Quietly shifting around, Dys moved to sit next to the weeping Fetch. Without a word, she set her hand on Maeve’s back in a comforting gesture. As soon as she did, the crying woman curled in on herself, balling up like a small child. Carefully moving her shaking form, Dys pulled Maeve into her lap, giving her a mix between a hug and well… not a shoulder to cry on. More like a leg. Not that the body part mattered, so long as the Fetch was getting the emotional support that she needed in the moment.
As Maeve’s sobs slowed over the course of several minutes, Dys simply stroked her back, patiently waiting for her to work through the hurricane of emotions she was struggling to control. However, while Dys was only acting to comfort the Fetch, the greater part of Jadis’ mind was focused on thoughts about what she was going to do to help.
Jadis wasn’t a therapist. She had no training when it came to any kind of psychology or mental health treatments. Frankly, she wasn’t even sure the kinds of therapy techniques that came from modern Earth society would work on a Fetch. From the way Maeve described her situation, it wasn’t that her brain was chemically unbalanced or that she was suffering from some sort of traumatic past experience that affected her thoughts and actions. It was her very soul that was unstable, seemingly purposefully so. The Fetch felt all emotions at all times by design. That was just what they were as a species. The fact that Maeve was trying so desperately to not experience every emotional extreme at once was the aberration.
Or was aberration too strong of a word? Trying to be one thing while having the capability to be everything was a concept Jadis had encountered many times since passing on from Earth. While she was pissed off at her mad benefactor for creating such a cruel existence, Jadis had to admit that a species that was capable of being everything at all times was pretty well in line with D’s own apparent being. When D gave Jadis a cookie, it wasn’t just a cookie. It was the perfect personification of the platonic ideal of what a cookie could be. Which, when Jadis thought about it, meant that the tasty treat was every cookie that had ever been or could ever be, yet for the one moment that it touched her tongue, it was the precise thing that she thought was the best cookie.
The cookie was the same as D himself. He personified chaos. He was everything all at once. The parts that Jadis saw when she visited the god were just the aspects that he chose to show. He was a concept and was thus just as fluid as a thought.
Was that why the Fetch had such a wide breadth of emotions going on all at once? It would make them better at blending in, if they could pick and choose the correct emotion to fall into depending on what disguise they were wearing. If one needed to be a commanding lord, it wasn’t enough to wear a lord’s face. Putting on the emotional hat of someone who had been a lord their entire life and had specific feelings and ingrained responses to the world around them was the way to truly disguise oneself as a lord. To become someone else wasn’t just physical. It was mental, too.
It made sense. But it also made sense why it didn’t work out in the long run. A being that was always experiencing the full range of every emotional response to every action or event that was going on around them wouldn’t be able to function. They would have to pick and choose what emotion they wanted to go with at any particular moment. And for a species who were always pretending to be other people, it had to be hard to know what emotional response was their emotion, and not the choice of whoever they had been pretending to be last would have had.
That was probably the true issue. How could the Fetch have any true sense of identity, a sense of self, if they didn’t have a body that was their own? Maeve had made it abundantly clear to Jadis in past conversations that she had no true self. There was no body that she could relax into and just be Maeve. If she didn’t have a body, a form that was just her, then how could she have an emotional response that was just her either? Every feeling had to be seen through the lens of the body that she was wearing like a cloak at any given moment. That lack of self-identity could not be good for a person’s self-esteem. Even a regular human would struggle in such a situation. How did Fetch deal with essentially being born into a constant emotional and existential crisis? It was easy to see why Maeve would think that she didn’t have any kind of stable feelings that were just her own.
Though, considering the woman crying in her lap, Jadis had to point out to herself that clearly the Fetch could have their own emotions. Maeve wasn’t crying because she was pretending to be someone else. The current storm of grief was an outpouring of her soul, with pathos coming from herself, directed towards herself. Maybe she was just having trouble recognizing the fact since she was so used to being emotionally tossed around by the constant pull of countless emotions hitting her from every direction.
The unmoored ship in a storm was a good analogy. Jadis appreciated that Maeve had explained it that way, since it helped her understand not only what the Fetch was going through on a moment-by-moment basis, but also what she was looking for out of her. Maeve wanted someone to be her rock. A place to put her anchor, someone who Maeve always knew how she felt about them because she knew how they felt about her. That was why she needed Jadis’ love. Or hate. Or whatever other unchanging emotion that Jadis was willing to give to her. She wanted Jadis to feel for her.
Which was exactly why Jadis knew that was the wrong path to go down.
“I was about to ask if you were feeling any better, but considering what you just explained, I feel like that would be insensitive to ask,” Dys said as she continued to stroke Maeve’s back.
The loud sobbing had tapered off to a few subdued sniffles by that point. When Maeve spoke next, her tone was filled with a mix of misery and embarrassment. She didn’t even try to lift her head out of Dys’ lap, instead pressed her face into the Nephilim’s leg, causing her words to come out muffled.
“It’s not insensitive. I’m under control now. I can switch to something easier to talk to.”
There it was. Maeve’s words confirmed Jadis’ suppositions about the Fetch’s nature. She could choose which emotion to have; she just had trouble when she let the emotion get out of hand. No wonder Jadis’ normally trustworthy vibes radar was always thrown off by Maeve. She could swing between different emotions at will. A great asset when pretending to be a different person. Not so great when you didn’t know who you were supposed to be outside of that disguised context.
“It’s not about easier to talk to,” Dys responded to Maeve’s statement. “That’s what’s causing the most friction between us, I think. I don’t want you to change for me. I want you to just be you.”
“There is no me,” Maeve snarled, her tone changing like lightning from sad to angry. “That’s what I’m trying to tell you! I’m nothing! No one! Not a gods damned anything at all! That’s why I need you to tell me what to be so I can be it!”
Dys sighed heavily, her own temper cooling rather than flaring in response to Maeve’s demands. She couldn’t be angry at the other woman, not for feeling so desperately lost. Especially when it was clear to her that Maeve knew that what she was asking wasn’t fair.
Picking the Fetch up from where she was still curled up in her lap, Dys moved Maeve so that she was sitting on top of the small round table that had previously been between them. The Fetch made no protest to the repositioning and instead shifted her posture so that she was kneeling with her hands in her lap. She was still transformed to look like a smaller version of Jadis, only her expression had gone completely blank. It was a bit like looking at a doll of herself, Jadis thought as she settled her gaze on Maeve’s face. Such an experience probably would have been weird for most other people. But for her, someone who faced her own self without mirrors every day, the confrontation felt almost like business as usual.
