[I am really sorry about that.] [Hey, don’t worry about it. You’ve apologised already, I’m fine, you’re fine, we’re all fine.] [I mean. Sure, but I still feel bad. Is there anything I can do?] [No, seriously, it’s already healing. There’s no issue here.] Calming down the rampaging Asura bear turned out to be easier than I thought. She might …

In that brief window of stillness, as Sarah stood soaking and burned in the tunnel, the demons heard something that they would later wish they had never had the misfortune to hear. It started as a low growl in the back of the great bear’s throat, a rumble that shuddered through the air and rattled against my carapace. But it …

With a mighty bellow Sarah burst around the corner with myself and Tiny right on her four heels. The demons responded quickly, the two closest, both of the slaughter demons, turned towards us in a flash, transforming themselves into a spinning whirlwind of death before I could blink. I should clarify that I mean very fast there, some human idioms …

As we move through the narrow and boiling hot tunnels we start to see evidence of the demons’ passage in the form of littered Biomass and visible signs of damage on the walls. Claw marks, deep gouges in the stone and even scorches along the floor, not an easy feat in this lava filled place. Whoever we’re tracking must be …

“GRRRRRRRRRR. GARRRRR!” With another stone shattering roar, Sarah brings the full weight of her body behind a vicious slash of her right forepaw, rending the sorry ghast that had risen in front of her to pieces. Far from her valiant and intimidating voice, her thoughts are rather less impressive. [AHHHHH! I hate these damn things!] I can totally sympathise. [It’s …

“Have you seriously been running this entire time?” “Yep-Yep! I don’t feel right unless my legs are moving. You feel the same, yeah? You have to move! Standing still is like dying, I can’t stand it! Being still is just  – “ “Enough! No matter how fast you talk, I don’t have enough time to sit around and get chattered …

When Morrelia awoke her entire body was screaming in pain. This extent of muscle soreness wasn’t something she’d experienced many times in her life, even in the worst of her training sessions as a trainee legionary. She grit her teeth and forced herself to rise, forcing her protesting limbs to yield to her will, the pain she shoved down deep …

The shadow falls like clouds, like rain; Creeping dread begins to stain; Shudder the heart, freeze the brain; Ring out the laughter, again and again; Call of you lover, daughter, son; Sinks into your ears, your will undone; Forward you step, your soul is wrung; Cannot resist, Gon has come; Who can defy that fateful call? Who can escape the …

It didn’t take much longer for the hatchling to complete her evolution. The jump from tier three to four isn’t nearly as large as that of four to five. I imagine that my next evolution is going to put me out of commission for days, perhaps as long as a week! That does make me wonder about the further evolutions. …

While the hatchling is sleeping through her tier four evolution, the rest of us take a break to strategize a little with Granin and co before we rest. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the others need a break a lot sooner than I do, at least, whenever I’m within range of the Colony. There’s just something about never getting …