Search for the Kindred Chapter 3
Chapter 3 Aquamarine No one knew about my secret. Only Eva was smart enough to but two and two together. I hated to lie to the others about my past, but I had to because they won't believe me. I used to a human, living in the Limerian palace in...
Search for the Kindred Chapter 2
Chapter 2 Obsidian I always knew when Eva left for The Sanctuary. Every time she left, she would leave trace amounts of her Elementia that I was only able to sense of her earth magic. The others seem they wouldn't have known she had left if Eva...
Life of a Mortal
All I wish in this world is to have a friend who will truly accept me for who I am. Two lives I live, one on the surface and shallow waters. The second, in deeper waters where no one understands my life, even when I allow someone to take a step in the...
Thank the Gods
Thank the Gods "Thank the gods!" the red-faced midwife exclaimed as Raissa's son began to emerge. The baby fought Raissa savagely as she pushed. He bucked with his tiny hooves, and the nubs of his new horns dug into her tender insides. Selfish!...
The Hero of Iroas
The Hero of Iroas In fairness, the giant had just been awakened. Still, not everyone would be able to bring down a brute twice the size of a city temple, even if it was in a stupor, so I guess I am a hero. That's not to say I'm the greatest hero...
Seasons in Setessa Part 1
Seasons in Setessa Part 1 "Better to kiss a snake than fight a Setessan." --Akroan saying A Summer Throughout the forest, the children came. Some came in large clumps--raucous groups that shrieked and ran, ignoring their adult...
Ajani's Vengeance
Ajani's Vengeance Ajani awoke, his whole body a dull ache of pain. His blurred vision resolved into lantern-lit shadows flickering on an angled white ceiling. He was in a tent, at night, and its canvas flapped slightly against the breeze. He...
The Walls of Akros
The Walls of Akros Beneath the two stone monoliths known as the Horns, ten soldiers stood, sweat glistening on their skin. Heliod's light beat down on them, the shadows of the Horns falling ahead of and behind the line where they stood at...
Seasons in Setessa Part 2
Seasons in Setessa Part 2 A Winter A light white dust coated the bare branches and hard ground as Cilissa and Thora made their way on patrol through the southern edge of the forest. It had snowed no more than five times in all the years...
Drop for Drop
Drop for Drop Kiora's heart pounded as the prow of the Monsoon came to rest at the edge of a vast and ruined city. The surface did a fine impression of land, if you didn't look too hard, but it was too dark, too rubbery. She frowned at the ornate...
Desperate Stand
Desperate Stand When I was caught stealing from the magister's study, I was given two choices. I could join the noble Akroan soldiers, or I could be executed. The magister must have been a wicked man, I thought, for he was sentencing me to...
Kiora's Followers
Kiora's Followers Every sea is different, but all of them are connected. Oh, there were the usual variations. Temperature. Salinity. Pressure. She knew them, as any merfolk did, by instinct. A landbound oceanographer might spend a lifetime...