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Shall We Play A Game 008
Sidon was a fine city, as far as Egyptian cities went. It helped that it was more Kinahhu than it was Kemeti, as it were, having only been conquered a generation ago, but to Mattizawa of the Mitanni it was still an Egyptian city. It wasn’t home, in Wasuhanni, nor was it even the rather tolerable l...
Shadows and Dust 19
“Alright, folks. Fai Dan said that the areas we’ll be fighting in will be pretty tight. A full squad will do more harm than good. Which means it’s fire team time, which means we’re splitting up.” Cassandra announced, thirty minutes had successfully made landfall and thirty seconds after sh...
And So The Eagle Conquered 003
Camilla hated it when her brother left her behind and went out adventuring. It wasn’t something he did much, anymore, not after they had settled down in Riverwood, but she still hated it. She hated knowing that he was in danger, but she hated being left behind ‘in safety’ even more. She was st...
And So The Eagle Conquered 02
The crisp mountain air, the sweet smell of a mist-laden forest and a fresh-water river, and the natural cacophony of more living creatures than any area near my old home were all a magnificent display of the beauty that could be found in a world that didn’t really have much in the way of industry....
Nothing Is True 029
“Hello, Clarke. It’s good to see you again.”The words echoed through the room for several long heartbeats as the two females stared at eachother. Well, Clarke was staring, with a hanging jaw and wide eyes at that, while the older woman that had been waiting for her was grinning at her thunders...
And So The Eagle Conquered 01
Riverwood.Built beside a river strong enough for industry but weak enough not to be dangerous, teeming with fish but bereft of water-going predators. Built amongst a forest large enough and rich enough to provide everything that they might need and a bit more to sell, but not so large or so thick th...
Shall We Play A Game? Chapter Seven
Shall We Play A Game?Chapter Seven########################################Shai watched from on high as Hasamelli, Yuri, and their companions made their way out of the palace, in the company of one of her most proficient generals and his highly competent sister. It was almost funny, really, how teasi...
Shall We Play A Game? Chapter Six
Shall We Play A Game?Chapter Six##############################################################Paramesse, -though he much preferred Ramses, thank you very much!- rubbed at his temples in an effort to banish his growing head-ache. There were times where being a ranking officer of the Kemeti military s...
Shall We Play A Game? Chapter Five
Shall We Play A Game?Chapter Five###############################################################Ankhesenamun glided through the palace corridors like she was floating on a cloud, her steps light and her heart even lighter, her sandals whispering across the polished limestone floors. The cool evening...
Shall We Play A Game? Chapter Four
Shall We Play A Game?Chapter Four########################################################Akhenadin, former bearer of the Millennium Eye, Maker of the Millennium Items, and (amongst many other things) uncle to the current Pharaoh of Kemet, was seething as he left his niece’s private wing of the pal...
Shall We Play A Game? Chapter Three
Shall We Play A Game?Chapter Three#############################################################The first five days of courtship had been brutal, at least for the other suitors. I, personally, had found it very amusing as she eliminated more than half of their number over the course of those five day...
Shall We Play A Game? Chapter Two
Shall We Play A Game?Chapter Two######################################################It was not unusual, in fact it was very common, for Ankhesenamun and her closest companions (and lovers, though they didn’t advertise that fact, not that there was anyone in the palace that didn’t know that the...
Shall We Play A Game? Chapter One
Shall We Play A Game?Chapter One##############################################Ankhesenamun felt the muscles of her jaw flex in irritation as yet another would-be suitor -this one a fourth prince from some satrapy of Babylon. A fourth prince, of a satrapy, for the Queen of Kemet!- wrapped up his long...
Shall We Play A Game? Prologue
Shall We Play A Game?Prologue################################################################Ankhesenamun Nebkheperure Kanakhttutmesut, daughter of Akhnamkanon, Pharaoh of the New Kingdom, Ruler of Tâwîî and, by the Grace of her Divine Father, Ra, Queen of the Remtju ni Kemet, snarled in outrage ...
Crown of Slaves 025
As it turned out, getting Vette safely and -relatively- comfortably lying down in the ritual room barring the path to Khem Val was more complicated than I had expected it to be.No, that wasn’t quite accurate.Better to say that getting her comfortably lying down without putting her at risk of an un...
