Filling the Void - Chapter Seventeen
Victus flowed through his Tai Chi forms with the peaceful grace of a fish gliding through water. The cool dawn air, made humid by the surrounding acres of grass growing unnaturally on this near-desert world, felt dense and energizing as it moved in and...
Filling the Void - Chapter Twenty-three
Moving as one, the small class of young ken-shi brought their bamboo practice swords down, slashing diagonally across their chests. "Hai!" They regrouped, pulled their swords close to their centers of gravity, then pulled their free arms around in a...
Worlds Apart - Chapter Eleven
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Worlds Apart - Chapter Eighteen
He filled fuel tanks, checked lubrication points and inspected every port, electrical connection and mechanical bit he could reach in the limited time available to them.
Worlds Apart - Chapter Twenty
The stream of people emerging from the shuttles slowed to a trickle as friends and family reconnected on the planet's surface. They clustered in small groups, waiting for someone - anyone - to tell them what to do next. Dan's attention was drawn...
Filling the Void - Chapter Ten
Dagen checked his appearance in the wall mirror hanging beside his front door. He wasn't a particularly vain man, but after having appeared in public one too many times with uncombed hair and/or a raisin stuck to his tooth, he'd decided that putting a...
Filling the Void - Chapter Sixteen
"He hardly calls any more," Dagen complained, knowing full well that he sounded like a churlish old fishwife but not caring enough to stop. "I almost feel as if I've been abandoned." "You got along just fine before you had Victus in your life," Abbot...
Filling the Void - Chapter Nineteen
"So what's this guy like?" Lucas asked, as he smoothed wrinkles from his shirt. "You know, really. The way everyone gets that weird look in their eyes whenever someone mentions his name, he must be a real piece of work." "If by, 'a piece of work' you...
Worlds Apart, Chapter Fifteen
In the end, Dan's off-the-cuff guess was correct. Whatever had crippled their ship had hit it with enough force to rotate it almost 180 degrees by the time it arrived at the jump gate, and by sheer dumb luck the engines speared through the field...
Filling the Void - Chapter Twenty-Two
From the chair in his private office, Negin Mal glared down at his personal guards from the raised platform he'd had constructed behind the desk to enhance his psychological advantage. To Mal's consternation, Victus's air of cool detachment hadn't...
Worlds Apart - Chapter Fourteen
As always, thanks go out to TheGoldenUnicorn and JK Victus for their tireless help and friendship! Dan sucked the last of his drink through the straw with a satisfying slurp, earning a disapproving glare from of one of the matrons playing bridge at a...
Worlds Apart - Chapter Seventeen
Victus grunted and heaved along with a half-dozen other men as they wrestled another group of folding seats that had been liberated from the ship’s theater. They navigated into the landing bay through milling groups of people, then stacked the...