“You know you can’t ask me to love you,” Dys stated with plain bluntness. “That’s not a choice for me. Neither is hating you. My feelings towards you are just going to develop the way that they will, regardless of intent. That’s just how emotions work.”
“Not for me,” Maeve said.
The response sounded like it should have been petulant, but the emotionless delivery removed any such perception from the flat words.
“Are you sure about that?” Dys asked. When Maeve continued to silently stare at her, Dys pressed forward. “By that I mean, are you sure that every emotion you have is a choice?”
“At the start,” Maeve finally replied. This time, as she spoke, her tone took on the breezy, indifferent affectation that she so frequently used when presenting basic facts about spying and security around the Fortune’s Favored compound. “I can pick and choose as I will. How far down I go on that path is much harder to control. Regardless, the start of the path is always my choice.”
“So, you chose to beg me to hate you?”
Maeve’s cool tone and expression faltered.
“No, I didn’t pick that. I spiraled. Like I said, once I start down a path, it’s harder to control where it goes from there.”
“Sounds confusing, honestly,” Dys frowned. “You have control, yet you have no control. I’m genuinely sorry. I can’t really imagine how it must be to live like that.”
“Then love me and I’ll—”
“Stop,” Dys placed a finger against Maeve’s lips.
Taking a deep breath, Dys prepared herself for a Hail Mary tactic. She just hoped that what she was about to say was going to help Maeve. For all she knew, it could make things worse. That said, she had to do something, and what she had come up with made sense to her as a way of maybe guiding Maeve to a healthier outlook. Or it could make things worse, depending on what Maeve’s response was. The first step was a gamble. All she could do was cast the die and hope for the best.
She would have prayed to D for luck, if she wasn’t so pissed at him at that moment.
“Maeve, would you like to have sex with me?”
The Fetch’s eyes widened to a comical degree. Obviously, she hadn’t been expecting the blunt question. Considering the flow of the conversation thus far, Jadis couldn’t blame her for the reaction. Waiting for a response, Dys tried to keep track of the raging chaos of expressions that played across Maeve’s face. Now that she had an idea of what was going on, she found it a little easier to interpret the varied emotions being put on rapid display.
“Do you want to have sex with me?” Maeve finally settled on a question to answer a question.
“I didn’t say that,” Dys tilted her head to one side. “I asked you if you want to have sex with me.”
“Yes, absolutely,” Maeve answered with a rapid nod of her head.
“Why?”
Maeve’s excitement instantly shifted to suspicion.
“What do you mean, why?”
“Why do you want to have sex with me? It’s a simple question. What’s your reason?”
“Because then you’ll love me,” Maeve said. However, even before she finished saying the words, Jadis could see the frown crease her face. “I mean, I know I can’t make you love me, but lust is a start. I’m great in bed. I can be anything, do anything. I bet you can’t even imagine the positions I can come up with. You can do all kinds of interesting things when you don’t have a spine.”
Jadis filed that information away for possible future discussions but otherwise kept her focus.
“Alright, so you want to have sex with me because you want to use your body to try and seduce me into an emotional connection.”
Maeve’s expression fell even further at the way Jadis reduced and reframed the Fetch’s motivations.
“No, I didn’t mean—”
“Never mind that. Let me reword my question,” Dys pressed on, pushing past the stumbling reaction Maeve tried to pull together. “Are you attracted to me?”
“Yes, I am,” Maeve answered, though her tone was more wary than before. “I’ve been intrigued by you from the moment I first heard of your exploits. As soon as I first saw you, I knew you could be my anchor. That you had to be. You’re so strong. You’re so powerful and confident and certain about who you are. You’re so certain about who everyone else is. I’ve wanted you from the very start.”
“Flattering,” Dys said, though she brushed the compliments aside. “Not what I’m asking. Are you, Maeve, physically attracted to the way I look?”
“I—Yes, I am,” Maeve answered as uncertainty visibly warred with agitation on her face. Jadis guessed the Fetch was having trouble picking between confusion and frustration. “You’re beautiful.”
“What about me are you attracted to?”
Maeve blinked, her expression settling on lost.
“The whole package, I suppose.”
“My face? My eyes?” Dys motioned as she listed off her assets. “Maybe my breasts? My ass? My cock? I know you’ve spied on me in the baths. You’ve seen everything. Is it my legs? My hair? My muscles?”
“I… I don’t know, you’re just beautiful,” Maeve shuddered as an unnatural ripple moved across the surface of her body. “What do you want me to say?”
“I want you to say which part of me is attractive to you. My hands? My feet? My lips? My skin?”
“I don’t know,” Maeve shook her head. “I just—”
“My scent? My voice? My abs? My armpits?”
“No! I don’t know! I don’t know what you want me to—”
“My nose? My teeth? My pussy?”
“I can’t—”
“My ears? My tongue? My—”
“Your ass!”
Maeve’s exclamation cut Dys’ list off. Jadis thanked Lyssandria for that, since she had been running out of body parts she could think of to fetishize. Leaning back slightly, Dys smiled at the worried expression on the Fetch’s face. With a motion of her hand, she urged her to continue.
“Okay. You like my butt. Why?”
“What can I say, it’s a nice ass,” Maeve shrugged. When she saw Dys raise an eyebrow, she hurried to elaborate. “I mean, it’s very round and shapely. Big, but not too big. I remember seeing you bend over a few weeks ago. You were helping Sabina with something, and you bent over to pick up some tool or piece of metal and I was right behind you. The way your pants pulled against your ass was… it was inspiring.”
Jadis couldn’t remember the specific event, but that was hardly the point. Instead, she took hold of a phrase that Maeve had used and fixated on it.
“What do you mean by ‘big, but not too big?’ How big is too big?”
“I guess I mean it’s the right size for your body,” Maeve tried to answer, though from the way she spoke Jadis could tell that she was having trouble understanding the point of the inquiry. “Plush, but not too… squishy, I guess.”
“What about Thea?” Dys pivoted her question. “She has a great ass. I’ve always liked the way her butt looks, especially when she wears leather.”
“She does,” Maeve blinked in surprise. “I mean, she has a very shapely rear. Very round and balanced.”
“What about Aila?”
“Nice, but a little too small,” the Fetch replied more quickly. “She has great legs, and her ass is good, but Thea’s is better. Neither are as good as yours, though.”
“How do you rate Eir? She’s very plush.”
“A little too plush for me,” Maeve admitted. “She’s beautiful, but I like a butt to have more tightness to the look, a little denser with muscle. Eir’s ass is bigger than Thea’s, but that’s not always better.”
“My ass is way bigger than Eir’s ass,” Dys countered.
