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A Soldier's Life - 312 - Changing Fortunes (final edit 9-25-25)
🕑 Added 2024-12-15 04:15:25 +0000 UTCChapter 312: Changing Fortunes The blue moon shone brightly as we hurried down the Spire. We felt safer after passing through the misty ligh
Chapter 312: Changing Fortunes
The blue moon shone brightly as we hurried down the Spire. We felt safer after passing through the misty lightning clouds. I held Mynasha’s hand and guided us with earth speak. Once we cleared the clouds, it grew much darker, the clouds obscuring the moon’s light.
Mynasha kept glancing up as if she feared the Titans might change their minds about letting us go. After we climbed over the rubble of an old guard post, she asked seriously, “You’re not from Desia. Are you an outlander?”
“We called them otherworlders in Telha. Besides, I think outlander is copyrighted,” I said dismissively. I was distracted, angry, and trying to figure out a way to keep my secrets. Although, outside of Telha, my secrets mattered less.
“Copyrighted?” Mynasha asked, confused at the word.
“What?” I said, preoccupied. My mind was a jumble of thoughts. Maybe the Titans had fished around and scrambled my brain a bit, as it was difficult to focus. I shook my head, trying to clear it. “Never mind. If you believe Khrusos, you are one as well, but not from where I came from.” I paused in thought. “At least not from the same time as me. You aren’t a murloc, are you?”
“A murloc?” The war cleric tried another unfamiliar word on her tongue. She was still in some shock herself. The Titans were essentially powerful enough to be considered gods, and thought of themselves as such.
I waved my hand, revealing the truth. “Forget it. It was a bad joke. Otherworlders from my planet, Earth, founded the Telhian Empire two thousand years ago. I was pulled here two years ago. Otherworlders have stronger affinities when they arrive, allowing them to become powerful quickly. In the Telhian Empire, they are hunted to prevent them from threatening the First Citizens’ rule.” I started walking again, thinking the best place to ambush the other clerics would be at the base of the Spire. They would be tired and unsuspecting.
“Stop!” Mynasha spat, exasperated. “I am not an otherworlder!”
I sighed and turned to her. I had felt violated and humbled by the storm giants. I lost a lot for her Trial, and so far, I haven't gained anything except promises that depended on whether she was raised to lead the Caliphate.
I bit down on my anger. “I don’t know if you are or not. Do you remember anything before you were adopted as an infant? Otherworlders arrive in groups.” She gave me a blank stare, clearly unable to recall her early years. I sighed. “Well, your ability to pull aether from ley lines means you have a strong affinity for convergence. How many other rare affinities are you strong in?”
We stared at each other for long moments in the dark. “You have a strong affinity for space?” she finally asked. I nodded slowly. It was obvious after my dimensional space had vomited out everything I had secreted away over the last two years. She exhaled and spoke. “Of the rare magics, I have strong affinities for convergence and worlds. I have some affinity although weaker in the other rare magics,” she admitted. I gave her an I told you so look, which she may not have been able to see in the dark. Orc dark vision was not as good as my aether sight.
“Are there other otherworlders in the Caliphate?” I asked hopefully. It was a mystery I had been too busy to investigate. But there had to be others. Maybe others from Earth. I had feared looking too hard would draw attention to me and reveal my origins.
Mynasha looked to be slowly accepting the truth of it. “Glasha would know better than I. I recall that about forty years ago, there were some elves, but it is said that the Supreme ransomed them to Esenhem. I was not alive, so I don’t know any details, but Glasha would,” she responded numbly.
Knowing how powerful otherworlders were, I had my doubts that they were ransomed. Giving your rival neighbor powerful mages didn’t seem wise. “From what I know and from what the Titans just confirmed, otherworlders come from multiple other worlds. My planet was Earth,” I reiterated. I looked up nervously, but I hadn’t felt anyone scrying us. “Let’s get down to the base of the mountain in case the Titans change their minds about letting us go.”
In the dark, we made good time, but the effort was draining. We didn’t have any water, as my stock was all left on the audience chamber floor. I was dehydrated and my mouth was gummy. The ring of sustenance still required me to drink, and I had been sweating profusly. Mynasha was feeling it too, and she stumbled in relief at finally seeing the towers that flanked the base of the Spire. Sunrise was not far off, and I stopped looking for a way to climb the tower.
“Why are we stopping?” Mynasha asked with a cracked voice.
