The Black Craft Saga Week 17 Dispatch
— From the War Mode Office. Two women, two wars: one forged in soul-stealing witchcraft, the other in dragonfire and orbital bombardment.
🪶 This Week’s Movements:
Faith versus blasphemy, order versus insurgency, priestesses versus witches, Dragon Courts versus the remnants of the Order—both stories ask the same question: when every side thinks it’s righteous, what does it cost to claim your own power anyway?
This week, two women stand at the edge of a precipice, forced to choose who they will become while the world around them fractures.
In Slices of Midnight, Marissa, stands in a gleaming priory ward, and in Ashborn, Dareya, stands in a war-lit dragon palace.
Each is handed power that others would kill to control. Becoming the pivot on which life, death, and entire factions turn, whether through a soul-devouring orb or high-altitude recon flights in a sky under siege.
A “routine” healing becomes a ritual of damnation; a “delayed notification” about attacks becomes the spark of open war.
🕯️🕷️👑 Infamy’s Daughters:
The Fifteenth Chapter of Slices of Midnight will drop on Tuesday Morning, November 25th at 10 am EST to Infamy’s Daughters for paid subscribers.
The Tenth Chapter of Slices of Midnight will unlock on Tuesday Morning, November 25th after 10 am EST to Infamy’s Daughters for all readers.
In the pristine white ward of the Society of Laeron Madrin, death is supposed to be tidy. Souls are siphoned gently into crystal phylacteries, repaired, and returned like serviced machinery. But when a butcher claws the air and screams that the Lady of Hate is whispering his name, the ritual doesn’t just go wrong—it becomes a battlefield.
Marissa Bonifay, venom-laced and newly attuned to the realm beyond the Mortal Curtain, is suddenly able to see what no one else can: Myceen herself hovering above the gurney, dragging the butcher’s soul toward damnation while Priestess Nyomi fights to pull him back into the light. Between them hangs a soul, a whip of shadow, and an orb filled with promises. In this war of beams and chants, Marissa is no longer a curious apprentice watching from the sidelines—she is the deciding hand. With spiders spilling from the dark, prayers strangling on terrified lips, and a fragment of Nyomi’s own soul exposed, Marissa has one chance to choose: uphold the sanctity of the priory…or take her first true, damning step as Malakanth’s newest witch.
📖 Read Chapter 15 - Available November 25th
🌞🜚✨The Shadow Lineage:
The nineteenth chapter of Ashborn arrives for paid readers on Thursday Morning, November 27 at 10 am EST in The Shadow Lineage.
The eighteenth chapter of Ashborn unlocks for all readers on Thursday Morning, November 27 at 10 am EST in The Shadow Lineage.
The palace of Ember Flame is supposed to be a sanctuary in the sky—obsidian doors, emberstone courtyards, dragonfire wards pulsing steady and strong. But when Dareya and Veyrakh return from their bond-forging, the mountain itself shudders under distant explosions. The Order, broken but not dead, has skipped diplomacy entirely and gone straight to Tempest-class bombing runs and cruise missiles hammering the city from the upper atmosphere.
Dragged into an emergency war council, Dareya finds herself ringed by the ten Dragon Courts: some furious, some calculating, some quietly wondering if the “honeymooning” High Warden and his Ashborn mate are already liabilities. As wardlight flickers, projections of strike patterns crawl across the table—too clean, too deliberate, too clever to be random. The Order is probing for weaknesses and jamming long-range scans, turning public fear into a weapon. When generals argue whether she is too important to risk or too dangerous to sideline, Dareya cuts through the politics with one simple truth: she is a rider, and the skies are her battlefield. With Veyrakh holding the line at the heart of the city and Dareya taking command of high-altitude recon, the next wave won’t just be about survival—it will be about who shapes the story of this war.
Read Ashborn Chapter 19 - Available November 27
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