“No, it’s not,” Maeve shot back indignantly. “It’s bigger when side by side, but in context to the rest of the body, your ass is definitely tighter than Eir’s is. There’s really no comparison. Your ass is way better.”
“I think there are a lot of people out there who would disagree on that,” Dys smirked. “Eir is gorgeous.”
“Fuck what they think,” the shapeshifter tossed her head to one side. “Look, I’m not saying Eir isn’t gorgeous. She absolutely is! But if I have to pick who has a better ass between the two of you, then it’s you by a longshot!”
“Me by a longshot?”
“Yes!”
“No question?”
“Absolutely!”
“What if I said I like Eir’s ass better than mine? What if I think her butt is the most perfect butt in existence and that all other butts should be like hers?”
“Then I—” Maeve started to shout, then choked on her own words as her expression contorted into soured confusion. “I… if that’s what you prefer. I think I’ve made it clear that I’ll be anything you want me to be.”
“But what you like is my ass. Not Eir’s ass, or Thea’s, or Aila’s. You like my ass.”
“I didn’t say I didn’t like them…” the Fetch stated, her tone trying to go flat yet not quite managing to reach emotionlessness. “Just that yours is better.”
“Good,” Dys grinned at the woman kneeling on the table in front of her. “You have a reason to like me. Not a need to like me. Not some sort of twisted attempt to please me because you think that’ll make me love you if you do what I tell you to do. You like the way I look because I have a nice ass.”
“So? So what if I like your ass?” Maeve responded, and this time she did sound extremely petulant. “Being attracted to your butt doesn’t mean anything.”
“It means you aren’t nothing,” Dys poked the Fetch in the chest. “You said you aren’t anything at all, and that’s patently not true. If nothing else, as we’ve just established, you are an ass woman. You like butts.”
“You’re making fun of me…”
“No,” Dys shook her head firmly, though her denial didn’t wipe the offended look from Maeve’s face. “I’m really not. The reason why I’m asking, the reason why I’m making a point of highlighting this, is that you have a type. A preference. You have a part of you that’s you, not anyone else.”
“That doesn’t mean—”
“Yes, it does!” Dys insisted, talking over Maeve before she could start to spiral into a whirlpool of indignant and ultimately unhelpful anger. “It’s small. It’s just one trait. But it’s you. That’s what’s important. Being just you.”
Dys took a deep breath, centering herself. She hadn’t meant to raise her voice because she knew that getting agitated wasn’t going to help Meave with her own struggles. She saw that the other woman was working to control her own tempestuous reactions as well. Her borrowed face was rolling through one expression after another, a true sign of her lost discipline and restraint. That was fine, though. Jadis didn’t need Maeve to be restrained. What she needed instead was for her to stop being who she wasn’t.
“You once told me that you don’t have a look of your own. You’re always wearing the skin of someone else. But there must be a you that isn’t someone else. You didn’t come out of the womb or however it works with Fetch looking like the human baby next door. What does the natural you look like?”
“Like nothing,” Maeve said with genuine concern in her voice. “Nothing anyone would want to see. I have to shape myself like someone else. I’m not… I’m not solid enough to be anyone otherwise.”
“Can you change parts of yourself?”
When Maeve didn’t immediately respond, Dys continued her questions, clarifying what she was getting at.
“Can you change your head to look like Kerr right now, for example, but keep your body the same as mine?”
“That’s hard to do,” Maeve admitted. “But I can. Little variations take concentration. Big variations take a lot more effort and concentration.”
“Good,” Dys grinned. “Good! That’s perfect.”
Sitting up a little taller, Dys shifted so that she too was in a kneeling position. That put her head higher than Maeve’s despite the table giving the Fetch height, though that was soon to change. Taking hold of the shapeshifter’s hands, she guided Maeve to stand up so that the table was a pedestal under her feet. The result was a confused and worried looking mini-Jadis posed before Dys in a pilfered maid’s uniform.
“Would you please take off your clothes?”
Maeve didn’t blush at the request, nor did she show any kind of hesitation. All she was showing Jadis was a body that she was already intimately familiar with, since it was an exact copy of Jadis’ form, minus the excessive height. Once the garments fell around Maeve’s feet, Dys took the clothes and set them aside. Looking up and down Maeve’s borrowed body, she made sure to give Maeve a confident smile. Not the easiest thing to do considering Jadis wasn’t certain that what she was doing was right or would even help Maeve, but she trusted her instincts. This felt like the right thing to try.
“I want you to let yourself be what you look like naturally, when you aren’t pretending to be anything else. Just be a Fetch.”
“I can’t do that,” Maeve growled, her tone more frustrated than angry. “There is no natural Fetch!”
“Then I want you to remove all the features that you’re currently holding onto,” Dys told her. “Stop being pale. Stop having hair. Stop wearing my face. Stop having my breasts and butt and everything else that you’re doing to mimic me. And don’t replace them with anything else. Just let them go.”
As Dys spoke, Maeve didn’t close her eyes. She didn’t move at all, except for a shiver that ran through her body. For a minute, Jadis didn’t think anything would happen. Then, Maeve shifted. And it hurt.
The pain was for Jadis, not Maeve. She was well familiar with the process Fetch used to shapeshift; she had seen the troubled woman switch between forms many times already and had seen Jack do so as well. What the Fetch before her did was far slower, far easier to watch. And the watching is what hurt. The form that appeared before her wasn’t some other visage that Jadis’ mind could easily latch onto but was instead a paradox of existence that denied all attempts at understanding.
As Jadis’ features melted away, the Maeve that remained was a blob. A thing that existed and was there yet refused to categorize itself into a shape. Blob was the closest word Jadis’ brain could use to match up to what she was seeing, but really, it was far from adequate. Jadis was reminded of the Eldritch Sign that she had created for her Sleep of the D ritual. It was there, it could be observed, but its existence defied description.
“I warned you,” a voice spoke, though it was unlike any voice Jadis had ever heard before. There was a twisting derangement to the tone that tickled her ears made shivers run up Dys’ spine. “I’m not anything.”
“Bullshit,” Dys said immediately. “You are something. Just because you aren’t easy to understand doesn’t negate the fact that you exist.”
Maeve didn’t say anything in response to Dys’ assertion, though the non-form she had reverted to shifted and moved around slightly. In doing so, Jadis’ brain began to work out what she was looking at a little more firmly.
Maeve’s body was see-through, yet it wasn’t at the same time. She had colors inside of her, every color at once, from what Jadis could tell, and that was the part that was hurting Jadis’s brain the most. She recalled the feeling she had earlier that morning when the power from Eir’s sacrament had been both red and white at the same time. Neither color had been subsumed by the other, and they hadn’t combined into some other color either. They had both existed at once, simultaneously, despite the impossibility of that notion.
