MechMage
The Order of Plasma has been dismantled. King Alder of Unova and his council have passed judgement on it's members. Ghetsis' alchemist, Magister Colress - now just Colress - has narrowly escaped execution, and is bound instead, indentured to serve for the next decade in Castelia Keep.
This excerpt takes place early on, Colress, still fragile from his punishment, is being sent to work here and there in the court, wherever someone with a mind for numbers or a good writing hand is needed. Shauntal, up in the archive tower was pleasant enough. General Marshall, well, that was a day to forget. Lord Grimsley, the treasurer, is... quite a character to work for.
[this is not the actual start of the story, there's a lot more scenes already written, I'm loading this to see if people find it interesting enough to make the effort to turn the whole thing into a coherent story.
This is co-written with ChatGPT- what I do is write the complete scene in indirect prose and let GPT turn it into direct prose, adding the fiddly details like descriptions and incidental dialogue, stitching and rewriting aftwerards where needed.
I've tried writing alone, but I end up taking a week to write a paragraph, at least with LLMs I don't spend 20 minutes trying to remember the word "gable".]