The Awakened Blade, Part 1
Next assignment, the hamlet of merrin. urgent. high pass road, this is where my life ends. as a claymore i am forbidden from taking the lives of humans, unfortunately that doesn't mean that they cannot take our lives.
The Merrin, part 13
She bows her head for a moment, then begins to slowly type, as far as i know, i am the last of the merrin. the blood runs from key's face in shock. "last?" he croaks. many alignments ago, merr had 4 moons and was cooler. the storms were less violent.
The Merrin, part 5
"pond, if we get to merrin, what could we end up needing that isn't already in the pod, if rescue is uncertain?" "i would recommend a prefab shelter, but it would not fit in the pod with the rest of the equipment."
The Merrin, part 27
She is merrin and the last of her kind. if you follow this transmission, you will find us. i may not survive, but it is imperative that she be rescued." he sighs. "drudge, attach coordinates and positional data.
The Merrin, part 18
The one thing that the ais can agree on, is that avy is either still sexually immature, or they're simply not familiar with the way merrin reproduce.
The Merrin, part 1.
merrin 272-095, discovered over two years ago by an unmanned probe. scans indicated that it is inhabitable, earth-like, and has carbon based life.
The Merrin, part 22
The eclipse has started, bringing out one of the worst storms yet. Key stands near the cave's entrance watching the storm. Avy sits beside him, her tail wrapped in a giant sleeve to protect her from the asrukes, holding Key's hand. She'd normally be...
The Merrin, Part 20
All the loose items are packed into three packs. Most of the sections for the shelter lean against a pod. There's a few parts still standing and Key's working to rearrange those into a short hall that connecting the pods' doors together. With their...
The Merrin, part 19
With the storm finally passed, it's night. Key works on the com from the outside. So far, he's had to replace the antenna, and several of the connectors due to massive amounts of caesium scorching. Drudge has figured out that the storms coincide with...
The Merrin, part 17
Avy has taken to typing rather well and has spent most of the morning telling Key all she knows about her species. She started with the larva he found near the lake. That's essentially their first form after hatching from eggs. It looked like it had...
The Merrin, part 16
Having not seen Avy since giving her the larva a local day ago, Key tracks her using the tracking signal from the tag. As he nears her location, he realizes that he's in the same area where he had originally landed. Realizing her knows where she's at,...
The Merrin, part 15
Key watches the sun go down and the surface of the caesium lake change. It looses it's shiny silver-gold appearance and turns a dull red. Curious, he steps up to the shore and kneels down. As he puts his hand over the caesium, he realizes that it's...