Patricia Wilson
Stories
10
Chapters
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Reading
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Truth watched the sun wink through the leaves of the brilliantly colored tree above him. There was a long pause. Truth nodded and got up. Truth walked down the street, vaguely headed back to the hotel. At some point, the hotel staff would ask someone for their identity sigil and a linked bank account, right? And the Shalia was one of those “our parent company is 45% owned by a Starbrite subsidiary” business. He had some vague recollection of someone’s niece or mistress being installed as the…-
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Truth looked at the duck. The duck didn’t look particularly happy to be in the middle of a library, but it wasn’t freaking out either. Now that he looked closer, the horns were blatantly plastic. Truth looked around the library, not really seeing the gray shelves or industrial blue carpeting. Before he left the library, Truth decided to “help” the student librarian. “I believe this is yours.” Truth dropped the duck on the desk in front of the librarian. “I… did someone spike my…
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Truth allowed Niles to be escorted away by Butler. The young man would spend the night in dreams, receiving an intensive education on the Nephilim and what was needed to pretend to be a CEO. Not that Butler had the faintest idea about the necessities of running a major corporation. The succubus did, however, have a great deal of experience manipulating desire. Niles would find running an MLM to be not too difficult in the short term. Niles would sleep in a bed tonight. A comfortable single bed, with…
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The System started madly cackling. Truth thought about that one a minute as he left the office building Anak and Sons was in. It was a bland part of Harban. Not really convenient for anywhere. A shocking number of people worked here. All those bland offices, laboratories and light commercial operations forming the middle layer of commerce in the city. Or they used to. An awful lot of “OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT” signs in windows. A lot of trash was piling up on the streets. Truth watched some…
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Truth just looked at her for a long moment. Susan was, bluntly speaking, not his type. His paranoia would never in a million years settle down around her. Also, being honest with himself, he really didn’t like the idea of cheating on Etenesh. The thought gave him hives. He wondered if that was an effect of that bit of Etenesh inside him, or just his own nature. He hoped it was all him. “Sorry, I am in a committed relationship. Also I am fairly sure our kinks don’t align. I am quite appreciative of…
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Truth wasn’t afraid to admit he had a His number one, no question, highest rated feature he looked for in a woman was her interest in him. Everything else fell into the vague reaches of the “nice to have” category. That being said, after Etenesh’s affection and getting hit on by a significant number of people, he was willing to widen his eyes a bit. Really consider what, if he was being picky, he found desirable. He was humbled to realize he had really basic taste. Shamefully pedestrian. He…
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Truth left the office in a thundercloud of emotions. He took a moment to refresh the coma spells on the grunts out of some vague sense of spite. They were going to have a deeply unpleasant time when they woke up, and he just felt like spreading the misery. He had just wanted vengeance. He had wanted to come storming in here and grab ahold of the shitty people responsible for making his Mom the way she was, hurting all the people like his mom, hurting He wanted to shake them. Make them see exactly what…
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Truth was trying to connect some very random dots at speed. The picture he was making didn’t make a whole lot of sense to him. Anak and Sons were some kind of human-ish. Cousins of humanity as he generally understood the term. He was a little hazy on what exactly that meant. Merkovah had played down their importance, but he could vividly remember Remu Anakson. More than two meters of slab muscle and the furious eyes of an emperor, all supported by Level Five cultivation. Truth would bet at least one of…
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.rf0e7348a647e40bc9cd269ac03ae291a{ display: none; } Truth sat Tony down behind the desk and shoved a recording crystal into his hand. “Go through everything you do in a day, everyone you call, all your relationships with your co-workers, all of it.” “Do you have the faintest idea what that actually means? I don’t have “ordinary” days. Every day is completely booked, putting out fires, managing people, training people, figuring out strategy, managing political relationships, keeping an eye…
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“I don’t know what I did to you-” “But I bet you can guess.” Truth grinned, and smashed the heel of the shoe down on the CEO’s toes. He was pretty sure he broke three of them. Daragah curled into a ball, grabbing his foot and making a high pitched keening noise. “This probably seems incredibly unfair. I mean, you didn’t force anyone to do anything, right? You are just out here, making opportunities for people to live their best lives. Financial independence for people who would otherwise…
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