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  1. Adam Andrews Johnson
    Tchama stepped up to the front door of the shop, pulled open the door, and its bell rang. “Welcome to the First Organic Mechanic…” Olona started to say, but then she realized who it was. “Oh, hello! Tchama, I didn’t expect to see you today, since you were helping with the…” Her voice faded. Tchama was covered in dust and bits of concrete. “What happened to you?” Olona asked. Instead of replying, Tchama said, “I’m here to let you test my arm, or whatever you wanted to do.”
  2. Adam Andrews Johnson
    “Please, Auntie Peg,” an old man wheezed to her from his cot, “let Ninyani finish reading the chapter.” He coughed and Auntie Peg handed him his glass of water. “Of course, Ninyani can finish reading the chapter,” she replied with a smile. Auntie Peg headed into the hallway and checked several charts as she continued her rounds. The night shift was about to start, and she and Ninyani were almost finished for the day. When they were done, they were planning to meet up with Dottie Marble
  3. Adam Andrews Johnson
    wow, i can't tell you how much it means to me that Agrell came to mind for you 💖 she may be gone, but she's still one of my favorite characters... when I was originally developing her, before i even started writing, i worried for the readers who would eventually connect with her, and the heartbreak over the redemption she achieves at the end 😭 she's so special to me
  4. Adam Andrews Johnson
    “Good morning, everyone!” Dottie Marbles called out to the crowd of gathered volunteers. “Thank you so much to all the returning workers, and to the new people who are here today,” she added, looking over at the four young women, “welcome.” Dozi, Ilya, Tchama, and Sumi were standing together. Harakin stayed at the mystic’s house with him during the day so he could give her wound fresh treatments every few hours. “Today,” Dottie Marbles continued, “we’ll be whitewashing the side of a bu
  5. Adam Andrews Johnson
    Oh my gawd! 😆 Dozi and Ilya are totally supposed to be there! uh-oh, i think i need to edit this chapter 😬 I totally missed that, and you're the first of my readers to mention that they're not there hahaha thank you!
  6. Adam Andrews Johnson
    “Where’s Tisa?” Harakin whined. The strange connection between their powers fascinated her, and she was quite taken with Tisa. “I’m sure she’ll be along shortly,” the mystic said in a cheery voice. “Besides, I’m not finished cooking yet. I’d much prefer that she and her friend arrive when the food’s close to ready.” “I wonder what she’s like,” Harakin said in a wistful tone. “I mean, the other girl from Xin.” “Knock, knock!” Auntie Peg called from the front door of the mystic’s ho
  7. Adam Andrews Johnson
    sorry, i needed to edit some of the details in this chapter! nothing too major, mostly cleaning up continuity stuff ☠️ i did add part of a naughty song just for fun 😅
  8. Adam Andrews Johnson
    “Olona!” Tisa cried with delight, as she opened the front door to the shop and headed up the stairs to their living quarters. “I met this great group of people!” “What, really?” Olona replied. “That’s wonderful! I’m so happy that you’ve found some folks to call friends!” “Will you come meet them?” Tisa asked with a beaming smile. “Oh, I don’t need to be friends with your new friends,” Olona replied. Tisa’s expression dropped. “Why don’t you want to meet the people I’ve m
  9. Adam Andrews Johnson
    “No,” argued S’Kay, “I don’t want to add anyone new, especially someone who’s not a Bio-Shift.” She ruffled the feather-like protrusions all over her body. “Tualu chose Tisa, just like he chose Lahari,” Gawa retorted, and the marblesque patterns on her skin shifted with an excited energy. “Why does his opinion count for so much?” S’Kay asked. “Listen,” Lahari interjected, “he is just as key to what we are doing as the rest of us, and since he d
  10. Adam Andrews Johnson
    In the darkness of the night, Tisa walked beside Lahari. They headed away from the hidden hideout of the Biological Shift vigilantes, and the two of them made their way into Gate Town toward Shifton. “I, for one, am in favor,” Lahari said. “This is what I was made for,” Tisa replied, “stopping bad people and protecting my own kind.” “I think one or two of the others in the group still need convincing,” Lahari stated. “They are resistant to adding new members, and I’ll be honest
  11. Adam Andrews Johnson
    After moving into Gate Town, Olona focused on using her skills to help people. Her days were spent healing the injured, and Olona enjoyed her practice. Some locals were hesitant to accept treatments with the bizarre machines that she used; most were unfamiliar with or at least unsure of the arts performed by organic mechanics. When Olona and Tisa left their shack in the Spritehood, they moved into the first floor of an empty building that they discovered at the edge of Shifton. Over the ne
  12. Adam Andrews Johnson
    A pale light was still emanating from the wound in Harakin’s neck. Her voice sounded harsh and raspy in the quiet darkness. “Are we safe?” she asked. She looked up at Sumi’s face, which was illuminated by the faint glow. Sumi was cradling her. Dozi and Ilya looked at each other. “Safe?” asked Ilya. Dozi lit a candle. “Where are we?” Harakin whispered. Instead of answering, Dozi spoke up, “How did you get in here?”
