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Chapter Seventy-Three: Bitter Truths
Google Docs: For Suggestions<< Previous| Table Of Contents| Next >>It didn’t take long for the city to return to its usual ebb and flow.After a few weeks, the broadsheets stopped reporting on the event. Photographs of Amelia’s embodiment of Suijin were no longer sprawled across the front pages. Instead, with the capital of the Republic, Meppen, fallen, the war retook its usual spot in the head...
Chapter Seventy-Two: Reconstruction
Google Docs: For Suggestions<< Previous| Table Of Contents| Next >>The time following the fire was a blur.In the immediate aftermath, Greatlord Oshiro brought in a group of high-ranking Old Guard officers and intelligence officials and had everyone vow to keep the events secret. It quickly became apparent that the Eastern Lords intended to keep Amelia’s identity as Suijin’s Speaker secret.From...
Chapter Seventy-One: Suijin's Return
Google Docs: For Suggestions<< Previous| Table Of Contents| Next >>Serenity.This was the sensation Amelia felt shortly after Suijin had suddenly agreed to her request.Sure, there was an odd feeling of her body becoming something new and the unfathomable surge of power that now coursed through her very essence.But, after that?Serenity.Amelia felt like a calm winter’s lake, perfectly still. She in...
Chapter Seventy: The Great Asamaywa Fire
Google Docs: For Suggestions<< Previous| Table Of Contents| Next >>With a brief sense of vertigo followed by rushing wind, Amelia slammed into the paving stones below, cracking the slabs. Compared to the time in Kenhoro, her level of control was better; she managed to land on two feet this time, rather than on her head.“W-whoa!” she exclaimed, spinning her arms to reclaim her balance.A moment ...
Chapter Sixty-Nine: Moonrain
Google Docs: For Suggestions<< Previous| Table Of Contents| Next >>Amelia carefully continued her walk up the magic tower’s staircase, glad to see that Lunaria’s floor was finally in sight. It had been a slow process; the stacked plates of cooked meats and cheese bites were one wrong step away from causing an avalanche of nibbles. She’d enlisted Mel’s help, trying to convince her that this...
Chapter Sixty-Eight: Made In The Empress's Image
Google Docs: For Suggestions<< Previous | Table Of Contents| Next >>Amelia activated her magic.Passion, kindness, and love erupted from her. Using so much power caused her to experience an exhilarating release as her aether burned away the slums' unhappiness and sorrow. Her magic was a bubble of hope expanding outwards, fending off this place's oppressive darkness. The atmosphere hummed wi...
Chapter Sixty-Seven: Saint Amelia
Google Docs: For Suggestions<< Previous | Table Of Contents| Next >>The plateau lift belched steam as its massive gears turned, carrying Serena and Amelia towards the lowlands. Stretched across the horizon before them were the developing lands filled with towns and farming communities. Serena had been gone from Asamaywa for only a year, but even in such a short amount of time, the amount of indust...
Chapter Sixty-Six: Noburu's Interrogation
Google Docs: For Suggestions<< Previous| Table Of Contents| Next >>Investigator Kogoro wasn’t lying when he said he was good with people. It was an expertly conducted interrogation, leaving no room for the thief to hide. Their conversation was recorded with an Axiom Crystal, and from her position in the observation deck, Serena could see a truth-teller crystal embedded in a position Noburu could...
