Fic Update Thread 54: Find a spot out on the floor!

[Mamorien]

It's a double dose of Destiny Cycle (OEX)! First, after a false start, Tales of Destiny: Journey to the east 26.

“We will crush the Dead back into the sands, but we must rest first. The soldiers are less hardy than even we,” Guo Xinyan said.

“I apologize for my outburst,” Gu Xiulan said, bowing her head.

“I don’t like it either, a hero ain’t supposed to sit and wait around,” Zheng Nan said frowning. “Parties are for after you’ve won.”

“Think like that, there won’t never be a party,” Zheng Yang said, shrugging. “Cause the work’s never done. I dunno about you brother, but d’you think those guys on the walls are marching anywhere?”

“Doesn’t mean I gotta stay,” he grumped back.

“If you make me punch your sun dried skull off cause you ran ahead and got Dead-ed, Master will drag your carcass back out from the desert for a whooping,” Zheng Yang snorted.

“Enough,” Guo Xinhua said, her fan snapped shut with a sharp clack that cut off the next line of bickering like a blade severing thread.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/26470/...he-east-26

And the main story continues with a scratch Monkey in Threads (of Destiny) Chapter 386.

"Anyway, I'll be hanging around the Emerald Seas for a while, doing stuff for my master and myself.” Zheng Fu strolled around her bedside to the table beside it. He flicked his wrist, and then laid the small scroll that appeared in his hand on the table. "You or your boss need some muscle, or a pair of eyes, you can send to the address there, or use the formation to call me up. That bit will only work once, though."

"Quite an offer from the Zheng clan," Ling Qi said warily.

"Nah. My master thinks it's an investment. We missed out on big Cai, but I think little Cai's gonna shake things up, too, is all... Hrm. I best get out of here if I don't wanna get launched out the window by an irate snake. See ya later there, nutty girl."

And then he was gone, nothing more than a swirl of mist and a shimmer in the air.

"Is it that annoying when I do that?" Ling Qi wondered aloud.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21188/...hapter-386

From Eastern superheroics to Western, First Times (HP/DC) gives us a First Big Moment (Theirs).

Well, there’s nothing like a certain friend getting engaged to really get a person thinking. And Hermione as well, when it’s her best friend and her bestie. It turns what had been quiet downtime of joint recuperation in the Tower’s lounge into a matter that suddenly isn’t quiet anymore. Look for a book, a sign, and a glimpse of what's to come. Oh. Oh!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/462211.../144714559