Need Part V - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **NEED: PART FIVE** **47**** th ****Day of the Crimson Leaf, 24 AoE** Catherine's funeral had been a small affair. It had to be by design. Carisi funeral rites were not Ratholarin ones and, while there was no law to...
Need Part IV - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **NEED: PART FOUR** **40**** th ****Day of the Crimson Leaf, 24 AoE** The bells betrayed the truth before the words from Tobias lips were able to do the same. He had been deep in conversation with Soren when he had...
Need Part III - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **NEED: PART THREE** **40**** th ****Day of the Crimson Leaf, 24 AoE** William had been warned that Samael would be late, but that didn't make the hyena feel any better. He was also not happy to have been forced to...
Need Part II - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **NEED: PART TWO** **40**** th ****Day of the Crimson Leaf, 24 AoE** Ocher wouldn't meet his gaze. The panther, his fur once a vibrant black, had dulled somewhat in the last few years as the strains of his position...
Necessity Part IV - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **NECESSITY: PART FOUR** **81**** st ****Day of the Verdant Growths, 27 AoE** Sleep had been hard for William, but getting out of bed had been harder still. His blood no longer boiled with overwhelming emotions. The...
Necessity Part III - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **NECESSITY: PART THREE** **80**** th ****Day of the Verdant Growths, 27 AoE** The knock on Tobias door drew a sigh from the prince. So much for not being disturbed. Was it so much to ask for even a moment's peace in...
Necessity Part II - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **NECESSITY: PART TWO** **80**** th ****Day of the Verdant Growths, 27 AoE** The training yard was more of an arena than anywhere else in Sanwell, and that day it had done the job admirably. Cordoned off from the...
Necessity Part I - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **NECESSITY: PART ONE** **79**** th ****Day of the Verdant Growths, 27 AoE** That the first Tobias had heard of the new law was the sight of a guardian beating a helpless vixen in the streets was not nearly as...
Need Part XI - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **NEED: PART ELEVEN** **8**** th ****Day of the Pure Snow, 24 AoE** Hearing the criers lauding the guardians that had killed Yves was the second hardest thing that William had to face in the days that followed. It...
The Spoils Of Peace
This was a piece I submitted to Sofawolf for inclusion in Heat, but it failed to make the cut. To stall out the drought post-_Blood And Water_, here it is for your entertainment. Hopefully you find it to your liking, and please leave your thoughts as...
Need Part X - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **NEED: PART TEN** **89**** th ****Day of the Crimson Leaf, 24 AoE** Once, the king's small council chambers had been an ornate thing. Beautiful but infinitely vain, as Tobias had once described it to Juni....
Need Part IX - Interwoven
**Interwoven** **NEED: PART NINE** **53**** rd ****Day of the Crimson Leaf, 24 AoE** The letter had changed everything. It had been congratulatory; glowing even, when it was delivered the morning after their fight and...