The Distant Year - CHAPTER 7
The mood changed almost instantly after the standoffish presentation at the bridge, the entryway to the fortification was of course at first a dank, oppressive little gatehouse lined with murderholes and arrowslits, but beyond into the building proper...
The Distant Year - CHAPTER 13
The silence of the cave was lost to the pounding of blood in her ears, a dead sprint up the darkness of the caves towards the twin points of light all she could think of: Gram's lantern, and the starlight creeping in the opening. The darkness mired her...
The Distant Year - CHAPTER 9
CHAPTER 9 “The Concourse is lost, even now with the pathways into the keep secure they harry our defenses. They pile atop each other like beasts, more animal then men." The dimly lit cabinet chamber was silent a moment, all of the faces were...
The Distant Year - CHAPTER 8
CHAPTER 8 She awoke alone, though she remembered through a sleepy haze a moment soft lips on hers and the blankets being snugged up around her neck, and she found the chamber tidied and a comfortable breakfast of overnight oats and more...
The Distant Year - CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 10 Baron Richart was found in his personal study, the same place they'd sat before — a morose pall over the room, Steward Khanenko in attendance to his master, the tall, sharp-eyed man sitting opposite the Baron at the small table they'd...
The Distant Year - CHAPTER 11
CHAPTER 11 Father Denis and Alphonse went immediately to work, both well-known for late nights in the chapel scriptorium, they set about disseminating their early plans, as the rest of the party found themselves tired, even as the night was...
The Distant Year - CHAPTER 6
The journey was peaceful, a genuine sort of peace as well. The couple spent much of the time in a soft sort of silence, fingers often linked between their mounts. The bustle and press of Fort Ivory did not seem all that much compared to the...
The Distant Year - CHAPTER 12
“Would that you woke me sooner," Gram said in a level tone as they assembled, Lidia checking the last of his straps. The pair had set about their plan in a hurry, the little changeling once again proving invaluable to her martial allies in the girding...
The Distant Year - CHAPTER 14
With the initial tensions quite soundly shattered, the engagement rapidly turned into a retelling of tales yet again, the story of their meeting, their fight against the Empty Queen… and eventually, the circumstances of their journey to the Black...
Chasing the Unicorn - PART 4: HELL ABOVE, HELL BENEATH
The storm tunnels wended and wound for a while, the entire time Bart found himself feeling more and more concerned about the space. They were mostly dry, with but a few puddles here and there in the middle of the channels - Lidia assured him that the...
Chasing the Unicorn - PART 8: ANOTHER PLACE
The air was still. Too still. No wind or birds carried sound across the empty spaces, no chatter of voices or milling of hooves. It was too still. This was Bart's first inkling that something was amiss. Bart, now a newly-minted Paladin and Queen's...
The Distant Year - CHAPTER 5
"_NO, NO YE PROMISED... YE PROMISED YE RAT FOOKIN' BASTARD YE PROMISED ME!"_ The girl's screams rang out from a throat so hoarse blood flecked her lips, screaming herself nearly mute with rage, loss, agony as she watched Bart's form crumple beneath...