9 Works by empty_room
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Time passes at the House of the Three Pines. Seasons change, apprentices grow up, and Nareihe endures.
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Finch had always expected that the ambassador from that strange northern land, with his funny accent and strange way of dressing, would leave him with nothing more than a few pairs of expensive earrings, a necklace or two, some very pretty hairpins and maybe a few coins to hoard below the loose floorboard under his bed. That was, after all, how most grand lords ended their affairs with pretty brothel boys.
“If I buy you, would you want to come with me?” Zariel had said, at the end of one evening, after he had bathed and while he was getting dressed.
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The ship emerged from a cloud of steam and smoke, cutting through the atmosphere like a scalpel through flesh. Its hull glowed with the heat of entry. Ins watched it change from white to yellow to red, and then finally cool down enough to show its true colour: a pure, unmarked black, reflecting nothing.
Chau’s face lost all expression as they watched the ship bank and then turn, entering its final approach to the docks. “Sibling To The Storm,” they said. “Of Shatterpoint Station.”
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- Part 6 of Nine Lives
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How to acquire friends, hobbies, lovers and learn how to own a body. A story about learning to be.
The kitty is still there.This begins approximately two months after Cat arrives at Shatterpoint.
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- Part 3 of Nine Lives
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Two shots that cracked his armour. A blow hard enough to knock him down. Then the elegant network breach that had sent Shard out of his head, and the strange, strange way he had felt like a fragile thing dropped in the gears of a mechanical engine, to be ground to dust. Of course he had bent to it, as naturally as the trajectory of a bullet curving under gravity.
After a combat mission gone wrong, a controller rewards one construct and punishes another.
Nothing good happens here.Series
- Part 5 of Nine Lives
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Some people asked me about the history of As Substantial As A Blade Of Light, I Cut, and about Wei.
This is why you have to be nice to your huge sentient machine. It might not become the person you expected.
This is a short one-off within the universe Nine Lives is set in.
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- Part 4 of Nine Lives
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Scenes from a trip to Shatterpoint Station Primary.
Someone starts to learn what it is to be a person.
There is a cat.Series
- Part 2 of Nine Lives
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A pet that barely knows who he is.
A spy pretending to be a loving boyfriend.
A general working on a secret project.It probably won't end well.
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- Part 1 of Nine Lives
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The Antar of Thorn finds that some slaves can be very frustrating, and that there is, in the end, only one way to have a chance of having what he really wants.