Archive | November 15, 2019

Running in the Bear Empire 64: A Long Journey Across the Hall

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Deline pushed backwards, arched her back, and shoved into Carrone as she dodged the dart.

“Those blasted things.” he swore as he caught her, stumbling backwards. 

Deline dragged a hand into her belt pouch and pulled out some desiccated herbs and a pile of flower petals.  They weren’t quite the right ingredients –  Continue reading

Guard the Garden

Originally posted on Patreon in Nov 2019 and part of the Great Patreon Crossposting to WordPress.

Guard the Garden

This is part of the Damkina series of stories, which you can find in her tag. 

It begins with The Gardener and is a story about a very very (very, very) old fae who, while working as a landscaper for a museum, finds herself suddenly fighting against the apocalypse.

What you need to know: she has expanded her garden to cover a sizable quadrant of the city and she has ‘not-really-followers’ as she is, well, not REALLY a goddess. Except she is.

This is in the middle of the Faerie Apocalypse: would-be gods and godlings are invading the Earth from Elleheim, where they were banished thousands of years ago. Among those who have come back, many have claimed to be ancient gods. 

See Pallas Athene here. See Hera here. See Zeus here.

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“Hey! Hey, get out of our garden! Back off, you — you thing!   I have a broom and I’m not afraid to use it!”

Damkina had drifted off — not a proper sleep but a little bit of a nap in the sunlight, something she found herself doing more and more as she spent most of her waking hours rebuiilding a world for, by her count, the third time.

She hadn’t remembered it being this hard before, but, then again, the last time there hadn’t been quite so many annoying would-be gods all over the place, like aphids, getting into everything and ruining it.
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