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Warning Shot

by VirtualMien

Chapter 42 in Araqiel's Court

The revolver barked loudly in Adrian’s hand as he emptied it with a steady rhythm, smoke trailing from the barrel. He narrowed his eyes, trying to make out if all six shots had found their mark. Amira leaned past him and hit a button on the wall, retracting the target from the fa...

【Part Three】 Good Help

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Chapter 41 in Araqiel's Court

“We’ll be in touch,” Adrian lied, having no intention of ever calling the man back. The two of them stood up, and Adrian let him out of the club’s back office. The other man was pudgy, with a thick mustache and a southern drawl. He was applying to work as head of security at the...

【TL;DR】 Part Two

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Chapter 5 in Araqiel's Court

Adrian has two key tasks: establish a nightclub as his home base, and recruit the rest of his squires. Christine and Rhys help with the first one. They decide to buy a down and out club named Gilt rather than build a new one from scratch. Afterwards, Rhys undergoes his first tran...

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Chapter 5 in Araqiel's Court

【TL;DR】 Part One

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Chapter 4 in Araqiel's Court

Adrian needed to obtain an artifact of power to become a fully vested knight. He decides to hunt down a cloak, used in the Gunpowder Plot. To help him on his journey, he contacts his coworker Rhys, as well as Christine, the grad student who had been helping him translate the book...

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Chapter 4 in Araqiel's Court

【TL;DR】 Prologue

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Chapter 3 in Araqiel's Court

Adrian was sick. He had a chronic, degenerative condition for which there was no cure. , he decided to turn to alternative means of treatment. Through sheer luck, an ancient book had recently fallen into his possession. He had been translating it with the help of a nearb...

【TL;DR】 Catch Up Quickly

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Chapter 2 in Araqiel's Court

Of course I would love it if every reader read through every chapter, but I know that some of you are going to prefer skipping straight to the 'good stuff', or maybe you just want to get a handle on earlier parts so that you can take part in a vote. Either way, this section is fo...

【Characters】 Part Two

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Chapter 29 in Araqiel's Court

【Characters】 Part One

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Chapter 28 in Araqiel's Court

> **Caution: **Contains spoilers for part one. Adrian ------ Adrian is learning to accept that his knighthood isn't something that he has the option of handling on his own. He is stuck with his squires. Maybe that isn't so bad though. He wouldn't have been successful in Scotlan...

【Characters】 Part Two

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Chapter 41 in Araqiel's Court

> **Caution: **Contains spoilers for part two.** ** Adrian ------ Adrian has finally embraced his role as a leader for his squires, although this has come with some hurdles. The group is far from a cohesive unit, and he needs to be careful moving forward to bind everyone togeth...

【Results】 Part One

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Chapter 41 in Araqiel's Court

Below are the results of the voting. Keep in mind that the scores provided are weighted. Every time a selection is made, the ballots that voted for it most highly have their priority downshifted for the next selection, so the numbers aren’t the raw ratings, except for the first c...

【Vote】 Part Two

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Chapter 41 in Araqiel's Court

To vote, use the link below to rank the choices from one to six, with six being a strong preference and one being a strong distaste. You don’t have to vote on every option, leave as many as you’d like blank, but do try to vote for your favorite one or two transformations on each...

Peas in a Pod

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Chapter 40 in Araqiel's Court

“It’s good we finally got that done,” Rhys said. The ride home had been mostly silent up until that point, which had suited Adrian just fine. He was emotionally drained after the meeting. “It had to be done,” Adrian replied simply. “They’ll come around,” Rhys told him. Adrian...

Worlds Collide

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Chapter 39 in Araqiel's Court

Adrian nursed his coffee, letting the warmth soothe his nerves. It was Friday afternoon. That meant that, before long, all of his squires would be here, in one place, so that he could tell them that their lives were changing forever. He took another sip. Rhys walked in to join A...

Blowout

by VirtualMien

Chapter 38 in Araqiel's Court

Adrian had plenty of time to contemplate what he’d done to Faith as he waited in the passenger seat of Amira’s cruiser later that night. Araqiel’s vassals had loaded her up with kinks, and he’d pressed every one of her buttons: exhibitionism, submission, humiliation, and size. Th...

Show Me Yours

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Chapter 37 in Araqiel's Court

“Don’t you have class?” Adrian asked, taking a bite of his food. He and Rhys sat at his dining room table, eating lunch. Rhys pushed his meal around his plate uncomfortably. “I’m not going to go today.” “You’ve missed the entire week so far,” Adrian noted. Rhys was quiet. He h...

Inheritance

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Chapter 36 in Araqiel's Court

At the end of his shift, Adrian walked through the dark Save Mart parking lot, ready to go home. Having the club in his pocket had proven to be a bit of a double-edged sword. In some ways, it made the drudgery of his job easier when he knew there was a light at the end of the tun...

New Horizons

by VirtualMien

Chapter 35 in Araqiel's Court

Rhys jumped when the door to Adrian’s apartment burst open, but it was only Adrian coming home, a nondescript, black plastic bag in one hand and a stack of papers in the other. “How’d it go?” Rhys asked expectantly. “We got it,” Adrian beamed. “We did?” Rhys exclaimed, hopping...

Being Served

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Chapter 34 in Araqiel's Court

Two days after paying her a visit at the precinct, Adrian stood across the street and watched as Amira knocked on Gilt’s door. Rocco was as slow to answer for her as he had been for Adrian, but when she showed him the warrant, he didn’t get the opportunity to play any games. Amir...