Chapter 7
Chapter 7 Time passed in the Tower, though it was difficult for Aur to track the days. He tried to count the nights he spent there, but eventually gave up after the first moon passed. It didn’t help...
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Chapter 6 KluYa is dead. The pang of the thought echoed through Kip’s skull. Though they were never super-close, KluYa was someone Kip considered a friend. It was hard not to like him – he was the...
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Chapter 5 The morning light bathed the tower room in the golden glow of sunlight, catching in shimmers across the slick stone floor. Aur didn’t realize he’d fallen asleep in Ben’s room again after the...
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Chapter 4 It passed into deep night before Aur finally fell asleep, right there on Ben’s bed. Ben could tell that the other boy was very tired. Eventually, exhaustion overcame his fear, leading him to...
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Chapter 3 Darkness was a place for brooding. Shadows belonged to the emo kids. Neither brooding nor emo ever got anyone anywhere as far as TsuMe was concerned. But, there he was, sitting in a darkened...
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Chapter 2 Aur couldn’t see anything but shadows and shifting colored light from behind the blindfold. The cloth was so large that it obscured his entire face. He could easily breath through it,...
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Chapter 1 “Centaurs,” Kip grumbled to himself. They seemed like a good idea at the time, back when the foundations of Zot were first being built. They were as intelligent as humans, with all the...
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Introduction Time: A Lifetime Ago Location: Nefolian World Aur’s vision was met with a towering wall of silvery Mist, which fought to turn the air in his lungs to ice. Where sight failed, his senses...
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Prologue 2 Everything about this development set Kip’s nerves on edge. While it all seemed legit enough on the outside, he remembered how Zemus always made the most nefarious things sound beneficial...
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Prologue 1 Time: Several Turns Ago Place: The Blue Planet The top of the stony hillside gave way to alien metal that glittered coldly in the light of the two moons. The mangled and unwanted...
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