I was tempted to go for my wand. More than anything, which surprised me heartily as I stared at the embodiment of petty evil, as commonplace as bangers and mash. I didn't think I could feel the extent of anger I was experiencing now but after a moment, I forced myself to relax as I smiled thinly ...
2024-05-06 21:22:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe room is dark. Immediately, I flick my wand and light shines bright, brighter as the doll covers her face before peeking cautiously. A sentiment I can certainly get behind as I look around in turn, a little confused. The door has vanished behind us, leaving us in what looks like a vast lake. T...
2024-05-04 07:01:43 +0000 UTC View PostWhat two stories should I focus on for next week?
2024-04-27 08:47:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe food was ready. As it all came together, the doll made me a bowl and held it out expectantly and I gingerly took it, feeling compelled to speak aloud.
"Thank you."
Unchanging as her expression was, I had the impression that if she could, she'd be beaming right about now. Still ...
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Vasilisa's Doll worked on the door, pale hands stroking gently along the side as the lock clicked and she entered. I was a bit distracted to really see how she did it, as Baba Yaga kept swearing up a storm in several languages I didn't know and one which I was reasonably sure was Mermish. O...
2024-04-16 10:58:58 +0000 UTC View PostShadowheart stared on with an ever-increasing incredulous stare. The firearms used by the locals were beyond what she was passingly familiar with. They were obnoxious in their noise, swifter to be sure but overall, the speed and skill with them was what drew her eye as the children rushed forward...
2024-04-11 20:39:46 +0000 UTC View PostAs they began to attack, I focused on what I could do to have a chance of victory. First would be the numbers. I had to cut them in half, reduce the fight to something I could deal with much more easily and with that in mind, I blew up the train. Well, not entirely. Just enough that I forced the ...
2024-04-11 19:43:01 +0000 UTC View PostI sent the Basilisk away for her safety. As powerful as she was, all it'd take was a lucky hit and that would be the end for her. As it was, she was far more useful as both a deterrent as well as a tool for retaliation than as an overt weapon in a fight. Not that I wasn't already working on somet...
2024-04-11 03:10:33 +0000 UTC View Post"Ah, bollocks." I said aloud as I rushed over to see the following.
Aurors were generally well trained to deal with most situations, whether that be dark wizards, angry werewolves or similar. Even so, there was nothing in the human brain to prepare you for a laughing mad, near naked man wi...
I very gently, tucked Natya into bed and sighed out.
I felt a little bad, essentially drugging her to put her out of the way, but I'd need her space in order to conduct my investigation. That had always been the point of course but putting it into practice left a bad taste in my mouth. She...
"You were out rather late last night." I paused, glancing towards Natya as she served breakfast, a hot meal of buckwheat porridge with fruit slices, fresh baked bread and some fried mackerel. With a newspaper in hand, I had been glancing over and wondering if my little escapade drew eyes, but for...
2024-04-11 01:55:39 +0000 UTC View PostI know what you're thinking. 'Oh Tom, why don't you just kill her and be done with it? What's the difference between before and now?' Well, my murderous shoulder devil, the reason was very simple. Killing Nazi's is basically a national past time and I feel like if they included snacks, a lot more...
2024-04-11 01:54:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe first week together was a slow one.
Natya didn't know me, nor did she know what to think of me. All she knew was that 'Anton' was a friend of her brother, who worked in a rather gray and violent area of the law per se. So, for the first week, I simply familiarized myself with the area....
My head hurt. I was seeing double, and the horseman was about to give me the last tan I'd ever get, if I stayed still. But nor would I be able to outrun a horse, especially not a flying one. So, I did what all wizards do in a situation like this.
I cheated.
I swirled my wand about, ...
Three months had passed since my time in the Philippines. In between my explorations of the worlds arcane sites and secrets, I would return to Wolftown in America and find rest and respite for my mind. While the name was a bit on the nose I feel, it was a location swiftly finding its feet as I'd ...
