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LEGENDS OF ICARIA
legendsoficaria
Feb 416 min read
36. A choice
Candor did not return to the underground chamber. She did not know if the club had met again, or if she had been invited. She did not...
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Jan 2823 min read
34. Etched in stone
Candor paused to look out over the sea. Her arms hung limply by her side, and she tried to catch her breath. It had been nearly a month...
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Jan 2812 min read
35. Old friends
“Woden Thorn,” The voice betrayed a dark smile. “We meet again.” Letti remembered the blackness of the Udarov, the paralysis of the...
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legendsoficaria
Jan 2117 min read
33. Valary
“They’re gone,” Letti breathed. The plains seemed to bulge with the blackness; little illumination from the moon offered no additional...
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Jan 1417 min read
32. 50 lashes and a lie
Candor woke a few hours later, feeling both remarkably refreshed and also as though her muscles had been struck repeatedly with various...
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Jan 719 min read
31. An unmentioned loss
Letti watched as Thorn untied the captain and the soldier from Ean and Enri. He left the young soldier who had defended Letti on the...
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legendsoficaria
Dec 31, 202320 min read
30. Thicker than water
Candor woke the next morning with a sense of both relief and dread. Examining her memories of the day before as she dressed, Candor grew...
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legendsoficaria
Dec 24, 202325 min read
29. A plan, finally
Letti sat with her back against the cold, mud-packed wall of a small barrow. Miraculously, Thorn, Letti, and the horses had found their...
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Dec 17, 202328 min read
28. Thief!
Candor returned to her room after a short meal, utterly spent. As she opened the door, she froze. Something was different than she had...
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legendsoficaria
Dec 10, 202319 min read
27. The bells of Ent Arden
Letti stood, breathing hard on the green behind Garthien’s tower. In the days since their arrival, Letti had slowly begun to explore...
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legendsoficaria
Dec 3, 202336 min read
26. A book, a bird, and a fish
Candor leaned over the long counter that ran through the center of the library. Between it, a few students pored over stacks of books,...
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Nov 26, 202327 min read
25. Garthien
Thorn paced, waiting. Though he had been travelling with companions for a while now, new routines could not mask the old habits,...
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legendsoficaria
Nov 19, 202318 min read
24. Choah
Pink light forced Candor’s eyes open, and she blinked, staring up at dust moats that swirled below an ornately decorated ceiling. She...
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Nov 12, 202323 min read
23. Hands down
Letti bent over, hands on her knees, trying to catch her breath. A young girl, perhaps of nine or ten, stood opposite her. The Nirans...
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legendsoficaria
Nov 5, 202320 min read
22. Trials
Candor awoke to a bright stream of sunlight staining the floor of the hall a bright yellow. Rolling over, Candor gasped in pain, her...
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legendsoficaria
Oct 29, 202334 min read
21. When we fight
Letti’s legs screamed as she swung down from her horse. Thorn and Letti had run as fast as they ever had, charging through the...
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legendsoficaria
Oct 22, 202319 min read
20. A second chance
Candor watched the storm clouds roll over her, the wind rifling through her hair. Her braids kept most of it from her face, but a few...
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legendsoficaria
Oct 15, 202311 min read
19. Sails
“You should sleep.” Thorn advised the girls. “We all should. We will not be attacked down here.” Needing little in the way of...
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legendsoficaria
Oct 8, 202319 min read
18. Of silence and storms
The next morning, after Candor woke both her companions, Thorn led the three through the Aiadar. Candor’s muscles were tighter than...
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Oct 1, 202319 min read
17. Evade, Escape
Candor could smell the sea before she could see it. After the heavy, humid stench of the sewers, the scent of saltwater felt clean. It...
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