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Weekly Digest 131 - (#413 - #415)

In Complete Opposition

The rest of the day, as well as the next, were without incident, barring the occasional additional episodes of ‘… … …’. No one noticed, as such episodes were common enough to not be ...

Demesne 415 - You Won’t Be Alone

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Shana’s left arm rose and slapped her cheek hard, and she picked up her flow of thought where it had fallen, then went back to eating her lunch. With her final responsibilities discharged, she had nothing more to do until it ...

Demesne 414 - I Could Use Some Advice

As promised, Binder Lori—accompanied by Auntie Riz, Auntie Mekari, Auntie Brabli, Auntie Vapoli, and Auntie Sintelerra—set off for River's Fork after breakfast the next day. The Great Binder had on her usual expression of distaste and resignat...

Demesne 413 - In Complete Opposition

The rest of the day, as well as the next, were without incident, barring the occasional additional episodes of ‘… … …’. No one noticed, as such episodes were common enough to not be noteworthy, like Binder Lori not remembering people's n...

Weekly Digest 130 - (#410 - #412)

Returning The Children

As Rian had promised, there was stew ready for them, and some bread as well. Both were no longer warm, but after how hot it had been in River's Fork, Lori had no objections to that.

Umu ...

Demesne 412 - You Fall Beneath That Purview

"I realize that you wish to not be bothered," Shana continued as she straightened, turning her back to the basin to sit down in a more comfortable position, her gaze towards the entrance into the bathing area. "I understand you want to have as lit...

Demesne 411 - Shana, We Need To Talk

Shana should have known this was going to happen. After all, the stated—and according to Binder Lolilyuri, only—reason the children had been taken to Lorian Demesne was so that they would be safer from dragons and to relieve the strain on Rive...

12/3/24 Update

Hello everyone! Sorry for the belated poll, but it almost slipped my mind, and the past month or so had been... 

Anyway, before the poll proper, some minor announcements. For those not able to keep certain terms straight, there's glossa...

Demesne 410 - Returning The Children

As Rian had promised, there was stew ready for them, and some bread as well. Both were no longer warm, but after how hot it had been in River's Fork, Lori had no objections to that.

Umu and Mikon had already finished eating by the time they'...

Weekly Digest 129 - (#407 - #409)

Rest And Regret

Lori wasn't sure when she woke up the next day. She had not bothered to go outside and look.

She wouldn't have left her bed, never mind the sweet blackness of unconsciousness, if it were not fo...

Demesne 409 - Mine Shelter Development Planning

The second fruit orchard was rather small compared to the one that they were currently relying on for fruits. As Lidzuga had said, most of the fruit trees were stunted. A few were clearly saplings that had been grown from seeds and even with Deads...

Demesne 408 - Probation's End

After the holinight, it was back to work. While the new wood curing and storage shed had been raised, it still lacked doors on either end. It wasn't needed at the moment, since most of the planks cut were going straight to roofing the sawmill, so ...

Demesne 407 - Rest And Regret

Lori wasn't sure when she woke up the next day. She had not bothered to go outside and look.

She wouldn't have left her bed, never mind the sweet blackness of unconsciousness, if it were not for the fact her gold water wanted to flow and her...

Weekly Digest 128 - (#404 - #406)

Resuming Excavation

As much as Lori wanted to only excavate for half the day and spend the rest of the day continuing to expand her demesne, since the harvest was occurring now and they needed the space to ...

Demesne 406 - Post-Shed And Harvest Exhaustion

Building the new wood storage shed took two days, coinciding with the end of most of the work on the harvest. It was so hot that the sheaves of grain left out in the sun dried in a day, ready to be winnowed. The carpenters had made some kind of st...

Demesne 405 - Building Another Wood Shed

"You can start moving grain into the new storage room," Lori told Rian at dinner, which was admittedly later than usual. As with the previous harvest, people had worked for as long as there was sun in the sky to work by.

"Just me? Did I do s...

Demesne 404 - Resuming Excavation

As much as Lori wanted to only excavate for half the day and spend the rest of the day continuing to expand her demesne, since the harvest was occurring now and they needed the space to store their grains, she didn't have the option of do...

25/2/24 Update

So, I'm angling to end Volume Three soon. Now, by 'soon' I don't mean in the next two weeks, but more like... on this half of the year? I've stopped trying to forecast how long it'll take me to finish any part of my stories anymore. However, it's ...

Weekly Digest 127 - (#401 - #403)

Dedicated Expansion

“Ugh, I’ve forgotten how painful using pens could be,” Rian sighed at dinner, his right hand opening and closing as if he was trying to loosen up muscles.

Lori and—she checked the r...

Demesne 403 - Prototype And Storage

Lori stayed up a bit later that night that she usually did, testing the mechanism as she said she would. She connected the wire from the mechanism to the wisplight she'd used for the previous darkwisp alloy testing and wrapped another wire around ...

Demesne Patron EX SS 33 – Good Morning

In the militia, Riz had learned to be aware of the smallest disturbance while she slept, while also not being so light a sleeper that she woke up for every little thing. If she'd woken up every time someone had gotten up to use the latrines, woke ...

Demesne 402 - The Prototype Sliding Switch

“With another week of similar growth, the surface area of the demesne will increase by almost half of it original size,” Rian practically cheered after he did some calculations on his slate, muttering to himself the whole time. “At this rate...

Demesne 401 - Dedicated Expansion

“Ugh, I’ve forgotten how painful using pens could be,” Rian sighed at dinner, his right hand opening and closing as if he was trying to loosen up muscles.

Lori and—she checked the rocks in her pouch, pulling out the right one on the ...

Weekly Digest 126 - (#398 - #400)

A Fourth Alloy

They were able to quickly ascertain that the new alloy had the same properties of copper. It bent like unalloyed copper did, it was easily shaped by simply hammering it, and it wasn't any harder or mo...

Demesne 400 - Sliders And Dials

Once the crucible was ready, Lori went out to get some lightningwisps. The quartz in her staff had long since run out—she should probably do something about that before the next time she had to leave her demesne—so she walked to the binding th...

2024 Demesne Anniversary Special: Good Night

It was well after dinner and even the line of hopefuls at the Um had long dispersed, deciding they’d rather have sleep than sex. Despite the strangeness—and once you know why it was called that, silliness—of the name, people actually had tak...

Demesne 399 - Alloys Of Light And Dark

Iridescence in the crucible. As with the airwisps, the lightwisps seemed to occupy the same space as the firewisps of the molten metal. Also like the airwisps, once the slag was scooped out the copper was poured into the mold and allowed to slowly...

Demesne 398 - A Fourth Alloy

They were able to quickly ascertain that the new alloy had the same properties of copper. It bent like unalloyed copper did, it was easily shaped by simply hammering it, and it wasn't any harder or more elastic than copper was normally.

It w...

Weekly Digest 125 - (#395 - #397)

Resuming Expansion

At the end of the week, Rian had a gathered a small group of men who decided that working the whole day in a shaded mine was preferable to working until it was too hot to stay outside. The morning...

Demesne 397 - A Third Alloy

The next morning, Rian and the three women seemed to be back on their usual terms. at least, Umu was back to leaning against him, and Riz was sitting next to him once more.

"I take it you've resolved your issues?" Lori said blandly.

Ri...