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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 16h

#WIPSnips Maria confuses her companions in an effort to calm Mirideth's distress... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 5: Burn Bright, Stand Together)

Teal text scrolled onto her HUD, <What are you doing? I said to stay hidden. It wasn't a suggestion.>

Maria didn’t know if Mirideth could still see through her glasses, but if she could, there was only one way she could reply. She turned back to look at Musoltu, carrying the unconscious, dust covered body of Tantrii. Her hair was no longer in its usual ponytail, instead it hung limply from her head. Her glasses were gone, lost in the explosion. They had torn her IIF bodysuit around her midsection in order to stabilize the wound, which was covered with bandages, and had some sort of medical device inserted into it. Maria stared intently for several seconds, eliciting confused looks from the group.

More text appeared, <Heaven and Void… Mon Petit Requin…>, a few seconds passed, <I know where you are. The Epsilon VII is repaired enough to take flight. I’m coming, hold position.>

Maria immediately shook her head. She knelt down on one knee and traced out letters in the gathered dust, ‘N O T S A F E’ ‘N E A R H O S P I T A L’ ‘S T A Y’

After she’d stared down at the letters for several seconds, more text appeared, <Fine. But if anything more happens to her, I am coming. And I will kill anyone who gets in my way.>

Maria nodded, then stood again. Everyone was staring at her.

“What under the Dawn just happened here?” Musoltu asked, quietly.

“I am in contact with our… pilot. The comms are only one way, so I had to find another way to reply.” After a moment, Maria added, “Tantrii is her girlfriend.”

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#WIPSnips Ladiziar gives herself a makeover... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 4: Stand Tall and Shatter)

Ladiziar stood up and made her way into the bathroom. It was a small space, counter, sink, cabinets on one side, shower and large tub on the other. She looked at herself in the mirror. Her blue eyes stared back at her. The blonde hair in its traditional Hearthean braids seemed to mock her now. It was a symbol of who she’d been. That hair and its style had belonged to Maria Carlena, the tool, the toy. She undid her braids, her hair falling over her face and down her back. She opened a drawer, found a pair of scissors, and got to work. Cut by frantic cut she butchered the memory of Maria Lucia Carlena. Tearing away who she had been, leaving open space for who she’d become. Within a few minutes, her hair fell to just above her shoulders, cut in a messy, haphazard style.

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DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

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DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

From certain perspectives, yes. From others... well... this story is hosted on a site for erotic mind control stories, so. Yknow.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#WIPSnips This is from my short story, Encoded. It involves well, this, happening to a girl.

“Wh-what? I- But I- You-” I can’t form words, I can’t think, I'm so scared, so confused, what the fuck is she talking about? This doesn't make sense. Nothing makes sense. I’m so fucking scared why is this happening?

“Poor thing's crying, Mack. Just encode it already.” Hiroko says. She looks genuinely sympathetic…

Mackenzie rolls her eyes, but steps off my chest, “Up.” She offers a hand.

I take it and stand, I can't stop myself. I'm shaking. She suddenly pulls me close and I feel a pinch in my neck. It hurts for a sec, but then… I… I can’t… stand…

Mackenzie is holding me up, and words come out of my mouth that I'm not saying…

“Encoding…” My brain feels… Fuzzy… It's like static… Buzzing in my ears, making me feel… dizzy…

“Personality override engaging…” Personality override engaging.

“Memory obfuscation program initiated…” Memory obfuscation program initiated.

“Obedience protocols reinitializing…” Obedience protocols reinitializing.

“Type-12 Service Unit fully operational and ready for use.” …

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Maria is terrifyingly accurate with just about anything she chooses to use as a weapon. Doing nothing but train to be an assassin from the age of 13 will do that.

