Tag: Valeriana
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Patina – Chapter 178
The once-Augur did not reply. She did not really expect her to, even in this place and in her presence as the Threads grew ever more frayed and uncertain, like strings pulled into a knot, or notes ruined by a growing discordance. So, she only had her own good sense to fall back onto. Not…
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Patina – Chapter 177
Valeriana had only found the town thanks to her powers, honed through years of experience as the High Seer. She crouched next to the window of the metal flyer as it approached the spot. “Is this the right place?” Asked the pilot, and she nodded. “Cannot be otherwise.” She sensed his doubt, the tension tightening…
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Patina – Chapter 166
For the first time in weeks, Sadja was helping with a joyful occasion and not just simply rebuilding or taking out bodies or fighting for her life. It was such a welcome change her heart fluttered so much in her chest! They had her assigned to the rest of the girls her age, almost all…
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Patina – Chapter 165
“So,” asked the man called Hunter as Valeriana came out of the Temple, holding her hands over her chest as if to hold something fragile and precious, “how is she?” “Recovering,” she lied. She read the relief in the Threads surrounding the man. There was something weird about him and she perceived that trying to…
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Patina – Chapter 164
A few days later and Fortunato found himself at a table under a makeshift tent. Sitting next to him were Sadja, so close their thighs brushed against each other, and to the left Cloria. Opposite to them, seated the new High Seer. Unlike the other few times when her flier had touched ground in the…
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Patina – Chapter 162
“Wind is changing.” These were the words spoken throughout the various redoubts from the depths of the forest to the shorelines, no matter how deep into the Bittersea one could find them. Though Eerie attacks did not cease save for a specific part of the woods, and cold lingered like the cold breath of Papa…
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Patina – Chapter 156
Cloria knew she had come too late – but maybe for the the first time in her life, or the last few years at the very least, she was grateful someone else was having all the luck in the world. She cried out from Bernardo’s embrace, a long and wailing sound, her throat parched from…
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Patina – Chapter 125
What a frightful night, Valeriana thought as the glider carried her through the brightening sky. Even as the day progressed and the grip of the Wicked Fae on the world supposedly grew weaker, she only felt her heart get colder. Sadja’s memories floated through her head, stirring her thoughts into a vortex of fear and…
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Patina – Chapter 124
When the glider returned the Hunter was already there, waiting for them in the same spot they had left – the night still lingered, hooked on the corners of the sky by a thin purple sheen. The last stars streaked to the west and Sadja pulled away from the window as she saw his grave…
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Patina – Chapter 123
So far, Sadja had been used to hear welcome more than goodbye. The only one she had been keen on had been saying goodbye to Verna and every day she was more grateful the horrible woman was out of her life, even if she regretted what could have been if she had been… well a…
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