Maidens of the Fall, Arc 3, Pariah, Chapter 5
Chapter haunts the hallways of a half-empty hotel, knocking on random doors and scurrying through the gaps in the walls.
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Password is: mare
As always, an epub version of the chapter is also attached!
Chapter five! And here we are at last, dear readers, with some answers. Right? Right?! Ahem. You'll just have to read on and find out! Alongside Octavia. As best she can push on, anyway.
As for arc length, I actually think the next chapter might be the final chapter of arc 3; I had originally planned for it to be two separate chapters, but having written a good chunk of it now ... yeah, I think the next chapter is the last of the arc! We'll see! And then onto arc 4, about which I am equally excited.
Also also! I have more fanart from over on the Discord server! This week we have Grimgrave doing some juggling (of Nerys and a shotgun), and also The Locus of Lost Signals in full transformation (complete with skeletons), both by flaxsquiddle! Thank you so much for these, it's so much fun to see readers having fun making art!
And now, back to that dripping grey isle, to meet Octavia's favourite person ...
Comments (10)
Oh fuck me I have never regretted being right about something like this. That was, in every sense of the term, a nightmare. (complimentary)
Also I'm just delirious with how astonishingly well done everything about Willow demanding Octavia give up her prosthetics was.
holy shit that was so much worse than i thought it'd be
I know, right?! I've really gone all-out here, to create one of the most toxic situations I could possibly imagine. And I'm delighted with how hard it's landed.
Something about getting called pet, that seems sort of fun~ Oh, wait, shit no nononoNO! *Steam Achievement Noise* [New kink unlocked!] A, ah... G...g... Haaah, god damn it...
Eheheheheheeee. Ahem. Octavia might find that a rather worrying word in the future, too!
Hypehypehype Holy wow scarlet is gonna mmf
Hype!!! Exciting! Scarlet Edge seems to have her own emotional storm going on too, indeed.
Welp, that was one horrifying conclusion to all the buildup this arc! Can't wait for the existential crisis next chapter when Octavia realizes her entire life was a lie. Also, god damn dream control is even more compromised than I expected it to be!
Thank you very much! I'm so delighted this climax landed so well, I've been building up to it right from the start. The first of many, I hope! And yes, Octavia is going to be ... well, not good, after this. The fallout will likely be extensive. As for Dream Control, ha, yeah; they're rotten all the way through.