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DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Love how missing a single dose of one med can completely fuck me mentally to the point of genuine suicidal ideation along with an intense seething hatred of literally everything. Don't even know if the med helps anymore. I just take it to avoid the withdrawal. ...that's addiction. Welp. Cool.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#WIPSnips Lolanene and Mirideth discuss the recent revelation of Lolanene’s partner's immortality... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 3: Rise Up, Strike Harder)

Mirideth’s voice emanated from Maria’s speakers, “You mortals always assume that with great age comes some sense of disconnection. I still feel things for people centuries younger than me. I have no choice if I want to feel anything for anyone at all. I’ve been alive longer than anyone should be, but I’m still a person, I still connect with others. One does not become some form of alien intelligence by living more years than you.”

Lolanene sighed, “I ain’t sayin’ ya can’t feel shit, Robo-Bitch. I’m sayin’ I’m like a fuckin’ infant in comparison t’ how old Calmav is.”

“I doubt they see it that way. What I am trying to tell you, Stray, is that I know you’re an adult, that you can make decisions for yourself, and that you are capable of having relationships. They do as well. Their age is of little consequence, especially in comparison to the other things they told us.”

“Ya don’t get it, Robo-bitch. Y’ couldn’t possibly.” Lolanene glared at Maria, though Maria knew it wasn’t actually at her.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They do! At least, after a while. Maria takes time to start working with Mirideth at all.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Mirideth is never not planning. She's immortal and plans to live essentially forever. Doing that involves a lot of forethought.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lolanene is chill with whatever, honestly. She'll follow a plan, she'll improvise, as long as it works it's fine with her.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Niarith doesn't like to do anything without a well thought out plan. She's usually the one figuring out how the gals are gonna do what they need to do.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Maria doesn't typically plan herself. She follows the plans of others. It's how she was trained and it's how she likes it. She can improvise quite well when necessary, though.

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Ailish Maura @ailishmaura.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

teens can end up on these lists for sending each other consenting nudes. people end up on this list for peeing outside. dont forget that the mother who advocated for this list after the killing of her son has become one of its biggest critics. dont forget this app is an excuse to steal your data

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#WIPSnips Lucia describes recent events to two people she just met... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 1: Fly High, Sink Deeper)

Lucia calmed herself and straightened her stance, “If you’re both quite finished, I can tell you what happened.”
Lolanene slid herself down the floor and sat on the wall. Nolar said nothing and didn’t move.
Lucia reached up and touched the pendant still hanging around her neck, “My girlfriend and I were at Loriol Ninia’s compound, up in Mid-District. We were there to steal this'' She indicated at the pendant, “back for its former owner, Yildebrund Brocktazrolo. He hired us for the job. And we thought we were ready.”
She looked down at the floor, taking in a deep breath, “But it didn’t go as planned. I found the Void-taken thing, but my girlfriend… Niarith. She was captured. Not just physically, but mentally. They’ve done something to her mind. I ran away to try and plan a way of getting her out of there, but I was caught. Though I got away, they had anti-ship weaponry, and I was shot down, and thus, crashed. As for why it was here and not higher up, I don’t know. Down to luck perhaps. But that’s my story. And I need to get out of here and get Niarith back.”
Nolar nodded politely. Lolanene blew her hair out of her face and just stared. For a long moment, no one said anything. The creature pulling the sled made an odd gurgling noise.
“So uh, y’ crashed here, ‘cause yer girl’s new boyfriend shot down yer ship?” Lolanene said.
Lucia simply stared at her for a few moments, anger rising throughout her entire being. She began breathing more heavily, her hand drifted toward her empty dagger sheath again, but she forced herself to calm down.
She simply blew out a long breath, “No. She is not in her right mind. She's being conditioned. Brainwashed. And the longer I stand around talking to you two about it the harder it’ll be to get her out. Now kindly get out of my ship and let me be on my way.”
Nolar put up a hand, “This ship ain’t goin’ nowhere ‘less it’s fixed. Do y’ know how t’ fix it? Do y’ have th’ tools y’d need? I’m gonna guess y’ don’t. But me and Lola? We do. An…

