A scream carried to his right, gunshots to his left.
He looked both ways.
“Gunshots, I guess… because I hate myself,” Abe groaned and turned left.
Several more shots echoed in the distance and he picked up his pace.
A bald man in a trenchcoat pointed a re...
2024-04-04 04:01:46 +0000 UTC View PostElissa stormed across the armory, picking up two heavy-looking, double-axes and flinging them over her shoulders.
Turning back around, she glanced at Abe, “What are you waiting for?”
Abe nodded and turned to the racks.
Not having time to ponder, he grabbed the first sharp-lo...
2024-03-23 22:20:49 +0000 UTC View Post“This is for you,” Kearn said as Abe left the room, handing him a key.
Abe eyed the intricate silver key in his palm marked by a heart.
“It's the key to your new room. The Mistress deemed your actions worthy of earning it.”
Nodding, Abe closed his hands around the key, ...
2024-03-14 05:28:32 +0000 UTC View PostAbe showered and then made his way to the Kennels—fresh clothing and boots were provided. Ricky no longer bothered locking him up, or even forcing him into a cell, allowing him to roam the room.
Gliding his hand across rusty, metal contraptions, Abe turned to Ricky, fiddling with the same...
2024-03-14 04:23:17 +0000 UTC View PostPulling the dagger free, Abe spilled blood across the ground and steadied his feet. Twirling the stiletto around his hand, and almost dropping it in the process—Abe cast an embarrassed frown as he eyed the zombie.
The lashing tentacles flung around for a moment in anger before it charged ...
2024-03-14 02:15:21 +0000 UTC View PostPushing into the dark, Abe stopped to sniff. He hoped to illuminate that monster in his mind’s eye. Unfortunately, his senses were dulled—the same earthy scene from earlier filling the air.
He ran a finger along the wall, then rubbed it against his thumb, feeling the sticky moisture and...
2024-03-14 00:52:34 +0000 UTC View PostStabbing another zombie through the temple, Abe tried to calculate a rough idea of the position below the hanging crate.
He glanced back over his shoulder. The pile of zombies that had formed over his finger hadn’t been big enough for his plan.
I’m going to regret this, aren...
2024-03-13 23:20:11 +0000 UTC View PostPutrid stench of rot hit his nose the moment he landed on the frozen, once-muddy ground.
The darkness faded—shifting to his hazy, gray vision.
“It stinks of death,” Abe stammered, raising a hand to his face.
“Get used to it already,” Elissa shook her head and continued...
2024-03-13 21:40:00 +0000 UTC View PostBack in his cell, Abe leaned against the wall, face down. It seemed he needed to further prove himself until he was gifted a room in the manor.
Stomping into the kennels, Elissa sighed deeply and snorted, “Fledgling!”
Slowly, Abe rose, his careful gaze cast on Elissa.
“You...
2024-03-12 05:24:44 +0000 UTC View Post“Stop looking at me like that, fledgling,” Elissa snapped. “You’re still weak. I could hold you down with one hand, and pick you apart with the other.”
Warily, Abe eyed her—struggling to suppress his smirk against the intoxicating power that still filled his veins.
“Feel...
2024-03-12 05:22:13 +0000 UTC View PostGrunting, the ghoul that had been thrown against the wall tremored as it tried to climb atop its broken limbs, only to fall back into the water.
Twisting its head to the left, it eyed the corner Abe hid behind, a grunt escaping its hung jaw.
There was no point hiding, this creature wa...
2024-03-12 05:19:07 +0000 UTC View PostSniffing the air, Abe’s senses pulsed. There were six remaining. He was certain.
Their scents distinguished them. Each with a unique tinge that set them apart. The air, how it curried the scents, from where it blew. Vents, entrances, corridors, and enclosed rooms. They all painted a pictu...
2024-03-12 05:13:43 +0000 UTC View PostHis eyes rested on the bloodied ghoul’s skull, a blackish ichor oozing and bubbling around the bone protruding from the side of its head. It was only inches from his face.
Abe expected disgust, but what he felt was hunger. An almost fruity, sweet scent mixed with one of meat struck his se...
2024-03-12 03:37:18 +0000 UTC View PostA musky, damp scent of mold and stagnant water assaulted Abe’s senses as he was led down the stone stairs to the sewers—Elissa leading, and Ricky trailing.
Torches dimply lit the room below, whilst a dip sounded against water somewhere out of sight.
The others had already been mov...
2024-03-12 03:21:01 +0000 UTC View PostPulling at his collar, Abe straightened. Every time he looked at the silver-haired beauty sitting across from him, he struggled to keep his thoughts straight.
