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Mickey has a moral objection to being Probed against his will... with his will that's different... but they never asked.
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Oh believe me, I am enjoying a lovely cup right now, staring at a chapter of Vega Vixen 2.0 where Mickey holds up a Grey Alien flying saucer with a staplegun... mmmm I love my mornings.
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5 More to go of this tale. After I will release another story in between, and then release the third book "The Lord of the Pierced Dawn" which is available now on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lord-Pierced-Dawn-Silver-Boar-ebook/dp/B0GYQF7KSX
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Ashot has a name to earn. Snot going to stay a snot any longer than he has to. He's got a Steffy to marry (and oh boy does he go on a mission and a half to accomplish that, much to Stephen's horror.... it involves blackmailing an Archbishop, extorting the Pope of Rome, and a few polite letters to certain Ladies of the court about what their husbands really get up to.... Ashot is a force of nature when he's older. Darien's spy master)
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Now, again, Siyan was a butcher, but he fled Antioch almost immediately after doing this act of barbarity. Fleeing by one of the mountain gates... only to fall from his horse and shatter his legs. His guards left him behind and fled with his gold. He was found, begging for Parley waving a white flag. You can imagine what happened to him by the Tafurs and Crusaders who found that irredeemable creature in the mud. After all, it was only the same hospitality he showed Walo.
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I've made a tiny edit, to remove the overly repetitive: "His thing was a thing of a thing that...." I will endeavor to do that going forward for each chapter, apologies I was a little fixated at the time and didn't notice how often I did it.
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Walo learned to fly. Good morning
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The white banner hung limp in the still morning air, and Darien had been staring at it for so long that the cloth had become a thing without meaning, a shape without color, a promise that he had stopped believing in hours ago. Walo rode at the head of the small column, his armor polished, his cloak new, his face that of a man who had been waiting for this moment since the siege began. The Constable of France had not starved in the passes. He had not frozen in the mud. He had arrived with t
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Chapter 7: THE KILLING GROUND
Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 7: THE KILLING GROUND
They fight like friends do over a man :: chuckles :: -
Yes Ishan and Wylan's first encounter. Ishan was creating fog to cover the ships into Nicea. Wylan bumbled into the middle of his ritual and they both nearly drowned as a result.
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This gate was one of the last that was still receiving supplies into the city (as we saw when Ashot entered the city on that side) It's the end of outside help for Antioch.
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Chapter 7: THE KILLING GROUND
Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 7: THE KILLING GROUND
The parallel with Elias and Lukas is something I wanted to do intentionally. Lukas and Elias have a lot of things in common. -
The jump drive tore a hole in reality and spat the Raptor out into darkness. Not the clean darkness of normal space—the smooth, velvet black that cradled stars and planets and the slow drift of asteroids. This was a *sick* darkness. A dying darkness. The kind of darkness that settled over battlefields after the guns went quiet and the wounded stopped screaming. The system had no name. Not anymore. The maps called it a debris field, a navigational hazard, a region to be avoided. But o
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The streets literally ran ankle deep with blood. I do write about Jerusalem, it is the next book and the final of the trilogy, there are two other books after it showing Jerusalem through Ishan and a Crusader deserter Sebastian Ibelin's eyes. And the journey home that shows Darien's son Atreus and his journey. (Frankia will never be the same)
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Chapter 6: THE EXTRACTION
Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 6: THE EXTRACTION
That's the beauty of his Nicholas Denver persona. He's everywhere, and until Lex Talionis kidnaps him, he's a major problem. He finances the Empire giving him leverage, he's got control. Eyes everywhere. It's insidious... and the name, Nicholas should give you a clue as to who he betrayed to take it all. Niklaus/Lukas has been dancing to Rikard's tune for 240 years. -
Syria is notoriously treacherous terrain, strangely rapid shifting weather patterns, and a nightmare of logistics just due to it's geology. Perfect for this kind of bogged down quagmire trap for heavy armor. I am growing more interested in writing a Weird World War story with the same flavour of very subtle magic. Right now I am halfway through Vega Vixen 2.0, so we will see after that.
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This, again, actually happened. Another of the weird, divine/magical events of a deeply strange siege. Tancred - Darien in our story - was saved by this storm, and it marked the last effort from within the City to break the siege, from here, everyone knew it was now just a matter of inevitability.
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the first time Khalid and Darien have come face to face. Not the last.
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The shield wall Good Morning
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The stones of La Mahomerie rose from the frozen mud like the bones of some great beast, and Darien had been standing guard over them for three days. The counter-fort was not a thing of beauty. It was a thing of desperation, built by men who had been starving for months and were finally, mercifully, fed. The engineers who had come from Genoa with the fleet had drawn the plans, had marked the lines where the walls would rise, had calculated the angles that would turn the Bridge Gate into a d
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Chapter 6: THE EXTRACTION
Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 6: THE EXTRACTION
My simple rules are that hand holding works, but it takes longer, more of it. Skin to skin contact is better/faster... the more intimate the contact, the more effective/faster the degradation is reversed. -
Chapter 6: THE EXTRACTION
Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 6: THE EXTRACTION
There is an interesting question about agency, and Lukas's ability/capacity to make un-compromised choices. The Intimacy protocol overrides his own choices, such as he can make them. Though his determined effort to recover Eriks without hesitation, or any of the other programming overrides show us that he considers Eriks vitally important to him. Breaking Eriks out of jail, and putting himself in direct conflict with his self-preservation, and Militsiya protocols says something. It could be argued that he used Tripp to accomplish this goal/was unable to refuse when things escalated. It does make what he has with Eriks something more powerful. -
Chapter 6: THE EXTRACTION
Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 6: THE EXTRACTION
Eriks doesn't share his sandwiches with man stealing best friends! -
I think Ashot is more interested in getting him out of said Habit