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#WIPSnips The gals fail to secure payment for a job... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 1: Fly High, Sink Deeper)

Yldebrund looked a bit off put, but quickly put his false cheer back on, “Lovely to meet you as well, my dear. Now, to business. Niarith, I assume you’ve recovered the item?”
Niarith placed the locked metal case on the desk, “We have it right here. But recovering it was not as smooth an operation as you implied.”
Yldebrund reached for the case, and Niarith unsubtly picked it up again, “Oh? How so, my dear?”
“You failed to mention that Loriol... Ninia... The B-“ She shook her head, “That he possesses mind control tech. I was… compromised. Lucia nearly died rescuing me. I think that level of risk requires greater reward, don’t you, sir?”
Yldebrund brought something up on his screen, and examined it carefully, “Well now, my dear, I don’t see anything in your contract that stipulates increased reward for your own failings. You were sent to recover the item. You recovered it. That was our deal. You will be paid the agreed upon amount, no more, no less.”
Lucia stepped forward, “Listen you stuck up son of a-”
Niarith placed a hand gently on her shoulder.
“Mr. Brocktazrolo. Yldebrund. Our deal was an easy retrieval of the item. In and out. That is not what transpired. Partly due to your negligence in providing information on the target. I think it is fair that we ask for a higher payment.”
“Fair as that may be, the terms of our contract do not include such a thing. And thus, it is out of my hands. Now, the item, please.” He held out a hand.
Lucia stabbed her dagger through it, pinning it to the table, “Fuck your contract! I nearly died. I nearly lost my girlfriend. Because you didn’t tell us what we were up against. So either you pay us for the job we did, not the job you falsely sent us to do, or I keep stabbing, and we keep your fucking item.”
Brocktazrolo didn’t scream. The hand didn’t bleed. He just glared. Staring Lucia right in the eye, “That. Was. Rude.”
The hand dissolved into a massive cloud of nanites, enough to be seen with the naked eye. The nanites swirled …

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here's a thread about my proudest accomplishment.

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Phosyne, Witch Queen 🌺 @deadfae.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Wow the pope is so cool because he's right about ai" I'm right about ai and I don't run an international organization dedicated to abusing children and harming women and queer people

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#WIPSnips Maria hurts herself... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 5: Burn Bright, Stand Together)

After roughly an hour of silent flight, Maria got up from her station and left the cockpit without another word. She paced the corridor, her fists clenching and unclenching almost without control. She was just so angry. How dare they? How DARE they?!

She punched the metal wall of the corridor, eliciting a dull metallic thud. Her hand tingled with burning pain. That had been stupid. She’d fully expected to cause a massive dent in the wall and no damage to herself. She wasn’t even wearing the armor anymore, just her IIF bodysuit.

It had been over a year since she’d been returned to human form, and she still wasn’t fully used to it. She wondered if she ever would be.

Red light coalesced in the air before her, turning into the image of Mirideth’s hologram, wearing a simple black dress. Mirideth didn’t speak, to do so she’d have needed to speak to the whole ship. Instead she simply smiled sympathetically and placed an incorporeal hand on Maria’s shoulder. Maria found herself smiling back, just slightly.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am currently Sleep deprived Extremely hungry Likely quite dehydrated Very stressed about an appointment i have later today This has culminated in the single worst migraine in human history There is no stimulus that does not suck to experience

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#WIPSnips The Epsilon VII is co-opted by an unknown party for mysterious reasons... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 3: Rise Up, Strike Harder)

