Jennifer Jones
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Tala sat in a little dell beside the deep hole down to the prison cell. Mistress Cerna sat beside her on the grass, silently watching the light change across the plains as the sun moved toward midday. A slight breeze was washing over the hills, causing the high stalks to dance and sway in rhythmic waves. A few nearby bushes added the sound of shivering leaves to that of swishing grass—and the occasional animal call or bird song in the distance—as the two women sat, just absorbing the beauty and…-
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Tala sat in comfort as the unit glided through the air in what was nearly the twentieth iteration of their combined construction. She was still seated on flat stone, but there was no need to keep as still as possible, and that made a surprising difference. Terry, as had become his habit, was proudly perched atop his perch at the pinnacle of the sleek glass shell, which redirected wind away from the passengers. Mistress Cerna had perfected the scripts she used to propel the craft, making for a smoother,…
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Tala felt rather happy as she walked through the early morning streets of Alefast. Her training was going well; her new job was well and truly underway; and she was making new friends and acquaintances across the city. But there would be time for that. Right now, she was on the way to the Gredial estate to act on some well-acquired information. In truth, the information hadn’t been hidden, it just hadn’t been prominently displayed. Today was Rane’s birthday. Tala, herself, didn’t like big…
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Cover coming soon! Tala is finally able to test the edges of her ever growing capacities among a group of peers. Hungry for ascension, she pushes boundaries she once deemed unbreakable, and already Tala has set her sights on advancing further in her power and skills. Yet even as her abilities continue to grow, her first lessons from so long ago still ring true: Magic is expensive. Continuing to Fuse requires a cost that she will struggle to pay. In order to advance, Tala will need to come to terms with…
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Tala took deep breaths, eyes closed, desperately focusing on four things at the same time. Well, that wasn’t She had four of her bloodstars locked away with four clones of her instructor in this lesson, Mistress Kaeti. The woman was clapping in slowly changing patterns, each clone following a different cadence as Tala listened. Tala was then moving her hands, each on beat, each with one of the four. Beyond that, she was moving her elk-leathers in alignment with a third, causing a bit of white steel…
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Tala was able to stand and shift around a bit more on this second version of their unit’s flying contraption. They had spent part of the time while waiting for Mistress Kep to fully research the cell workshopping the combined construct, and this second version was much more stable as a result. They’d added some fins which acted like the fletching on an arrow, keeping it oriented as they wanted. The orientation and construction was different from an arrow’s fletching, of course, because they…
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Tala was the last one out of Khesed’s cell, as was her role as the physical and magical interceptor for her unit. She backed out slowly, keeping the prisoner in sight as he floated above the forest floor, suspended in his restraints. Around her, incredibly intricate, interlaced magics were finally fully formed. From what little Tala could interpret—when they were activated—they would repair the hole into the cell and seal it once again for the foreseeable future. She took the last step out, onto…
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Tala was the last one out of Khesed’s cell, as was her role as the physical and magical interceptor for her unit. She backed out slowly, keeping the prisoner in sight as he floated above the forest floor, suspended in his restraints. Around her, incredibly intricate, interlaced magics were finally fully formed. From what little Tala could interpret—when they were activated—they would repair the hole into the cell and seal it once again for the foreseeable future. She took the last step out, onto…
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Tala finally understood Mistress Cerna’s reaction to having fewer ‘out of the city’ assignments. At least she thought she did. They’d been in the folded space for more than two full days as Mistress Kep dug through, checking and triple checking the information on the prisoner and their best approaches. Master Clevnis had taken some time to explain things to Tala, emphasizing that the reason that he was doing so was specifically because this was her first cell, and not for any other…
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Tala turned her attention to the other things within the folded space as Mistress Kep flared with power and slowly rose into the air. Tala wasn’t quite able to tell what magics the Paragon was using to lift herself, but she didn’t Opposite the cliff, in the roughly fifty-foot square of reality, was a weathered stone building, the interior of which was accessed by an open archway. The ground looked very much like the ground outside the folded space with knee-high grass, interspersed with low bushes…
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