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Double-Blind CH176
My hand twitched. It’d be so easy to end Aaron here. My Strength wasn’t particularly high, but it was still a significant upgrade from a normal person. It’d take seconds to dig my fingers into his throat and squeeze—“I’d love to get in touch with her. Have a little chat about what she re...
Double-Blind CH175
I stared up at the metal beams stretching the length of Aaron’s house, supporting the wide open balcony on the second floor, an adage swirled up in my mind.“The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”As sayings go, it’s horseshit. And that’s not even getting into the terminal velocity peda...
Monarch - Whitefall VII
My nerves rested on the edge of the knife. I’d been in countless situations where the slightest misstep meant death. It took a while to overcome the fear that came with the possibility of losing my own life. The last few years in the sanctum had beaten that fear out of me.But the fear that others ...
Monarch - Whitefall VI
I snapped back into my body, blinking several times.There was no way of immediately knowing exactly how far back I’d gone, making this the most important part. It was still the same dew-crested morning. All the wagons and carriages were whole, meaning the drephin hadn’t made their move. I spun t...
Double-Blind CH174
“God, that sucks.” Streaking violet and blue swimmers covered my left eye. I sat up slowly and leaned forward, cradling my head. The nylon sleeping bag’s crinkling was absurdly loud.It took a moment to make out Sae in the darkness. Sae nestled in the nook beside the window, where she pointed t...
Double-Blind CH173
Rain poured, flooding the sidewalk and forming small rivers that followed runoffs to the storm drain. There’d been no warning of the incoming storm, save a few dark clouds on the horizon that overtook the sky in little more than an hour.Weather is volatile in Texas. Anyone who’s lived here for l...
Double-Blind CH172
There’s something to be said for southern hospitality. I’d never seen the point of it before, but inviting neighbors, friends, and enemies to mingle in a closed setting was a hell of a way to create a sense of unity where none existed before.Even if that sense of unity was counterfeit.The locati...
Double-Blind CH171
Kinsley and I were going to need to have a conversation about making the orders she gave her men more flexible.Not far into region five, traffic backed up to an excessive degree, forcing us to go on foot. Emphasis on us. Ditching Grit and Ire was impossible. When they’d stubbornly refused to let m...
Short Break + Schedule Poll
Hi all,Thanks for your patience. I've been working out the direction I want to take Double-Blind lately, and attempting to do that while writing has made things a bit strained. Considering that, I'm going to take the rest of this week to outline the next hundred chapters or so and really nai...
Double-Blind CH170
I had to stop drawing attention to myself as Matt. People were already asking too many questions.Which was why, as I pushed myself out of the SUV and squinted through the tinted lenses of a pair of dusty Oakley’s Ire offered me, I committed myself to doing nothing but enjoying a heaping serving of...
Double-Blind CH169
I didn’t have the time or the patience to play this nice. In seconds, I was out of my chair and on his side of the room. He flinched, as if I was about to strike him. Instead, I pushed a number of papers and trinkets out of the way and took a seat on the desk, planting one foot on the seat of his ...
Double-Blind CH168
As if something whispered in the back of his mind, Buzzcut suddenly whipped around. He scanned the room, pausing on me.I held my breath.Buzzcut’s eyes finally slid off me. He pumped sanitizer into his palm from a bottle on his desk and proceeded to wash his hands intently, working the sanitizer in...
Monarch - Whitefall V
I ignited my sword. Violet flame radiated from it, and the center grew red. “Bolster the first group with the rank-and-file.”Maya stared at me, dumbfounded. “Help the well-organized contingent of men that isn’t struggling, while you get yourself killed aiding the second group? I don’t need...
Monarch - Whitefall IV
“Maya?” I shouted.“Here!” A voice called back. A few yards away from me, Maya pushed herself to her feet, expression dazed, dress smeared with dirt and torn.The aegis faded. After a brief look to make sure there was no immediate threat, I forced myself to disassociate from the chaos. Catalog...
Monarch - Whitefall III
It took some time studying the canopy of dark green leaves before I found what I was looking for. An old tree, full of gnarled branches and bark that felt brittle to the touch. More importantly, it stood taller than any that surrounded it.Lord Erebus trailed behind me, doubt clouding his features. ...