After a few minutes of silent flight, the comm unit beeped, <Attention unidentified starship. You have been logged and are unregistered. Remote Flight Automation system is engaged. Do not attempt to control the craft. Doing so may result in serious injury or death. Do not attempt to exit the craft upon landing.>
Niarith gasped in both surprise and fear, “They have an RFA? Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck… They have control of the ship. Piloting it remotely to who knows where. There’s nothing I can do. They weren’t supposed to have an RFA, nobody has a fucking RFA, fuck!” She took her hands off the controls, gripping the armrests of her seat tightly.
“Hey uhm, that transmission didn’t have FIC encoding, guys.” Linilith said, staring at a thin rectangular readout on the comm unit.
Lolanene looked over, “What encodin’ did it have then?”
“Dunno, but that’s definitely not FIC. Maybe we’re about to make a new friend!” Linilith grinned.
Maria sighed, “I doubt that, Linilith.”
Tantrii stepped over to the comm unit, “Looks like a private transmitter. Dunno who would have that and a fucking RFA though.”
Less than a minute later, the ship suddenly turned to the left, and entered a hangar built into the side of a large, deep black building. Though there were lights on inside, they looked exceedingly dim. Maria guessed the windows must have been heavily tinted. The building was taller and looked much more well built than most on the moon.
As the ship landed, the comm unit beeped yet again, <Attention unidentified starship. Do not attempt to exit the craft. Cooperate and you will not be harmed. Stay in place and wait for our team to retrieve you. Do not be alarmed.>
Linilith smiled, “They seem nice!”

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#WIPSnips Maria meets an old acquaintance... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 4: Stand Tall and Shatter)

“So are you actually here this time, doctor?” Maria asked, pointedly ignoring Helolak.

“Why do you think we brought the guard and restrained you?” Helolak said, smirking.

Maria gave him a stare of pure hate, “How’s the leg, Loriol?”

“Permanently fucked up. Thanks for that.” He said, completely calmly.

“Should have run you through with my claws then and there…”

He nodded, “Yeah, probably. You didn’t though. So here we are, at Phase Two.”

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mirideth... She used to believe she was a goddess, destined to rule over what she called 'lessers'. Now, though? She feels broken on a level that's hard to fathom. She knows she was wrong. She knows she did terrible things. All she can do now is her best.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lolanene sees herself as both a competent engineer and observant problem solver, which she is. But she also, deep down, still feels like a scared kid who doesn't know what she's doing. She's wrong on that one.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Niarith tends to sees herself as a weak, perhaps cowardly sidekick to Maria. She's possibly one of the most mentally resilient people alive. The things she's been through would have destroyed others. But she keeps going, even when she wants to do anything but, because it's the right thing to do.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Maria views herself as a highly capable, extremely confident, immensely skilled mass murdering monster. She's most of those things, but she's also incredibly heroic, inspiring, and cares deeply for those around her. She tends to ignore those bits.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#WIPSnips The IIF wins the Battle of Zoridian VIc... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 3: Rise Up, Strike Harder)

Lolanene found a base-wide PA system, and keyed the mic, <Attention fed fuck-o’s, we’ve got yer boss here. Captured ‘im alive. If y’all want ‘im stayin’ that way, yer gonna want t’ surrender right ‘bout now. Now, y’all might not care ‘bout his safety in a personal sense, but think about what his bosses might think if y’all let him get killed fer yer sense of glory in battle er whatever. That’s all, uh… thanks.>

Zeltrada walked Kralkarin over to the PA mic, “Confirm that for them if you would, buddy.” She kept a pistol held against the back of his head.

<Uh… Yes. Attention all FIC forces in the vicinity, this is your Commander, Kralkarin Harlovtoront. I am hereby ordering you to stand down immediately. You will surrender to the… ugh… Interstellar Independence Front forces without delay. Failure to comply will be considered a violation of the orders of a superior, punishable by thirty-seven years imprisonment. That is all.>

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters I mean the answer here is pretty clear: Gotta be Maria. Even before her transformation, she's extremely tough, and after... She's 8 feet tall and made of metal.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#WIPSnips Lucia and Niarith discuss Niarith's job, as well as Mirideth's impossible longevity... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 1: Fly High, Sink Deeper)

The two of them ate in companionable silence for a few moments, before Lucia asked, “What did you mean before, when you said they usually give you better food? Who is ‘they’? And why did they give you sub-par rations?”

