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Abyssal Road Trip - 524 - I am not (yet) okay
Amdirlain’s PoV - Material PlaneThroughout Sarah catching her up on events she’d missed, Amdirlain continued creating simple bacteria and chemical chains for their reproduction. Verdandi’s death resonated with the stray memories the plinth had ensured she’d witnessed. She tried various psion...
Abyssal Road Trip - 523 - Best for me
Amdirlain’s PoV - Vehtë - SouthgateWith gentle chiming notes, Verdandi’s Soul lifted from her body, and Amdirlain ended the lingering song that prevented the acolyte and priestess from hearing anything.“Goodbye, Verdandi. Whatever your journey holds next for you, I hope it’s with beings tha...
Abyssal Road Trip - 522 - Letting go
Amdirlain’s PoV - VehtëPhoenix’s Trail sped her across successive longitudes at a pace that saw the sun shift in the sky, taking her from early evening to early afternoon in a few seconds.As she approached the northern shore of the Great Lakes, she paid more attention to the network of roads cr...
Abyssal Road Trip - 521 - An Unexpected Call
Amdirlain’s PoV - Demi-PlaneWhen the hug finally ended, Rachel winked. “Don’t keep the family waiting too long for a barbecue.”“Once I’m settled, I’ll put regular family gatherings high on my list.”Rachel laughed and wiggled her eyebrows. “That’s an excellent idea. There is much ...
Abyssal Road Trip - 520 - Home Again
Amdirlain’s PoV - AtonementSilpar and Eldest barely began to field questions when the whole cloister jumped planes. The atmosphere shifted as the planar energy changed to calm consideration from the oppressive, chaotic pressure of the Abyss.Purification energies washed through the stone, clearing ...
Abyssal Road Trip - 519 - A Thousand Years
Amdirlain’s PoV - CulerzicAmdirlain considered the nearby trio of Eleftherios, Laodice, and Naamah as the flames from the corruption’s incineration died, and she shrank to her typical height. The pendant of the Redemption’s Path, having survived her various transformations, sat coldly beneath ...
Abyssal Road Trip - 518 - Lost and found
Amdirlain’s PoV - Primordial EssenceHer initial impression had grossly underestimated the tens of thousands of shards she’d scrambled to locate and assemble. After the memory she’d retrieved of surviving the mines, time had passed with the steady beat and tiresome progress of a pickaxe tunnell...
Abyssal Road Trip - 517 - Pieces of me
Amdirlain's PoVLiquid darkness drank her thoughts. A blink tickled her eyelashes across the icy surface beneath her, and she imagined herself lying face down on a sheet of ice; yet she became immediately unsure of what ice might be or why she was lying on it. Aches and sharp pains ran through he...
Abyssal Road Trip - 516 - Lose Yourself
Amdirlain’s PoV - Ijmti - The Cloister of the FallenThe lifetimes she influenced loomed like an avalanche poised to crush her. Amdirlain sought her soulscape, but the plinth yanked her back into the moment. From within the plinth, billions of tales linked to her were assembled, the bleakest themes...
Abyssal Road Trip - 515 - One More Light
Amdirlain's PoV - Outer reaches of the Material PlaneThe latest of the string of stars she'd left behind had only barren planets orbiting them. While ready for life to be created, she focused on pushing True Song. By not yet increasing her classes further, she was better able to judge what c...
Abyssal Road Trip - 514 - Colour your night
Amdirlain’s PoV - Demi-PlaneIt’d taken under a month to have sessions with all the Enyalië. The gradual increase in group sizes as her Power improved was offset by the rests she took throughout the process. The process of supplying realistic simulations of True Song for them had been a continua...
Abyssal Road Trip - 513 - Mood
Amdirlain’s PoV - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western ReachesA few days later, a Gate contracted behind them, disappearing into the shadows beneath the trees. Amdirlain could see the fields outside the Outpost of the Western Reaches through the gaps between the trees. She had already examined ...
Abyssal Road Trip - 512 - Fleeting comfort
Amdirlain’s PoV - Demi-PlaneShe’d only been there a few minutes when Sarah arrived—her look of relief at seeing Amdirlain changed to concern when their eyes met. “Your eyes look a lot older.”“You could say I did some closed-door training. There was a time loop that repeated a day. I used...
Abyssal Road Trip - 511 - Light 'Em Up
Amdirlain’s PoV - HadesLysandra shifted them to a gigantic grey cliff face carved with Grecian columns and balconies. Ancient shed ectoplasm provided ghostly echoes from all the souls that had trudged through the barred gates at the cliff’s centre. The stream of residue washed a chill breeze ove...
Abyssal Road Trip - 510 - Bittersweet
Amdirlain’s PoV - Hades - Observation PlatformShe appeared with the green figure in a vaulted chamber. Around them, sturdy constructs that had thick elephant legs attached to a central core used long tentacles to shift stacks of material from various storage containers. They moved them into feeder...