2024-04-11 01:50:51 +0000 UTC View PostMy first meeting with Anton Trese could have gone better as he spoke aloud.
"You sir, have been nothing but a pain in my side."
I blinked. Next to me, Nagini stared on coldly, much of a serpent's gaze about her though Anton Trese took it head on unflinchingly as he turned his attent...
I woke up to the splash of water on my face.
Also, I was naked. Tied to a chair bolted to the floor, in the midst of a room where a light shone in my face and outside of that circle, nothing but darkness as someone paced around. Slowly, quietly before they finally spoke in a local accent.<...
I was quiet.
Nagini grew more wary, looking at my expression that was likely familiar to her. That closed off, cold sensation as serpentine as her other form as I looked at the woman who became Voldemort's only friend, if such a term could apply. I also knew that she had also been involved...
I pulled my hood up and over to obscure my face as I entered the market proper. Luckily, it seemed to be a fashion trend here as I walked among the crowd, just one among many and not even the only humanoid as I saw far smaller figures likewise using the same. Around me, while English seemed to be...
2024-04-11 01:41:52 +0000 UTC View PostWhat is Magic?
Was it a set of near-scientific laws, following set rules and imposing their effects upon the material world? Was it an intuitive power, warping reality and drawing it from some nebulous force? Was it drawn from powerful, eldritch beings and trickled down upon the world as c...
This was not how I wanted this to go nor how I expected it.
Anton Trese might have been suspicious, but I could hardly blame him for that. From what little I heard about his job, it seemed to be a full-time occupation and giving him the high ground would have put him at ease, allowed him t...
"What are you even doing here, Dumbledore?"
We stood at the docks, him and I as the fireworks continued to explode in the skies. It was now Nineteen-fifty four, and despite the fact we were in the tropics, the wind was blowing across the seas and would have chilled us both if we hadn't cas...
Manila City.
This was actually a place I had visited in my life before. And after that entire debacle with the Naagloshii, I wanted someplace a bit more familiar where the snow was nonexistent, and the food was cheap and plentiful. The air was hot and muggy, the streets were crowded with b...
The Naagloshii roared and smashed Conan through the table with a shattering crash that would have done the same to any human caught in it. Conan growled, snapping and slashing as the damage was mitigated by my own swift actions, as a shimmering set of armor gleamed into view from my spellwork as ...
2024-04-11 01:34:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe cry echoed behind us. Conan, spurred on by a healthy survival instinct flung Clint over his shoulder and began running faster as he yelled behind at me. "FIENDFYRE WOULD BE VERY NICE ABOUT NOW!"
"I CAN'T BURN IT HERE, THE ENTIRE PLACE WOULD COLLAPSE!" I yelled back as I pumped my arms ...
Out of everything I had expected to find, it certainly wasn't this. But offhand comments, behaviors and more I had seen before suddenly collided and became all the clearer as I stared at the patient in the bed. She looked like a burn victim, wrapped up in bandages and as she laid against the bed ...
2024-04-11 01:32:58 +0000 UTC View Post"The MACUSA thanks you for your aid. But it's time for y'all to leave. We'll be holding negotiations ourselves and we wouldn't wanna accidentally have you get between us. Accidents happen after all."
Conan actually growled, a deep rumble in his throat...
After that impromptu performance and the shaman's somber speech, the settlement began to prepare themselves for war. As they did, Conan and I sat and watched in silence, both of us simply digesting what we had seen before I spoke aloud. "When a doctor goes wrong, he is the first of criminals." Co...
2024-04-11 01:30:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe Lakota camp proved much more welcoming once it became known that we were guests. Though tensions were still high, most of it was focused outside of the walls of the tribes home rather than within as dinner was prepared. I could smell whatever was brewing elsewhere, the scents normally mouth-w...
2024-04-11 01:28:51 +0000 UTC View Post