Topher Lydon

I would also draw attention to Darien's mental state, and his exhaustion through the chapters. Wylan is beginning to realize that something is wrong with Darien, I've received some DM's of people asking, and I am confirming, Yes there is. Good catch to those folks that spotted it early.

It's rare that Lloyd is the clueless one. I think it's because he doesn't really see Stephan as a sexual being, just his Kid/Squire. I mean he'd immediately pick up on it if it were Ashot, or Julian... but not the "good" one.

hah, read on, find out for yourself. The Emir is far from done.

well he is a bit delicate, femboy might be a good descriptor

The Emir, Ashot, and Stephen are really important to the main plot. Comedy aside, Jerusalem wouldn't have fallen were it not for those three. As you will see.

Ashot's professional disdain over their technique. He's outraged not at what they are doing, but how poorly they are doing it. All the while reminding Stephan that there's a much better option in the garden.

The Emir of Tyre has a fascination with Stephen *ahem* poor boy is so sheltered he has no idea... much to Ashot's sheer delight and profit.

Darien's kingdom grows. Mamistra, the Celician Gates, St. Simeon and down the coast with Tripoli, Beruit and Tyre all under his flag, and bending the knee. At this point he has taken more cities than the other Lords of the Crusade combined. While the others sit and squabble in Antioch, the Prince of Galilee closes his grip over a massive haul of treasure, land, and supplies.

Why to I hear bad, slow country, horses riding across farms, and a scarecrow. Bo Burnham singing, and turning the label outwards so you can definitely see it, wearing 3000$ boots that have never seen a fleck of mud. "Denver Lite" that kind of guy's beer.

I'll get there, just need to develop a story for it, that's the tough part. It's proving tough to figure out one that fits. I'll get there, but remember it's only been half a year.

"Don't massacre the musicians, Val." Good morning.

The ancient, island city of Tyre did not cower behind its massive fortifications when the Vanguard of the Silver Boar arrived on the mainland coast. It did not shutter its windows, barricade its heavy timber doors, nor did it send out a sweating, hyperventilating envoy dressed in yellow silk to beg for mercy on the dusty plains. Instead, as Darien Haskal brought his thousand heavy infantrymen and three hundred Friesian-mounted knights to a synchronized, thunderous halt at the landward edge

tomorrow I am deciding between a murder mystery I am working on, or Carter's Asset, or Vega Vixen 2.0... not sure which way I want to take slot 2. I have a few other works, deeply psychological ones, not much by the way of humour... and I do like to keep Slot 2 more on the lighter tales.

I mean, it's already declared itself Captain of the ship

He was a man who got stuck. He never intended to become the leader of the Hegemony. He merely wanted the GN-2 Emperor out of the way for Edward to ascend. When Edward was killed he got stuck in limbo, it's funny Tripp's fate was the same as Rikard's. He was bored, waiting, trying to figure out what to do next. Stuck in the ruins of his own failure. Then along came Elias, and Lukas. And suddenly his 'passion' was reignited. This takes place in that gap between The Falcon Banner and Sigil... it's where Rikard realizes that there is something more important to him, more important than legacy. And he decides to ascend Elias and start again. Lukas's small act of rebellion, of free will, or breaking the programming and shooting his father. Something no other construct/GN has been able to do before that point. Showing him there's hope.

beware the quiet ones. They may be small, they may seem docile, but they hold fire and fury.

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Chapter 19 The air in the subterranean levels of the manufacturing district was heavy, thick with the smell of scorched ozone, sterilized coolant, and the faint, unmistakable copper tang of industrial-grade synthetic preservative. It was a smell that clawed at the back of the throat, a constant reminder of the sheer scale of the atrocity taking place above and around them. The vast, cavernous expanse of the central server node stretched out like the nave of a profane cathedral, it

Thank you, as always, to those that read these. It's a lot of work to write them, and the fact that you guys enjoy them so much is a great reward to that effort.

I enjoy the Libbet scenes, she's foul mouthed, short, and fierce. And she can defend herself. through her marriage to Julian, she gives him as much as he gives her. They make one heck of a team.

That old bedouin, and the three horses play an important role in Lost in the Sand

And Lloyd's wisdom, and lessons, save yet another person dear to him.

Wylan is the strongest of the five in that fight. It was a mistake of the Fatmids to teach him this. Good Morning

The Vanguard camp was enveloped in the heavy, velvet darkness of a Levantine night. Set back from the jagged limestone cliffs of the coast, the sprawling canvas city had finally fallen into the quiet, rhythmic breathing of a resting army. The sentries walked their perimeter routes with disciplined, muffled footsteps, their chainmail silenced with oiled leather straps. The distant, eternal crashing of the Mediterranean surf provided a low, resonant backbeat to the crackle of the dying watch fires