To Darkness Descended
**To Darkness Descended** - Chapter 16 of the Legends of the DragonRider It was colloquially known as 'the Tree of Punishment'. By all accounts, it was the result of one of the many attempts that had been made, over the years, to create a tree...
In Darkness Reborn
In Darkness Reborn - Chapter 17 of the Legends of the DragonRider Anitra shifted her weight uncomfortably from one foot to the other. She was standing close to Direza's shoulder, ready to protect her if need be, while Melora and Mel guarded the door...
Kirsten Does Commorragh
**Kirsten Does Commorragh** The life of a traveling merchant is not for everyone. It can be tremendously profitable, if you have the right combination of luck and business-sense, but you can also lose everything in a flash if you arrive at your...
Teaching a Young Cub new Tricks
**Teaching a Young Cub Old Tricks** Chandi grinned as she sunk her claws into the springy surface of the jungle-tree, scampering up its trunk like a stripey squirrel. The young Rakshasi would probably have pondered the primal joy that tree-climbing...
Realm of the Dead God
Realm of the Dead God - Chapter 18 of the Legends of the DragonRider The Master-Merchant sighed and stretched, working the kinks in his neck. The road had been long, rough and hazardous, but now that they had safely arrived, the _real_work could...
Good Deeds
**Good Deeds** - Chapter 2 of the Legends of the DragonRider Direza was in hell - of that she felt certain. Only the demons who lurked in the world beyond could have concocted such sadistic torment as she was experiencing. Of course, such tortures...
Changing Your Mind
**Changing your Mind** "Attach them to your piercings." The voice was firm, commanding, as always. Smiling, she looked down at the little table. Three small, heavy-looking metallic objects, with thick, three-inch wires connecting them to U-shaped...
Edythe and the Centaur
**Edythe and the Centaur** Edythe sighed as she trundled through the forest, picking a mushroom here and there, just so she'd have something to show for her labours when she returned home. After all, picking mushrooms was her excuse for being out...
Luck Be a Lady
**Luck Be a Lady** - Chapter 20 of the Legends of the DragonRider It was with a deep breath that Anitra once again stepped into the altar-room which had, literally overnight, become one of the most tightly-secured areas in the entire Citadel - which...
Thus Spake The Oracle
– A Legends of the DragonRider Epilogue Once upon a time, thousands and thousands of years ago, Iam had been the mightiest of all the Gods – counting within his purview the very concepts of power, ambition and conquest. He had crafted humanity...
Of Gods and Mortals
– Chapter 25 of the Legends of the DragonRider Directly south of the grand crater that is the site of the Utopian Citadel, there rises a great, jungle-choked plateau. It extends far to the east of it, bordered on the north and south by steep...
Fire from the Gods
– Chapter 24 of the Legends of the DragonRider Anitra couldn't help but feel a sense of disquiet as she watched the Utopia ready itself for battle. It had always seemed to her like a place of peace and safety, free of crime and entirely...