— From the War Mode Office. Two worlds fall and rise this week—one unveiled through shimmering portals and living memory, the other consumed by fire and buried beneath stone.
This week’s release plunges into two crucibles—one of revelation, the other of ruin.
In the second part of Today You Found Me, Too, Jon Dottingly steps deeper into Nar’Zhavel’s living archive, where the boundaries between memory and invention dissolve. Guided by Rashala and Azini, he witnesses technology as old as faith and portals that open into the heart of imagination itself. But beneath the wonder stirs the restless will of Marissa Bonifay’s enchanted journal—alive, cunning, and unwilling to yield its truths without a struggle.
Meanwhile, in Ashborn, Chapter 12, the world burns. Trapped beneath the collapsing Aerie, Dareya and her kin fight to survive as their sanctuary becomes a tomb. With charges wired to ignite and dragons closing ranks, every heartbeat feels stolen. Amid the smoke and dust, duty collides with desire, and survival demands choices that scar deeper than flame.
Two stories, two infernos—one of fire, one of truth.
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Today You Found Me, Too will drop part 2 on Tuesday Morning, October 7 at 10 am EST to The Chronicler’s Log.
Within Nar’Zhavel’s vast archive, light is liquid and memory is code. Here, Jon Dottingly steps into a living experiment—a fusion of magic and machine where faun engineers rebuild entire worlds from fragments of thought. What begins as awe soon deepens into unease as he realizes these crafted realities breathe, shift, and respond to him in ways no technology should. Guided by Rashala and Azini, Jon explores the priory of Marissa Bonifay’s youth brought vividly to life, every detail perfectly reconstructed… and yet somehow too perfect to trust.
As illusion and memory intertwine, Jon must confront the unsettling question: when imagination becomes indistinguishable from truth, what does it mean to know a story at all? The deeper he ventures, the more alive the world becomes—and the more it seems to remember him.
The eleventh chapter of Ashborn will unlock for all readers Thursday Morning, October 9 at 10 am EST in The Shadow Lineage.
The twelfth chapter of Ashborn will drop on Thursday Morning, October 9 at 10 am EST in The Shadow Lineage for paid subscribers only.
The inferno may have ended, but the aftermath burns just as fiercely. Deep below the shattered Aerie, the survivors tread through a labyrinth of tunnels older than memory—each echo a whisper of what was lost. Dust and darkness close in as the dragons and their human allies search for a way out, their path illuminated only by fragments of trust and the dim glow of command. The air hums with things unsaid: the weight of betrayal, the ache of devotion, and the dangerous spark of desire that refuses to be buried beneath stone.
But survival is never simple in the world of the Flight. The collapse of the Aerie has not only sealed their past—it has forced them into the deep places where history was written in fire and blood. Every heartbeat feels borrowed, every silence holds its own threat. In this chapter, what endures is not power, but the will to keep moving through the ruins.
Stay Sharp. Stay Strange. Be Wise. —The War Mode Office
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