“Your new look does really suit you, Loke, or should I keep calling you Mister Loke?” Faruq asked. “Why would you ever want to call me Mister Loke? Loke is fine.” We had long since gotten back to the left branch of the river, the one heading inside the forest, and after he had stopped asking me questions like: “Where’s …

The slight wind caressing my newly shaved face was soothing for my skin that likely hadn’t felt the caress of wind or the light for too long. “How is that even going to work?” I asked the clock-engineer. “It’s simple. You’ll start taking lessons from lady Jane, then come back here when you have reached at least a decent level …

“The sight in my left eye is really the only lasting damage I have, I swear!” Nova said while sitting by my side. She had snuggled under the bedsheets and close to my right side, where I could still embrace her. Nova had tried keeping her tears hidden, but she burst out right after she saw my eyes grow red …

I opened my eyes to a canopy of leaves and to Alistar’s shouting. “-sist, Loke! Please! We are going to make it! You have to make it! Do you hear me!?” “Don’t sleep! Please, don’t sleep!” Shouted somebody else, probably momma Jane. I could not move anything but my eyes, and anywhere I looked was the sky, clear sky, but …

We had to plan, and we had to do it fast. Roana had to be hidden away. Alistar would have to do it; he was the weakest among us and the only one that would be dead weight in a fight against the Sunguard, especially since he had exhausted his transformation Skill. With much of Alistar’s protests, Jane convinced him …

Echolocation, Far Sight, Synaesthesia. I knew I had at least some insights into all of them. Echolocation, I had experienced it a few minutes prior. It was damn useful. Far Sight, I had experienced a form of it. I did every time my Animal Instinct Passive Perks activated during the night or with the help of Shade. The immediate increase …

I could not hide my terror. It had been a long time, too long since the last time I was faced with such a situation. The last time since I was about to die. I could feel my blood turning cold, I could feel that the half-elf which I had automatically Tracked and Traced was about to kill me, and …

“What’s going on, Loke?” Asked Jane. “Did you lose your mind?” It was Alistar. I had never seen him so scared before. I guessed he had been hiding it behind a mask until now. “I’m really sorry,” I whispered back, “I knew that man. He was the Sunguard that did not help us back then when Charlie and Gamila died; …

“I still can’t believe those stories are real,” said Alistar. “Focus,” I said. “Really, can you believe that? The stories they told us when we were little are true? What else is true then? The fire-spitting Dragons? The Moon people? The Specters? For Sun’s sake, is the Abyss real after all?” He continued undeterred. “Star! I need to focus here!” …

Alistar Migs Class Soldier Lv. 20 Con + 2, Str + 1 Sub-Class Fisher Lv. 28 Con + 1, Per + 1, Will +1 Attributes Stats Natural Augments Agility 7 Greaves (+1) Constitution 30 + 24 Armor (+5), Shield (+ 15) Strength 10 + 1 Shield (+ 5), Spear (+6) Focus 6 Perception 14 + 1 Willpower 14 + 4 …