent all of the next day in bed, but by the time lunch came and went, it was obvious to Pandy at least that he had fully recovered. In spite of Timon’s best efforts, the boy whined constantly about wanting to get up, especially after fi...

Chapter Thirty-four - Rabbit Resolve

Timon turned out to be a red-haired boy of about fifteen, who was very calm and respectful while Mistress Rose was in the room, but flopped down on the empty bed as soon as he was certain she was gone. The doctor had coaxed Thaniel into taking the...

Chapter Thirty-three - Carrotspace

Thaniel didn’t stir until a bell rang, letting everyone know it was time to prepare for dinner. Then he groaned softly, lifting his head just enough that Pandy’s ribs could finally expand into a shape that was more round than trapezoidal.

Chapter Thirty-two - Oops

Thaniel gaped, but the boy who had spent the last few weeks pretending to be a pirate had no chance of resisting the pull of a dark, hidden space. He moved forward, having to crouch only slightly to enter the small passage. The wooden stairs creak...

Chapter Thirty-one - Rooms and Riddles

The school really was a miniature Condor. In fact, if Pandy had been dropped into the entrance hall and someone told her this was Condor, her only response would have been, “It looked bigger from the outside.”

Mr. Benjamin ...

Go read Lucky Rabbit!

Lucky Rabbit should now be available to the appropriate tiers. Copper Fuergar get chapters 1-10, Gold and Mithril get chapters 11-30. Mithril will shortly be getting some full books to read (my back catalogue, as it wer...

Today!

I'm volunteering at my daughter's school this morning, but I'll move Lucky Rabbit to the appropriate tiers ASAP when I get back. I'll make a post when it's done, because I don't think it'll notify you. I'm excited for you all to read it!
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Chapter Three hundred sixty-eight

Kaz sat outside Katri’s hut, reflecting on the difference five years had made. The Longknife tribe had struggled to fit in at first, being pushed back up toward the mid-levels in spite of Ija’s support. Not that Katri had accepted that support...

Chapter Three hundred sixty-seven (Li)

Li flapped backwards, torn between the desire to defend herself and fear of hurting her maybe-siblings. Even if it turned out these dragons weren’t family, they still bore runes, and so couldn’t be held accountable for their acti...

Chapter Three hundred sixty-six (Li)

Viscid was the worst rune, even in unborn hatchlings. Li focused on the most recent egg the xiyi had brought her, ignoring the deep ache in her dantians and channels, and pushed on the rune. It had a sort of branch at t...

Lucky Rabbit and Tiers! (Tears?)

Today's chapter is the first of what I think will be three Li chapters, leading into the final Kaz chapter. Which means TBK will be over by Friday. At that point, I'll give you guys Lucky Rabbit, which is the story of Pandor...

Chapter Three hundred sixty-five (Li)

There were so many eggs. Eggs of all sizes and colors filled the vast cavern, and xiyi wound their way through them. Almost all of the female xiyi had stubby wings, which were barely able to carry them more than a few f...

LR Chapter Thirty - A Boy and a Bunny Walk Into a Boarding School

Within fifteen minutes, their carriage was moving ahead, winding through a space just wide enough for their wheels. All around them, other people called out angrily or enviously, but Edgar ignored them. He sat proudly astride a great gray horse th...

Chapter Three hundred sixty-four (Kyla)

“How did I let you talk me into this?” a deep voice rumbled as a carriage trundled slowly over a too-narrow dirt road.

“How did I talk me into this?” a much higher-pitched voice replied, though there was an undertone of...

Chapter Three hundred sixty-three (Mei)

Dihe usually won any disagreements between his siblings by the simple tactic of sitting on them. This was particularly effective on his white-furred sister, Jiu, who remained the smallest of the five. Yan, the red female, was the most likely to ca...

Chapter Three hundred sixty-two (Lianhua)

Lianhua laid face down on the floor, feeling the pressure of the Emperor’s power surrounding her. She had never felt such strength from a human being before, not even her grandfather, and some traitorous part of her mind wondered if it was possi...

Chapter Three hundred sixty-one (Ogden)

Ogden sighed, thrusting his lock-pin through the chain he used to raise and lower the platform. No one had howled for him, so he had a moment to rest, and he glanced around before touching the metal circle that cinched his belt tight. It was batte...

Chapter Three hundred sixty (Pilla)

She had waited as long as she could, but new howls were rising up from the mid-levels and the Deep. Supposedly, there was a whole city in the mid-levels, and it had once been occupied by the beasts that lurked in the dark, slaughtering any kobold ...

LR Chapter Twenty-nine - All That Glitters

Pandy had spent hours poring over zone maps from Gacha Love, including the ones for Condor, but she had no idea what to expect when they arrived at Falconet. Thaniel had fallen asleep some time ago, lulled by the movement of the carriage,...

Chapter Three hundred fifty-nine (Shom)

Shom shifted the pack on her back awkwardly, feeling like the nineteen-year-old girl she’d been when she first stepped foot into the mountain, rather than the woman she’d become over the course of the ensuing millennium. She was so ready for t...

Chapter Three hundred fifty-eight (Katri)

She felt like a fool. When Kaz returned, alive and well, with more power than she’d ever felt in anyone before, Katri had actually dared to hope. Her brother was back, and he’d stopped pretending, stopped living the lie that Oda’s madness an...

Chapter Three hundred fifty-seven

Once Gaoda and his father were gone, the atmosphere among the humans grew noticeably more comfortable. Even Zaixiang Wufong relaxed somewhat, though his dark eyes lingered on Kaz and Li a little too much. Reina and Jinn quickly took over the conve...

Chapter Three hundred fifty-six

<It’s time,> Li said, lifting her head from Kaz’s chest. Kaz didn’t need to sleep, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t, so he slept with Li each night, sharing dreams of flying.

Kaz kept his eyes closed, as though he could stop ...