I wasn’t sure if I should tell her my plan. “Go to town and ride back with your prize. I will wait here for the others.” I could see the confusion on her face slowly crystallize to realization.
“You are planning to kill them.” She didn’t seem upset. She was just stating the facts. “That is not honorable and would cause me to forfeit as a candidate.”
“I cannot let them know about my powers,” I said firmly.
In the darkness, I could see the incredulous look on her face. “Powers? You mean your dimensional pocket? You think you are special?”
I felt that was unfair, given how much I had supported her through the Trials. “Yes.”
“You are not. There are a dozen clerics with pocket spaces,” she said.
“As big as mine and capable of storing living beings?” I retorted. I could see her suddenly recalling the griffin. My dimensional space had only been about two-thirds full when Khrusos had torn it open, but even at that level, it demonstrated the immense space affinity I possessed. They would probably figure out I had stolen the pixie. I made a mental note to find out how Khrusos had managed to force open my space.
Mynasha was still processing. I gave her time as I looked for a way to climb up the tower. She drew my attention when she spoke. “No. I believe yours is bigger. But it is just one spell form and not a threat to the Caliphate.” Oh, how little this one knew.
“There are many more powerful mages than you. There are clerics that can change the weather and bring a blizzard at the height of summer. Clerics who can summon a Kraken to sink a fleet. Clerics who can bring the dead back to life. Your own Emperor was the most feared void mage in a millennium. I can call down lightning to destroy cities from a mile away.”
My opinion of her decreased. I didn’t think she was connecting the dots that I could store people—and parts of people. “Still, I plan to wait for them.” I turned and quickly climbed up thirty feet to a ledge with an entrance to the empty tower. Mynasha, surprisingly, climbed up after me. I looked at her questioningly.
She looked a little smug about my surprise as she sat on a large stone in the tower across from me. “I will wait with you. I owe you too much honor, so if this is the path we must walk, I will stand with you as you stood with me. Do you have anything to eat?” she asked, arching an eyebrow.
I was a little shocked that she chose to stay with me and was setting aside her quest to become the leader of her people. I fished around in my belt pouches and found a number of potions, coins, and pellets that I already knew were there. In one pouch, I discovered a small pile of apples—just five that I had made easily accessible for Ginger and forgotten about. I handed her one and ate one myself. Ginger would be very upset that I only had three apples remaining.
The shadow of the Spire was cast on the landscape by the rising sun. As it moved in front of us, we waited for the fate of the other candidates. After a few hours, all but one of the apples were gone, and Mynasha had fallen into an exhausted sleep. Many things that Khrusos had said were playing through my head.
In my first few months on Desia, I longed to return to Earth. After Macha, that yearning had slowly subsided, and I had accepted my fate. Deep down, I had always believed there would be a way to return.
My life here was definitely more exciting, and I was someone important. Well, relatively speaking. At least to my friends. Yes, I was happy with my life here, but maybe one day I would search for others from Earth. Perhaps I could send a message to my family on Earth to let them know I was alive and doing well. It was probably a fanciful thought.
Around midday, Mynasha’s stomach growled in protest, causing her to wake. She moved to empty her bowels in the far corner of the tower. She wasn’t shy about it at all, talking while she did so. “What if they don’t come down?”
“What?” I hadn’t considered that. How long would we wait? “We will wait till sundown.”
“We don’t have food. We could return to the town and come back,” she offered, returning to me at the ledge. “We can tell Woolasha we don’t have an artifact yet.”
My mind went to another possibility. “What if you are the only one to return? Will you become the Supreme?” I asked, thinking that if I killed the others without Mynasha knowing, perhaps her ignorance would allow her to take the seat.
“The Elders will divine the fate of the others,” she answered, reading my unspoken thoughts. “Your deeds will be seen as mine.”
Magic was always the wildcard factor. I made a decision. “Let’s return to Becar.” Mynasha looked surprised, so I explained, “The best way forward is for you to become the Supreme. I will leave the Caliphate with my companions and the goliaths before anything can come of it if you become the Supreme.”
“If that is what you want,” she said, but I could tell she was relieved. We scrambled down the rocks, and she gasped when she thought I had jumped the last ten feet. Instead, I used air discs to create steps for a quicker descent. We were soon walking on the rocky terrain back to the town.
“What is your world like? Is it different from Desia?” Mynasha asked with curiosity.