  13. Adam Andrews Johnson
    yes, indeed, it was...
  14. Adam Andrews Johnson
    On an unimpressive day, very similar to many of the days before it, for one brief moment in time everything went horrible for Tisa. It was a chilly evening at the beginning of her first winter in Teshon City, and the sunlight was swiftly fading. Tisa was collecting boards in an alley when a pack of hunters descended upon her, and she was trapped. Like holes that led to oblivion, her shadow discs suddenly surrounded, and the headless skeletal torsos that emerged from them were terribl
  15. Adam Andrews Johnson
    Every several years, the winter snows fell heavier on the mountains north of Xin, and the subsequent spring thaw caused the great Ru River to overflow its banks. Most houses built in that region were constructed on tall stilts that were sunk deep into the earth. They allowed the flooding to freely flow beneath the homes without destroying them. Much of the inhabited land near the river was currently under several inches of water. The flood was vast, and the pits that the people of Tuilii la
  16. Adam Andrews Johnson
    oh my gawd!!!! i've been waiting for someone to question the timelines!!!! CHAPTER 13 is now live and there are some explanations in it 💥
  17. Adam Andrews Johnson
    The two monsters from Gunge roared and flailed their weird limbs, as they charged up the incline of the land toward Tisa and Olona. “No,” Olona whispered in terror, “the halo, it’s working. It is!” Tisa put up her hands in a futile defensive position, but her otherworldly abilities responded by reflex, and something happened that startled both of the women. Discs of shadow appeared in front of the monsters. They collided with them and the discs changed shape for a split second,
  18. Adam Andrews Johnson
    “Rally, you lot!” cried the commander of the Tuilii la Ru city guard. She led the charge. “Let’s go!” Five other officers from the king’s guard were with her. They were all unarmed, but massive shields were strapped to each of their backs. They moved as quickly as they could with the cumbersome objects weighing them down. “At the next cross street, you three turn and head up,” she ordered half the squad. “We will approach from two angles.” They split, and the squads both reached
  19. Adam Andrews Johnson
    “We can’t simply sneak past Gunge,” Tisa explained to Olona. “If one of those monstrosities needs to satisfy its craving, it will be able to sense me immediately.” Olona furrowed her brow. “So, we need to figure out a way to make you undetectable,” she stated. “Is it your mantis gland? Is that how they sense your kind?” “I don’t know much about them,” Tisa replied. “Liovia was always able to see them coming in advance.” She fell silent at the mention of her murdered companion. “
  20. Adam Andrews Johnson
    correct, none of the monsters were born with mantis glands, so there are no glands to take from them. consuming the gland causes it to break down and fuse with the eater, giving them their enhanced strength. even the multiple consumed gland in the mutated messiahs no longer exist in their original forms.
  21. Adam Andrews Johnson
    is it not clear from the writing that Harakin caused it to appear from under the rubble? maybe i need to explain it a little better.
  22. Adam Andrews Johnson
    Ronging lurched across the grasslands with the river in sight to one side; it would lead him to the richest hunting grounds. His thoughts were a void, his emotions nonexistent. There was only the need. There was nothing left of him. Ronging was the need. As he got his first glimpse of the metropolis, his eyes raged with joy and desire. Its outskirts stretched north, and that was where Ronging was certain to satiate his craving. He slunk into the brush and again waited for nightfall.
  23. Adam Andrews Johnson
    It was night when the countless hours of Sumi’s torment in the black cell finally came to an end. She was released and hosed off beneath a half-moon before being sent to the empty dormitory. Harakin’s space and possessions brought fresh tears to Sumi’s eyes, and she fell onto her prison mate’s bed. She rolled on her back, looked at the grey ceiling, and she heard Harakin’s words in her mind, What else can you do? “I wish I knew more about my powers,” Sumi said aloud. Then
  24. Adam Andrews Johnson
    A man entered the Goat’s Maw with a large bell in his hand. “Oi, ye lot!” he called out over the hubbub of the tavern. Olona looked over in his direction. “Oi! ’Ear ye, ’ear ye!” the man said with a thick accent. “Dis is a call out for any ’ealers! To de far nort’ of our lands, de village of Kestapoli done suffered an ’orrific attack. Some of dem residents be needing care.” Olona perked up, took another puff on her joint, and handed it to the barmaid. She then headed toward the
  25. Adam Andrews Johnson
    that's interesting of you to say...
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