Niarith sighed, “I work for a government agency called the Primitive Territory Enforcement Division. I’m what’s called a Primitive Territory Enforcement Officer. My job is to observe worlds that aren’t star-faring. Like yours. I watch them, and make sure they’re safe and uncontaminated, free to develop on their own. My superiors in the PTED are ‘they’.”

“Contaminated…” Lucia said, “Like me? The reason I can’t go home?”

Niarith nodded, “Around a year ago, I was going through some old PTED records and found some vague indications that Mirideth Asazlaiyn might be in this system. My superiors didn’t believe me when I told them. They claimed I was reading too much into it, seeing things that weren’t there. And that made a certain amount of sense, y’know? As far as we knew, Asazlaiyn died three centuries ago.”

Lucia finished another unfortunate bite before speaking, “You knew of her three centuries ago? That’s… That’s long before she arrived on Hearthea.”

“It is.” Niarith nodded, “According to historical records, Asazlaiyn would be well over six hundred years old if she were alive,” She added, with no small amount of frustration, “which she clearly is.”

Lucia’s eyes widened, “Heaven and Void… We knew she was undying, that she didn’t age, but six hundred…”

“Yeah. Mirideth Asazlaiyn is an immortal mass murderer, as well as thousands of other crimes. She was extremely notorious in her day. She’s even still infamous to this day, but she’s more of a myth than a reality. Which is why my superiors didn’t believe she could be here. And because they didn’t believe it, they didn’t want to send me out here.”

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The glasses are a device used by a villain to ensure a persona created within Niarith’s mind through brainwashing stays active.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#WIPSnips Got vibes today Lolanene notices something that feels off. Maria disagrees... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 1: Fly High, Sink Deeper)

She searched through box after box of various items, none of them fitting what she needed. Searching through one particular box, she found a black, oblong case about the length of her hand. She opened it and gasped. Inside were a pair of round, nearly opaque glasses. Red light flashed constantly on the inner side. These… these were the glasses Ninia put on Niarith. Why would she keep them? Before she had much time to think about this new development, she felt the ship landing. They had arrived. Lucia quickly closed the case and put it back where she’d found it. She grabbed her gravitic dagger and hooked it to her belt.
As she entered the hallway, Niarith stopped her, “Luci! They said to be unarmed!”
Lucia shrugged and said, “Do you seriously think I’m going to abide by that? I won’t. I can’t.”
Niarith sighed, “Do you want to spend weeks searching this system for Ghostinite that might not even be there?” She stepped closer, “And what if there isn’t any? Which is likely, I might add. Just.. I know you’re nervous, honey, but please. Do as they say.”
Something about the way she said those last few words made Lucia’s head feel funny. She felt dizzy and found it hard to remember why she was arguing. She went back into the equipment room and left her dagger there.
As she returned to the hallway, finding Niarith had already left, she noticed Lolanene leaning on the wall across from her, “What did I just see?”
Lucia was confused, “What do you mean?” She stepped across the hall and stood closer to Lolanene.
“I mean, Niarith told y’ t’ do somethin’, somethin’ y’ wouldn’t just do, ‘n’ ya did it. Just like that. She said, ‘Do as they say,’ ‘n’ y’ just kinda flinched a bit ‘n’ immediately gave up arguin’ ‘n’ did what she wanted.” She pushed off the wall and turned toward Lucia, “This ain’t th’ first time I’ve noticed this since we jumped. Somethin’ is up with 'er.”
Lucia stared down at the shorter girl as she crossed her arms, “Niarith is fine. You barely know us. Stay out of…

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Lolanene is bisexual! It wasn't my intention when I created her, but she evolved that way and it fits really well.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#WIPSnips Maria experiences both traumatic memories and very current fear as Ryani prepares to perform a maneuver only attempted once before... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 5: Burn Bright, Stand Together)

Niarith turned her head, “Ry, head’s up!”