I slowed a little. I hadn’t talked to anyone about Earth in all my time on Desia. “There is no magic, but technology that is far superior to what mages can do with spells. There are a lot more people, too. We have myths of the Titans and some of the creatures on Desia. Somewhere in the past, people from Desia must have traveled to Earth.”
We walked in silence for a while. Mynasha was deep in thought as the town came into view. A few black sheep trotted over to greet us. Mynasha shared her troubled thoughts with me. “If I am not from Desia, I wonder what the planet I came from is like. Do I have family there? Would my life have been different if I had never been brought here?” I finally understood why she had been willing to give up the Supreme’s seat. She was questioning everything. I was not the best person to give her guidance, so I remained silent.
We reached the town, and Cleric Woolasha greeted us while others from the town looked on. “You were the last to leave, but are the first to return! Did you meet with success?”
Mynasha appeared impassive. “The Titans were challenging to deal with, but my First bartered for an artifact.”
Woolasha’s eyes lit up and his face bore a tusky smile. “That is fabulous. I can send word to Glasha that you are returning! I will let her know if anyone follows you. Your mounts have been well cared for and will be saddled shortly.” As if they had been summoned, two young boys came forward, leading the gray and Ginger. Ginger was excited but restrained herself from dragging the young orc to greet me. It was nice that she had been worried.
Ginger’s head pushed into me for attention and an apple. Maybe she wasn’t worried about me, but her supply of apples. I didn’t have the heart to tell her I only had one left. I didn’t even have any grain to supplement her diet of grass. As she munched on the very last dungeon apple, we mounted and turned to the road.
I took one last look at the Spire in the distance, the peak hidden behind the lightning clouds, and couldn’t help but wonder what was happening up there.
We didn’t rush back to Becar, but maintained a safe pace for the horses. My conversations with Mynasha mostly entailed answering her questions about Earth. Reflecting on my old home was starting to make me feel homesick. I wondered what my parents and sisters thought when I disappeared. Did they try and find me?
Glasha and Tarnasha met us at the guard post when we arrived at the entrance to the Elders’ valley. Glasha was finely dressed and grinning at us. Both looked like they had been waiting for some time. Glasha practically shouted, “You found success and are the first to return!”
“Is there any word of the others?” Mynasha asked, sliding out of her saddle. Her legs were unsteady, and Glasha moved to heal her.
“Fioasha is dead,” Glasha said, sounding unremorseful. “Cleric Jhuarkasha and Warlord Rhuuk left Rosenrock two days after you. They also were successful in obtaining an artifact from the Titans.” I didn’t like hearing that Rhuuk still lived. When we had stood in judgment before the Titans, there was something in his eyes that had worried me, a predatory intelligence.
Tarnasha was delighted as well. “The Elders are fighting among themselves about what to do now that Fioasha is no longer a viable candidate. We don’t believe Jhuarkasha currently has enough support among the Elders to be named Supreme.”
“Neither does Mynasha. But our position is tenable, and the Elders will have to announce the final Trial when Jhuarkasha returns,” Glasha added optimistically.
When we reached our longhouse, I was stunned. A dozen orcs and a few human slaves were inside, along with furniture and crates of supplies. Glasha was a bit smug. “Some of the warlords are hedging their bets in case Mynasha becomes the next Supreme. Over a dozen wish to take a meal with her or seek an audience for advice.”
Mynasha’s jaw was slack at how quickly her fortune had turned. My mind processed what was missing. “Where is Maveith?”
“Ah, yes. Our goliath friend got into a little bit of trouble,” Tarnasha said with a bit of wariness.
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Comments
Justin Akers
Give me more haha
Erick Thiemke
Nuclear bombs, space ships, understanding the cell, the internet, human influencers
Jesper Hansen
I liked this chapter :) and I do not agree with the comments, I don't think Eryk is being all that out of character, we've heard a lot of thoughts about how he is holding it in for his friends sister. I did not like how he just bowed down and didn't really get angry at the titans.. But they are seemingly like gods who could tear open his dimensional space, so it makes sense, I guess I've just read too many novels where in a situation like this a protagonist would surge with some weird anger potential power thing and either slaughter them all or impress them enough to do lose out.. I did not like this tho: "but technology that is far superior to what mages can do with spells", because that's just factual untrue and doesn't make any sense.