Shadows and Dust 18
Cassandra looked around the Normandy’s briefing room with a faint air of windswept exhaustion, which seemed to be more or less how those filling the rooms seats seemed to feel. Save Wrex, of course, who looked more bored than anything else, but if she was going to be honest the old toad looked lik...
Nothing Is True Chapter 28
Clarke had thought that she knew what a Coalition celebration looked like, after the they had killed that mutant gorilla, and before that she’d thought she knew what a Coalition celebration looked like in the evenings after the Conclave’s daily events were over. As it turned out, all of that com...
Crown of Slaves 24
This was it. My final trial had begun. The trial that would solidify my place as Zash’s apprentice, though at this point it was essentially a formality. The rest of my pool was dead, missing, or were Kory, and Zash hadn’t been subtle in our conversation that she favoured me taking the post. Whic...
Shadows and Dust 17
Wrex, Battlemaster of Clan Urdnot, was not a particularly common sight on the Citadel, and with damn good reason. He wasn’t a big fan of all the noise, the bright lights, the perfect cleanliness, the facade of enlightenment and civilization. It was disgusting, a putrid, filthy, wretched lie wrappe...
Nothing Is True 27
It was the last day of the Conclave, and excitement was at a fever pitch in and out of the palace alike. The feast a few days past, featuring as a center-piece the yong pauna that had been hunted down and slain personally by their Heda and her guests, had been a welcome surprise, and the revelry had...
Crown of Slaves 023
Fortunately for me, my injuries were sufficient to earn me a brief stay in a bacta tank. Whether that was standard protocol for an acolyte in my position, advanced in the Trials and having successfully completed the trial that had so badly injured me, or it was due to some string-pulling by those ab...
Shadows and Dust 16
The initial Council meeting was, perhaps unsurprisingly, a bit disappointing. They had confirmed, after it was over and the audience had dispersed, that her candidacy was still valid and that her evaluation was still underway, but without further information on the attack and why it had happened, th...
Nothing Is True Chapter 26
None of them had been terribly surprised when Klark had, upon getting out of bed the next day, insisted that they collect a larger detachment of soldiers and hunt the yong pauna down. Though she only admitted to wanting to do so to prevent it from hurting anyone else to stumble across it -something ...
Crown of Slaves Sequel Poll
Those of you from my Discord got some small forewarning about this, so here it is: this poll is to determine what you, my loyal readers -paying and otherwise- would most want to see out of a sequel for Crown of Slaves. We're still a ways off from Crown being finished, of course, but I would like...
Crown of Slaves 022
Hope should not, in fact, have sprung eternal. Although, in pursuit of fairness, I did have to admit that this wasn’t quitewhat I expected to have happen, because while the slaves were not, in fact too busy to ignore me, they unfortunately weren’t alone either.“Sorry about this, girl. We like ...
Shadows and Dust Chapter 15
Introspection, deep introspection, had never been something that had given Cassandra a great deal of trouble, at any stage in her life. ‘To serious and quiet by half’ had been a common refrain by adults in her life, which had been balanced out quite nicely with their exasperation and plaintive q...
Crown of Slaves Chapter Three
###################################################Crown of SlavesChapter Three#####################################################Nearly a month had passed since I had been made a member of Asmu-Nikal’s personal staff, and I had discovered quite a few things that had not been readily apparent ou...
Crown of Slaves Chapter One
Crown of SlavesChapter One#################################################I didn’t expect to die the way I did. Granted, I don’t exactly rememberhow I died, but I doubt that it was how I had expected to die. In fact, my first feeling when I awoke into my new existence was an overwhelming sensat...
Crown of Slaves 020
This wasn’t at all how I expected things to go when it came to rescuing someone from the Sith Academy, and it wasn’t what I had expected wheThis wasn’t at all how I expected things to go when it came to rescuing someone from the Sith Academy, and it wasn’t what I had expected when it came to...
Crown of Slaves 021
The stench of ozone, roasted flesh, and scorched chitin clung thickly to me, filled the air around me, and I resisted the urge to gag only tThe stench of ozone, roasted flesh, and scorched chitin clung thickly to me, filled the air around me, and I resisted the urge to gag only through more experien...