His expression changed as he examined one of the myriad readouts on his console, “Oh shit, thirty seconds! Thirty seconds to drop-out!”

<Attention crew, twenty-eight seconds to drop-out. It will be rather intense. Do strap in so no one needs to hose you off the walls. Thank you.> Mirideth said over the PA.

Maria felt a surge of sickening anxiety as she strapped herself into her seat. It was entirely possible she was about to die in an instant, almost before she even knew it was happening. If she was lucky. If she wasn’t, she might experience falling to her death, either within or without the ship. She might burn alive in the tumbling wreckage, or be impaled upon it. All this and more entirely possible in the next few seconds. And yet, Maria was calm, at least outwardly. She had to be.

“Okay people, hold on.” Ryani said, his voice serious, “Here we go.”

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters FHSD is mostly in Maria's POV, but it switches if something is necessary to show but Maria isn't present. So far, other POV characters have been Niarith, Lolanene, Mirideth, Ryani, and Tantrii.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tomb Raider II. I inexplicably got it bundled with a pack of Energizer batteries when I was a kid. The sound was broken, the music and voices didn't work, but I didn't care. I adored it, and video games have been my main hobby ever since.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#WIPSnips Maria faces the IIF Command Council after the events of 5037... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 5: Burn bright, Stand Together)

She nodded, “Several times. The first, I was subdued before I could get anywhere. The others… I already had the collar on and I was stung. I did everything I possibly could to resist. But you have to understand, please… I had spent the past five years in a robotic body. I hadn’t felt pain, I hadn’t experienced it in years. To be thrown into that… It was too much. I was too weak. I failed you, all of you. I know I don’t deserve forgiveness. I know I can't be trusted. I know. I wish I’d been better. Stronger. But I wasn’t. And I failed you.” She sniffled, tears streaming down her cheeks. She didn’t bother to wipe at them.

“Do you still believe in anything the FIC ‘taught’ you?” Retild asked.

Maria shook her head, “No. I never truly did, not really. I believed it to keep myself safe, to hide from the pain, to protect myself. But underneath, I think I was always there, screaming to be let out. But it wasn’t until what happened to Hearthea that the walls broke down.”

“What exactly happened to Hearthea?” Olintorim asked, “We’ve all seen the images, but I don’t understand how it was done. That’s not glassing or a kinetic impact, it’s… I don’t know what to call it.”

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Hell-a Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ (alleged transsexual)(spooky) @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yes that's the point, it's not about fairness it's about making it so we can't exist publicly, we've been over this

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#WIPSnips The gals discuss communication with Vinilencia Merchanadan, Boss of the Biringar Syndicate... (Excerpt from FHSD Book 3: Rise Up, Strike Harder)

Vinilencia blinked, “This is probably the strangest conversation I’ve ever been part of. But fuck it, I’m here for it! Anyway, do you have a way to contact the rest of the IIF? It’d be good to let them in on developments, I feel.”

Niarith nodded, “We do. We’ve set up a system of signal obfuscators attached to the rail guns we deployed. That should allow for communication with the Echoes of Zoridian with low risk of interception.”

“I see, I see. How do you plan to get a hold of an interstellar comm unit?” Vinilencia leaned forward, lacing her fingers together on the desk.

“We’ve got a top ‘a’ the line FIC scout ship. It’s got one.”

Vinilencia’s expression slackened, “Oh.”

“You were excited to reveal you had one, weren’t you?” Maria smiled.

She sighed, “...yeah.”

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Phosyne, Witch Queen 🌺 @deadfae.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Mirideth’s would be during a pivotal turning point for her character, when she murdered her former lover in defense of Maria and Lolanene.

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Zii Nanre, Hypnotic Authoress @abdicatedblood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Lolanene... She's not someone who gets that way easily. I guess it'd be in either book 1 when her father figure died, or book 4 for the same reasons as Niarith.

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