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Kaia the Argent Wing Chapter 62

A week went by in a blur of crafting and hunting. All fighters were out looking for creatures to kill so we could feed our hungry people, but it wasn't enough. To make matters worse, hungry bellies meant angry people, and the friction of several thousand angry people was beginning to spark into real conflagrations.

I tried to keep my head down and just make as much useful gear as possible. That included finally putting my previous dildo-crossbow experience to use by prototyping some 2024-05-07 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Kaia the Argent Wing Chapter 61

“Hey, you!” I called, pointing my axe at the massive mountain lion. “Uh… turn around? Go away?”

The massive cat hunched its muscled body and leapt forward into a galloping run. Right at Immie, who was not prepared to deal with a charging lion. Crap.

I unleashed my aura of weakening, but the cat just snarled angrily and kept charging. I ran, sprinting to intercept the huge, deadly monster. My feet kicked snow up behind me, leaving a trail of powder that floated lazily bac...

Kaia the Argent Wing Chapter 60

We were having what little food was left in the house as breakfast in the morning, because as a group we’d just decided to stay the night here. I’m sure someone was getting worried back in the much-shrunken Edgewood town, but none of us cared too much.

“Hey, Kaia,” Alec asked, chewing on some stringy smoked meat. “Why haven’t you just come out with your identity? I mean, I kinda get not telling everyone who you are when you were a dude, because bigotry and stuff, but you got...

Kaia the Argent Wing Chapter 59

When I got up and made an excuse to retreat to the master bedroom for a few minutes, Scott followed behind. Of course, I didn't even realise he was there until after I'd slumped down onto the bed, ready to cry the stress away.

“Kaia,” he said, idly rapping a knuckle on the doorframe. “I'm so sorry. If I'd known they'd be like that…”

I gave him a wobbly, half-hearted smile. “It's okay, dude. I figured that… well… shit, I didn't think it'd go that badly.”

“...

Kaia the Argent Wing Chapter 58

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I left the school through the front gate again, because I didn't feel like dealing with everyone I'd meet in there. The wind was still gusting heavily, but it lacked the payload of snow now, thank goodness.

Burning a hole in my pocket were ten whole attribute orbs. I needed to think about how to allocate them. Funnily enough, my Strength was actually somewhat lacking now, and it was a pretty important stat to me. I guess it was t...

Kaia the Argent Wing Chapter 57

Posting this cos my backlog is growing faster than my release cadence. Plus I wanna!

A second after the boss died, a minor tsunami of attribute orbs erupted from its chassis. A couple of us laughed at the absurdity of the spectacle for half a second, until we realised why so many orbs were pouring out of the boss. Hundreds of people had lost their lives in this dungeon—A dungeon that we’d all but obliterated with our overab...

Kaia the Argent Wing Chapter 56

The glass shattered into twinkling shards. In moments, the contraption that gave the boss a portion of its shields spun out of control. The spike on the back of my new axe pierced the disk inside the machine on my second swing, as I made damn sure it wouldn't spin up again.

Almost immediately, we heard a dozen inhuman voices howl with dust-and-tin voices. The horrors we'd been fighting since we stepped into this place began to swarm once more. They crawled out from under bookshelves tha...

Kaia the Argent Wing Chapter 55

The rumbling grew more frantic as the red light approached and we rushed down a side aisle. We only just managed to get behind the bookcase when the thing arrived. It was… not what I was expecting.

Peeking through the shelves didn’t give us the best view, but I think I’d seen something like this before. Where had I, though? It was square, came up to about hip-height, and looked like a library trolley with a ton of electrical and mechanical components. Around it was the source of t...

Digital Exodus Chapter 19

Hi I just finished this like 30 seconds ago I hope you enjoy it!

The Exodus safe house in Crescent City was located near but not directly inside the city’s business district, right on the border between the CBD and the Bertsch industrial park. We left the building through a discrete tunnel that disgorged us onto the street out of an alley.

This close to the business district, a lot of the factories here were pretty tall, but they were dwarfed ...

Kaia the Argent Wing Chapter 54

My aura of weakness lashed out from me in a barely visible wave, while my body began to glow as silvery wisps of light trailed lazily off me. Each enemy it hit was faced with two options—Either continue charging blindly at our group as a whole, or swerve and kill the new irritant that was making their limbs sluggish. They picked the latter, and considering how many of said ‘limbs’ they had, I couldn't blame them.

I had April's gift axe in my hand, and as I eyed the shambling horde...

Kaia the Argent Wing Chapter 53

We managed to set out for the library in relatively short order, which was good because we had no idea what would happen. The only intel we had on the library was that the interior was uncharacteristically dark, almost murky even. It wasn’t the same as the Primary School had been, however, but since then the Captain had issued a very prudent edict that nobody was to go into sketchy looking buildings without a proper team behind them.

Hence why I had such a team, and why we were all ca...

Digital Exodus Chapter 18

It's kinda wild how much easier it is to write now with these new meds. I hopped into the bath just now and nek minit it's been 2 hours and I've written 1200 words. Here, have the fruits of that bath!

