Surface (Chapter 10)
"All of us are looking for ourselves somewhere out there inside everyone we come across." - Carl Gustav Jung "When you pour tea into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Answer like an echo." - Bruce Lee Klein hadn't gone into the forest with any...
Walden
Walden's mission in life is to deconstruct the many ways in which magic has been appropriated to serve the interests of the power structure at the expense of the general population - to use magic himself in ways that re-appropriate it while questioning...
Midas
Whoever came up with transmutation was extremely unlikely to have expected that anyone would ever use it the way that Midas ended up using it. It's not just the fact that he has no need to keep an alchemist's furnace in the cave that serves as his...
Shinai & Rajiv
Shinai the weasel lives in a dirt cheap, cramped, sparsely furnished dwelling in the burning hot Arizona desert. Weasels were long stereotyped as cowardly, so he first became a combatant to disprove that misconception and resist that label - he would...