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Alex White
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June 14 - June 30, 2025
Nilah
Orna.
Alpha.
a new set of nightmares to join her dreams of Mother.
We had to hack the hell out of security to get them.
Chaparral Two.
“It’s our opinion,” said Cordell, voice labored, “that this place is magically suppressed. It explains why you’re the only one not feeling the effects.”
They were fighting visual-only in a null-magic field.
the sporty discomfort gave her an edge in a fight.
Simile extended
“Dispersers at full capacity,” called Nilah over the radio.
Aisha’s marksman’s mark brought the shot home,
One of the enemy craft glimmered with an arcane shield across its nose.
Runner would never be as fast as something designed to eviscerate large military ships with its own body.
Haha
Simile incomprehensible
They flew from the spinning cargo bay in a helical pattern, a deadly strand of DNA bound for the battle cruiser.
Simile
At this range, the missiles wouldn’t miss, even without guidance, and since missiles weren’t spells, dispersers couldn’t stop them, either.
Simile ewww
Simile but gods do appear later.
a warhead-sized discus round.
“We could’ve used a few of those on Mother’s ship.”
Aren’t there more on the Capricious? Question
“Is the planet tidally locked to those two stars?”
The glass on Boots’s ship lit up with a calculation of the light from the binary star system, drawing a long black spike into space where the shadow lay.
It would appear that the light of those binary stars is creating the suppression effect.
The star itself is some kind of spell, or at least an arcane phenomenon.” “Incredible. So the magic suppression field has a hole in it, and that’s where they parked the ship.”
the nearest jump gate—two ...
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Simile
showing the Harrow’s thousand slingers bristling along its surface.
Haha
Haha. The wealthy pay more attention to cost than the poor.
“I’m not showing off.” “Why not? Scars are cute on you.”
Haha
Haha
“A painless death is more than most humans can hope to get,” said Kin. “Okay, Kin. Thank you for that, uh, perspective.
“Another kiss might be nice if we didn’t have these damned helmets on.”
Haha sweet.
Orna placed her hand over Nilah’s as they hurtled through open space.
Her life depended on her slamming straight into the hull at full speed.
Haha ouch.
She suppressed her urge to psychically connect to its guts, just in case the automatic defenses could detect a mechanist’s magic.
Simile
Haha ewww
Nilah thanked her lucky stars that she was an expert at judging distance at high speed.
A high-speed collision was never pleasant, but phantoplasm made it survivable.
magical ooze jerked them every which way.
The fingers of their gloves held specialized contacts, allowing their magic to flow into machines.
Ridiculous. But handy.
Cybersecurity on the ship’s hull was light, and Nilah quickly pulled apart the protections and locks surrounding the node, while Orna penetrated the core logic.
the spells took their direction from the ship’s skin, and that could be fooled.
“For what it’s worth, I would’ve given you that other kiss. Now get in the airlock.”
Simile
