The Folks in the Woods, Part 6: Best-laid Plans
All the man was promising was some byzantine, bureaucratic nonsense that was somehow supposed to save her when there wasn't a single law with enough reach to change her situation.
Geography part 1
(dm note; thran is based on byzantine and jerusalem) cities and towns there is only one city (whiteport) and a few surrounding villages who feed the city.
Mitch and the Fox Witch
The painting-mansion stretched into a byzantine maze of endless parlors and halls and drawing rooms, but hecate trusted her instincts—and followed where the light and color seemed to be strongest, shying away from the rooms that were fading or starting to
Nova Wars 1: The Usual Plan
Trusting sollon to keep the guards off their back, he led the way through the byzantine maze of wide corridors and empty spaces. it was the biggest trap of the great palaces of the hierarchy.
Experiment: Donna Markson, Wrecker Driver
Not her problem; the rules of truck assignment were byzantine at best; her duty was only to drive the truck assigned. a few personal materials cluttered the cab and she gathered them up.
Ragnarok - X
They bore few yellow leaves, but multitude of scarlet berries, crowned by golden sepal, like the halos set behind the faces of byzantine saints. amid the scene the lady moved, her hands and voice busied with comfort and with help.
Doll Couples
[/i] “i think i know just what we need to do…” the result was a byzantine maze of wires, but it meant that he was hooked up to her and she was hooked up to him.
The Burden of Royalty
Each side saw the other as improper conduct for dragons; many city-dwellers reveled in their machiavellian power struggles and byzantine schemes, while the countryside generally preferred cooperating, both sides claiming that theirs was the inherent mindset
Part XI - That You and He Might Touch Each Other
." \*\*\* "i'd like to experiment with some ideas like," cliff explained excitedly, "byzantine hagiographic iconography but filtered through the kind of surrealism that gave us progressive rock album covers and vintage speculative fiction paperbacks
Corporate Engagements 3
He didn't want to go through that byzantine process of untangling monies and children owed if they didn't do this right.
A Colorful Month 3
He vaguely recalled that as being the title of a woman that had ruled the old byzantine empire, but that was all that he knew. she must have held considerable power among the criminals for a title like that.
Ursa Minor
Taylor was swallowed into the darkness of the hills, one with these places that are pristine because they are jagged and wooded and unruly, where the gorgeous february sunsets yield to a sky much darker, where the glorious byzantine-purple light of downtown