Perhaps the every-color of Maeve’s body was a representation of the multitude of emotions that existed inside of her. Every feeling at every moment, all the time, all at once. That, or Maeve was showing off the magical equivalent of chromatophores.
“Can you pick one color to be?” Dys asked. “Just one. Whichever one you like the best. Maybe you don’t have a favorite color, but I want you to pick one that you like. Not what you think I might like. What you like.”
Another ripple moved through Maeve’s body and an instant later the mind-melting colors evened out. The color the Fetch chose was a glowing orange, with shades of yellow and red oscillating across her in a way that reminded Jadis of a lava lamp. She was still partly translucent, enough so that the thinner parts of her form were transparent enough that Jadis could see rest of the cellar behind her. The central parts were too thick to be truly see-through, though that made for some interesting color gradients.
“Orange is your favorite color?” Dys asked quizzically. “I didn’t expect that.”
“I don’t really like it any more than any other color,” Maeve corrected her in a tone that was far less bone chilling than a moment before. “I just… decided on orange.”
“That’s good,” Dys nodded. “Orange is good.”
Reexamining the Fetch, Jadis was able to see that her form wasn’t quite as nebulous as she had previously thought. The shifting wrongness of her colors had made it hard to really look at Maeve. Now that her colors had been normalized, she could see that Maeve’s blobular body was somewhat like the diagrams of single-cell organisms she had studied in school back on Earth. There was no defined shape to her, but there were outlines. Various portions of her body were constantly shifting and moving, stretching and contracting, so that she looked like she was constantly in motion despite standing still. Smaller bits and pieces were moving around inside of her, visible due to her transparent form, though there was nothing like a nucleus or mitochondria that Jadis could observe. Just indistinct shapes that surfaced and faded in a never-ending, churning swirl.
“You kind of look like a giant amoeba,” Dys murmured as she watched Maeve’s interior roil like a simmering pot of water.
“What is that?” Maeve asked, and the churning motions both in and outside of her body picked up in speed. Jadis guessed the reaction was from her constantly changing emotions. “It sounds unappealing.”
“It’s a small animal, I’m not surprised you’ve never heard of it,” Dys explained. “And no, I don’t think most people would find them to be attractive.”
Jadis figured lying, even about something minor like the attractiveness of an amoeba, was a bad idea. She and Maeve had finally opened an honest dialog, and she didn’t want to jeopardize that with white lies. However, before the Fetch could make the wrong assumptions, Dys continued her thought.
“Despite that, you’re beautiful. The way your colors are shifting and moving around like that is mesmerizing. If you wanted to stay like this all the time, I wouldn’t mind.”
“Not a chance,” Maeve responded vehemently.
Despite the certainty of her words, Jadis noted that the movement inside of her slowed significantly. Jadis took that to mean that her emotions had calmed, and her sense of self had been reassured. Learning to speak Demon was having some surprisingly useful carryovers in her and Maeve’s conversation.
“No worries, I didn’t think you would,” Dys chuckled. “How about this. Now that we have a base to start from, let’s build you up together, okay? You aren’t a blank slate. Nothing like it. You’re you. You’re just having some trouble showing who you are because of all the other shit that surrounds you. Even if nothing else ever happens between us, I want you to know that you can always be yourself with me. You don’t have to pretend. Just be you.”
“I—ah, I’ll try,” Maeve struggled to say, her voice coming out small and vulnerable.
Jadis didn’t know if that vulnerability was an intentional choice or not, but in either case, Maeve was still feeling that emotion. She needed comfort, and more importantly, she needed help. That was all Jadis really needed to know.
“That’s all I ask. So, you like my butt, yeah? Seems like as good a start as any. Why don’t you give yourself a butt like mine and we’ll go from there.”
There was a rippling, shuddering movement that flowed all across the blob that was Maeve’s body and then, suddenly…
“Oh, my fucking god,” Dys cracked up laughing. “Damn it! Don’t do that!”
“What!?” Maeve shouted at her. “You told me to make an ass, so I did!”
“I wasn’t expecting you to just pop one out of your middle like that!”
“How else am I supposed to do this? You want me to just turn into a one-hundred-pound ass on the table? Because I can do that.”
“Please, for the love of all that is holy, don’t do that,” Dys shuddered at the thought, as well as the thought of the trouble it would cause if Kerr ever found out that Maeve could become a single body part. “How about you take on a sort of featureless, humanoid form. Like an unfinished statue, or a mannequin.”
At Dys’ suggestion, Maeve transformed again, her body rippling far more strongly over the course of a second before becoming a vaguely human-like figure, utterly featureless except for the shockingly attractive ass in the now entirely appropriate location. She was still orange with a mix of yellow and red, and her insides still had those churning shapes visible through translucent skin, but she was otherwise far more humanoid than not.
“Alright,” Dys grinned and nodded. “That’ll do. Now. Let’s work on making a you that is just you, and no one else. Because, I promise, once you have a you, you won’t need anyone else to be your center. You’ll be your own anchor. And once you’ve done that, well, who knows what might happen.”
“Probably some chaotic bullshit,” Maeve muttered as her form shifted nervously around. “I’ll just end up going off on a bad path again and fuck up.”
“Probably,” Dys agreed. “But if and when you do, I’ll be here. Not to tell you what to be, or how you should act, but just to give you some perspective. I won’t be your anchor, Maeve. But I will be your friend.”
“That you,” the Fetch said quietly, her body going almost supernaturally still. “Really. Thank you.”
“Hey, what are friends for?” Dys replied with a cheeky grin. “Now, turn around and let me see that butt. I swear, I’ve looked at my own ass a lot and what you’ve got going on back there isn’t the same thing I’ve got.”
“I may have made a few alterations…”
Dys’ grin grew even brighter.
“Damn straight you did.”