Brianna Stormcloud
Oh dear! Thank you for the chapters 😁
Louis Nel
At this stage I just assume Glasha is working against Eryk because she cannot go more than two chapters without manipulation or deceit.
Erick Thiemke
edited in master
Erick Thiemke
edited
Erick Thiemke
added him in a bit, but not dovetailed with the trails
HappyNoms
Just pointing out that a spell form to selectively remove memories exists in the world's magic/lore, but has yet to be used. One would think Eryk would highly prioritize getting ahold of an artifact with it, or establish an ongoing relationship with a mercenary who contracts for it's use / memory edits on targets, or would add a specialist memory mage party member to the company, etc. It would give him a lot more optionality than just invariably needing to kill anyone that glimpses his dimensional ability use. Sometimes it's awkward for the plot for a rival or observer to be killed off, and it would give other plot point options.
Erick Thiemke
yeah the interactions will be rewritten. i might go with a straight up promise to free Zorana if Eryk helps Mynasha rather than the back and forth indeciveness
Martin Ljungberg
The biggest letdown of all of book 5 so far, is the complete lack of anger. Eryk was just robbed blind after bending over backward for a complete stranger, and he didn't have a single angry outburst? He has been exploited mulitiple times by Glasha, yet he has never gone for any reprisal. That strikes me as uncharacteristically unrealistic for the whole series. The human side of the series has been one of the better sides of this book, and despite the general spinelessness of all characters, there has been some realistic negative emotion shown; however, since Eryk started travelling from Telhia, there has been no anger or sorrow, frustration or grief or otherwise expressed emotion that shows that there's a man in there somewhere. He takes everything in a horrifically unsatisfying stride, even in a situation like this, where killing Mynasha would've been a completely reasonable reaction.
GucciG
It's kind of annoying to see that Warlord live but that's just me grumbling. I like Maveith as a character, but this entire arc to save his sister has been a massive investment with little to show for it. All Eryk really did was become the leader of his small crew and join the Guild. I'm hopeful that saving Maveith's sister was meant to act as a vessel for Eyrk to meet Mynasha for a massive payoff at the end.
Andrew Crews
Ginger’s head pushed into [me] for attention and an apple. I didn’t have the heart to tell her I only had one left. I didn’t even have any grain to supplement her grass. —— Glasha and Tarnasha met us at the guard post when we arrived at the [Elders’] Valley entrance. Glasha was [finely] dressed and [grinning] at us. Both looked like they had been waiting for some time.
Andrew Crews
What?” I hadn’t considered that. How long would I wait? “I will wait [for] the day.” “We don’t have food. We could return to the town and come back?” she offered as she returned to me at the ledge. “What if you are the only one to return? Will you be the Supreme?” I asked, thinking [that] if I killed the others without Mynasha knowing, perhaps her ignorance would allow her the seat.
Nicholas Livingston
The plot armor grows. The other cleric did a simple task that took two days.
Anel Alic
Yes the author did say something about merging affinities to make one stronger
Invalid Entry
He’s got a point lol. Early on apexes were dropping for pretty much any tough creature. Also wondering what task they could have done which would be equal to what Erik paid. It has to be at least as difficult as killing a bunch of trolls and ogres considering the essences the titans stole.
John Donovan
I agree but in all honesty most of those secrets would start leaking out eventually. For how much Eryk has been involved with powerful people it's a bit more surprising it took this long.
Deliver roo
He lost his secrets he became the center of unwanted attention instead of being inconsequencial. The empire and every country that has got problems with otherworlders is now a risk and he will be now known by his potential enemies before he is even aware of them.
michele 00
Meh
Scientist Valci
Not all. He got one from a wyren, one or two from the creatures the wardens fought(when he met the goliath), a lot from the water monsters like four, he was also getting major essences from kobolds and goblins. I don't remember everything, but am sure ogres and trolls are much stronger then those creatures and i thought essences are base on the highest stat and how high that stat is.
Erick Thiemke
the apex essences were from a long-neglected dungoen. also teh trolls are not from a dungeon - their ancestors were - they bred into a population and ventured to the surface (with some help). as for the orc escaping - it took so long because he had to do a task for Khrusos. Fioasha could not complete a task and was allowed to die
Scientist Valci
Yes it was nice. But why would the MC get himself into all this situations eludes me.
