Cultivating Chaos by William D. Arand

Author:William D. Arand [Arand, William D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
Publisher: William D. Arand
Published: 2018-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

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Ash was sitting in his bedroll in the middle of Yue’s shop front.

Jia had gone home to sleep in her own house.

Yue, Tala, and Yan were all recovering in Yue’s room.

Yan really had become as sick as death. She’d ended up looking like a recovering crack addict who was suffering from food poisoning at the same time. But she’d managed to stay coherent long enough to wait for the moon to set before she utilized the transference papers.

Tala had passed out during her procedure, which had made it easier to work on her, since he didn’t have to hear her whimpering in pain.

She wasn’t exactly the most pleasant person in the world, but he didn’t want to harm her any more than he already had.

Yue’s had gone the best. As soon as the carving had linked together, her Dantian had snapped open. Snapped open and then ferociously began devouring all the Essence around them.

All three of them were unconscious now, learning from the transference papers.

Blinking rapidly to clear his thoughts, Ash looked down to the kitchen knife in his hand.

Pulling his chisel across the surface, he rapidly finished up the pattern and then set it to one side.

“What are you doing?”

Looking toward the bedroom door, he saw Moira standing there. The door behind her was closed.

“Making extremely sharp kitchen knives that will take a long time to dull,” Ash said. Looking to the pile of knives on his left, he picked up another one.

“Why? That seems rather odd.”

Ash began to scratch along the pattern Locke had put in place over the metal.

“So Yue can sell them. It’ll be hard for citizens to resist buying something like this, at a good price. Even if the Deng clan really can undercut and outsell her, if she has unique products, it’ll keep her afloat,” Ash explained.

Moira sat down beside him, shoving the pile of knives further in front of him. Shifting around, she ended up pressed up to his side, her knee touching his.

“You care deeply for those you deem as part of your group,” Moira said.

“I do. As an outlander, people who can see past my hair and eyes are rare. I treasure them.” Ash finished the blade and set it atop the finished pile.

Moira picked up a blade and handed it over to him.

“Can I help in some way with this?” she asked.

“Not really. I have to make sure the pattern is exactly the same each time.”

“Then teach me, just as if it were an ability.”

“Maybe later. I’m not sure it’d work the same way.”

“Ah… the spirit you talk to helps, then?”

Ash froze for a second, then nodded.

“Yeah. It isn’t a lack of talent on your part. It’s that I have something I can’t give you.”

Moira sighed and then smiled at him. “I wish to be more useful. I’d like to go through what you can teach me later and find out what your goals are.

“The last we spoke of it, you were simply wishing to find your brother and sister and help them.

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