Need Part VIII - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **NEED: PART EIGHT** **52**** nd ****Day of the Crimson Leaf, 24 AoE** The castle was dead. Which was not to say that everyone within it was, of course. The servants and the guards and the kingsblades and the...
Flames Part VII - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **FLAMES: PART SEVEN** **30**** th ****Day of the Shining Light, 30 AoE** The bed was not Tobias', but it had been comfortable enough. Paranoia had been less comforting by far however, and it had kept him awake all...
Flames Part VI - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **FLAMES: PART SIX** **29**** th ****Day of the Shining Light, 30 AoE** It had been entirely tempting to reveal the existence of the rebels to Tobias, but William knew that that would have been too dangerous a thing....
Flames Part V - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **FLAMES: PART FIVE** **29**** th ****Day of the Shining Light, 30 AoE** Tobias couldn't stop pacing. He wanted to, of course, but his feet just wouldn't settle. Nor would his paws, as the tiger wrang them...
Flames Part IV - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **FLAMES: PART FOUR** **27**** th ****Day of the Shining Light, 30 AoE** "I'm very sorry, sir, but the mistress isn't available right now." The slinky ferret girl who sat behind the greeting desk at the Crimson...
Flames Part III - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **FLAMES: PART THREE** **26**** th ****Day of the Shining Light, 30 AoE** William looked exhausted. The hyena had told Tobias many times that he hated his adjusted sleep schedule. That it was irritating at the very...
Flames Part II - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **FLAMES: PART TWO** **24**** th ****Day of the Shining Light, 30 AoE** William longed for the days when he carried a sword. The battleaxe of the kingsblades was a tradition dating back to the first of them under...
Flames Part I - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **FLAMES: PART ONE** **16**** th ****Day of the Shining Light, 30 AoE** The beating on Tobias' door roused him from sleep. Insistent and overpowering, he might have been surprised if not for the familiarity of it all....
Necessity Part VI - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **NECESSITY: PART SIX** **82**** nd ****Day of the Verdant Growths, 27 AoE** It felt for all the world like William was being escorted to his execution. He wasn't, at least so far as he knew, but it would have been...
Necessity Part V - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **NECESSITY: PART FIVE** **81**** st ****Day of the Verdant Growths, 27 AoE** The hardest part of the scheme had been that Tobias himself was ignorant of the outcome. He had confidence in William, of course; the tiger...
Epilogue - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **EPILOGUE** **57**** th ****Day of the Shining Light, 30 AoE** Sanwell, Tobias realised, was beautiful. Not in its entirety, of course. It had its uglier sides, as did any city. It had the dingey alleyways and the...
Flames Part XII - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **FLAMES: PART TWELVE** **30**** th ****Day of the Shining Light, 30 AoE** "My name is William, blood of Vothos, and I am afraid that I am here to kill you." It took almost all that William had left to force himself...