Christopher Robinson
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Felix led them down the street, sticking to the edges of the crowded thoroughfare. The roads were busy and loud, but Felix found it strange that there weren't any merchants hawking wares. It wasn't an obvious change, just an awkward silence in place of the thing he'd grown used to in every city he'd visited. People talked and shouted and laughed and argued, but it was a dull roar, unpunctuated by the vibrancy of over-eager merchants. Instead, there were a multitude of shops, each marked with statues of…-
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As Felix suspected, fixing the Shadowgate was easy. It barely had any damage to it, save for some ineffable internals he still didn't understand. Once those were repaired, his Unite the Lost cut off, and the shadows at the center of the active gate swirled with a current that was a bit unsettling to watch. Standing so close to it, Felix could even feel a small breeze through the dark. It was faintly scented with citrus and loam, the hallmarks of a familiar Tree. It took longer for Atar to break the seal…
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As he walked the path back through his Void Sanctuary to Elderthrone, Felix couldn't help but feel a melancholy longing. Leaving Pit and Vess was hard. It wasn’t loneliness, exactly—he could get back to them soon enough. Felix stopped. "Hunger. What was that?” Yet no matter how he poked, she didn't speak again. Best he could figure, Hunger was just commenting on his friends’ absence, and Felix would leave it at that. He had other worries. He slipped through the Shadowgate and back into Nagast…
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On his way back through his Void Sanctuary, Felix made a pit stop. He veered off the shimmering path, leaping across several city streets in a single bound. He soared through the pristine air, landing easily atop an opalescent roof and sliding to a stop before leaping again. Midair, the city shivered beneath him, and a pulse of faint light swept through an entire neighborhood. Felix gritted his teeth as he descended, pinpointing the building below—the one that contained his rage. It was lit up as if…
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They divided into teams. It wasn't too hard to do, but it required some logistics as supplies were divvied up, and people shuffled around. Felix was happy to see that no one flinched from him or ran away now that they knew he was Unbound. If anything, they were more deferential, which was annoying but acceptable. He couldn't quite keep a smile from his face. Felix had been afraid of the reveal for so long that to have it be so underwhelming was a little funny. Beef and Archie had no problems, though…
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“Calm down,” Alister said, moments after Atar began to panic. He walked out from a curved hall to their right. “I am here.” Atar hurried over to the man. “Where’ve you been?” He looked closer at him. “Are you alright?" "Later." Alister planted a kiss on the mage's cheek. "I see we're just about ready to go." Indeed, they were. Descending the spiral steps were the Henaari, led by two Chimeras. It was a large group, dwarfed only by Pit's enormous Tyrant form. A’zek, by comparison, was…
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"Pyreform, huh?" Evie asked, reading the Skill descriptions that hovered in front of her. "So you're an elemental now?" "It's complicated," Atar said. "Suffice it to say that I am the same as ever, with an occasional radical change." Felix looked at the Skills himself. It wasn't just one that Atar manifested, but a set of paired Skills that worked in tandem. "This didn't combine with your Astrum Revelation, did it?" Felix asked. "No, I still have that. Why?" "I could." Atar grimaced. "There's a danger…
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Gabby sat with her head cradled by silken sheets and impossibly soft pillows. She stared at a ceiling painted to resemble the evening sky, wondering how she had gotten into this mess. Before she’d regained her Mind. Before Imara. Her memories of that time were hazy. What stood out was a great deal of training interspersed with exceptional violence that curdled her blood to think on. Recent events were easier. She recalled her brother, the man who now went by Felix Nevarre. She swallowed. Gabby found…
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The little gem birds flew around Atlantes with an energy that it found pleasing. Spirit Trees didn't feel in the same way as mortals did. Their emotions ran deeper. Slower, but stronger. The birds alighted on Atlantes's branch and nibbled at its leaves. The Drake and the Warrior had asked for them to play among its branches quite nicely. The sun through branches. Dappled leaf shadow. Atlantes liked people with manners. The little ones were curious creatures. Not truly birds, but sharing so many of…
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He was adrift. It was Felix blinked his eyes open and beheld a swirling typhoon. Flames and broken chunks of razor-sharp obsidian surrounded him, tearing at his visualized Body. He banished the pain. It was nothing. Intent and Will were enough to hold himself together despite the shrapnel tearing phantom blood from his flesh. “Enough!” His Master Tier Mind clamped down, and Atar’s core space rattled with his powerful command. Within a core space, everything was real and illusion all at once;…
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