Silver Linings

He-Who-Guards had known this question would come eventually. He'd even been ready for it. What he hadn't been ready for...

Gheraa wasn't used to this. Not the act of existing in realspace, though that was certainly strange in and of itself; th...

Author's Note: Some small changes to the end of the last chapter: -- "To kick Rhoran's ass?" Ahkelios supplies eagerly....

It takes only a few minutes for Gheraa to go through the magnitude of what he'd learned. Ahkelios, Guard and I all excha...

Gheraa wasn't entirely sure what had happened. One moment he was speeding toward what he assumed was Ethan and the other...

The world around them changed, and He-Who-Guards watched. He didn't recognize this space. It was a small workshop of som...

The core of an Inspiration is that they alter the skills that pass through them in some fundamental way. The Knight is t...

"Don't let that get to the Hand!" I call out. I dash forward as I speak. Guard must have reached the same conclusion a s...

It feels good to have my Firmament flowing through me again. I waste no time in kicking things off, activating the Knigh...

I sense them before I see them. The pattern in the Firmament around me changes suddenly, and just like that, the rhythm...

Gheraa stared at the destruction before him. There was a whole section of the dungeon that was just... obliterated. He c...

Rhythm. It's all about the rhythm. It takes me a while to realize it. I don't know how long I try to fight while just be...

It's not exactly easy to fight while layering threads of Firmament into my core, but it's not impossible, either. I rely...

It took Gheraa a while to piece it all together. Part of the problem, he thought, was that there was a part of him that...

It takes us longer than I'd like to get to the Intermediary. Without full access to my skills—at least insofar as it'd b...