— From the War Mode Office. This week, Marissa’s sorcerous journal fights the truth. Dareya’s family is sealed inside the Aerie, walls wired to collapse. Will her dragon arrive in time?
This week, two turning points arrive—one in shadow, one in fire. Marissa’s journal resists the truth, its sorcery twisting memory even within a demon’s archive, while Dareya and her family sit sealed inside the Aerie, walls wired to explode, their only hope the arrival of a dragon bound by blood and flame.
This week’s dispatch carries twin currents of tension: one forged in sorcery, the other in fire and steel.
In Today You Found Me, Too, the immortal witch’s journal isn’t just written — it’s alive, bound in sorcery that resists the truth. Jon Dottingly ventures into Nar’Zhavel, the demon archive, to test the accuracy of Marissa Bonifay’s origin story. But her journal is mischievous, alive, and unwilling to surrender its secrets without a fight.
In Ashborn, Chapter 11, the noose tightens. A family locked in, the air heavy with jet fuel, the walls wired for collapse. Soldiers plan not just to kill, but to erase them utterly. With fear mounting and escape impossible, the bond between Rider and dragon may be the only force strong enough to defy annihilation.
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Today You Found Me, Too will drop part 1 on Tuesday Morning, September 30 at 7 am EST to The Chronicler’s Log.
Marissa Bonifay has lived for over two thousand years, her life written into a journal bound by the same black sorcery that elevated her to the pinnacle of the craft. But this is no ordinary book — it resists, it deceives, it misleads. To pierce its veil, Jon Dottingly descends into Nar’Zhavel, the transdimensional archive of a chronicler demon, where every event of the Mortal Plane is recorded with flawless precision.
Yet the journal itself is alive in its way, a mischievous relic that bends even truth into shadow. The deeper Jon goes, the more he must decide whether his role is historian or pawn in a witch’s endless game.
The tenth chapter of Ashborn will unlock for all readers Thursday Morning, October 2 at 7 am EST in The Shadow Lineage.
The eleventh chapter of Ashborn will drop on Thursday Morning, October 2 at 7 am EST in The Shadow Lineage for paid subscribers only.
The Aerie was supposed to be a sanctuary, but now it is a tomb in waiting. Sealed doors, hidden explosives painted into stone, and air laced with jet fuel speak of a plan not just to kill Dareya and her family, but to erase them entirely. Soldiers expect only silence when the flames and falling stone finish their work.
But Dareya is not alone. Her bond with Veyrakh, her dragon, pulses like fire in her chest, though his presence remains uncertain. Each moment stretches between annihilation and deliverance — between the family’s last breath and the roar of wings that could turn the trap into a reckoning.
Stay Sharp. Stay Strange. Be Wise. —The War Mode Office
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