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He let out a small sigh when she mentioned the master scheme. It was wine when they lied in front of his mother, but to have to put on that act in front of other people was a headache. What kind of liberties would she take at his expense? How bad would she make him look in front of someone he...

It's a shithole. "But it's still standing," Jin mused. Normally, things that were under the duress of constant poor weather conditions, including rain and wild winds, they rotted quickly. Especially given the lack of a proper foundation and the prevalence of wooden walls, as opposed to the...

"Good," he replied. "Nothing stays hidden forever, and knowledge is power. You have to hoard it for yourself as long as you can, before someone steals your advantage away." In this world where everything was out to get you, and every death you die is one step closer to imprisonment, those who...

Like a steel trap, the guard slammed shut after the first wave of questions. When the woman proceeded with her interrogation, it seemed only to perturb the man. That fact wasn't lost on Jin, who watched new flesh crawl over his bony hand as it knit back together slowly. "I didn't expect for them...

"You want to stifle your vomit long enough to pretend at having a Christmas party with friends as my girlfriend?" Every scathing bit of skepticism made its way into his voice as he spoke his mind. "It's one thing to do it in front of just her, where you have no dignity to lose because she won't...

He studied her with a vacant expression for a moment. She had to have some ulterior motive for being kind like this. She was always so rude and obnoxious or generally mean. The holidays didn't just cure people's entire personalities, unless Nico was afraid of being on the naughty list. I'm not...

As the wagons carried them back behind the safety of friendly lines, Jin found himself staring at the monstrosity that revealed itself in a final effort to erase the Starfallen. His world was numb, bright red, still too bright to make out any definitive qualities of the machine that had assailed...

The glare that she earned from the shortened "Ted" was on par with the icy glare she might have got from Jin upon saying something he disapproved of. In front of his mother, however, Theo did not spit back hellfire or bite back in any way. The woman was too frail to see the monster her son had...

"You're probably right," she sighed, defeated. "I love sweet things, but my body just can't handle them like they used to. One candy now and then doesn't hurt, though..." Theo came back into the room at right about that moment, one mug in hand held out to Nico and the other a bottle of water...

"Would you believe he was such a sweet boy, once? If I hadn't seen it for myself, I wouldn't." She returned the pink-haired girl's hug as best she could, shaking a bit but persevering despite her maladies. Despite being his mother, she pulled no punches when it came to talking about his poor...

Just like it took time for bones to properly set after being shifted back into place, or for a wound to heal after opening, it would take time for Jin's body to properly reconfigure after being stripped down to ashes. His Hemomancy to its credit did a great deal of work in the field of creating...

"Theo, honey, be a dear and get the door." "I'm going, I'm going." "Sometime today, please, it's cold outside. We can't have people freezing while they wait on you." "I said I'm going, ma!" With a string of curses beneath his breath, Theo cast off the VR device he'd barely just logged out of...

Pale, sickly, frail, creepy.

Jin had turned away when she started to speak again, curious about what she meant by '"cut from the same cloth." She had explained that her family was wretched and how she wished they had never been kind to her because it would have made everything easier, but to relate on the matter of a loved...

"Logic engines have limits," Jin replied warily to her assertion that she didn't think he'd brush off a potential threat. "They can only learn what they experience. And in this world, they terminate. They don't loop." It was simple, albeit not at all eloquent. The less that they interacted with...

"You should try it sometime." @Aerial

"Someone who's having way too much fun to be bothered with things like death." @Aerial

He shrugged. It was honestly what he would have done in her situation, too. Why pay anyone else for work he did? If you're good at something, never do it for free. Jin kept his gaze fixated on the wall ahead of him. Eye contact had never been his strong suit, and he had a policy of only...

160 Still Alive Somehow Zone 10 The strange mists that rolled up around his form gave very little relief. There was a numbing agent that might have done something more if all of his nervous system hadn't taken third degree burns or melted away entirely, but it only served to create a dullness...

"If it suits your tastes," he gave a shrug. "Just be sure to include me in any sales royalties if you decide to publish it. Being as I was part of your inspiration, I feel compensation would be justified." He was mostly joking, but then, that was the general flow of the conversation at this...