Ashan 41, Arc 706

Part 1

At first, Devin had wanted to sell his clothes in order to earn the money he needed for beautiful lute he’d seen in a shop window. They were ugly and out of fashion anyway, and he’d rather be naked than wear them one more trial. The children at school always made fun...

Ashan 40, Arc 706
Devin was on his way home from school. He was always either on his way home from school or on his way to school, but hardly ever at school. He didn’t like school. The other children laughed at him because of his cheap clothes that were always several arcs out of fashion, and...

60th of Zi'da, Arc 718
This was it.

Everything they had been through in the last two seasons had been leading to this.

A metallic ringing broke through the air as the Special Assistant slowly rolled the sharpening stone across Wyvern’s edge. The room she was seated in was within the second...

30th of Cylus 717

The ex-slave put on his regular getup, yellow shirt, black pants, black boots, gloves. His only concession to fashion was a crow-feather mantled cloak of black leather, which cinched around his shoulder with a small chain. His appearance thus set, Woe went out to do the...

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Vhalar 89, 710 (Age 41)

It was harvest season in Rynmere. As it always was when Soren rolled into town along with the caravan. That was one thing that had always amazed him about the world, about each city. No matter how much time passed, no matter how much changed,...

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Arc 710, 24th trial of Cylus
Alex sat, ramrod straight, and stared at Alfred. Her adoptive father was pacing back and forth, his brow furrowed in concentration. He was talking about the 'boys', as he called them, and the various problems they were facing. Her flat eyes followed his...

50th Trial, Zi'Da, 718a
Mid-Town
3rd break

He leaped through the sky door because if he didn't, he was a dead man.

Nothing but torture and death awaited him in the catacombs at his back. They'd cast him in thicker chains, post a guard in his cell at all times, maybe just kill him right...

Vhalar 42 Arc 719

“—twelve new pyres, four here, four here and four here,” a burly man with salt and pepper colored hair spoke, using a finger to draw invisible circles on a map of Andaris. Usually, his greying mustache would have fluttered as he moved his lips, but now it could not be seen,...

1st of Zi'da, 716.

The fields of the Skye Verath Lodge were covered with a fresh layer of white frost that crunched under him as he leaned back and pressed his hands against the wet ground to support himself. You'll catch a cold, sat out here. Gaspard stood not a short distance away, hands pressed...

Date: 3rd of Cylus, 717th Arc

The tree at Warrick's Watch stood at the gates of the city, it's leaves defrocked quite a few trials ago by the cold. Since then, pilgrims had seen to it that the leaves were swept up, and disposed of in a respectful manner. Woe always made a point to visit the Watch...

35th of Zi'da, Arc 712

A cacophonous range of sounds rushed upward from the Oubliette that led from the upper prisons of Andaris, into the depths of the dungeon. Like a cascade of rusty hinges, razor blades, and despairing cries, they washed over Woe as he descended the spiral leading into the...

Zi'da 60, 718, Sunset

Qit'ria sat crouched in the shadow of a chimney atop, looking down upon the castle with her panther eyes. The sun was finishing setting, and Qit'ria's ears twitched as they swiveled all about, listening for signs of that boy with the magic. What was his name? Feen? Sounded...

90th Vhalar, 718
Mages will all die, sir.

As Rey'na spoke with her weapons in place at her side the three Mantis members in the room watched, each with a different expression. One of them was leading the project to try and convert Rey'na into a mage killer, one was a newer member of the Mantis...

Zi'da 60, 718, Sunrise

Qit'ria had awoken easily, just as she'd always done. Except for those first few trials at Faith's house. Qit had found that she particularly enjoyed the bed that Faith had given her. She'd never slept so long in her entire life. And as much as she had begrudged it after,...

Vhalar 60, 718 immediately following this

Qit'ria watched as escaping civilians ran one way and soldiers ran the other. She felt a smug satisfaction as they ran past her without so much as a glance at the pure white cat. She heard sounds of violence from up the street and looked that way,...

• Common • Rakahi • Gravokian A greedy father has thieves for children.
Ashan 18 718
It was illegal to steal another person’s property
It was illegal to damage another person’s property
It was illegal to enter the home of another without their consent

And as usual, Navyri Nightingale, Mistress...

Cool Cats - 61st Vhalar, 718

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There was being cautious and then there was being holed up in some dusty inn, scarcely capable of mustering the courage to wander downstairs for fear of being found out. Staring down at his feet from the edge of the two-poster he clenched...

Vhalar 60th, 718 Late Afternoon/Evening

Following this

Where was she?

It had been several breaks since Sephira had last seen Rey’na after the woman had vanished from the small cabin outside Andaris. Maybe she had been too hard on the young soldier. The Flame Element had been going over...

Vhalar 60th, 718

Following this

This way Rey'na gestured, quietly skulking through the all too familiar alleyways of Rynmere. It was no secret that she came from Rynmere and knew the place, but the fact that she knew these alleyways so well was just another conversation she expected to have...

Vhalar 47, 718

Qit'ria peered down through the ceiling window on the warehouse she'd discovered belonged to the Mantis. The other cats were gone, having followed a few of the men that had left, per her orders. She was alone now. She walked over to the front of the building and could see that...

80 Vhalar 718, Night
She felt cold inside.

There was an emptiness there, a hollowness that could not be erased.

Betrayal....disappointment...self loathing. These emotions rolled through her like the north wind on an icy Cylus night.

Sephira’s jaw clenched and for a moment she winced. There...

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Timestamp: Zi'da 56, 718th Arc

Qit'ria was sitting on her bed, early in the morning, staring at Oonah's sleeping form. She had been warring with a strange decision she'd been mulling over, but today was the day she put it into action. She told Finn to meet her on the roof of the bakery that...

Timestamp: Vhalar 50, 718th Arc

Qit’ria watched as Sparkles’ human left his house, not bothering to lock the door as he went to work. She knew he was a member of the Mantis from the last time she’d stopped in at this house, but beyond that she knew little else. Sparkles hadn’t come with her this...

Vhalar 42, 718 immediately following this

Qit'ria watched as the male and his harem turned away, until only Natasha was left looking down on her. And she too left. Qit had to get moving. She was injured and exposed, and for all she knew, these people would do what she would, and put an injured...