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Cliffie BAD! That being said - did Zac's life force - upon touching Q's feather - just revert to Q? I'll keep watching this space...

By chance I'm re-reading this riveting story after a few years! Now if you fellow readers are not yet intrigued by the (slightly altered ) history here, I can only recommend you look up the life of Mathias Corvinus, of Vlad Tepes, and their adversaries/allies. They were both fighting all their lives, betrayed often and shifting alliances themselves. Very volatile times, Constantinople had just recently been overtaken by the Osmans! The Balkans were in constant fights and turmoil. Walachia, Moldavia and Hungary were the bulwarks... Roughly 200 years later the life of Dmitrie Cantemir is equally exciting! Have a good read!

Bas serves the function of " Dear Diary..." Oh sorry - journal, it's blokes here, innit? Sadly, he never answers, full of wit and sass! But perchance he's a sleeper? Re-appearing at an unexpected / inopportune moment, as deus ex machina ,or some such literary device? Btw , for me as foreign, non-native reader, the style reminds me much of Nigel Gordon on Awesomedude.org - the Johnny series. I guess it is the locale? Similar language / idioms / landscape... Thoughts? Anyway, I love this slow burning story!

"Agua...." and then I wept

I'll ship Elion and Holden...

Is this a re-write, or a continuation of the Carter Saga I read many years ago, I think on crvboy?

I just HAD to look for a house in New Orleans! Found one on Zillow, suitably aged….

I must have slept during that lecture - what are The Federation, and The Empire? Both share The Academy, it seems. So who is the senate?

Oh, Sweet. Finally. All is good in the five sectors now! Wedding bells in the offing….

when regicide becomes an obligation...

Thanks for the Matriarch! She currently is the only one that can reset Marc’s head!

Marc appears now as a self absorbed entitled brat. Not communicating with “his fated Nate, the love of his life..” at all, yet expecting to be fully understood. He has no real corrective yet. All his family treat him as the second coming ( at least of his great grandfather), and he can do no wrong. He single-handedly forced the merger with the Alexander’s, without much auditing, or scrutinising. Whatever he wants he gets, or he marches marines to thwart an unplanned/ unwanted lunch! Enough with juvenile tantrums, Alex stop fawning, grow a spine, and give your mate a good talking to. Standing up for oneself should be something Marc might understand, and respect.

Guys, help me out - “we wolves not meeting pack expectations…” - where and how is the two Nyxes outcast status explained? It seems they are just run of the mill black Nix pack members?

In Arthur's homelands Richter means "Judge"

I notice a lot of main characters are somewhere between Asperger’s, anger issues, or general erratic behaviour. Prone to overreactions. But at least they are all fluent in upwards of 4 languages, have great business acumen and experience, and typically are pretty loaded by the time they hit their early twenties. The occasional catamaran, or trimaran in their portfolio further endear them to me!