David Thompson
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Bee watched as Zeal and his followers slowly marched from the city. Her position on the wall gave her an ample view as they walked off into the distance, the long line leaving a trail of dust floating in the air. A trail that the white-robed cultists avidly tried to stifle with wet clothes. She had better things to do than stand here and watch, but she couldn't take her mind off of what had just happened. Something heavy weighed on her heart, something she couldn't quite identify. A mixture of relief…-
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I launched over the wall and scanned the city, looking for the unfortunate man who had the poor sense to knock over a wine glass. I sure hoped he didn't get any of the nasty stuff on his shirt. That would have been a travesty. Stains like that never come out. At least they didn't used to. I was pretty sure I could fix those by now, depending on how old they were. Wine stains were tough, but I might be tougher. As I swept through the city, I noticed that it was acceptably clean. People had done a very…
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I didn't understand why Beatrice was having so many problems with her new skill. I watched as she focused on her breath again, her brow furrowed, and her eyes narrowed. Air rushed to fill her chest as she attempted to breathe in. But as her lungs inflated, she shook her head and frowned before resetting back to her previous position. She had explained the skill to me, of course. However, I found myself unable to provide much more insight. It seemed as natural as cleaning was to me. I watched as she…
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"What?" Bee asked, surprised as she looked at Daedalus. "How is it worse than we thought? At most, the demons have some human allies." Daedalus shook his head. Archibald held his hand out and waggled it side to side. "I mean, yes and no. You see, back when we first fought them, the demons weren't alone. They had help - humans like us were forced to serve them. And though most of us were slaves..." Archibald paused. "Not all of us were. Some of them served eagerly and very much of their own volition."…
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After Daedalus finished telling his story, and everyone had recovered slightly we looked around. We werent entirely sure why the Lieutenants had picked this place to meet. Was it just for an ambush, or was there some other reason? Aside from the entrance tunnel, there were a few more ruins that we found in the area. In the center of the massive stone dome, there was a summoning circle made similarly to the one wed found in the mansion back in the capital. Beatrice and Archibald both spent some time…
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I looked at Daedalus, trying to understand what he meant. The time in my dustbin had obviously changed his physical appearance to be much more fabulous; the look in his eyes gave me the impression he wasn't just referring to that. "What do you mean? The physical changes, your fire, or something else?" "It I replayed my memories, finding that he was in there for exactly 287 milliseconds. After displaying the number, I had to explain the units and failed to describe what the apparently too precise…
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Harold hadn't made it too much further in tracking the Lieutenant before the promised backup had arrived. It was Susan, the demon's... No. Lord Void's intelligence officer. It was still hard for him to think of Void as anything but a horrific demon that wanted to consume his very soul. However, many times, the Warden corrected him, but the fear was still instinctive. Having met the strange creature, or godling, as some would call it, Harold did have to admit that he had probably been wrong about its…
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The pair of Lieutenants leaped back in surprise at my assault. I hurried after them, spraying arcs of acid after them. Unfortunately, I only had a limited amount of the caustic liquid. It wasn't a simple mix of chemicals that was doing the damage. It was a specific concoction that Beatrice had spent ages preparing, and the magic imbued in it required time to develop, time that I could not speed up or even replicate myself, not without more research. So, I had to be careful about where I used it. It…
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As the runes flashed and the tunnel opened, Bee ran through it as fast as she could, chasing after Archibald. His extra levels on her were really showing in the physical stats department. She felt a slight rippling in the air as Void whipped past her. Gritting her teeth, she poured more energy into her legs, trying to push off the ground harder and run faster. But she could only go so fast. She burst into the massive dome at the end of the tunnel not too long after the others did. She looked around and…
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With Daedalus situated in my dustbin, I could see him floating in the void, unaffected by everything around him. It didn't look too unpleasant or anything, but I tried to think of any other ways to make it as comfortable as I could. Drawing on some of the energy floating within, I projected a gentle light so that he could observe some of the other things going on around him. Maybe that would make it feel less claustrophobic. "You should be fine. We'll make this quick." I told him by projecting sound…
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