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To Sail on Seas of Sky Excerpt: EloKas
Note: This excerpt is from one of my current wips, a pirate-themed high-fantasy that I'm aiming to bring to my platforms by next summer. I thought I might as well post a little excerpt for Talk Like a Pirate Day.
One of the features of the work is the tangled love-pentagon between the five young leads. One of these pairings is Elodie/Kas, and here is their first real meeting! Enjoy!
“Ah, it’s good to see milady out here.”
She turned her head to see none other than the gaudy blond pirate boy with his back against the railing, turned away from the endless ocean. It unnerved her, as she had not known how long he had been there.
“I’m Kas, by the way.” He leaned his head back, his hazel eyes gleaming with something she did not understand. “Kas Beaumont—I don’t think we had the chance to exchange names.”
“Elodie Fleetwood,” she said, mostly out of reflex. She then felt the heat rising to her face. “Sorry—you probably know that already, don’t you?”
“I do, but I never correct a lady, if I can help it.”
Elodie pressed her lips together, and looked back out at the water. The golden light turned the sea as dark as wine or the liquid that came from the jeweled-looking fruits that grew in the trees around Port Augustine.
“Enjoying the view?”
There was something softer about Kas’s voice, something that made her feel more at ease.
“I’ve just never been outside of Port Augustine before,” she confessed. “I had no idea that the world was so. . . so big!”
Kas laughed good-naturedly. “It still doesn’t fail to amaze me, for what it’s worth. And I traveled plenty before I ever set foot on a ship like this.”
“A ship like this?”
“A pirate ship—sorry, privateer, Captain will give me an earful if I don’t use the proper terminology.” He grinned all the same.
“How did you end up on a privateer ship, then?” Elodie asked.
She noticed the briefest darkening in his gold-rimmed hazel eyes. His smirk did not falter, however. “Have any theories, my lady? Maybe I was born to sail the seas and skies. Or perhaps I am like your friend we picked up, or dearest Jade, born among the pirates?”
“I don’t think you are.” Elodie pressed her lips together as she examined Kas. “Your accent is much crisper, and you speak like the students at the college. Clearly you have expensive tastes given—“ she gestured at the jewelry— “All of that.”
His eyes gleamed as his head bobbed back. “Very good. You have an eye for detail—you should ask Captain to put you on lookout.”
“You still haven’t answered my question.” Elodie tilted her head. “You don’t have to, if you don’t want to. You can come out and say it.”
“And where’s the fun in that?” Kas turned around, propping his elbows on the side and leaning back so he could look up at the sky between the billowing sails. “Besides, it’s no real secret. I don’t mind telling you.”
Elodie planted her hands on her hips. “And you’re going through all this song and dance about it why?”
“Because that’s what makes a conversation fun, my lady, it’s a battle of wits!” He adjusted his hat, so it wouldn’t blow off as the sea-winds picked up. “You should try it sometime, it does get so terribly boring being on the sea for so long.”
Elodie huffed a sigh. “If you aren’t going to talk, you might as well not waste my time.”
She started to storm off when Kas grabbed her arm.
“I’m sorry,” he said, the smile less conniving and the slightest bit more sincere. “Look, maybe I’ll tell you the story some other time. But let me at least escort you to dinner.”
“Escort me?” Elodie raised her eyebrows.
“Well, I suppose you haven’t been there yet, and Jade’s a bit busy at the moment.” He let go of her arm, but his hand still hovered over her skin, lingering like the kiss of the sun. “Besides, I thought you might not want to be on your own.”
“I guess not.” Elodie tilted her head, reconsidering Kas.
“Don’t worry, I can be a gentleman at least sometimes.” He tipped his hat to her, then slipped his arm into hers. “May I?”
“You may.”
The Crew of the Albatross: Elodie Fleetwood
Elodie was born out of wedlock to the villainous, infamous Keira Fleetwood and Captain Felix Vance. It was her birth that saved her mother’s life and bought her a pardon from the same fate that befell her father, on the condition that Keira return to her father’s estate. Thus, Elodie has grown up on land all of her life as a part of the rising upper class of merchants and lawyers and such. Her mother raised her with sea-shanties as lullabies, and stories of her time aboard ships with whispers of a greatest treasure that Vance left behind. Still, Elodie for a long time has no desire to take to the high seas, instead looking forward to her debut into a high society that keeps her at arms-length due to her mother’s reputation and Elodie herself being born out of wedlock. Her mother and her struggled because of these differences, but they were still relatively close. Her mother taught her swordplay and a few other tricks for if Elodie should ever feel the call of the sea in her blood, as is her birthright. These came in handy when her mother disappeared, claiming that she had to leave for Captain Vance’s ‘greatest treasure.’
