With These Broken Wings: Chapter 19
heartwood was left in charge of the evacuation, despite his attempts to join amber and oake to alaine, but there was no one else that could keep the young bucks in line.
The Shadows Book Two: The Legacy of Man and Machine - Chapter Nine
The group had intercepted a pair of actavians that were escaping the dying heartwood by going south instead of west with the rest of the borians. the wagon moved on metal wheels, which prevented the rot on the ground from destroying the little vehicle.
Cheeks Like Fire
Her own claws bit into the wood, pushed caverns into the wood grain as though she could dig right to the heartwood with a hard enough grip. it didn’t help the heat in her ass, the lingering sting. not at all.
478 Cutting Your Losses
The axe of dagon, a trinket they picked up on their last adventure, stands to one side embedded in a section of heartwood, with triangular chips and divots shattered out along the cracked blade, and the damaged edges of the metal burred backward and out of
Heart of the Forest ~ Chapter 17
There in the center of this platform, shearing through the stones and jutting them aside, rose a thick section of root from some tree surely ancient by the size of the thing, fat and gnarled, smoothed to a tabletop surface with the bared heartwood stained
With These Broken Wings: Chapter 10
"find heartwood, he's oake's father, tell him... what happened, tell him to send out the call. talk to your kind and the humans... this cannot be left alone. they took our children.."
Birdsong ~ Part 5
Sections of trunk bulged oddly out around where the heartwood had grown in against chunks of concrete; twisted, rusted rebar stuck out like branches here and there; fragments of tarp and cloth and paint decorated sections where someone used to live.
Heart of the Forest ~ Chapter 11
It was a huge, dead oak, bark long since rotted away and heartwood dry and cracked, empty branches stretching out to the sky like so many hands seeking nourishment, that abundant life-water pouring right through their fingers._ _ _ _"i can wait.
Extracurricular Studies
No tree could survive having its heartwood destroyed like this, remain standing, and alive of all things, without magic. he was not disappointed to see a unicorn walk gracefully down the steps, absorbed in a book, face hidden behind it.
Ghost of a Rose ~ Chapter 9
Back to back, separated by about a foot of living heartwood, paper bark catching in the threads of his clothing… “her name is osa. she arrived from maldeth last year alongside another - ah, she’s a lioness… and _he_ is sorrel.
Bond of Brothers - Part 4
The stag ran his callused hands over the exposed heartwood, feeling the vitality that had surged through it until just a couple of weeks ago with an almost spiritual empathy.
Bond of Brothers - Part 4
The stag ran his callused hands over the exposed heartwood, feeling the vitality that had surged through it until just a couple of weeks ago with an almost spiritual empathy.