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Chapter 12: The Fogs of Agnoia

Elizabeth spun, eyes wide with madness, reddened cheeks streaked with tears. Astrid flinched, expecting, for the slightest moment, her friend to lash out at her, mistake her for the forest witch she so despised. Chapter 12: The Fogs of Agnoia

Chapter 11: For a Father’s Approval

Lord Basil York looked up as his son entered the study. With neatly cropped hair and a trimmed moustache, he was everything the wild and immature Rembrandt Payne was not. “What is it this time?” he asked, dipping his pen in a well of ink and returning his attention to his work. He words were […]

Chapter 10 – Projection

“Hello, Second Class,” said the Chief, a small hint of cheer creeping into his lips before vanishing a moment later. “Most of you have finished your tasks for the day, so I figured it time for an announcement.” Chapter 10: Projection

Interlude – An Expected Visitor

Rembrandt Payne sipped his tea; tea calmed the soul, and his soul needed calming like never before. Interlude: An Expected Visitor

Chapter 9 – A Message from the Past

With a deafening roar, another explosion tore through the forest, pelting the village clearing with a gale of burning brush. The armoured Sophist lifted its sword high. Chapter 9: A Message from the Past

Chapter 8 – Emily and Truth

The Princess was happy to oblige — anything to help! — and told Phoenix everything she could gleam from their surroundings. Emily stood back, still invisible and unimportant, and made some observations of her own — not of the ship, but of the Princess herself. She was not alone. Chapter 8: Emily and Truth

Chapter 7: A Shrine to the Fallen

A thought crept into his mind, a voice eager to whisper sudden revelations about Sophists falling from the sky, to proclaim that of course that’s how it was, and how it always had been. They were not alone. Chapter 7: A Shrine to the Fallen

Chapter 6: Voices from the Aether

Emily reached for her shoulder. It was only a matter of time. It always had been. Time, and the whim of the Sidhe. Chapter 6: Voices from the Aether

Chapter 5: The Eyes of the Forest

“It’s not like somebody’s watching you twenty-four-seven. Besides, if you’ve nothing to hide, what have you got to be afraid of?” “Everyone has something to hide,” she replied, “and you’d be surprised the lengths some people will go through to know such things.” Chapter 5: The Eyes of the Forest

And so it begins. Again.

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