larvyde – Carpe Deue

AN: Posting this before I go for dental surgery.
We went outside the ramparts surrounding the capital Parnam. The refugees’ camp was on the plains about a block’s distance away. Part of it was rough, with tents and shacks all over the place, but there were also parts where they planted something like...

TN: The recovery people just got back to me about my hard drive. Said it was a lost cause. Platter scratches, apparently.
Anyway, without further ado, here’s the chapter…
AN: Side story (But definitely not short)

My laptop has been tottering along with a barely-working broken fan for months since I dropped it edgewise a while ago. The poor thing finally overheated a couple weeks ago, causing the hard drive to fail.
The hard drive containing my translations-in-progress and the raws I had saved, among other things....

TN: Sorry for the wait, here you go…
AN: Last chapter ended at the year’s end, but let’s rewind the time one and a half months back.
It happened a little while after the Amidonia Merger had concluded. That morning, I was woken up by the loud BANG of the door being slammed shut, and as I stirred with my head still half-asleep, my forehad touched something soft that went fyoing. At...