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    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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    Chapter 20

    Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 20

    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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    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.
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    Chapter 20

    Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 20

    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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    Chapter 20

    Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 20

    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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    Chapter 20

    Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 20

    the first time Khalid and Darien have come face to face. Not the last.
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    Chapter 20

    Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 20

    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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    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.
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    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.
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    Eriks doesn't share his sandwiches with man stealing best friends!
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    Chapter 19

    Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 19

    I think Ashot is more interested in getting him out of said Habit
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    Hughie is hamfisted into random ships, abused and generally maligned... and verbally abused. Dio does the verbal abusing "There's a difference!"
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    Should have paid in full
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    The CSC, bladerunner's of this setting. They're there to apprehend a threat to the Construct program that Eriks represents, KW-479 is a rather fortuitous coincidence. They have been looking for him, it's highly interesting to them that he and Eriks are together.
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    As ever, thanks to the readers. A knight in the Darkness was my very first attempt at this genre and thank you for enjoying, reading, and engaging with it.
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    The Raptor's common room was silent. Lukas sat in the pilot's chair, staring at the rain on the viewport, his hands resting on his knees. The rose jacquard jacket hung on the back of the seat, replaced by the Militsiya uniform—clean, pressed, the fabric stiff with synthetic starch. The peaked cap sat on the console beside him, its visor gleaming under the dim lights. He had found it in a locker, buried beneath a stack of old reports, and something about the weight of it felt like armor.
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    Chapter 19

    Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 19

    Stephen is embarrassed, but rather enjoying sharing his bedroll... even if he now owes Ashot a chest full of coins.
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    Chapter 19

    Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 19

    Funny you should mention this, in the later book, focused on Ishan, we learn that his master/teacher was. The Seljuk Empire had a large amount of dealings with the Far East and the Orient. (The silk road passing right through it) And Ishan's father wanted a teacher for his smallest boy, that could teach him the Path of Water. Ishan in turn teaches this to Ashot. Ashot in turn teaches this to Atreus FitzDarien (a major plot point of book IV)
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    Chapter 19

    Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 19

    Ishan is highly skilled with a sword. And Wylan is NEVER getting messed with again, even after they swap back. When a group of highly fleeced knights run back to their tents and talk about how the BLIND saint kicked the snot out of ten squires, and a hundred knights... (you know this is getting embellished) no one is going to touch him.
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    Chapter 19

    Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 19

    Snot's become a trope in our weekly DnD game, used to describe any civilian/child/pet that gets adopted by a party member. Our GM is notorious for viciously punishing us for adopting annoying NPC's by brutally squashing them in some dramatic fashion or another... there was a string of cabin boys... it was not pretty, utterly hilarious though.
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    Chapter 19

    Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 19

    Good morning SNOT.
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    The training yard was a churned swamp of frozen mud and the frantic chaos of men who had been starving for months and were finally, mercifully, fed. Val stood in the center of it, her practice sword balanced on her shoulder, watching her new squire stagger to his feet for the dozenth time. Ashot's face was barely visible through the dented kettle helm Lloyd had given him, his dark eyes glittering with the reckless fury of a boy who had been hit too many times and was not going to stop unti
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