Scientist Valci
Hi. I read the 312 chapter in very quick succession and I notice a few weird balance changes. The essence drops are not consistent at all, througout the story, trolls that escaped a oversaturated dungeon dropping only major essences when he was getting apex from pretty much all the hard to kill mobs and ogers dropping minor??. I also like many have a problem with the MC doing everything he can to get involved with orc politics. You know they could have just waited for the Supreme to be chosen and than steal the slaves? Also the other orcs escaping makes no sense. He escaped because of the tons of dungeon food he had on him. They don't care about artifacts so how could they possibly escape.
Mark Corwin
Right. She with draws. Then the new leader says they are gonna need his things and they off the new leader while freeing his slaves. Sounds perfect.
Gyatzilla
Weird question. If Eric raised his wind affinity would it increase the power and durability of his air shields? If I remember correctly he gained the spell form from a different affinity but elementally it is still air magic?
The Cobra Den
If the your a DnD party it would be Fighter - constantine Elf girl- rogue/ ranger Orc- Sorcerer. Or druid Eryk- Paladin / bard
The Cobra Den
orc becoming the leader seems like the natural progression. I'm a d&d player and always thinking of party composition. We got Eric, Constantine, the elf girl and the ork. that's a strong party right there
Carlos Guzman
I appreciate the reply! Love the book. Your writing is phenomenal!
Erick Thiemke
see the pre-comment above. the edit is going to include that the Titans do entertain visitors so this is a test of the candidates diplomacy. Fioasha had an unknown advantage that he had already visited the Titans in his youth but this meeting he made an error and angered Khrusos. Khrusos struck down Warlord Etos and injured Fioasha
Carlos Guzman
I'd like to point out that with the current iteration and even the rewrite the challenge makes no sense. The elders are supposed to be creating challenges that are in Fiona's favor, but speaking to a bunch of giants that are essentially gods doesn't seem like it is a good challenge for her at all, because they don't like her anymore than anyone else. You mentioned she was looking for artificats in the lower levels that she already knew of, but then completely rushed past any attempts of her finding any or trying to. Why would she rush to the top?
InfernalDrake
Damn, the people in. comments are more murder-hobo than I thought. I think this is a good direction for the story to take. Plus the inventory clearing is nice. A spring cleaning was due anyways.
John Donovan
How and what did he lose?
Deliver roo
Well he let the other orcs live so news of him being an otherworlder and of his power will reach his enemies anyway. Who cares about Mynasha even if she wins Eryck lost already.
Deliver roo
Honesty Eryck shouldn’t even care about being disqualified at this point. He should just care about how many orcs he can kill before getting out of the Caliphate and before word of him being an otherworlder spills out to other countries. Nor the goliaths, nor his companions or his relations to important people in the Caliphate should matter as much as keeping his secrets. One of his enemies making it back to base with that lind of knowledge is potentially a game over. Eryck can fix the situation by disappearing for a century I suppose, but I don’t think this is where this story is going.
Deliver roo
It is difficult to move on when he just lost most of his shit and suddenly his enemies know who he really is and can use it against him. Basically now Eryck cannot go to any place on Desia that has got something against otherworlders and needs to be alerted at all time, it should affect the story and probably not in a good way.
Kimberlee
I like the dimensional space reset at the midpoint of MCs overall story. Good to humble him a bit and not have a cure for every inconvenience at his fingertips.
Aaron Weingrad
Mynasha will be a disaster for the Orcs or at best a useful figurehead.
Valter Anunciação
Damn that's tarded. At least my membership ends in a week. Dropped.
Erick Thiemke
it is probably going to go something like: He gives the apple-berry jam up. The Titans like it. He will not be volunteering the bear meat, instead Khrusos will then forcibly empty his space next. So he only revealed a 24" cauldron on his own. It will be such that the MC will be painful aware he is no match for the three storm giants. Angry about it - yes. Can he do anything about it - no.
John Donovan
Why does this feel like this is foreshadowing of Mynasha joining Eyks ragtag group. I can't see Eryk leaving her alive with the knowledge she has when he leaves. That is just another loose end that could come back to haunt him. I still feel like instead of the giant tearing into Eryk's personal space he is able to look into it and pull individual items out. Eryk can then try to individually resist the giant. The fact he was completely helpless just doesn't feel right. On a brighter note the Bruins decided to show up and sure enough I feel asleep before it even started.
