Sarah Davis
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Elven healers eventually reached Ceryyn and tried to help her, but she was absolutely adamant that she wouldn't rest until she'd spoken with them. Eventually the Bludshard elves managed to get her to lie down and tended to her mangled arm, which soothed her enough to explain in calmer terms. Kai stood with the other two, anxiety building during the wait. "They hit our school," Ceryyn said sorrowfully. "I don't even... how did they learn about it? Who would betray us?" "Who attacked?" Kai asked. Even…-
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Kai wasn't ultimately clear on the fundamental limits on the elven hunt, other than it had something to do with migration patterns. Based on information the women gathered, the event seemed to peter out as the valuable hunts ended. So even if they hadn't been impatient to move on, there was no reason to delay. He no longer returned to the pavilion and instead ventured further out into the Elven Wilds. That might have been risky normally, but he had Zae Zin Nim and Omilaena in the diamond star overhead,…
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After so long training and preparing, not to mention battling the Thunderbird, the unicorn hunt was a bit disappointing. Most of Kai's competitors weren't that much stronger than him, and their grace over the desert wasn't more than he could manage with his new abilities. Despite all the preparations he and Omilaena had made, he probably didn't need to go all out. The unicorns, though... they were going to make all the work worth it. Those he'd glimpsed were among the strongest sacred beasts he'd ever…
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In theory, all Zae Zin Nim needed to do was advance to Earth Soul and attain her full potential. But in theory, so many aspects of her life should have been simple. The chosen daughter of a powerful sect should never have been cursed, forced to flee to Deadwaste, and taken on such a strange path. Yet that path had brought her here. It was the path of her cultivation, ultimately the one she had chosen instead of the one that had been handed to her. One last time she looked over everything she'd gathered.…
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At first Kai felt nothing but disorientation. All of his senses seemed to be missing... except for one. He could still feel the hunger surging within him, as ravenous as always. And yet it was part of him, and it wasn't mindless even if it was always hungry. When he reached out to it, he saw a new piece of his own soul. Thunderbird (???) > So he had done it. Those symbols floating in his mind's eyes were what he needed to pull himself together, and everything else came with it. Behemoth's Heart was…
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Kai's first clash with the Thunderbird after his training very nearly ended the entire hunt: the monster assumed he was still sluggish in the air and attacked with too much confidence. He wasn't going to hold anything back, not against an opponent like this, so he began with Baleful Breath at nearly point blank range. That should have been enough, but the Thunderbird was just a notch faster and more alert than he'd expected. Even though the darkness roiled forward quickly, the monster pulled back faster,…
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After several days of hunting, Kai realized that the pegasi were two things: beautiful and stupid. He'd felt just a little bit of guilt hunting down such an elegant animal, at first. After long enough he saw them shit everywhere, endlessly eat grass, and once a male tried to mount a female and missed entirely, falling onto its wings and rolling down the entire valley. Not so much guilt anymore. Then again, what had he expected? That animals like these spent all their time majestically soaring and posing?…
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Over the course of his life Kai had lost count of the number of times he'd fallen unconscious and woken up injured, so he wasn't surprised to feel pain in darkness. This time felt a little different, though. As he put together that he hadn't been killed by the Thunderbird, he also felt something soft under his head. When he finally wrenched his eyes open, he was staring up at Omilaena. His head must be in her lap and she was in the middle of applying some sort of liquid to his neck. It burned in the way…
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Their first attempt failed, of course, because even Omilaena wasn't used to fighting a monster so insanely fast. On their second attempt she had planned a trap that launched a metal spear into the air to intercept its path, but the Thunderbird managed to change directions with unnatural agility. After that it began turning a broad circle, drawing up an unnatural storm that covered the area in freezing rain. Kai had been discouraged, but Omilaena surprised him by constructing a shelter from various…
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At first, Kai had been convinced that the Bludshard elves must be hiding some horrible secret. They'd all turn out to be cannibals, or they transformed into monsters every month, or they were hiding some slave caste. If not for the steady presence of Zae Zin Nim's qi, he would have been checking on her regularly. Days passed and his anxieties gradually eased. As far as he could tell, these elves were honestly relaxed. Once he'd adjusted to that fact, it was clear that he needed to be more aggressive. Zae…
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