Source: Webnovel.com, updated by NovelKeep
Chapters
- Chapter 684 681: Aerial Altercation
- Chapter 683 680: Clever Girl
- Chapter 682: A Long Day’s March
- Chapter 681: Aerial Altercation
- Chapter 680: Clever Enemies
- Chapter 679: Marching Orders
- Chapter 678 675: Staging Grounds
- Chapter 677 674: Launch
- Chapter 676 673: Perverse Improvement
- Chapter 675 672: Shifting Solidarity
- Chapter 674 671: Relaxed Review
- Chapter 673 670: Release
- Chapter 672 669: No Relief
- Chapter 671 668: Deserving Attention
- Chapter 670 667: POV Seraphim
- Chapter 669 666: Consensus
- Chapter 668 665: Proposal in Theory
- Chapter 667 664: Imagined Ideal
- Chapter 666 663: Figure Out
- Chapter 665 662: Train Wreck
- Chapter 664 661: Independence
- Chapter 663 660: Dirty Talk
- Chapter 662 659: Reinforced
- Chapter 661 658: Family Trust
- Chapter 660 657: Orange
- Chapter 659 656: Confessions
- Chapter 658 655: Bound
- Chapter 657 654: A Cat in Need
- Chapter 656 653: Calling In Favors
- Chapter 655 652: Careful Examination
- Chapter 654 651: Undesirable Aftermath
- Chapter 653 650: Touched
- Chapter 652 649: A Touch of Desire
- Chapter 651 648: True Lies
- Chapter 650 647: Shattered Expectations
- Chapter 649 646: Stakeout
- Chapter 648 645: A Place to Grow
- Chapter 647 644: A Taste
- Chapter 646 643: A Time and a Place
- Chapter 645 642: POV Severina
- Chapter 644 641: Private Show
- Chapter 643 640: Pieces
- Chapter 642 639: Heroes
- Chapter 641 638: Failure
- Chapter 640 637: Sacrifices
- Chapter 639 636: Confirmation
- Chapter 638 635: POV Mystic
- Chapter 637 634: A Hard Place
- Chapter 636 633: Roc
- Chapter 635 632: Red-Eye Flight
- Chapter 634 631: Choices
- Chapter 633 630: Discomfort
- Chapter 632 629: Most Favored Daughter
- Chapter 631 628: The Verdant Sea
- Chapter 630 627: Speedy Departure
- Chapter 629 626: In the Closet
- Chapter 628 625: Parlour in Red
- Chapter 627 624: Valuable Progress
- Chapter 626 623: Secret Knowledge
- Chapter 625 622: Hall of Memories
- Chapter 624 621: Ancient Dreams
- Chapter 623 620: Old Wounds
- Chapter 622 619: Spoonful of Honey
- Chapter 621 618: Lonely Grove
- Chapter 620 617: Quiet Lands
- Chapter 619 616: Hand in Hand
- Chapter 618 615: Tainted Tea
- Chapter 617 614: Pillar
- Chapter 616 613: Invulnerable
- Chapter 615 612: Touring the Lines
- Chapter 614 611: Spider Dryad
- Chapter 613 610: Survey
- Chapter 612 609: Big Stuff
- Chapter 611 608: Veranda Blossom
- Chapter 610 607: Meeting of Minds
- Chapter 609 606: The Senate
- Chapter 608 605: POV Companion
- Chapter 607 604: Volto
- Chapter 606 603: The Hoard
- Chapter 605 602: Draconic Dinner
- Chapter 604 601: Draconic Debt
- Chapter 603 600: Dragon Fall
- Chapter 602 599: Draconic Directive
- Chapter 601 598: Soaring Encounter
- Chapter 600 597: Contested Airspace
- Chapter 599 596: Regrets
- Chapter 598 595: Embraced
- Chapter 597 594: Salacious Transposition
- Chapter 596 593: POV Amarantha
- Chapter 595 592: Transpositions Reviewed
- Chapter 594 591: Travel Talk
- Chapter 593 590: New Equipment and New Companions
- Chapter 592 589: Princely Bargains
- Chapter 591 588: Unstandard Procedure
- Chapter 590 587: Party Line
- Chapter 589: Princely Bargains
- Chapter 588 585: Tree Hugging
- Chapter 587 584: Honey
- Chapter 586 583: Carving
- Chapter 585 582: Morning Report
- Chapter 584 581: Early and Late Arrivals
- Chapter 583 580: Shield Power
- Chapter 582 579: Hatchlings on Review
- Chapter 581 578: Distress and Undress
- Chapter 580 577: Crashing Hard
- Chapter 579 576: Aura Farming
- Chapter 578 575: Underwater Rite
- Chapter 577 574: Return to the Bathhouse
- Chapter 576 573: Vital Overflow
- Chapter 575 572: Guest List
- Chapter 574 571: Demonic Negotiations
- Chapter 573 Interlude: Twisted Desire
- Interlude: Twisted Desire
- Chapter 572 570: When a Plan Comes Together
- Chapter 571 569: Ambition
- Chapter 570 568: The Other Shoe
- Chapter 569 567: Mood
- Chapter 568 566: Very Good Question
- Chapter 567 565: Bad Idea
- Chapter 566 564: Accelerated Strain
- Chapter 564: Accelerated Strain
- Chapter 563: New Perspective
- Chapter 565 563: New Perspective
- Chapter 562: Replenished
- Chapter 561: Newborn
- Chapter 560: Hope’s Arrival
- Chapter 559: Any Berth in a Storm
- Chapter 558: Belly of the Beast
- Chapter 557: POV Leader
- Chapter 556: Caught Up
- Chapter 555: Pursuit
- Chapter 554: From the Start
- Chapter 553: One Man’s Story
- Chapter 552: Amalgamation
- Chapter 551: Foul Play
- Chapter 550: Ruse
- Chapter 549: Chance Encounter
- Chapter 548: Encounters in Glanum
- Chapter 547: Don’t Shoot the Messenger
- Chapter 546: Last Minute Arrival
- Chapter 545: On the Wing
- Chapter 544: Omission
- Chapter 543: A Justicar’s Strength
- Chapter 542: Overdue
- Chapter 541: A New Look
- Chapter 540: Not Quite Mile High
- Chapter 539: Sample Collection
- Chapter 538: The Unscientific Method
- Chapter 537: Wands in Review
- Chapter 536: Coordination and Confronation
- Chapter 535: Balls and Wood
- Chapter 534: As Long as it Takes
- Chapter 533: Perspective
- Chapter 532: Split Attention
- Chapter 531: Concept
- Chapter 530: Unmoored
- Chapter 529: A Long List
- Chapter 528: A Chance
- Chapter 527: Atonement
- Chapter 526: Spiral’s End
