Wind and Mountains: Chapter Three
Chapter Three: Learning For the next few days I stayed in the nursery. I had nowhere else to be after all. Food and water would be brought in regularly by others from the village. Almost always fish of some sort. I didn't complain. After a few...
Wind and Mountains: Chapter Two
Chapter Two: Growth Being bedridden was insufferable. It was tormenting , unyielding and merciless. The incessant itching of my injuries was driving me mad. The medicinal balms used to treat them did not help. If anything they only served to...
A Life In Chains: Chapter one.
Chapter One: Broken but hopeful **M** y ears rang with the noises of the dusty clay streets as the cart my cage lay within creaked and groaned as it was pulled along said streets; claustrophobic plate iron bars formed the prison I knew so well,...
A Life In Chains: Chapter Ten
_A Life In Chains_ Chapter Ten: The Sanguine Circle The flames, the smoke, the smell of charred flesh, burnt hair and fur- none of it seemed to affect the man; he simply sat there, still as a statue whilst I lay in the street, the stinging pain...
A Life In Chains: Chapter Nine
Chapter Nine: The Calm Our plans to stay in Caprii during the races had been put on hold due to the rain; it looked as though it would last for a while. I spent most of my time with Seht; the mundane everyday life was surprisingly comforting to me,...
Of Valor in Men: Chapter Two
Of Valor in Men Chapter two: A Winding Road The morning brought with it the familiar wardrum-esque headache typical to a hangover, enhanced by the commotion of some nearby crowd. I'd been carried up to my room from the bar, it was plain, bare with...
A Life in Chains: Chapter Eleven
A Life in Chains Chapter Eleven: Snake Eyes The sound of muffled voices was all I could hear, my mind consumed with boredom and irritation; here I was confined to my room like some grounded child. An analogy that was rather apt as I was...
A Life in Chains: Chapter Twelve
A Life in Chains Chapter twelve: The Breath Before the War I was stuck in that moment, the water all around, cool and comforting. The lights high above me twinkling and dancing blurrily across the surface. Lungs heavy, empty of air but no...
A Life In Chains: Chapter Eight
_A Life in Chains_ Chapter Eight: Rainy Days For the second time that week I awoke in unfamiliar surroundings, although this time the pain afflicting me was that of a hangover. I was in a bed of some sort, sheets tossed and turned thoroughly...
A Life In Chains: Chapter Seven
_A Life in Chains_ Chapter Seven: Brewing storms I awoke with a dull ache all throughout, my ears rang and my head was bandaged along with my arm. Wherever I was however was safe, I wasn't outside lying limply in the amphitheatre. I could...
Curtains
Curtains Chapter one: Eyes The woods beside town were a place that no one ever went near, everyone always said it was haunted, or cursed or full of monsters or some such. Sure it was a creepy forest, the sort that just abruptly began, nothing...
The Broken Place
The Broken Place Here they lie, in this broken place, the people, the places, the objects and dreams, their numbers uncountable, the rooms and spaces they occupy, unending, a place where nothing is whole or pristine, the place that awaits the things...