academy

The Academy was once a blur to Perrine Urahil before she was snatched up into the ranks of the Dreadlords, sent out on countless missions that required her expertise with healing. She thought she could be ruthless, to excel in inflicting pain with her gift but her efforts were never on the same...

(Following the events of "Dance for all that we've been through") The one thing the Academy wasn't known for: peace. Another thing the Academy wasn't known for: celebratory occasions that proceeded without some woeful catastrophe (or several) occurring. This Dance tonight was not given any...

“I can’t.” Everleigh heaved, her shoulders slumping forward despite already being on her hands and knees. “You’re certain of this? We could give you some water, maybe that’ll help.” One of academy nurses, a fourth level dreadlord with decent healing abilities, was scribbling on her note board...

Heat Wave She didn’t cry out, even when Marianne pressed the needle further in than it needed to be. Wincing in private, or as privately as one could when their thoughts were monitored, Everleigh focused on counting the deck of cards in her head. She always started with King, sometimes it would...

THE ACADEMY NOON Waiting is a part of military life. And the Academy, especially in the last years of an Initiate’s tutelage, offers opportunities to learn that fact. During one of those periods of downtime, Aelita would be found on the training grounds. She practiced maneuvers with her...

"Alright, class!" Proctor D'Amour called out across the courtyard, a brimming, confident smile on her mien. "Fall in and listen well!" Midmorning in Vel Anir had never felt so energetic. The sky above was only partly cloudy and the temperature actually bordered somewhere close to warm, a...

Raena Mirrsyn sat on the stone edge of one of the low walls that surrounded the training area. It was still a relatively quiet morning as the Initiates from her class slowly started to trickle in. The weather was sunny and cool with only a few clouds in the blue sky and on any other day she...

Everleigh was busy cracking eggs. A whole slew of them. Basket after basket, she filled the massive bowl in front of her were orange egg yolks and translucent egg whites. Somehow. Some way. She was stuck with kitchen duty again. One would have thought that being so close to graduating they would...

Of all the inane, dumbass ideas he'd ever been presented with. Of all the excuses for keeping him out of missions, out of the action that all his peers were reveling in, this one had to be the most infuriating of them all. It was true, prior to his injuries he'd had trouble getting along with...

Never let Proctor Magomo find you idling around. Even if it was a free period. As it happened, Kristen Pirian, along with a couple other initiates, got spotted by Proctor Magomo whilst having a small chat. Even the words "small" and "chat" were generous--they'd barely even said a few words to...

The Northern Wood Fraeya Elwing His fingers twitched, one hand wrapped around his sword, the other raised in front of him palm facing upward. Nestled between his fingers was a small ball of light that projected it's glow just a few feet ahead of him. The sky was dark, though Talus could...