EDIT: Added a huge chunk where it's explained why they gotta go save the servers from Paris.

The bodies we’d be using for our Earthside mission were so basic compared to my nanite-protected one that it was almost laughable....

Kaia the Argent Wing Chapter 52

Organising a party to hit the library took longer than I thought, because on the second day, I made an incredible discovery while tinkering in the workshop. I was Kaia then, of course, and what began as an exercise in simple curiosity quickly morphed into something much bigger.

I decided to see what happened when you melted amber again. Turns out, you just got molten amber, which could then be infused into mundane materials. Needless to say, this caused quite the stir as everyo...

Kaia the Argent Wing Chapter 51

“So, how’s it going, the juggling?” April asked quietly with a grin.

I glanced back at Chloe reflexively, only to find her watching me. My cheeks heated, and I turned quickly around again. Oops. Caught staring… wait! But she was, too! There, fair is fair.

April laughed under her breath. “Silver?”

“Huh?” I asked, whipping my head around to meet her eyes.

“Nevermind,” said my friend, rolling her eyes wryly.

Coughing awkwardly, I grasped for some...

Kaia the Argent Wing Chapter 50

The kitchen staff were fine with us stealing some of their bowls… mostly. Two older women stared daggers at us the whole time, and judging by the way they kept poking at their crosses, I could guess why.

Anyway, when we rolled on back to the shrine, we placed the three bowls beneath the statue and stepped back.

This time, Cynath decided to speak out loud. “Do either of you have any monster parts on you?”

Beside me, Chloe twitched and spun her ...

The Walls of Anamoor Chapter 53

Getting my writing zoomies back, but Kaia is still my priority so this one will update intermittently. Thanks for your patience!

Bassi decided that she and I would attempt to gain an audience with the Wind Court, and so while everyone got to work on their tasks, we left the ship. The fae were still cleaning up after their siege, and so many were out and about hauling away gurg bodies to be burnt, or beginning whatever arcane rituals they had that would fi...

Kaia the Argent Wing Chapter 49

The shrine was doing well. A few people were still out in the field beside it practising with their spells, while two women and a child were praying in the shrine itself.

One of the folks in the field was standing there with a bow, shooting at a target made from gym mats. I don’t entirely know why, but I veered off in her direction. She was a younger girl judging by her looks, and right on the cutoff age where younger people didn’t get a class.

Her bow was odd. Of the five or ...

Kaia the Argent Wing Chapter 48

It was on the way back to Edgewood school that the Captain began to ask uncomfortable questions.

“Where have you been?” He asked, sounding tired. “Why are you so hellbent on avoiding the refuge we've built?”

I grimaced and avoided his stare. “I was recovering… I have my reasons… and it’s not like I’m entirely avoiding it. I have a house just over the road.”

When I glanced back at him, his eyes lit with sudden understanding. “The house we can’t get int...

Kaia the Argent Wing Chapter 47

Oh, you thought because I was posting Anamoor I wouldn't have time for Kaia? NOPE. I'M ON NEW MEDS BABY LET'S FUCKIN GO

It took me twenty minutes to convince the poor people who needed help that they were better off praying to Cynath for help. That was when the folks who were more interested in demanding that I help appeared. Those took longer, and by the time I got free of pestering people, the scrap sorting was all finished. Somehow, though, I ...

The Walls of Anamoor Chapter 52

Hey folks! Long time no Anamoor. I've had multiple ideas for different directions to take this story ever since I stopped updating it, but either they didn't feel right, or I was already doing something similar in a different story. That is, until very recently. Like it always seems to, lightning struck in the form of an idea and I swerved from writing Kaia to put my ideas into words. I have to admit, the story was intended to go one way, and I am very much tokyo-drifting down an ...

2024-03-28 14:46:43 +0000 UTC View Post

Kaia the Argent Wing Chapter 46

Help I got distracted and started writing Anamoor again. Anyway here's Kaia

Camillo helped me to my feet, only for his eyes to widen as I just kept on going up. “Shit, you're tall— uh, not that that's a bad thing! It's just a surprise…”

I laughed. “Nah, it's okay dude.”

“Silver!”

I turned and met Chloe's fiery gaze.

“Where have you been? People have been saying you were dead!” She demanded, then shook her head. ...

Kaia the Argent Wing Chapter 45

Ashlyn is a brat. Thank you all so much for your contributions to this household of chronically money deficient trans women. Seriously though, y'all made us very happy. I got myself a bunch of games and some new clothes :3, then put the rest into savings for when we next run out of money lol.

Gods, but this guy was buff. His strength was one of many reasons it was obvious he hadn't been aware of any danger before his death. I mean, there was no way a guy ...

Kaia the Argent Wing Chapter 44

Pre-Chapter note: QuietValerie is in bed reading but asked me, Ashlyn, to post a chapter for everyone to celebrate her birthday that started 4 hours ago.  I am going to be a sneaky shit and encourage you to drop a few dollars as a surprise for her Birthday. Her paypal is Amelialesbun@gmail.com or her kofi is https://ko-fi.com/quietvalerie . Don't tell her I want to see how long I wrote this I want to see ...