- Chapter 525: Sacrament
- Chapter 524: Certainty
- Chapter 523: Random Chance
- Chapter 522: POV Spy
- Chapter 521: Bedroom Blitz
- Chapter 520: Divine Progress
- Chapter 519: Willpower
- Chapter 518: Prepared Sniper’s Position
- Chapter 517: Silent Protector
- Chapter 516: Malleability
- Chapter 515: Arcane Improvements
- Chapter 514: Path of the Progenitor
- Chapter 513: Tip of the Iceberg
- Chapter 512: Staggering Numbers
- Chapter 511: Loyalty and Speculation
- Chapter 510: Meet and Greet
- Chapter 509: Falling into Rhythm
- Chapter 508: Family Forge
- Chapter 507: Philosophy and Iced Tea
- Chapter 506: At Ease
- Chapter 505: Regicide
- Chapter 504: The Bold
- Chapter 503: Follow Through
- Chapter 502: Critical Hit
- Chapter 501: Inside Knowledge
- Chapter 500: Mirror Magnification
- Chapter 499: Hindsight
- Chapter 498: Deliberate Reaction
- Chapter 497: Visceral Action
- Chapter 496: Breathe
- Chapter 495: A Greater Spellwork
- Chapter 494: Coming to a Head
- Chapter 493: Command Conflict
- Chapter 492: Reconnoiter and Plan
- Chapter 491: Impact
- Chapter 490: Pulverize
- Chapter 489: Change of Battleplans
- Chapter 488: Push Back
- Chapter 487: POV Maeve
- Chapter 486: Mud and Blood
- Chapter 485: Hold the Line
- Chapter 484: Two Towers
- Chapter 483: Cannonball
- Chapter 482: Aerials
- Chapter 481: Glanum
- Chapter 480: Ancient Sights and New Territory
- Chapter 479: First Class Travel
- Chapter 478: Exhaustion and Preparation
- Chapter 477: Undying Flare
- Chapter 476: Slow Burn
- Chapter 475: A Magistrate’s Touch
- Chapter 474: Vraekae’s Manor
- Chapter 473: Infanticipating
- Chapter 472: A Candid Moment
- Chapter 471: Scent of an Elf
- Chapter 470: Personnel Conversations
- Chapter 469: Afterglow
- Chapter 468: Best Efforts
- Chapter 467: Family Meal
- Chapter 466: Rooftop Sit-Down
- Chapter 465: Check-In
- Chapter 464: POV Pilgrim
- Chapter 463: Background Check
- Chapter 462: The Value of Trust
- Chapter 461: Infiltration
- Chapter 460: Rising Developments
- Chapter 459: Midflight Ruminations
- Chapter 458: Recrimination
- Chapter 457: Burning Flowers
- Chapter 456: Through Fire and Flame
- Chapter 455: Occult Magic
- Chapter 454: Burning Heart
- Chapter 453: Desperate Search
- Chapter 452: Cinders
- Chapter 451: Return to Cold Brook
- Chapter 450: Overdue
- Chapter 449: Cooperation
- Chapter 448: Petty Plots
- Chapter 447: Decency
- Chapter 446: POV Dryad
- POV: Dryad
- Chapter 445: Collusion
- Chapter 444: Brace Up
- Chapter 443: Massage
- Chapter 442: Helping Hands
- Chapter 441: After Dinner Discussion
- Chapter 440: Clan Warsong
- Chapter 439: Proper Definition
- Chapter 438: Prioritize
- Chapter 437: Obstinate
- Chapter 436: A Night in Cold Brook
- Chapter 435: Romantic
- Chapter 434: Unexpected Greeting
- Chapter 433: POV Meli
- Chapter 432: Air Travel
- Chapter 431: Setting Sail
- Chapter 430: Independence
- Chapter 429: Strange Conversations
- Chapter 428: Advice
- Chapter 427: Goals
- Chapter 426: Flight
- Chapter 425: Second Squad
- Chapter 424: Attraction
- Chapter 423: Succession
- Chapter 422: Blessed
- Chapter 421: Secret Consultation
- Chapter 420: Spring
- Interlude: Cullen
- Chapter 419: Progenitor
- Chapter 418: Heaven
- Chapter 417: Decision
- Chapter 416: Transcendent
- Chapter 415: Knowledge Shared
- Chapter 414: Pregnancy Test
- Chapter 413: Ritual Overtime
- Chapter 412: Spectacle
- Chapter 411: Compatible
- Chapter 410: Priorities
- Chapter 409: Family Gathering
- Chapter 408: An Arrangement
- Chapter 407: Meeting of the Minds
- Chapter 406: Sons
- Chapter 405: Character and Honor
- Chapter 404: The Emperor
- Chapter 403: Summoned
- Chapter 402: Herbalism and Witchcraft
- Chapter 401: Silver Lining
- Chapter 400: Difference of Opinion
- Chapter 399: Baby Talk
- Chapter 398: Terrible Explanation
- Chapter 397: Audience
- Chapter 396: A Hero, an Oracle, and a Prince Walk Into a Pastry Shop
- Chapter 395: Unexpected Results
- Chapter 394: Interrogation
- Chapter 393: Sweet and Sour
- Chapter 392: A Private Conversation
- Chapter 391: For Now
- Chapter 390: Kitchen Nightmare
- Chapter 389: In the Company of Heroes
- Chapter 388: The Light
- Chapter 387: Dread
- Chapter 386: Bigger Problems
- Chapter 385: Unexpected Rescue
- Chapter 384: The Chaos of Battle
- Chapter 383: Betrayed
- Chapter 382: Dead Heads
- Chapter 381: Family
- Chapter 380: POV Light
- Chapter 379: Dance to Remember
- Chapter 378: Night of the Ball
- Chapter 377: Dress to Impress
- Chapter 376: Apprenticeship
- Chapter 375: Undercity
- Chapter 374: Mercenaries and Mice
- Chapter 373: Cleaning and Reconstruction
- Chapter 372: Shopping for Smiths and Witches
- Chapter 371: Time to Build
- Chapter 370: The Making of a Hero
- Chapter 369: Forewarned is Forearmed
- Chapter 368: Company Meeting
- Chapter 367: Branching Out
- Chapter 366: A Demon’s Choice
- Chapter 365: A Good Person
- Chapter 364: Perfectly Jadis
- Chapter 363: Stoking the Flame
- Chapter 362: POV Bridget
- Chapter 361: Fireside Council
- Chapter 360: Trummelton’s
- Chapter 359: Encouragement
- Chapter 358: Letters and Words
- Chapter 357: North Gate Reunion
- Chapter 356: Putting on a Show
- Chapter 355: Date with a Guardswoman
- Chapter 354: Makes Sense
- Chapter 353: Date with a Smith
