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Chapter 10 – The Ambush
The first arrows struck them like a hailstorm full of sharp teeth. Shaelith reacted instinctively, activated her defensive glyphs and just the blink of an eye later purple energy danced across her skin and formed a shimmering barrier around them. "Shields up!" the guard captain yelled, but his order came a second too late. One of the arrows with the strange glowing crimson runes managed to penetrate the magical shield and a Shaeravyn guard staggered back while staring in disbelief at the shaft sticking…-
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Chapter 11 – Caged
Shaelith didn't know how long they had marched them, stumbling, until they arrived at the goblin lair. It felt like days. The world seemed to consist of nothing but musty darkness and the stench of unwashed goblin bodies. Shaelith stumbled forward, blind beneath the stinking sack, her bare feet slipping over damp ground.The background noise around her was overwhelming, hundreds of goblin voices screeching, laughing, arguing with each other. Somewhere, meat sizzled over an open fire, the smell mingling…-
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Chapter 14 – The Long Road Home
The first thing Shaelith noticed was the unfamiliar smell. No sweet mushroom scent, no phosphorescent spores, but pine scent and damp forest soil instead. A rough blanket scratched against her skin. Right. Still not home. She tried to sit up and that proved to be a mistake. The world tilted to one side, and her stomach immediately rebelled.Mana exhaustion. The aftereffects were almost worse than a proper moss wine hangover. They had set up a makeshift camp.The rescued women huddled together in small…-
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Chapter 4 – Certified Sorceress
"Groff'fuffbar nark buffra." Vyriz's pronunciation was so bad that it could probably even pass for deliberate poetry among goblins. "Groff'fu-ffar," Jacob corrected automatically, leaning his head against Vyriz's shoulder. The embroidered cushions they lounged on were pleasantly cool against his bare calf, one of the few parts of his body his simple wrap-around dress didn't cover. "More saliva on the second F. Imagine spitting out a particularly tough mushroom." "Charming." Vyriz grimaced. "And that…-
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"If you don't take your arm off me right now," she hissed quietly enough so as not to wake the sleeping women around her, "you won't have it for much longer." Benderast froze. "I just thought-" "You thought? Is that so?" Shaelith turned her head just enough to give him a withering look. Her lavender eyes shimmered dangerously in the dim firelight. "I doubt it. What were you thinking? That it was a good idea to get it on with me in between a dozen traumatized women who have just been rescued from a goblin…
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Chapter 16 – Supply and Demand
Shaelith stood in the guest quarters and looked at the motley crew standing before her with exactly the same feeling she always had when she sent one of the problem students off to take the Sorceress exam. If you were unlucky, you were seeing them for the last time. "So, once again," she said in Tulvian, her arms crossed in front of her chest. "You only speak when you are directly addressed. You don't stare at anyone, especially not the Matriarchs. You don't make demands, you don't issue challenges, and…-
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While Thaelon had already begun teaching Benderast the basics of archery at a makeshift shooting range, Shaelith made her way up to Bomfrey Castle, where she was admitted without any trouble this time. A maid led her far up to a solar where Obelaine was sitting at her embroidery frame among her ladies-in-waiting. When Shaelith was announced, Obelaine literally jumped and blushed before regaining her composure. "Lady Shaelith." A touch too quickly. "It's a pleasure… to make your acquaintance, I…
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Chapter 17 – The Impossible Bid
"I want her." For three heartbeats, there was absolute silence. The kind of silence that occurs when an entire room full of people tries to comprehend whether they just heard correctly, the kind of silence that screamed, "Did he really just say that?" Surprisingly, it was Xarini Rynalazel who broke the silence. She was, of course, no friend of House Vyrnara, let alone Shaelith herself, but like most Shaeravyn, she had very definite ideas about the superiority of the Shaeravyn over other races, especially…-
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Chapter 41 – The Court of Love
The body was found floating in the moat around dawn. Shaelith stood with the others at the edge of a large crowd of people that had already gathered despite the early hour, watching as two guards pulled the soaked body out of the moat. Meanwhile a third guard struggled to push the onlookers back, with limited success. The dead man was a stocky, middle-aged man with calloused hands and a leather apron that the water had stained almost black. "Oh, Forge Father, have mercy! That's Master Aufrey," a…-
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Chapter 20 – The Morning After
The light from the bioluminescent fungi on the ceiling of the grotto Myzelemaerlazin was located in, was just gradually transitioning into the daytime phase when Shaelith was awakened by the muffled sound of the room door opening. Last night's dream immediately came back to her. The pulsating mycelium network, Zinvere's strange braid, and that powerful, ancient presence she had sensed. But she was torn from her thoughts when Belyssere slipped in silently, apparently to bring Benderast and her a pot of…-
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