New chapter of The Weak Dwarven Prince is up! Rustam visits Ignacia, who's been working nonstop for the past 4 days & her explanations get...cheesy. Luckily for him, Daelyniel & Galenova are kind of there to help sort through the madness.
Chapter 21 drops today! Reed is stuck in the attic, hiding from the Aristocrats, when he discovers an old notebook from his first year on Mythiric. How did it get there? What memories will it dredge up from the bottom of his whisky-soaked brain?
The plant of the GODS
Is daikon radish. Why? Because probably someone who got sent last time decided this was a good vegetable. Or maybe they kept talking about home and started claiming it all the land of the gods. Who knows what the last 'little chick' was like?
But they affected an entire culture thanks to that.
It kinda makes you wonder, what will Enoki's impact be? No better time to find out!
Reborn in a Fighting Game with My Rival is OUT NOW!!!!
My web novel series has re-launched as a premium novel on Tapas! Click the link above or check it out on the Tapas app! It will update Mondays and Fridays!
I'm gonna do something I goofed on previously and do a snippy blurb like that one infamous blurb so get ready:
Lesbian rivals reincarnated in a dragon shifter fighting game!
If that doesn't entice you, here's a synopsis that's a bit longer than the vague blurb:
It should be a dream come true when Amvery Astrell is reborn into her favorite fighting game, Dragon Fighting Alliance, but her rival Louise Lumi is reborn with her! Tensions reach new heights now that the two are dragon shifting warriors, as the brash and cocky Amvery finds herself fighting just as much as she flirts with the stern but kind Louise. Will the feud between the rivals stay bitter as they strive to reach the top of their action packed new world, or will it turn to something sweet?
If you like series like I'm In Love With the Villainess, this is for you!
This web novel series...
-features dorky lesbian rivals snarking at each other
-...who are also dragon shifters
-answers the all important question of "how does one massage a fat dragon tail?
-has a trans protag (transbians let's GOOOOO!!)
-has an isekai world inspired by PS2 wrestling games
I really hope you check it out and enjoy!
–Chiral
Reborn in a Fighting Game with My Rival is OUT NOW!!!!
My web novel series has re-launched as a premium novel on Tapas! Click the link above or check it out on the Tapas app! It will update Mondays and Fridays!
I'm gonna do something I goofed on previously and do a snippy blurb like that one infamous blurb so get ready:
Lesbian rivals reincarnated in a dragon shifter fighting game!
If that doesn't entice you, here's a synopsis that's a bit longer than the vague blurb:
It should be a dream come true when Amvery Astrell is reborn into her favorite fighting game, Dragon Fighting Alliance, but her rival Louise Lumi is reborn with her! Tensions reach new heights now that the two are dragon shifting warriors, as the brash and cocky Amvery finds herself fighting just as much as she flirts with the stern but kind Louise. Will the feud between the rivals stay bitter as they strive to reach the top of their action packed new world, or will it turn to something sweet?
If you like series like I'm In Love With the Villainess, this is for you!
This web novel series...
-features dorky lesbian rivals snarking at each other
-...who are also dragon shifters
-answers the all important question of "how does one massage a fat dragon tail?
-has a trans protag (transbians let's GOOOOO!!)
-has an isekai world inspired by PS2 wrestling games
I really hope you check it out and enjoy!
–Chiral
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AITA for choosing to continue in a competition that I am wholly unqualified for just to wreck someone else’s chance at winning?
I (M 17? 36? I never really knew my age; I don't think it matters now) got volunteered by my mother for a competition. Winning involves a lot of politics. I ran a clinic for the Temple before, so I am not wholly unfamiliar with being in charge of something, but this position requires being nice to a bunch of greedy assholes who can't comprehend that we're trying to have a society here.
I was going to withdraw, but then one of those jerks killed some of my guards to cover his own theft, and now I'm just angry.
Would I be the asshole if I continue with the competition just to make sure the other guy loses? I'm not sure what I'd do with the country if I won...
"What did it look like before you cleaned?" he asked.
Reed went to the windows. They were dusty and undisturbed.
"Well… His Highness's hairpin was on the floor. But that's it," Marigold said. She pulled her apron between her hands, starting to get nervous with Patrick and Reed’s serious tone.
"Hard to make a mess when he's the only thing in here," Patrick admitted as he turned slowly, looking around the room as well. “Has anyone else been to see him this morning?”
“No. Everyone’s busy getting ready for dinner tonight,” Marigold said.
“How long was he alone in here?” Patrick asked, pulling out a notebook to start writing her answers.
“Eh…” she shifted nervously. “We’ve left him alone before. Why is it suddenly a problem?”
