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This relationship also makes me wonder of the hidden messages of strategic chess moves and emotional musical interludes. Will the pawn make it to the far opposing and most guarded side to become a much coveted Queen? 🥰 Will the music 🎶 prove to be a power play on a dominant contender? Just thoughts...the mind is a terrible thing! 😂 Thanks again for this wonderful story.

Thought vomit! So many thoughts churning it must be dispelled, hopefully without excess cleaning required. 🤮

Chess and band come together, sounds like an exciting partnership.

I just getting past the Gandoff moment (lmao) gave him the confidence to deal with any challenges! Great chapter, love your story.and your method.

Yes formidable, and hopefully the formidable and friends will prevent any possible betrayal from a trusted close associate of Kohen. He’s much stronger now but this could destroy him if betrayed by someone so close yet again.

Arriba! Arriba! Grab that quill,, wet that ink well, and write, write! Andele! Andale! Wow, what a fantastic and exciting tale. Maynor, in his selfish quest, thinks he has Ranevargar to strip of his Realm but has no idea just exactly what he has taken within his warded fortifications. Ranevarger and Kieran are bonded mentally and spiritually. As they understand the powers of nature and have shared the secret web; the awareness, the vision, the nurturing of protections. Maynor has submitted more than the yield could bring with his limitations. Kieran, hopefully will slow his strategic thinking of realms before releasing the dragon. Likewise, the imbalances are greatest between the realms breached? Would it not be wise for the group to breached Maynor’s realm prior to breaching into the dead realm to release the dragon. The imbalances then bring increase incursions to his realm from the wild dead realm, giving Kieran increased opportunities to reach and bring the beast within his grasp? Maynor is quickly running out of friends and his enemies may find the commonality to unite the realms in ways unseen in the modern elven times; who will be and reign supreme? So a triller, with suspense, drama, action, romance and anything else to make an explosive and emotional ride to enjoy.

Hell...in perpetuity!

“to those who have read books 1 and 2 of The Hidden Ones, there will be a book 3 titled Ascension. However, details about that will stay under wraps until this story gets it's proper ending. For now, I just wanted to help share my future plans with readers asking!” Thank you so much for the story update and planned release! This announcement led me back to a your story series of which I had enjoyed very much until somehow losing the bookmarks and not have the following story notifications. I’ve finished all chapters and can’t wait for the third installment!

Winged Humanoids or Sparkled Ko(mod)hen Dragons? 🤪 All kinds of latitudes and special abilities to work with. This may even bring forth the abilities that Kohen is still unawares. i don’t believe the egg was retrieved but migrated to a place of nesting. The traitor is in the planning that possibly forced Kohen into fertile protective waters to evade the swarm attack; perhaps Kohen wasn’t even intended to survive? 😱 In this age of the 3 seconds attention span, I find the chapters are a little short, but they are so rewarding and provocative that the shortness actually allows more reflection or thought to be given to the information carrying the plot forward. 🥰

And yet we’re told that our smart phones help us achieve more than ever before...HA! 😳

My father was an insurance salesman many, many years ago. That one last time WAS a way to go for some. While very serious and emotional at the time, years later my father related a story of then deceased but at the time long time policyholders and friends. This was from the days when the agents collected the premiums in person and reviewed your policies for changes or the major life events in everyday life. He received a very emotional and desperate call from the wife. She was using the bedside phone which some people had as part of their phone service at that time. She explained to dad that her husband had probably had a massive heart attack and died...but she was trapped and wanted to preserve some dignity for her and her husband before called the emergency services, she was begging for his personal assistance in her attempts. Dad of course performed the policy services as she requested by freeing her and helping her get the husbands boxers back on; that’s policy services you don’t see anymore!

Extension ropes? With auto replenish for each week’s cliff! lol

MORE COAL! MORE WATER! WE NEED MORE PRESSURE! 😂 Sincerely, thank you for your efforts and for sharing this suspenseful tale.

As we say in the south (US), when you’re up to your arse in alligators, it’s hard to remember the objective is draining the swamp! 🤯

As we opened this story in council with the high king, his advisors convince him the only choices are banishment or human realm manipulation. Yet Ranevarger’s reaction speaks to the opposite. How much has the High King been misled. All this while the Lord of the power realm has been given increasing control of power usage and access to the over realm like no other. I’m still somewhat under the impression the high king is probably being duped while he thinks he is protecting his son.

I believe it was and is more complicated. Whether Ezra is telling truth about the offer of money, the claim of no strings attached is non-binding. The monies if accepted, without a custody agreement before exchanged, could have opened the door to visitation, education, and healthcare decisions by the very family that may have at a minimum manipulated Ezra to run or ignored his obligation to be a father; the same people that viewed her as a whore and had nothing to do with Artie. Ezra said he would be there, what was the real or implied pressures that resulted in his abandonment of fatherhood? The custody threat from her and Ezra’s family’s would have probably have succeeded in Artie being removed from her parental guardianship or possibly from her custody; without visitation to top it off. Sarah had more than emotions to consider when accepting assistance from fam-nemies.

What are you doing to us here? 😂 Ok, wrapping my head around this shared DNA. If Sparkles is a fire breathing mammal, and some of that alien DNA was use in Kohen’s implants, is there a close “family” match or just common core level matching. Most important for now: What about and why has Aparoe not shared his findings and his knowledge before now? Is Sparkles mature or adolescent? Where did the eggs come from? Was Sparkles alone or part of a nest? Unisex reproduction? Will Sparkles be able to speak? Mind speech? Broadcast or link to Kohen? Will Kohen and Sparkles develop bonded abilities greater than the singular capabilities they may possess already? How protective will that bond extend to Kohen and the crew? Wow, too many possibilities to consider....

What a great chapter and a nice tribute to Danielle.

I’ve never played chess so I very much appreciate you blending in the tutorial. Plus it supports the story as we connect with the character while he develops a new and growing comprehension.

If yes to both, is that what we use to call going postal?

Aidan said penguin’s graphs were crap! lol 😆

I have always loved math. I love the precision. The definitiveness of it. Writing an English paper is a winding road to hell. Everything is more or less gobbledygook. English and the arts are all about subjectivity. Math is precise. Definitive. And being good with math meant I needed to know the probability of him being gay. Wow, you put me right into a major throwback Thursday of yesteryear. It sums the feelings and arguments I had when selecting engineering as a major. This of course happened for me at the same time I was struggling with myself; needing, wanting, disparate, to get some guys attention, I feel as if your writing/publishing my biography! Now I can only hope you fictionalize it enough to make the emotional processes work with the precision and logic of math; avoiding the illogical dismissal of my first love.

Driven by Drew? As only she can witness!

Lol, yeah, I should be more sensitive toward our youth.

If I may borrow thoughts of old, understanding teenagers is nearly as difficult as understanding women, but the errant thoughts of teens are usually of the day and not of the ages.