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Alex White
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June 14 - June 30, 2025
We could ransom her. She’s PGRF, so you know she has stupid amounts of cash.”
Rule number one: magic must always be the point.
Whose rules? Question. Not Sanderson’s Rules of Magic:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson#Sanderson's_Laws_of_Magic
the Harrow?”
Discus warheads that could slice a ship in half.
the Chalice of Hana.
Rule number two: every legend is a fluffy story wrapped around a piece of hard evidence.
The mnemonimancers did a good job.”
Kinnard’s
“Lizzie,
the Acclion Group?”
“A few weeks ago, I sold the location of the Harrow to someone.
“Only liars get too specific.”
“Arthur Castor,”
Why a lie? Question
a prominent Arcan senator.”
the same crone hunting me tried to kill Nilah Brio?”
“I was loyal to the ADF. That’s why I surrendered when ordered.” “So was I. That’s why I never surrendered.”
Orna Sokol
Haha a Rosa Klebb figure.
“Didier Thomasi, cook.”
the usurer’s mark,
Usurers were able to heal all wounds at great cost to themselves. The practiced ones learned to take life force from plants and animals, acting as a conduit between the wounded and the soon-to-be victim.
They often lived for hundreds of years, became the wealthiest doctors, or on some planets, started cults.
“I’ve got a malformed mark.”
I can only sense life. Can’t move it around.
Thought they were going to get a doctor and got a gardener instead!”
Haha
her old fighter: a 2870 edition Midnight Runner with the X-20 strike package.
the Capricious was a marauder class,
The toughest part of the ship was his belly, and unlike normal ships, sensitive gear was housed on his back.
inertial dampers
Nilah’s
She traced her glyph, placed her hand to the deck, and felt for a connection with the Capricious.
Connecting to a small system like the Hyper 8 was one thing, but the size and scale of the Capricious took a toll on her already worn muscles.
If she could route power to it, she might be able to get it back online.
Some defense programs could even fry mechanists by connecting them directly to the main power grid.
If she got any worse, there wouldn’t be enough recovery time before the next race.
BUT …
The Capricious’s network materialized in her mind like a fortress.
Simile
Find the point no one watches.
She led the defense program on a wild goose chase, burning down its resources in the process.
Finally, she moved to fix the two-seventy engine.
defenseless against her magic. She tore open its threads of code with a mighty pull of her spell, and it dissipated.
Ridiculous
They’d been attacked by five ships, and it sounded like Boots and someone named Orna fought them off.
The racer didn’t much feel like helping her kidnappers, but she also didn’t want to be blown to bits.
force them to put her somewhere less secure in the future.
“Listen up. This is Nilah Brio, and your ship is mine.”
Haha
Orna’s
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Ranger’s
“You wrecked my ship,