“So,” he stammered, eyes darting away as her seductive, long-lashed, and half-lidded gaze caught them.
“Are you always t...
2024-03-12 03:19:34 +0000 UTC View PostHi Everyone,
As you've likely noticed I've taken a break from writing Caster V Caster. Sorry about this.
I'm not certain when I will get back to it. My heart hasn't been into it, and I don't want to force out subpar chapters.
I have been working on other stories. Shortly I...
2023-12-01 19:21:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Raise a toast to Earon,” Fane echoed throughout the Withering Vine, or rather, what was left of it. One side of the building had collapsed during the fighting, with rocky rubble from the dwarven siege weapons still present.
Mugs rose alongside Fane’s, clashing briefly befo...
2023-11-16 01:28:52 +0000 UTC View PostReverberations shook the underground passage, throwing Earon off-balance as he caught himself from falling with a quickly placed step.
They were getting stronger now.
He was jogging now, worry twisting his stomach. Hopefully, they can hold out up there.
Untyi...
2023-11-12 22:16:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe enemy clashed against the inner walls. But without their siege weapons, their attacks quickly faltered and fell back. That wouldn’t last long, as they would bring them through the outer walls soon.
Earon turned toward the city center where smoke billowed. A scaled, green ta...
2023-11-09 02:56:46 +0000 UTC View PostWhatever excitement Earon had managed to rally in troops of the outer wall, it quickly vanished as the crowds of dwarves below gathered.
Volleys of arrows sprayed against their wall of shields as more gathered, the occasional ballista bolt crashing through and severing limbs. But...
2023-11-08 04:26:47 +0000 UTC View Post“You sure she’s still here?” Yaslin said as they approached the inn.
“Who knows? All I can say is I saw her head in there when she returned to town.”
“For your efforts,” Yeslin said, dropping a few coppers into that man’s palm.
He wouldn’t usually go...
2023-11-06 03:49:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Still a work in progress, but it gives you something to visualize the world.
2023-11-04 19:33:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Do you swear your soul internal to my slavery?”
“Yes, my king,” bowed the messy-haired dwarf in scruffy robes.
“Then so be it, raise your head serpent whisper, for you are my new Warmaster.”
The dwarf’s uncomfortably long tongue slapped at his lips whilst he rose ...
2023-11-01 21:21:18 +0000 UTC View PostDashing between eaves Lexi made her way toward the temple of Arks, as if they might provide some protection if she got unlike and became victim to one of the hurling boulders that near constantly flew into the city.
On her way, she passed a bakery, a line stretching out from it as if life h...
2023-10-31 22:59:17 +0000 UTC View PostSecluded to a corner at the edge of the wall, Earon kept to himself. He didn’t feel like a defender, not like the other war-hardened soldiers nearby; and it was clear they didn’t see him that way either.
They were all no doubt higher levels than Earon, a combination of enlisted soldiers...
2023-10-31 04:32:42 +0000 UTC View PostFane and Earon embraced in an awkward hug. It wasn’t that they didn’t get along, but they weren’t exactly good friends or anything.
“Where’s Iliana and Dordan?” Earon asked as they separated.
Fane’s eyes escaped Earon’s as they darted nervously around. “Dordan didn...
2023-10-30 02:07:22 +0000 UTC View PostEaron spread out his arms, catching himself as dizziness took over. He was panting, hard.
“Earon, are you okay?” Lexi called out as she dashed over from the fire, where she had sat, alongside others.
It was night, and all but those chosen for the night watch had taken rest. But Ea...
2023-10-26 22:49:23 +0000 UTC View PostDays went by with little change as they marched across the arid landscape of the Clain. There had been a few small skirmishes with monsters, but nothing of much consequence. Wherever the beasts from the scars were charging up from, they weren't appearing around here.
Earon couldn’t help b...
2023-10-26 02:30:32 +0000 UTC View Post“I don’t like those guys, not one bit.” Lexi huffed as she dropped herself beside Earon, who sat atop a knee-height ledge beside the merchant square.
“We’re not trying to make friends,” said Earon. The truth was that his mind was elsewhere. He had not expected to hear his compan...
2023-10-25 21:31:52 +0000 UTC View Post“Stop it, stay still!” Lexi scolded as Earon’s leg instinctively pulled away as she brought the cloth smeared in healing salves to it.
Not only was the giant wound in Earon’s leg agonizingly painful, but the formulas made in Saner seemed different than Ome, or at least he never reme...
2023-10-24 21:29:14 +0000 UTC View Post