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by
Alex White
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June 14 - June 30, 2025
Haha
Orna’s eyes were an ocean of rage, fear, and grief—an expression all too common around the Capricious those days.
Haha simile
Nilah started to relax, but Orna wrapped her fingers around the back of Nilah’s neck and pulled her in for a hard kiss.
Armin,
Wartenberg.
Boots
Cordell
We still don’t have analysis of Mother’s spell or a countermeasure.
“The sooner we get this done, the sooner we get Malik to a real hospital.
Nilah
Mee too.
Nilah could’ve fixed it with Orna if she could just buy the parts—
Why can’t they? Question
Aisha,
the captain.
He showed fear
Orna
Armin
a colossal grenadier’s mark.
“That’s some next-level tech right there.”
“Odds of survival are low on a retreat, sir,”
satellite collective
Aisha couldn’t let go of the sticks to cast her marksman’s mark, and even if she could, the Capricious’s keel slinger was designed to hit single targets, not swarms.
Where would she have had occasion to don one at all? Question
Even with the gravity zeroed out, the sheer mass of the weapon surprised Nilah.
lines of arcane energy shot across their ethereal conduits like lightning. A grenadier’s mark formed in the space between them, creating a ball of sunlight.
Ridiculous
Orna returned her grin. “It was pretty badass. Quick thinking, keeping hold of Ranger’s slinger.”
Yes, great scene, no magic.
Boots
Wartenberg Mining Colony.
Mother
It was probably too much to hope that they’d be able to repair her fighter before they located the Harrow.
This entire moon was realigned by a large spell.”
“Witts,”
Marie Prejean
“Henrick Witts
“If we assume this is the Harrow’s home base,”
“this would be the operations center where they’d get their intelligence from Taitu.
It’s expecting to link up to fifty satellites. Did you folks see fifty sats out there?” “No, sir,” said Boots.
I can think of dozens of states and private interests who’d have a use for this. Why just shut it down and forget it?”
“This preservation is deliberate.”
The entire Wartenberg Mining Colony was essentially a deadly decoy.
the docking tube was one giant lancer round. If they’d have clamped on, the spell would’ve impaled their ship.
they could cut their way inside with a good enough fire mage, but that would leave them in a labyrinth of doom.
“What if it actually had some clandestine purpose?
When their eyes adjusted, they found a graveyard.
Human bodies clouded the ice,
Simile
Whatever had filled their barracks with ice had done it quickly.
Ice Nine! (Cat’s Cradle, 1963).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine
Their military seals were more akin to ancient escutcheons than modern ship equivalents.
Haha
