Gilded Cage: Chapters 4+5
Chapter 4 It was dark by the time Leon arrived with Olas’ realm. He’d long since known the way from Featherton, could find his way blind if he truly needed to. He wasn’t sure if that was something to be proud about or ashamed. The estate was nestled...
Embers of Dawn: Chapter 4: Aftermath
**Chapter 4** Axton had always been good at ignoring things he couldn’t deal with. Until now. The sting of failure clung to him like a parasite, burrowed deep, gnawing away at his resolve. He lost himself in mindless tasks, scrubbing cauldrons,...
Emerald Secrets: Chapter 12: One Curtain Revealed
Scales and Honor: Emerald Secrets Chapter 12: One Curtain Revealed The horse dragons brought the group across the fields at a brisk gallop. The rise and fall of Arcturus' shoulders a rather soothing pace as the red dragon practically snoozed in the...
Embers of Dawn: Chapter 9: Dancing Delights
Chapter 9: Dancing Delights The sound reached them before the light did. It came in waves, a deep, pulsing rhythm that wounds through the winding stone corridors of the Gilded Feather like the call of something ancient and untamed. It wasn't music in...
Bahamut's Light: Chapter 16
Chapter 16 He was hurled into another cell, the guardians that escorted him sneering and laughing as he crashed to the cold stone. Pain sparked through his bones, wrenching a groan as he tried to regain his footing, “Not the most careful of hands are...
Scales and Honor: The Shattered God: Chapter 32
Chapter 32: Athenais’ Story The ride back to the city was enveloped in the biting winds of despair, the sun might as well have been a ball of ice for all it’s good. Raven hair fluttering, her cheeks burning from the cold, Nivra kept telling herself it...
Scales and Honor: The Shattered God: Chapter 10
Chapter 10: Dinner Concerns that been just a faint whisper where now a nagging shout in his ear. Minute by minute he saw the aura of confidence about Lyndis fade and dull. Where once her movements carried purpose and determination, they instead were...
Scales and Honor: The Shattered God: Chapter 11
Chapter 11: Reach Mornings were dreadful things that dragons were better off without. Its why they generally missed them, hissed away the sun's uncivil arrival to strike at their eyes. The winter did little to sway this fact, chilly winds only...
Darkened Skies: Chapter 35:Gryphon's Reward
Scales and Honor: Darkened Skies Chapter 35: Gryphon's Reward The wind whipped bitterly through Athenais' feathers as the gryphon drifted over the many snow-covered rooftops of Struport's outer town in near silence. She was nothing more than a...
Scales and Honor: The Shattered God: Chapter 25
Chapter 25: The Cave The princess awoke upon course and damp sandy floor. Her mind was reeling from brief flashes of oppressive darkness, gasping for air, thrashing as her lungs filled with seawater. She held her chest as pain crackled at even...
Bahamut's Light: Chapter 24
Chapter 24 After a night of passionate reunion, Arcturus demanded to see the Lumarians. Once brought to Skywing and his Lumarian soldiers, the paladin could not contain his happiness. His arms wove themselves around Skywing’s neck tight enough that...
Gilded Cage: Chapter 14
Chapter 14 The journey through the squawking steeples was an arduous one. The gods themselves seemed to have cursed their journey. Winds howled through the rocky tops, buffeting feathers and beak, hampering their flight to the point of madness....