Jennifer Smith
Stories
12
Chapters
4,250
Words
1.6 M
Comments
0
Reading
5 d, 14 h
-
I let myself down on the rock, stood there for a while, then sighed deeply, lay on my back, and turned my eyes to the gray sky. The clouds were getting grayer and grayer, clearly indicating that it would rain soon. If I stood here I would get wet, but I didn't care. I was alone, and that's what I wanted. "Lithoa." 'What is it, Adrian?' "Do you... do you think I'm strong?" 'If you compare yourself to your peers, you might be at the top, but you're not where I want you to be.' I paused.…-
271 •
-
-
Suddenly a pain shot through my whole body. The pain wasn't much, but it was very uncomfortable as it enveloped all my muscles. Still, I waited and waited. Finally, after a while, the pain slowly started to subside. When the pain was completely gone, my whole body felt different than before. No matter how many times I experienced it, I could not get used to this sudden change in my body. Sighing, I opened my statistics window. I smiled slightly, satisfied, but then my eyes drifted to the…
-
271 •
-
-
I waited. For a long time, all I did was wait without moving a muscle, without making a sound. Still... I couldn't say I cared much. I couldn't think about anything after what Celine had said to me. I knew she was probably directing her anger at me, I knew that. That's why I had let her, but that didn't change the fact that there was some truth in what she had said. She was there because of me, she had suffered because of me, she was like this because of me. I was to blame for everything, even if…
-
271 •
-
-
Before me stood the man who had once been the head of the best guild in the kingdom, the head of one of the most influential noble families in the kingdom, even if he was no longer in the same position, but to anyone looking at him now, he was just... broken. So broken that if I blew on him he would shatter into pieces. "She won't eat, she barely drinks water, she refuses to come out of her room, she cries, and whoever she makes eye contact with is terrified and starts screaming. Do you know how I…
-
271 •
-
-
After talking to Adrian, not much of importance happened in the past two days. I had a brief meeting with Melany and we talked about our future actions, and to my surprise, she didn't explode at me. She was more cautious when talking to me, I could understand that, but she didn't seem to hold me responsible. When I think about it, I can think of a couple of reasons. Probably the fact that we have averted a much bigger disaster with this one makes her less angry with me, but it doesn't change the fact…
-
271 •
-
-
After Clara had left the room, Julian spoke slowly. "Well… you and your sister are not on good terms, huh?" "It's complicated, but we're not hostile." I paused for a moment. "I guess." Then Julian chuckled again. "You're good at making jokes, and you're making people worry." Slowly the others joined the conversation. It wasn't long before the topic shifted from me to them, and I listened to what had happened to all of them during the attack. Our conversation went on and on. Lucia…
-
271 •
-
-
I saw a faint, pale light in the endless nothingness as thoughts that I couldn't even tell if they were mine yet raced through my mind. My eyes involuntarily shifted there instantly. This pale light, which seemed far away, much farther away than me, grew stronger and wider as I looked at it. Eventually, it grew so large that it began to take my eyes. Of course, this didn't last forever. After a while, the intensity of the light started to decrease and it went out completely. When I opened my eyes…
-
271 •
-
-
"Ms. Melany! The enemy has begun to retreat! It looks like we managed to push them back!" I looked at the dozens of holographic screens in front of me in my room at the top of the Academy's main building. I responded thoughtfully without turning to the guard who was talking to me. "Send me a detailed report as fast as you can." "Yes, ma'am!" The guard then quickly left the room. Seconds later, a notification appeared on one of the holographic screens. It was a notification of the incoming…
-
271 •
-
-
The purple-eyed man frowned when he saw the tiny black box, the gate device, that Aiden activated with his heel. "Are you stupid?" His voice was a little sarcastic, and without waiting for an answer, he started to move again, but just before that, the purple energy in Aiden's arm suddenly began to change form. In a split second, purple chains shot out of his arm and wrapped around the man's body. "You have an authority?!" Aiden did not answer. After the chains, the purple energy around him…
-
271 •
-
-
Breathless, I asked with a deep sigh. "Did they give up on us?" Julian, no different from me, looked back out of the corner of his eye. Our pursuers had given up when the distance between us and the canteen had diminished. They were afraid of that place. "I think they did." We stopped running, our steps slowly slowed down. We looked at each other and it was quiet for a moment. Then Julian's face broke into a grin and I could only smile slightly. "I didn't know you could run that fast."…
-
271 •
-
- Previous 1 … 419 420 421 … 425 Next
