The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice XV – Darkness Rising

Thanks to the Veilward, it was easy enough for Charles to pick a time when no one was watching – and to use his new amulet to shift across Yu-Shan to where his Inukami-driver had carefully chosen a nicely private spot and set up some wards and illusions. That tactic probably wouldn’t work forever, but [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice XIV – The Calm Before The Storm

Time passed. With the functions of the Factory-Cathedral mostly under control and life settling into a routine – school, work at Dudael, private projects, ingredient hunting, and things going on back in Atlanta – some of Charles’s projects started picking up speed. His report on Queen Merella readily got him into the advanced history classes. [...]