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  1. Adam Andrews Johnson
    Wow, that is so encouraging 🥲 My editor finished his notes to me by begging for a sequel or prequel or an adjacent story! I think there's a lot more to explore with this world...
  2. Adam Andrews Johnson
    Oh my Godzilla! I'm so thrilled that you enjoyed it and are curious about what else the world holds! Seriously thank you for reading it ❤️
  3. Adam Andrews Johnson
    Tigath and Dorjin were unaware that as she cast her spell of ice, the energy did more than merely flow into Earth. Her charm passed through Tigath’s magical crystal, and it became exponentially powered. Ice, on a cosmic scale, was generated by her spell. The glacier grew around Tigath’s protective crystal, but it did not stop growing. It expanded and covered the mountain upon which the remains of Uall Island now sat, and the ice continued to grow. The entire mountain range soon lay beneath
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    Everyone succumbed to their emotions in unison. Othri dropped beside Tigath and embraced him. Alydrael was weeping, and Dorjin had her pale arms around the green-skinned woman. Kilial started to sob as she turned toward the door to the room that had served as her home for many years. Illiop scurried out of the captain’s chamber and past her to Lestralin. “It’s finished, little buddy,” he choked out as he also began to cry. As Kilial approached and laid her hand o
  5. Adam Andrews Johnson
    Uall Island flashed to the final location where Othri could feel a magical Urcai, but when the island and ship arrived with everyone, there was no sign of any Earthians. There was no devastation from the Humans, no ruined city, no scorched patch of Earth, but there was also no one in the vicinity. The island still appeared like a mountain, and the area in which it now stood was hilly, so Uall was well hidden. It was supporting the Mermonster with its magic, but the ship looked very strange in th
  6. Adam Andrews Johnson
    The sun was just starting to rise at the eastern horizon, but the sounds of wailing awoke everyone aboard the Mermonster. Alydrael worried it was Dorjin, who was still coming to terms with her actions and those of her people. Dorjin thought the crying was Nuji, who seemed to be the most dramatic of the group. Nuji was concerned that it was Tigath, suspecting it had something to do with the new magic in him. Lestralin thought Alydrael had hurt her damaged leg, and he was i
  7. Adam Andrews Johnson
    Oooh, I like your thinking...
  8. Adam Andrews Johnson
    The entire landmass of Uall Island suddenly shook itself, as if a supersized earthquake with a concentrated epicenter had hit, but it affected only the tiny island. The violence of the shaking uprooted every palm and mangrove tree growing from the island’s soil. They were dislodged and came crashing down into the churning surf. Waves spread out from Uall in all directions, and they began to rock the Mermonster, but the devastation subsided mere moments after it began. A single scrawny tree
  9. Adam Andrews Johnson
    Tigath, Othri, Nuji, Alydrael, Kilial, and Lestralin were inside a cozy little pub in a tiny fishing village on the mainland. Dorjin was not with them. The town was called Rogodo, and it was far inland from the sea. The Mermonster had sailed up a wide river past the silent ruins of another destroyed city at the coast, but a full day’s journey upstream brought the travelers to Rogodo. Othri had found one of the other magical green-skinned individuals, a woman named Rhostilla, and she h
  10. Adam Andrews Johnson
    It was night. Five Earthian buccaneers were approaching their target. The ship they intended to commandeer was docked at the river harbor of Rogodo. They had seen its small crew disembark, and it was clear that no one else remained onboard. Under the cover of darkness, the ship-thieves approached. The five men did not use their real names. The leader of the group was a Noktar who the others called Commodore. With him were two Urcai, the first mate, who had picked up the nickname Tick
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    The Mermonster had followed Othri’s directions for two days, and the ship was approaching land. Everyone was above deck except for Alydrael, who was in her cabin. Illiop was with her, and the pair was seated on her bed. She was stroking his rainbowy fur, and he was letting out little happy chirp sounds. “How come I don’t have any magic?” Alydrael questioned to herself. She was not pouting or complaining, but she had a genuine curiosity about what would cause nature to give Tigath powe
  12. Adam Andrews Johnson
    Othri was asleep beside Tigath in their cabin aboard the Mermonster. Despite the horrible things that had happened to Earth at the hands of the Humans, and even with everything he and the group had gone through, Othri’s sleep had remained undisturbed for the most part. The ship was rocking gently with the waves, but his mind was spinning in one of the night terrors that plagued him from time to time. While in the vision this night, he could already tell that it was important. In these rare
  13. Adam Andrews Johnson
    Kilial was in the middle of mending one of the Mermonster’s sails, when a portal through reality opened. The warrior woman yanked her sword from its scabbard, pointed its tip at the eldritch doorway, and prepared herself for whatever was about to assail her. To her relief, Tigath, Othri, Nuji, and Lestralin stepped through the opening onto the deck of the ship. “What are you all doing here?” Kilial asked them. “I thought we weren’t going to see you until closer to sundown.” She focuse
