The Edge of Sapphire - Chapter 7 - Inversions
The feast-hall of Ro'Xanshin manor had been laid out in a warmer fashion than the greeting hall, with gauzy curtains of thin yellow silk to accent the sun's light and furnishings of dark balak-wood with covers and place-settings of the house colours of...
Dogs of War - Chapter 14 - Scars
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The Edge of Sapphire - Chapter 6 - The Bleeding Edge
"They did _what!?_" Yaroi's roar of shock and indignation cut through the hurried conversation of the bridge-staff at battle-cry volume. Even the Ro'Xanshin astrometrician on the screen looked taken aback, but right now he didn't care. ...
The Edge of Sapphire - Chapter 5 - Ring of Fire
Toroi awoke to a bed empty besides for him. At first he groped around on his pallet blindly, searching for the missing warmth of Uelo's body until, with a sudden start, he sat bolt-upright, alone and cold. The room seemed so empty now without...
Dogs of War - Chapter 13 - Things Left Unsaid
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The Edge of Sapphire - Chapter 4 - Objects In Motion
"Well, tovarich, tomorrow is the beginning of the end." Drawled Veoni, sitting in a corner and absently cleaning his nails with the tip of a knife. "I wish you'd stop saying things like that, all that Nal'Galagar fatalism may make for fine poetry...
The Edge of Sapphire - Chapter 3 - Meditations on Solitude
Wei had been shaken badly by the attack, or rather he had been shaken by the suddenness of the betrayal and the sight of someone he had though to be a friend first try to kill him and then be summerily dismembered right before his eyes. Yaroi wasn't...
Dogs of War - Chapter 12 - Secrets by Firelight
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The Edge of Sapphire - Chapter 2 - Seeing Stars
The day passed in a frenzy of activity as the Ro'Xanshin grounds were made ready for the arrival of Baronet Wei, Toroi fortunately had to endure little of it once he had made it quite clear to the servants, with the aid of a few poignant swings of his...
The Edge of Sapphire - Chapter 1 - Lessons
**Note:** _see the Journal entry 'Sapphire Glossary' for help with the neologisms in the story._ Viscount Toroi took a deep breath as he stood before the lacquered doors of his fathers meeting room, his finger tapped distractedly against the...
Dogs of War - Chapter 3 - Witch hunter
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Dogs of War - Chapter 1 - I, Claudius?
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