Monarch - Whitefall II
My father was unflinchingly attentive throughout my retelling. His cold blue eyes pierced me, evaluating every word, every gesture.It was only the two of us in his carriage, save a mute scribe that took down our every word.For the most part, it felt like some sort of elaborate ruse. A cruel joke tha...
Double-Blind CH167
I soared through the sky. Even after ten minutes, the feeling of weightlessness was jarring and alien. In normal circumstances, whatever passed for normal these days, I would have enjoyed this. I was gliding hundreds of feet in the air, getting the sort of million dollar view only accessible from a ...
Double-Blind CH166
THRUMBright. Brighter than the birth of the universe.The crinkling fabric shredded through my ears like a sudden gale of wind. A metal saucer bearing, massive, far too large to be the utensil it resembled, forced its way in my mouth, cracking against my teeth. An overwhelming taste of vanilla radiat...
Double-Blind CH165
This was the homestretch.I’d expected to cover the retreat, and was fully prepared to take a few more parting blows from Azure to sell the theater.What I hadn’t expected was the Region’s reaction. I’d assumed they would cower in their apartments, waiting for the incessantly repetitive emerge...
Double-Blind CH164
It’s impossible to account for every variable. No matter how methodical your planning, well-thought your reasoning, you’ll always leave something out. The best plans always account for something to go wrong, expect proceedings to go off-course, and leave ample windows to adjust on the fly. Or at...
Double-Blind CH163
I covered my eyes and threw the cylinder. Even behind my arm, the resulting explosion was painfully bright, leaving a corona of pulsing violet around my vision. I sprinted out of the converted training area and out, leaping over training equipment and catching a glimpse of myself in the wall mirror,...
Double-Blind CH162
I shook my head, hoping I was projecting the correct amount of terror. “It looked like a monster.”Foster’s eyes darted back and forth. Finally, he seemed to decide. “We’re not here just to monitor you. Miles thought… he thought there was a chance someone might make an attempt on your lif...
Double-Blind CH161
We went down to the converted racquetball court area. Foster went in before me, while Cook waited outside the door.I observed them carefully. Other than Miles, I had very little experience with how high-level field agents operated. Cook seemed rusty, reflecting what Azure had told me. He hadn’t op...
Double-Blind CH160
AN: Sorry for the delay. Posting the chapters for this week in bulk.I returned to my apartment.Ironic that I was beginning to finally think of it that way—as mine—now that I was on the verge of losing it, along with everything else.There was a throbbing hum as Sae stepped through the portal behi...
Monarch - Whitefall I
The camp had gone up quickly, wood from the forest efficiently felled and processed into defensive towers and strategically placed barricades. Tents of white and blue placed in uniform rows made up temporary barracks for the soldiers. Larger variations emblazoned with the banners of an eagle, bear, ...
Monarch - Pyrrhic XIII
Sweat poured down my forehead, burning as it made contact with the last vestiges of seared skin. I’d told Kymar to stop, for now, and asked Ralakos to not inform me of the time until we reached the hour-before deadline.I needed to limit any distraction.For the third time, I pressed my hand against...
Double-Blind CH159
A picture of Dr. Svelt stared back at me. My therapist for nearly half a decade, before money got too tight, and we couldn’t afford him anymore. If they had my session notes, this was about to get a lot uglier.“What the fuck, Miles?” I asked. I didn’t have to manufacture the outrage.“Do—...
Double-Blind CH158
I went over all of it with the feds watching from behind their panel, in painstaking detail. For the most part, I stuck to the truth. Everything from the park where I first met Kinsley to the open-forum was mostly accurate, excepting any mention of becoming a User that early. Other elements were sub...
Double-Blind CH157
The outcome was already decided. That much was certain.Their side of the room had something of a frustrated air, as if they were all waiting for a foregone conclusion. Even if the detractors weren’t entirely onboard, they’d toe the blue line if the majority decided to pull the trigger.They were ...
Monarch - Pyrrhic XII
I knelt in the center of the room and attempted to clear my mind of all distraction. The memory of Maya’s parting threatened to resurface, over and over. I bore down on it ruthlessly until there was nothing but a blank.“Water coming down.” One of the servants warned. A second later, a frigid t...