- Chapter 352: Pillow Talk
- Chapter 351: Date with a Priestess
- Chapter 350: Private Show
- Chapter 349: Date with a Wanderer
- Chapter 348: Meeting the People
- Chapter 347: Acolytes of War
- Chapter 346: Training Grounds
- Chapter 345: Earnest Discussion
- Chapter 344: Date with a Goblin
- Chapter 343: Lovebirds
- Chapter 342: Blunt Conversation
- Chapter 341: Books
- Chapter 340: Guardian
- Chapter 339: Duty Assignments
- Chapter 338: POV Demon
- Chapter 337: Mate
- Chapter 336: Conspiracy Theory
- Chapter 335: Ancient History
- Chapter 334: Spice
- Chapter 333: Teatime with the Prince
- Chapter 332: Breakfast at Lyssandria’s
- Chapter 331: The Bathing Scene
- Chapter 330: Warm Welcome
- Chapter 329: All Roads
- Chapter 328: Subtext
- Chapter 327: Power Play
- Chapter 326: Eldingholt
- Chapter 325: Greater Good
- Chapter 324: Visitation
- Chapter 323: Doing the Math
- Chapter 322: Reorientation
- Chapter 321 POV: Paladin
- Chapter 320: Fractured
- Chapter 319: Snapped
- Chapter 318: Bear-Room Brawl
- Chapter 317: Resisting Arrest
- Chapter 316: Assumptions
- Chapter 315: Parole
- Chapter 314: Paladin of Jadis
- Chapter 313: Status Sheet
- Chapter 312: Between Friends
- Chapter 311: Getting a Handle on Things
- Chapter 310: Intentions
- Chapter 309: POV Alex
- Chapter 308: Scapegoat
- Chapter 307: Understanding
- Chapter 306: Influence
- Chapter 305: Tense Negotiations
- Chapter 304: VIPs
- Chapter 303: Gathering of Priests
- Chapter 302: The Second Worst Kind of Dinner Party
- Chapter 301: Lares
- Chapter 300: Hearth and Home
- Chapter 299: Return
- Chapter 298: Grub
- Chapter 297: Crate Trained
- Chapter 296: Unexpected Gift
- Chapter 295: A Disparate Gathering
- Chapter 294: First Impressions
- Chapter 293: Language Barrier
- Chapter 292: Reunited
- Interlude: Prince Hraustrekr
- Chapter 291: Light in the Dark
- Chapter 290: POV Enchanter
- Chapter 289: Gifts
- Chapter 288: Twins
- Chapter 287: Better View
- Chapter 286: Tempting Thoughts
- Chapter 285: Whispered Affection
- Chapter 284: Mending and Amends
- Chapter 283: Fruit in a Basket
- Chapter 282: Missing
- Chapter 281: Cold Shoulder
- Chapter 280: Future Plans
- Chapter 279: Easy Decision
- Chapter 278: Peer Reviewed Journal
- Chapter 277: Spoiled for Choice
- Chapter 276: Review Among the Trees
- Chapter 275: Gratitude
- Chapter 274: Old Friends
- Chapter 273: Vengeance
- Chapter 272: Change of Plans
- Chapter 271: Rescuing the Princess
- Chapter 270: Dragon’s Blight
- Chapter 269: POV Smith
- Chapter 268: Possession
- Chapter 267: Demons and Dragons
- Chapter 266: Mad Plan
- Chapter 265: It Worked
- Chapter 264: Ritual Time
- Chapter 263: Of Course
- Chapter 262: Battle Plans
- Chapter 261: Champion of Chaos
- Chapter 260: POV Sabina
- Chapter 259: Guidance
- Chapter 258: Fourth
- Chapter 257: Snow Fall
- Chapter 256: Prisoners
- Chapter 255: Forced Reinforcement
- Chapter 254: Ambushed
- Chapter 253: First
- Chapter 252: Coating
- Chapter 251: Smugglers
- Chapter 250: Sanctuary
- Chapter 249: POV Witch
- Chapter 248: Bigger Growth
- Chapter 247: Big Skills
- Chapter 246: Committed
- Chapter 245: Wailing
- Chapter 244: Terrible Fate
- Chapter 243: Knock on Wood
- Chapter 242: Screams
- Chapter 241: Malice
- Chapter 240: Seeing Results
- Chapter 239: Quartet
- Chapter 238: Working Out the Kinks
- Chapter 237: Collar
- Chapter 236: Awkward
- Chapter 235: Burnt Out
- Chapter 234: Interrogation
- Chapter 233: Conspiracy
- Chapter 232: Hot on Their Heels
- Chapter 231: Tunnel Vision
- Chapter 230: Back to the Depths
- Chapter 229: Nothing is Simple
- Chapter 228: Illumination
- Chapter 227: Exchange
- Chapter 226: Hostages
- Chapter 225: Elites
- Chapter 224: Slow and Steady
- Chapter 223: POV Ambusher
- Chapter 222: Needed
- Chapter 221: Working as Intended
- Chapter 220: Camp Life
- Chapter 219: Trailblazing
- Chapter 218: Second Departure
- Chapter 217: Done Teasing
- Chapter 216: Privacy
- Chapter 215: A Different Kind of Training
- Chapter 214: Double Attack
- Chapter 213: Recharging
- Chapter 212: Familiar Places
- Chapter 211: An Attempt Was Made
- Chapter 210: Enchantment
- Chapter 209: Too Much
- Chapter 208: Taste
- Chapter 207: Heart to Heart
- Chapter 206: Self-Recrimination
- Chapter 205: Catch Me If You Can
- Chapter 204: Bloody Mess
- Chapter 203: POV Sorcha
- Chapter 202: Crossroads
- Chapter 201: D Stands For…
- Chapter 200: Cabin in the Woods
- Chapter 199: Frustration
- Chapter 198: So Many Levels
- Chapter 197: Results
- Chapter 196: Cold as the Grave
- Chapter 195: Frost Drakes
- Chapter 194: POV Professional
- Chapter 193: Silent Night
- Chapter 192: Setting an Example
- Chapter 191: Keeping Quiet
- Chapter 190: Night Watch
- Chapter 189: Not Exactly Roughing It
- Chapter 188: On the Road Again
- Chapter 187: Early Morning Visitor
- Chapter 186: New Toys
- Chapter 185: Size Considerations
- Chapter 184: Even Exchange
- Chapter 183: Experiment
- Chapter 182: Logistics
- Chapter 181: Not Alone
- Chapter 180: Gaze
- Chapter 179: POV Troublemaker
- Chapter 178: Good Girl
- Chapter 177: Considerations
- Chapter 176: Lies
- Chapter 175: Flail
- Chapter 174: Test Run
- Chapter 173: Interview
- Chapter 172: Shindig
- Chapter 171: Politics
