Embers of Dawn: Chapter 9: Dancing Delights
As they moved again, axton tried, and failed, not to replay every past interaction between the two in his mind, dissecting it like a scribe combing through a cipher.
Finding a New Self, Chapter 12: A Cryptic Morning
How can you solve a single-key cipher of this length without word lengths? in a few minutes? i told you, it was easy. this isn't it." _it's the enchantment. must be interfering with her ability to read it.
Fennec Mage in Trouble - by Gearlock
Introductory texts were encoded, requiring knowledge of basic ciphers, obscure languages, alchemical symbols, or -- on one memorable occasion -- rhyming slang.
Finding a New Self, Chapter 11: Celebration
I picked a simple substitution cipher and wrote, "aresh and i met two sorcerors today - ezi and prot (a polymorph) - while climbing up from getta. they asked us to return soon and answer some questions, in return for help getting here sooner.
PP4 - River & Hugh
The smooth, skin-like texture beneath his fingertips unveiled a featureless groin--a cipher of flesh that beckoned with an enigmatic promise.
There she is....chapter 7
He almost hadn't realized he was getting close...his paws carrying him toward the destination written on the ciphered business card without consulting his brain.
Finding a New Self, chapter 20: A Series of Fortunate Events
"a shift-by-six cipher." "ah." _the message i wrote to myself on new year's morning, about ezi and prot! night must have retrieved it and given it to them!_ "that... wasn't really intended to be strong. it was barely intended to be a code."
Roen's Tale, Chapter 5
Having double checked the original cipher, and not finding it there, i put my notes away and simply relax, enjoying the evening.
Ragnarok - XXIV
Surroundings to a blur that all outside the windows--other cars, roads, houses, signs, the swoop of power lines, forests and fields and flow of flashing sea-- is unintelligible, suddenly there flashes past some landmark, some place known of old, and like a cipher-key
The Furry Dead Chapter VI - The Forest Warden
Just as important, he knew he'd have to find the cipher books that were likely still in the tower somewhere, to send a bird in case his family had somehow not reached the city.
Enemy, Chapter 8
It was a lupine cipher. "i can't give you what i don't have, please don't hurt me!" i slammed the call button a moment before i was pulled from the station and thrown to the floor. "you will access the database and show me your flight plan!"
False Moon 2: The Prisoner
Of course i could rip the secret of every last cipher and code out of you one by one." she paused her speaking and he tensed up as he braced for another cut, but it never came. he could have kissed her for that little mercy.