Daniel Thompson
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Once Gloop carries the ship away and the fog clears up it becomes a lot easier to see Vizeda in all of its splendor. Unfortunately, Vizeda doesn’t have much splendor to show off. The city isn’t entirely uniform, rather it’s a half-circle shoved up against the banks of the Dark Gulf--which isn’t actually a gulf, in purely geological terms, but no one but Esme cares about my rants when it comes to the names of places. Anyway, the city is barely worth the name city. It’s more of a town with…-
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Bianca is one of the few people to remain on the pier as the ship comes in. She doesn't consider it bravery not to flee as the vessel approaches in and moves with unnatural motions through the docks. She has a mission to take care of, and that takes precedence over all the rest. The fear is kept though, a chill that grows ever colder as she buries it deep in her core. It might come into use later. The ship stops with a jerk right on the edge of the empty pier and remains immobile, even as its wake shoots…
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“Look! You can see the city!” I say as I rush to the very front of the ship. The ship is one that Mom pulled out of storage, which is to say that it’s a ship that was sunk in the ocean just off the coast of the Land of Monsters that a few ocean-dwelling friends had started to call home. Mom ordered it pulled out of the ocean and some cleverer monsters got to work patching it up. I don’t know much about ships. This one is a caravel, I think. Maybe? It has three posts for sails in its middle,…
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Valeria Malvada, self-proclaimed princess of Darkness, maker of cute monsters, haver of two friends (and the world's coolest mom), is sent on a grand quest in the Caselfella Republic. It's a very easy quest, one that she can't possibly mess up in any way. It would be almost impossible to accidentally topple a city, or convince the very repressed daughter of a local noble family to turn rebellious and decide to conquer her own country in the name of the Dark Goddess. It's been two whole years since…
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Hi! Heart of Dorkness was a ton of fun to write. It’s a story that I started based on a fanfiction I wrote a long time ago (called Princess, if you’re interested) but other than stealing the initial premise, it diverged a whole lot, though I’d like to think that some of the best ideas stuck around for a while. The story was started on April 24th, and the first chapters were posted on Royal Road, Space Battles, Neovel, and ScribbleHub on June 30th, 2021. Not too bad for a 106,000 word story, I…
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I don’t know why I’m so worried. It’s just Mom. Mom’s the best. Livonas carefully lowers her hands down, dropping the cart full of books to one side and placing the back of her other hand down so that we can climb off without having to jump. Felix and I hop off without any problems, but Esme sits on the edge of the hand and scoots her butt to the edge until she slides off and lands on her feet. This is it. I’m home. I don’t know what the weird swirly sensation in my tummy is. It’s not the…
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“How long is it going to take?” Felix asks. I shrug. “I don’t know. I could guess, but it probably won’t be very accurate. I think it would be... about two days by wyvern to go from home to Montele?” “The capital is that close?” Esme asks. “Doesn’t that mean that the Dark Goddess could launch an attack at any time?” “I mean... yeah, Mom could do that at any time regardless of how far a city is from home.” I think Esme’s about to reply, but Livonas twists her long neck around…
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Livonas isn’t small. Actually, I don’t think ‘small’ is a word that can describe any dragon, but especially not Livonas. Her toes flex, and cobbles crack and splinter apart beneath claws that are longer than my entire arm span. Wyverns circle above, flying around the dragon’s head. They look as big next to her as a pigeon would next to me. I hear a heavy crunch and glance over to the far wall of the courtyard, a wall that’s crushed near the middle. Livonas’ tail waves above it, flicking…
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“Are you nervous?” Mom asked. “No,” I lied. I didn’t have that much stuff packed away. One bag with a few essentials. A purse with some gold, in case I needed to buy anything. I didn’t even have a knife or anything of the sort. I wasn’t trained to use any weapon, so it wouldn’t make sense to bring one. Besides, I had a bunch of little friends on me. “That’s good,” Mom said. “You don’t have anything to worry about.” “I know,” I said. I was happy she was trying to comfort…
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