Justin Garrett
It definitely was frustrating but a potential god did it and he was out numbered without allies except Mynasha. Eryk was smart enough not to get himself killed and make it out with his most valuable possessions.
Manfred Schütze
he kept all his most important stuff, he only lost food and the only secrets that came out is that he is an otherworlder(which the orcs dont give a shit about aparently) and he has a big storage (which also doesnt seem important to them) so the loss isnt as big as it seems
Salvo
It was hinted at more than once most of the warlords didn’t back her unless they coupled up. If the rewrite wants Eryk to side with her, crafting the narrative more deliberately about this would help. That Eryk relied on Raelia as a scout and trained with her, and Eryk cooked and lead his team: support and command. If that is what she wants for Orc society it would at least make since why Eryk sides with her. “I want to lead like you do now”.
Valter Anunciação
Só the consequences are the same. The Mc still gets mugged for no reason and is fine with it?
Erick Thiemke
307-311 rewrite is still in my head. I’m reading comments and taking feedback. I don’t want to miss my 4 chapters a week release schedule to do the rewrite so they will be over the next week. The conclusion/plot is still the same for book 5, just how it gets there may change
Erick Thiemke
No the rewrites are still in my head and taking feedback for 307-311. I want to flesh out the ending a bit before going to them
Erick Thiemke
Ten books for this story. Halfway done when this book is complete! The rough outline for the series is in authors notes
Valter Anunciação
Só wait. When is the rewrite coming? Is it gonna be rrl only? Are you gonna stop posting regular and re-writing from 307? I'm confused
Lexy Joy
Are the rewrites completed or are you still working on it? Your writing is excellent. Love it so far. How many books are you thinking of writing for A Soldier's Life?
BubblyGhost
Well apparently clerics can just scry, as they stated in this chapter by if Eryk killed them the clerics would know
BubblyGhost
My vote is for eating the titans (figuratively. . .maybe just a heart or two) after a hundred years or so of dungeon delving for gear/essence; maybe a fun little jaunt into the spooky endless depths or whatever they were called
InfernalDrake
Spite is among the most powerful of motivations.
PatronTurtle
I wonder how many warlords will want her as Supreme to have a woman in the position to try and woo or tie to by way of children
visigoth
This seems like a little much for a scorned researcher ngl
Silver Beard
Her research was laughed at. Being in favor of the Supreme likely will give her some immunity from harassment.
Salvo
I’m shocked getting Glasha to read the giant key’s history wasn’t required. People could have gone up with an artifact right? I imagine that is a play, challenging Eryk for his artifacts.
Andrew
Thank you!
Shandlar
It'd refreshing actually. He was upset, pushed his luck to gather up everything he could despite it being a risk to his life, and then moved the fuck on knowing it was the best he could have done. It's mature. Way way better than we ever get from MCs of trapped in another world stories 99% of the time.
Chachi
i agree orc blood must be spilled imo
KipBR
I think letting them live is probably something he has to do - we have no idea about the ability of the remaining candidate, but the fact that it has been a while means someone probably is holding them back from returning. Either a clairvoyance thing predicting their deaths if they return now, or a farsight thing revealing the ambush. That could either be the titans stirring up trouble or the remaining candidate still being tricky.
Eddie
This author doesn't like melodramatic monologue. Good thing cause I don't either. He lost his shit? that sucks. now let's move on.
Chachi
murder hobo eryk cant come sooner
Justin Barnett
Eryk seems too calm right now. He just got screwed out of most of his possessions and had most of his secrets outed. I think he would be raging, at least in his own mind.
visigoth
So what does Glasha get out of this? A puppet Supreme after getting Eryk to play Kingmaker? This way she can force more progressive policies through an avenue of authority denied to her?
1536539
Letting them live is a mistake, but he already knows that, I don’t understand how killing the other candidates would disqualify her, wouldn’t she become supreme by process of elimination? As for divining their crime, isn’t that what the orb is for? It should block clairvoyance magic right?
Erick Thiemke
1st of 4. So I am surprisingly only one day behind - A Town Builder chapter or 4 chapter edit. I will look at that first tomorrow before writing the next Soldier chapter. As noted above the audio book is getting close for book 3. I will post a link for those of you who want a free copy. Free copies are only available in the US, Canada, and England for some reason. I have 10 for US/Canada and ten for England, so first come first serve when I post the link for Seraphim patrons.
