From the Desk of Paladin December 26, 2025

 From the Desk of Paladin

I hope that everyone had a safe and Merry Christmas.

Updates:

Ragenta: I hope that everyone has enjoyed the final Act of No Good Deed. On reflection, this will be the last story with her as Lady Ragenta, Slaver of Victoria. I have taken her back to fill in as much of what led up to her Move to Ar as I feel is possible. The next adventure with feature the slave girl Genta{Atilas} an the events with her and her Master in his new Slave house in Ar.

All that I will say at the moment is that as we saw at the end of Moves to Ar, Atilas was true to his word that if he found Ragenta playing slave girl again, she would be branded and remain a slave. Now Genta is personally owned slave assigned with the training of the slaves of her master's house. she may remain behind when he travels as his eyes and ears in the house, or she may travel with him opening up all sorts of new windows. Who knows Atilas may have dealings at some point with the Slaver Scipio Metellus. 

And I will confirm that we have not seen the last of Leta and Sena/Invidia.

Darterra: I am still fishing out plans and ideas for Book IV in this series. It is taking longer because the story will be splitting up some with different characters following different path as well as new characters joining the parties. It is safe to say that Rafe and his people are working to start a resistance to the Cristo Corporation and be a major thorn in their side.

I like to play things out in my mind before writing them out so they flow better. But trust me you will love it.

Barataria is in much the same boat as Darterra, no pun intended. The basic story line is there, just a matter of sitting down and ironing out the characters 

Curiosity Caught the Bat

With all the time that I have been putting into my artwork on DA, I have been doing a lot with Batgirl. And anyone that follows me there knows that Batgirl and Harley are two of my favorites. Sorry no, Harley will not be going on this trip.

Years ago I used to follow a writer when Yahoo had their groups you could follow and join, who had a character called Kate Starbuck. Kate was a barbie doll daredevil that was an investigator for a large insurance company if I remember correctly. Kate had a talent for finding herself in one or more Perils of Pauline type dangers once per investigation. Lots of tied to a log in a sawmill and things like that. One that stuck out was when another writer barrowed her for something different. This was a series of stories about a wealthy Don who lived on his private island in the Med. Where he had many lovely slaves that he purchased off the black market. Curious Kate was caught checking up on thefts on the docks and found herself not in a sawmill, but a slave of the Don's.

I saw one of the old saved files and it hit me! Why not have Batgirl thinking she is just taking down black market smugglers find that they are actually Kurii slavers and she just walked into the middle of a shipment with no back up. 

I think it has a lot of potential and hope that you all enjoy it