Nightlights: Guardians of the...

By ChrysoulaT

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Ajax Holdren didn't think his life could get much worse, until a pretty girl with a sword decided to fight a... More

Part 0: Disintegration
0.1: Jerk Bingo
0.2: Bridge of Last Chances
0.3: Girls With Swords
0.4: Suicide Boy
0.5: Home Is A Four Letter Word
0.6: Monsters
0.7: Unblinding
0.8: They Take
0.9: Intersection of Nightmares
0.10: Pushing
0.11: Break and Broken
0.12: I Hate Everything About You
1.1: Evaluation
1.2: New
1.3: Kindergarten
1.4: A Brief Interlude For Lunch And Gossip
1.5: Smash Up Against The Wall
1.6: The Journey of The Blade
1.7: In The Core
1.8: "Somehow I'll fix it."
1.9: Shadow Music
1.10: Dangerous
1.11: Unforged Weapons
1.12: A Lack of Studying
1.13: It's Always The Quiet Ones
Part 2: Enemies
2.1: Wolf In A Cage
2.2: Running Away Is A Good Idea
2.3: Do Your Best!
2.4: Special Skills
2.5: Make Me Real
2.6: Unexpectations
2.7: Surprise!
2.8: Tainter
2.9: Malachi
2.10: Lifesaving Techniques
2.11: A New Problem
2.12: Fight Music, and Flute
3.0: The Tower
3.1: Rising Storm
3.2: The Strange
3.3: Just Like Yesterday
3.4: That Which Lurks In Mist
3.5: Avoiding Idle Hands
3.6: Motes, Shivering Alone
3.7: Planning For The End Of The World
3.8: In the Dark. Not Alone.
3.9: Provocation
3.10: I Don't Like This Memory
3.11: Transition Is The Hardest Part
3.12: A Persistent Attitude of Irresponsibility
4.1: A New Very Old Tower
4.2: Games of Me and You
4.3: Listening To Lost Souls
4.4: Make-Up Time
4.5: A Simple Test
4.6: Misbehavior
4.7: Coffee Talk
4.8: You
4.9: Passive Voice
4.10: Baking
4.11: Sticks and Stones
4.12: Father-Son Talk
5.1: Persephone Squad
5.2: Being Useful
5.3: Shadow Sampling
5.4: The Quick
5.5: Willpower.Training. A Little Speed.
5.6: Jumble
5.7: Eavesdrops
5.8: Reunion
5.9: Priorities
5.10: Between Battle and Boom
5.11: Fighting To Win
5.12: The Terrible Yield
6.1: Loss
6.2: Knives Like Chains
6.3: The Only Reason
6.4: Keeping Up With Natalie
6.5: Procedural Questions
6.6: Tearing Up, Tearing Down
6.7: Dedication
6.8: Retraining Instincts
6.9: Did She Love You?
6.10: Epiphanies
6.11: Back In Session
6.12: Water and Darkness
7.1: Practice, Practice
7.2: "And one by one the stars go out."
7.3: Guest Starring
7.4: Round and Round
7.5: Sludge
7.6: Souls
7.7: Uncomfortable Truths
7.8: The Box
7.9: Flexibility
7.10: Zap
7.11: Scarecrow and Desperation
7.12: Truth
8.1: Going Forth
8.2: This Is Bad
8.3: The Red Chain
8.4: Every Breathless Moment
8.5: Considering The Stakes
8.6: The Castle of Thorns
8.7: Eye to Eye
8.8: Take Her
8.9: Pro Tip
8.10: Choose Your Fate
8.11: Essentials
9.1: Wishes
9.2: Sweet Blind Thing
9.3: Any Plan At All
9.4: Lightning --
9.5: Prayers To Broken Stone
9.6 --Thunder
9.7: Winding Threads
9.8: Monsters and Invisible Things
9.9: Jehane and the Void
10.1: Tracking Targets
10.2: The Kindness of Strangers
10.3: Unspoken
10.4: How We Win
10.5: Sleeping Beauty
10.6: Diet Despair
10.7: Seeds of Crystal
10.8: By The Light Of Dead Stars
10.9: Together Again
Author's Note
∞ (post-credits tease)
Author's Note #2

Part 1: Guardians

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By ChrysoulaT

So, Ajax. If we’d found him earlier, things might have been different. Instead, he’s so screwed up he’s facing front again, and convinced that all he had to worry about was the absolute wrong things. He’s dangerous all right, but the question is, is he more dangerous to us? Or himself?

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