- Chapter 170: The General
- Chapter 169: Recess
- Chapter 168: Training Day
- Chapter 167: Avatars
- Chapter 166: Creation
- Chapter 165: Table Manners
- Chapter 164: POV Kerr
- Chapter 163: Spar
- Chapter 162: Nerves
- Chapter 161: Morning Surprise
- Chapter 160: Strange Espionage
- Chapter 159: Wolf in the Hen House
- Chapter 158: Uninvited
- Chapter 157: Manticore
- Chapter 156: Back to the Border
- Chapter 155: Kitted Out
- Chapter 154: New Recruit
- Chapter 153: Wanton Replication
- Chapter 152: POV Voyeur
- Chapter 151: Therion’s Just Want to Have Fun
- Chapter 150: Alternate Methods
- Chapter 149: Renovations
- Chapter 148: All Work and No Play
- Chapter 147: Mother of God
- Interlude: Prince Kestil
- Chapter 146: Fortune’s Favor
- Chapter 145: Company
- Chapter 144: POV Guardswoman
- Chapter 143: The Whole Truth
- Chapter 142: Confession
- Chapter 141: Spoils of War
- Chapter 140: Cleaning Up
- Chapter 139: Greater Demon
- Chapter 138: Battlefield
- Chapter 137: POV Thea
- Chapter 136: The Stone, Sieged
- Chapter 135: Where to go Next
- Chapter 134: Bloody Reception
- Chapter 133: Finally Free
- Chapter 132: Dog in a Kennel
- Chapter 131: Good Eating
- Chapter 130: The Hydra
- Chapter 129: The Long Under
- Chapter 128: Fully Powered and Ready to Go
- Chapter 127: Cleric Stats and Next Steps
- Chapter 126: What Military Training Gets You
- Chapter 125: Skills of a Ranged Specialist
- Chapter 124: The Start of an Info Avalanche
- Chapter 123: Too Much of a Good Thing
- Chapter 122: Party Compatibility
- Chapter 121: Sharing is Caring
- Chapter 120: To Ride a Giant
- Chapter 119: Delayed Desire
- Chapter 118: Sneak Attack
- Chapter 117: Frank Discussions
- Chapter 116: Let’s Talk
- Chapter 115: POV Healer
- Chapter 114: Forge On
- Chapter 113: Mistakes
- Chapter 112: Duty
- Chapter 111: Brief Reprieve
- Chapter 110: Into the Spider’s Den
- Chapter 109: Routed
- Chapter 108: Battle on the Docks
- Chapter 107: Time to Run
- Chapter 106: Alawar
- Chapter 105: Meeting New People
- Chapter 104: Job Prep
- Chapter 103: POV Priestess
- Chapter 102: Barbarians for the Win
- Chapter 101: None May Pass
- Chapter 100: Professionals
- Chapter 99: Job Offer
- Chapter 98: The Tipsy Mule
- Chapter 97: Worktable Talk
- Chapter 96: Breakfast Plans
- Chapter 95: Skill Test
- Chapter 94: Please
- Chapter 93: Pool Talks
- Chapter 92: Bathhouse
- Chapter 91: POV Eir
- Chapter 90: Caravan Cleanup
- Chapter 89: Thorn In Their Side
- Chapter 88: Looking Forward
- Chapter 87: Spike Trap
- Chapter 86: Unknown Intentions
- Chapter 85: Get Me Your Manager
- Chapter 84: That’s No Door
- Chapter 83: Adding Mods Makes for a Fun Experience
- Chapter 82: Power Level
- Chapter 81: A Little Embarrassing
- Chapter 80: Aila’s New Class
- Chapter 79: Retreat Isn’t an Option
- Chapter 78: Water Fall
- Chapter 77: Back in the Thick of Things
- Chapter 76: Brand New Look
- Chapter 75: Magic 101
- Chapter 74: Happy Birthday
- Chapter 73: Learning Numbers
- Chapter 72: Marathon
- Chapter 71: Lewd Lover’s Bond
- Chapter 70 POV: Lover
- Chapter 69: Explanations
- Chapter 68: Impulse
- Chapter 67: Armor Agreement
- Chapter 66: Smithy
- Chapter 65: Companion Acquired
- Chapter 64: Cat Out of the Bag
- Chapter 63: The Magistrate
- Chapter 62: Gone and Back Again
- Chapter 61: About Time
- Chapter 60: Interested
- Chapter 59: Chaotic Demon Hunters
- Chapter 58: Awkward Explanation
- Chapter 57: Dance
- Chapter 56: Ritual Talk
- Chapter 55: Badges
- Chapter 54: Picking a Path
- Chapter 53: Waking Up Late
- Chapter 52: Mercenary Compound
- Chapter 51: Far Felsen
- Chapter 50: Victorious Wagonride
- Chapter 49: Beating on a Boulder
- Chapter 48 POV: Cart Driver
- Chapter 47: Talking with a Cart Driver
- Chapter 46: On the Road Again
- Chapter 45: Nighttime Thoughts and Morning Preparations
- Chapter 44: Setting Things Straight
- Chapter 43: Campfire Interrogation
- Chapter 42: Change of Scenery
- Chapter 41 POV: Aila
- Chapter 40: Meeting the Locals
- Chapter 39: Voices
- Chapter 38: Firelite Ritual
- Chapter 37: On the Road
- Chapter 36: Heading South
- Chapter 35: Testing Attributes
- Chapter 34: The Right Class for the Right Pervert
- Chapter 33: Skills and Names
- Chapter 32: Ritual
- Chapter 31: Secondary Class
- Chapter 30: Aftermath
- Chapter 29: Dying the Cool Way
- Chapter 28: The Behemoth
- Chapter 27: Three Weeks
- Chapter 26: Temple Defilement
- Chapter 25: Bones Do Not Float
- Chapter 24: Upgrades
- Chapter 23: Between a Bone and a Hard Place
- Chapter 22: Stalkers
- Chapter 21: Loot Crates
- Chapter 20: Level Up
- Chapter 19: When a Plan Comes Together
- Chapter 18: Short Rest
- Chapter 17: Rude Interuption
- Chapter 16: Self Loving
- Chapter 15: No Excuse Needed
- Chapter 14: Crafting and Conversation
- Chapter 13: No Bones About It
- Chapter 12: No Solicitors
- Chapter 11: The Living Need, The Dead Provide
- Chapter 10: Morning Relief
- Chapter 9: Nighttime Deliberations
- Chapter 8: No Battle Plan Survives First Contact with the Enemy
- Chapter 7: Venturing Into the Village
- Chapter 6: Scavenging for Beginners
- Chapter 5: Mysteries of the Menu
- Chapter 4: No Choice at All
- Chapter 3: Exploration of Self and Surroundings
- Chapter 2: Arrival on Oros
- Chapter 1: Meeting D