  14. Adam Andrews Johnson
    I'm sorry, you got caught doing what?! 😂
  15. Adam Andrews Johnson
    Alydrael was asleep, and Illiop was curled up next to her. The rainbow-furred creature was quietly snoring, but above deck, Kilial’s footfalls went stomping from the bow to the stern, and Illiop raised his head. He looked up at the ceiling of the cabin, slid off Alydrael’s bed, and scurried up the stairs. Kilial was in the middle of tying off one of the Mermonster’s ropes, and she was surprised to turn and see the animal seated on his haunches behind her. “Hey there, little one,” she
  16. Adam Andrews Johnson
    Nuji awoke on her back. She was strapped down to a metal table, and blinding lights were blazing above her. Her head was throbbing, and even if she had not been bound in place, she did not think she could move. People were talking, but Nuji was unable to focus on their words. She tried to raise her head, but she was too weak, and she was powerless to stop a grabbing hand that came to her forehead. Nuji tried to pull her face away, but fingers came to her eyes and peeled up her lids. The fa
  17. Adam Andrews Johnson
    Tigath and Othri opened the hatch in the floor of the room with the cloned Human parts, and another staircase led even deeper into the underground of Nextworld, but Othri paused and took Tigath’s hand. “Tigath, are you sure you’re okay?” “No,” Tigath replied with a frown on his green face, “I’m not okay. Our home was destroyed. Vuliburge was destroyed. Who knows how many Earthian cities have been destroyed by the Humans.” He looked behind him at the corpse on the floor. “I never thoug
  18. Adam Andrews Johnson
    The train that Nuji and Lestralin were leaving was a sleek machine, but the thing that the crates were being loaded onto was terrifying. It was a train in only the loosest definition of the word. The abomination that was headed in toward the heart of Nextworld was the size and length of a train, but it looked more like a gargantuan intestine stretching along the track. There were no wheels, and it did not ride upon the metal lines that ran beneath it. The levitating mass of pale pink flesh float
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    Othri grabbed a second voider from the forest floor, slung it over his shoulder, and cautiously reentered the maintenance door that led into the building adjacent to the Temple. No other soldiers were inside, and Othri crept to the hole that had been smashed through the wall by his magical wall-destroyer. On the other side was an empty hallway that he followed to a corner, and around it, he found the door that led out of the temple. There had been four guards positioned outside it, and he h
  20. Adam Andrews Johnson
    you may be onto something there...
  21. Adam Andrews Johnson
    Nuji and Lestralin were about the same height, and side by side, they peered over a low wall in front of them. Dorjin’s second doorway into Nextworld had taken the Noktar man and Rothian woman to an entirely different part of the forest from Tigath and Othri. Their target in Dorjin’s plan was not the Temple. They were headed to a monument called the Needle of Security, or simply the obelisk. The pair were on a rise in the land that provided them a panoramic view of the surrounding region.
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    “Green sun and pink sky,” Tigath whispered, looking up and repeating what Dorjin had told them back on Earth. “Yeah, it’s strange-looking,” Othri replied, “makes my eyes feel weird.” The two Urcai men were in a forest. It looked a lot like the forests they knew on Earth, except that the light was different. “Dorjin said the path that’ll lead us to the Temple should be due east.” Tigath pointed, and the men began to hike through the trees. “I hope Nuji and Lestralin will be okay.”
  23. Adam Andrews Johnson
    “I can’t believe it worked,” Dorjin whispered to herself. She had cast a charm for simply peering between the two worlds, and yet before her were a pair of openings in reality that led from Earth into Nextworld. She then turned to the short, limby captain of the Mermonster with a relieved expression. “Kilial, thank you again for agreeing to let me stay here. I don’t want to go back.” “Don’t worry about it, Dorjin. Until we figure out what to do with you, you can stay with us.” Kilial nodded
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    Othri and Lestralin were with Verilin, Edonish, and the rest of the rebels on Ashtrilth Island. “You really don’t have any kind of plan to fight back?” Othri asked. He looked around at the group of gathered rebels, but most shrugged or shook their heads. “Far to the north,” he went on, “there were a group of shadow warriors who were planning something secret. I think they had figured out some way to attack the Humans.” “We’ve mostly been trying to hide and find survivors,” Verilin rep
  25. Adam Andrews Johnson
    “What’s this?!” Nuji squawked. She could barely believe her eyes. Kilial was rowing the Mermonster’s dinghy back from the island toward the ship. Tigath was with her, but so was a Human! Nuji was in a fury. “I just finished casting a bunch of spells to prevent this Human from finding us again, and you brought her right to the ship?!” “We needed to help her,” Tigath replied as he climbed the ladder back onto the Mermonster. “Help her?” Nuji barked as Kilial and Dorjin also b
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