the grand game

“We heard everything,” Tartar confirmed. His gold-flecked eyes brimming with fury, the minotaur kept his gaze pinned on Loken. “Your intrigues know no end, jester.” The stick-thin…

Surprisingly, the suspicion that Loken knew the truth of my heritage did not dishearten me. On the contrary, my first reaction was one of relief. Ever since…

The room exited into a lightless corridor. There were a pair of doors on the right and another two on the left. Hurrying forward, I tried the…

I awoke with a gasp, my eyes wide and unseeing, and my breath coming in uncontrolled bursts. I was alive. No. I was dead. I’d died. Brutally…

You have entered sector 1 of the Forever Kingdom. I re-entered Nexus to find the city bathed in light. Behind me, the portal’s glow faded—indication enough that…

Awakening guardian… I stared at the Game message, aghast. Awakening—? It was not the sort of response I’d been expecting. Not at all. My head jerked left…

Unsurprisingly, finding out how the Houses had fallen sent Kolath into a spiral of rage. For all that the guardian claimed to be a construct, he was…