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Aricka Allen
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Foundling

Foundling

There is a War being fought that stretches beyond eternity. Waging that War are men and angels and demons and creatures and beings beyond time and space. Thrust into this conflict is a foundling boy who knows nothing of this War but is integral to tipping the balance toward whomever can control him. As a child, Hunter’s world is attacked, and, along with a few faithful retainers and allies, his mother escapes with him, while his father, using his own life as forfeit, stays behind to ensure those he loves escape. Mother and child are pursued. Their retainers are killed while protecting them until they are able to get out from under the net thrown by their enemies. Now, far, far away, not knowing the fate of her husband or people and with no way of getting back, she has only herself to raise and protect her son. This is the story of what comes after, of a boy alone, having raised himself, by himself, for half his life. Then the powers that inform and rule that world become aware of him, of his power, his potential. In their ignorance and conceit, they awaken the true nature of the child, and a war, of unimaginable proportions to shake the heavens, comes to their doorstep, and the boy they thought to use, and later kill, is the only thing that can save them.
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Chapter: 7 Vital Essence
That took some getting used, but before long he was able to impel himself through the water and Kim had to step back a little more briskly.They both laughed and beamed at his accomplishment until Kim abruptly relinquished his hands. Hunter floundered, smacking and clawing at the water. As his head dipped below the surface, he went to plant his feet where normally would been lake bottom . . . and nothing. Panicking, gulping air and then water, he felt Kim’s hands close on his wrists like a vice. Pulling him headfirst, she yanked him from the water. “Relax,” she soothingly said. “You can still stand up.” She demonstrated by tapping her instep to the bottom of his foot which followed hers to the lake bottom.He had not noticed where the water had been waist high, it was now chest high.“It’s when you fight it that it takes you under,” she said when he calmed. “Don’t fight it. Use your own motion to ride the water’s surface.”She took to sliding him, curving him into spins, creating sha
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-08-22
Chapter: 6 Swimming Lessons
Not having been presaged by any scent or sound, rounding a bend in the corridor Hunter was little prepared for the vista presented stepping from the cave’s antechamber onto a plateau which sloped away to a lake, steam rising from its surface, and a valley beyond dense with trees. A breeze rushed up the slope, bringing scents from the green valley, the rising steam. Meeting the towering cliff face, the wind swirled before continue its climb up and over.A pang of longing seized Hunter, a doubt which he quickly suppressed. Once unconstrained by any beast or manner, he was now bound by shackles real and hidden and, he was coming to realize, some he had no inkling of.The silence that had ensued upon their arrival was broken by the scampering of feet and whoops of excitement. A trail of clothes was left behind in the dash to be the first to the lake.Hunter did not run with them, measuring his stride beside reminiscences of absent Tete. To share this with his brother . . . would be a th
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-08-18
Chapter: 5 Leslie and Marcus Discourse on the Utility of a Sword
"In the hands of a skilled individual, a blade does not have to kill," Marcus said. "Using a tool meant to kill, as one to disable, limits the purpose of its function and in so doing makes the wielder vulnerable," “Why do you always take up cause against me,” Marcus said.“No one else agrees with me?” Leslie asked, sweeping the others with her gaze, with a notable pause as she passed Kim’s eye. Kim looked at Hunter sympathetically as they stepped into the crowd. “Fun has been robbed from us.” “That’s unjust,” usually quiet Tick, enjoined. “This is no fun. Let merriment enjoin. Put aside this tiresome discoursing.” “Yes, put it aside. It’s tiresome,” Tick said. “This is something with which I can agree.”"The merit of a tool is in what it was designed for,” Leslie continued, not relinquishing the point. “A blade is a weapon of war: designed to kill.”“There is no dispute in that,” Marcus conceded.“Some
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-08-16
Chapter: Simmering Regard
By their reckoning it had been over a fortnight since his arrival, and Hunter was still gripped with fascination for everything around him. There was so much he needed to learn, to understand. At times, he felt overwhelmed, anxious—emotions new to him.He sat in the hall with Giesel and the others finishing their meal. There were still the gazes that studied and those that turned away. It was not hard to know what many of them were thinking. It was in their regard, their manner. Others were less easy to know. They masked well their true feelings, and since he could not keene he could not know true. Even now he could feel eyes upon him: something new, something different. Hunter rose with Giesel and his other with which he shared a room. Kim and another girl were making their way toward them. "How are things?” She asked Hunter. He did not know how to respond because he did not know. “It takes some time to absorb.”
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-08-13
Chapter: 3 Lessons
“Ki informs and permeates all. It is the Source from which all things arise and all thins return. Magi, manipulate ki with their own vital essence,” Master Lilly was a stern, gray-haired woman, a matron and mother to seven. She had outlived three of her children and two husbands. The third she was working on.“Through ki we are able to manipulate adamant and ephemera, substance and aether. There is also body, but here we do not concern ourselves in this class with disciplining unruly flesh. Here we will learn the employment of aether and substance—adamant and ephemera.“Can any tell what is meant when I speak of ephemera?”“That which is pliable, subject not to mass or shape, but volume and density,” said a small golden-haired girl in a soft, high-pitched voice.“Give me examples.”“Water and air.”“Do you know of anyone who can shape air, Michelle?”There was no response and Master Lilly’s lips stretched into a thin smile.“Can anyone else give me an answer?”Tick ventured a reply.
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-08-10
Chapter: 1 Time at the School Before Escape (Follow up from Chap 26)
While the girls dried themselves they cast sidewise glances in Hunter’s direction. Their conversation was muted and Hunter could hear little of what they said, and soon they left leaving a trail of mocking laughter and one last lingering look from Kim.“It can be quite intimidating,” Tick said his eyes following the girls’ departing backs.“How they approach you,” said Marcus.“Giesle doesn’t complain too much. His ‘coy looks’ and ‘winsome regard’ gets him enough welcome attention.” Though it was said as an indictment, envy was evident in Tick’s voice.“Was something unusual in their manner?” Hunter asked. The transparency of feelings that passed so easily between he and Tete were conveyed between people by words, twists of lips and shadings of face to convey emotion and intent. It was a new language, marvelously inventive. A language he was slow to learn.His question brought the other three up short. They exchanged condescending glances as Hunter put on his robes and they followed a
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-08-09
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