Abyssal Road Trip - 509 - Far away
Amdirlain’s PoV - Hades - Beneath the sealThe descent proceeded for a couple of kilometres through granite polished enough to shine like marble, and Amdirlain could feel the dimensional energies shifting across her skin. Oddly, it was a magic firmly laced with Chaos rather than silvery Celestial e...
Abyssal Road Trip - 508 - Goddess
Amdirlain’s PoV - HadesWhen Amdirlain stepped out of the gold pane, Damon froze in mid-word with Medusa, who sat nearby. She caught him mentally setting aside their idle chatter to follow his duty.He shook his head and looked up at Amdirlain in concern. “It concerns me that another dire challeng...
Abyssal Road Trip - 507 - Round and Round
Amdirlain’s PoV - Hades - Halls of AthenaA steady progression of knowledge points into the Arcane Knowledge had caused two evolutions. Her understanding of the realm’s rules and True Song made it far easier to see how the arcane elements of the realm linked. After hundreds of points had been spe...
Abyssal Road Trip - 506 - Drought
Amdirlain’s PoV - Hades - Halls of AthenaWithin Amdirlain’s Soul, the group of elves had grown distinct. A male among them drew Amdirlain’s gaze. While previously, only his lack of face tattoos had distinguished him from the others in the group, now he appeared worn and fatigued, the worry lin...
Abyssal Road Trip - 505 - Time warp
Amdirlain’s PoV - Hades - CreteAmdirlain waited near the closed gate, aware of the throbbing sour notes from her destroyed arm. Only when the sour notes eased did she move to the open floor area of the amphitheatre, checking for signs among the benches of where Medusa and Damon had gone. Dried blo...
Abyssal Road Trip - 504 - Some like it hot
Amdirlain’s PoV - Hades - TartarusLava streamed off the figure as they rose higher in the volcano’s central pool. His stony brow alone was three hundred metres across while beneath his eye ridges pits of molten lava seethed in his eyes socket.[Name: EkdikésisSpecies: Earth-Born PrimordialDefenc...
Abyssal Road Trip - 503 - Never be
Amdirlain’s PoV - Hades - CreteAmdirlain emerged from the wormhole to find Damon staring at Medusa with wide-eyed fascination. “No one has ever returned from a trial with someone else before. What’s your name?”“Megaera,” offered Medusa, without a glance at Amdirlain.How would Damon have ...
Abyssal Road Trip - 502 - Left Behinds
Amdirlain’s PoV - HadesAmdirlain easily located both the attackers and those who knew. Theodotus, despite his misogyny, hadn’t been involved at any point. Though he looked down on women, he considered such assaults to show a lack of prowess and honour. She concealed her rage as she patiently fol...
Abyssal Road Trip - 501 - Don't tell me.
Amdirlain’s PoV - HadesHer perceptions contract to a churning conduit of white and black, with a pinprick of light in the distance. The threads of energy along the tube looked like the inside of the eye of a dust-laden twister. She felt herself rush along in the tube for minutes, and as quickly as...
Abyssal Road Trip - 500 - Crossroads
Amdirlain’s PoV - HadesWind and lightning battered Amdirlain as Aetos Kaukasios raced up the mountain. Every beat of the giant eagle’s wings pulsed the surrounding air with energy, and a rift split the grey clouds high above them. The psionic pattern aimed at her targeted location, divided betwe...
Abyssal Road Trip - 499 - On my own
Amdirlain’s PoV - AtonementShe arrived a few million kilometres from where Nazha and his father were sparring atop the building. Amdirlain had expected as much since the Plane’s automated processing of souls left them little to do. As she started to plan her next steps, the evening spent listeni...
Abyssal Road Trip - 498 - Set me free
Amdirlain’s PoV - BeijingFrom the hills outside the imperial city, Amdirlain looked over the red-tiled roofs and the neat lines of the paved streets. In a variety of sites beyond its limits, she observed large fortified compounds that contained the themes of multiple practitioners. One of them had...
Abyssal Road Trip - 497 - Parting ways
Sarah’s PoV - South Wind’s Court - AyutthayaAs the two servants escorted them through the palace they caught glimpses into the rooms they passed. The interior was a mixture of polished stone, airy screens, and engraved wooden furnishings. Though it was immaculate by Human standards, each inhalat...
Abyssal Road Trip - 496 - It's you
Amdirlain’s PoV - South Wind’s Court - AyutthayaThe river around the island—Ayutthaya—teemed with fishing and trade boats, as Amdirlain and other practitioners raced along the waters in the early dawn. They’d been in the guest house for days without invitations or obligations. While Kadakl...
General Status
Hi Folks,I'm running late with the second chapter this week. I've spent a lot of time finishing book 2, and chapter 496 needs reworking.Will look to get three chapters together next week, but will see how things go.
