David White
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Griffon’s trio of Heroic cultivators stared at me without comprehension. The boys on either side of Lefteris leaned around their guardian to whisper to one another, confused. Anastasia, for her part, hummed and nodded once, as if I’d just confirmed a long held suspicion. “Old ‘Zalus has been keeping quite a secret.” “Fuck,” Elissa whispered. “… fuck,” Kyno agreed. “Fuck!” Lefteris slammed his hands to the table with force enough to crack it and make his boys flinch. Elissa…-
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We gathered in the home of the Sword Song, the first Heroine to respond to my unintended call on the night of the kyrios’ funeral. She stood while the rest of us sat around a low table of carved mahogany. There were dining couches as well, enough scattered throughout the house for us all to sit if a few of us shared, but I hadn’t bothered dragging one over. The rest had followed my example and sat on the bare floor with varying degrees of propriety. Elissa alone stood - silently glowering at the far…
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Emerging from the heart of the mountain was a slightly less pleasant experience than going in. My late uncle’s sword made for a poor walking stick, and using pankration hands to steady my body was a drain just severe enough to be noticeable. The Reign-Holder’s starlight marrow was doing its best, but Socrates had put some proper force behind his throw. For now I could only endure and do what I could with the knowledge Anastasia had given me, guiding my pneuma to the parts of my body where it was most…
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When Jason was six years old, his father sat him on his shoulders while they sailed into a cyclone and told him it was time he learned about standing. Standing, or reputation as the mortals called it, was something any man could understand whether he was a cultivator or not. But, as with most things, its significance increased along with pneuma. Standing was what contrasted a man from his peers. In a financial sense, standing was the difference between the man that cleaned stables for a living, and the…
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