Reed knelt to look at the floor. Patrick was a good investigator, but some things he just wasn’t going to think to look for. Although Reed wasn't sure what he was looking for either. Circles of salt? Candle wax? Mythiric was a world that had a rich history of magic and swords that could cut stone, but all that was in the past. They’d lost the knowledge about two thousand years prior when the first queen of Durshand had purged the corrupt priests of some demon religion. His history lessons had been over five years ago and his disappointment that he couldn’t sling fireballs or summon monsters as pets had caused him to lose interest.
“It’s not a problem,” Patrick assured. “We’re just… looking into something.”
Marigold fidgeted. "Reed? What are you doing?"
"I'd say it was witchcraft, but y'all ain't got that here." He got up, dusting his hands and pants. Ten years he'd been in this world, and all that time he'd thought soullessness was just this low-technology world's way of describing birth defects. Boy, was I wrong… Apparently, inert lumps of flesh can spontaneously become complete assholes.
"What?"
"Never mind," Reed said in English, then waved it off. Correcting to Durrish, he asked, “Can you answer the question, Marigold?”
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A beleaguered wife must chaperone her husband and his best friend to keep them from destroying civilization in their quest to save the world.
"What did it look like before you cleaned?" he asked.
Reed went to the windows. They were dusty and undisturbed.
"Well… His Highness's hairpin was on the floor. But that's it," Marigold said. She pulled her apron between her hands, starting to get nervous with Patrick and Reed’s serious tone.
"Hard to make a mess when he's the only thing in here," Patrick admitted as he turned slowly, looking around the room as well. “Has anyone else been to see him this morning?”
“No. Everyone’s busy getting ready for dinner tonight,” Marigold said.
“How long was he alone in here?” Patrick asked, pulling out a notebook to start writing her answers.
“Eh…” she shifted nervously. “We’ve left him alone before. Why is it suddenly a problem?”
Reed knelt to look at the floor. Patrick was a good investigator, but some things he just wasn’t going to think to look for. Although Reed wasn't sure what he was looking for either. Circles of salt? Candle wax? Mythiric was a world that had a rich history of magic and swords that could cut stone, but all that was in the past. They’d lost the knowledge about two thousand years prior when the first queen of Durshand had purged the corrupt priests of some demon religion. His history lessons had been over five years ago and his disappointment that he couldn’t sling fireballs or summon monsters as pets had caused him to lose interest.
“It’s not a problem,” Patrick assured. “We’re just… looking into something.”
Marigold fidgeted. "Reed? What are you doing?"
"I'd say it was witchcraft, but y'all ain't got that here." He got up, dusting his hands and pants. Ten years he'd been in this world, and all that time he'd thought soullessness was just this low-technology world's way of describing birth defects. Boy, was I wrong… Apparently, inert lumps of flesh can spontaneously become complete assholes.
"What?"
"Never mind," Reed said in English, then waved it off. Correcting to Durrish, he asked, “Can you answer the question, Marigold?”
Find out what's happening on Tapas!
The next two chapters of The Weak Dwarven Prince are now up! Chp 17: Rustam attends a meeting & Dael & Galenova are researching & receive unexpected help. Chp 18: more Rustam & Igy friendship moments. And Rustam receives a new gift & a letter w/some encouraging words.
Episode 17 of Magic, Inc. out today on Tapas!
Zoe leaned in, her tone serious. “If we keep bickering, we’ll be dead before we even get close. We need to be tighter than ever.” She glanced at Marcus. “Besides, you wouldn’t want to look like you didn’t have our backs, right?”
A smirk tugged at Marcus’s mouth, though it didn’t reach his eyes.
Nina cut in, blunt as always. “This isn’t about blame. It’s about survival. Second-guessing will get us killed.”
Silence fell as they absorbed her words.
Lila nodded, though her eyes remained troubled. “We’ve come this far. We can’t let doubt tear us apart now.”
Marcus uncrossed his arms, leaning forward. “You’re right. We need to act as one. I’m with you, Turner. But if I think you’re leading us into a trap, I’ll speak up.”
Alex held his gaze, tension crackling between them. “I wouldn’t expect anything less.”
Last seven chapters of the season are scheduled!
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Two reincarnations and a redneck isekai are fated to save the world from a demon god.
I can happily say that I have officially uploaded my comic “H.H. University” to Tapas.
Feel free to go check out the comic by pressing the link below ↓
A figments and a creator meet, surely nothing will go wrong...
The Figments Prologue is complete on Webtoon Canvas! Figments has been featured on the Hidden Gems and Rising Stars categories! Thank you all so much for your support and interest! I hope you all enjoy what Figments becomes!
Happy New Year from Elsie! New episode of Figments is up on Webtoon Canvas!
A new episode of Figments is up on Webtoon Canvas!!
Another episode of Figments is up on Webtoon Canvas and Tapas! Only two parts left for the intro! Here's some art from the Prologue!
Made a new title card for Figments!
