Grace Wilson
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In the depths of a dark castle, a madman raved at the two beings that could always hear him. One was a piece of something greater that he had ripped away from its origin, fashioning it into a tool and a weapon against itself. It did not know itself and was unable to comprehend the idea of having a will of its own, so it obeyed the instructions given to it, even if it knew that it was going against the intent it was made in. That being was represented by a thin screen that floated in the madman’s vision,…-
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Massive hunks of rough raw iron held up the roof, more slabs or blocks than pillars or wedges. The roof itself was one solid piece of dark stone, roughly cut at the edges. The columns, for they were columns by function if not by appearance, were pitted with burns, melted sections, dents, and slices from edged weapons. Kay didn’t know if they people who’d left such scars in the supports holding up the chunk of stone as long as a city block were insane or just trusted that they would never be able to…
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“There you are!” Eleniah stormed up to Kay and dragged him close. “Where have you been?” Kay leaned away from th sudden intrusion into his personal space but didn’t try and escape from his irate friend. “I was doing the testing thing, then the spy who was doing all the talking dumped me in a room with a bunch of officials, then Alahna found me and took me to Bev’roa and she decided it was best if I go do other things and they do some regular investigating for awhile, then Alahna did some…
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Kay tried to listen as Alahna’s advisers debated, trying to decide who would be in charge of the investigation, who would need to be checked next, and what the hell was going on. He tired, but the attempt was half-hearted, his mind awash with imagery, a man stepping through the bars of a prison door, a knife being driven into a man’s arm to reveal circuitry and metal, and a single metal hand descending into molten metal with one thumb raised. In reality, he wasn’t actually concerned that Skynet was…
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“Alahna,” Eleniah called out, interrupting the tense conversation conversation her cousin was having with one of the leaders of her guards. “What?” Eleniah held out some papers to her. “Do you have any additions to this?” She glanced over her shoulder at the two people coaching Kay on being sneakier and more subtle. “Your investigators said they’re just ready to start checking the first batch of people.” The two men were taking turns giving Kay various bits of advice and running him…
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Cindy did her best to keep her expression neutral and her bearing unworried despite the nervousness coursing through her. It wasn’t her first time having to be professional, she preferred to be casual when possible but she’d had a job and responsibilities back home and knew how to handle herself. Maybe that word was why she was feeling so anxious about this no, though, “home”. She was never going to stop thinking of the world she’d come from as “home”, home is where the heart is and she had…
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Kay’s thoughts roiled as he and Eleniah followed Alahna even deeper into the palace, out of corridors decorated and ready for visitors and nobles to see and into interior passages that focused on utility over beauty. They passed by servants and workers who bowed and got out of the way, halls thronged with the manpower that ran the palace making way for quieter and less populated areas. With no real life experience to draw from, Kay’s ind went to fiction. The Thing came to mind first, followed by other…
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Two couches with thin pillows sat across from each other with a low slung coffee table in between them, with Kay sleepily sitting on one of them and enjoying the view out the window. The sitting room attached to his suite was a nice little addition and the view was nice. As he’d tiered up his body had needed less and less sleep and even with the travel borne exhaustion he’d had the night before he’d still woken up after only a handful of hours feeling rested. He’d had a quick drink of blood from…
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A walkway made of mother of pearl framed with a border of shaped seashells led to a dais upon which sat a deep purple throne that looked like it was made of shaped coral. Two banners sat behind the throne, one with the sigil of the queen’s House and the other bearing the symbol of the Seramist Isles. Tapestries that displayed scene of Alahna’s might and important battles that led to the unification of the Isles into one nation hung on the walls on each side of the audience chamber, and below them stood…
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Starting as a small dot in the distance and growing in size as they approached, the island of Sel most resembled a flattened dome with gradual slopes that rose to a fairly flat top where a city sat clustered around a grandiose building of stone and colored glass that glittered in the sun. The slopes of the island has a number of smaller clusters of buildings built against the incline that looked like groups of homes or small villages, all connected by a winding array of stone staircases that criss-crossed…
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