The Dragon's Conquest

"May the breeze bless you, Sir!" It was the third day of the Harvest Moon that Nordis decided to leave Skäll. The King Conqueror stood on the dais, overlooking the whole city. His servants, the most esteemed one, had been crowding him with requests,...

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Dungeons and pent-up Dragons

Steam filled the air from the underground pond, stirred by the cascade in such an amount it clouded the sight and granted the cavern an eerie appearance befitting of mythical beasts' lairs. And yet, amidst the fronds and the plants growing thick in...

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The Dragon's Defeat

Azudris looked down at the book he held, the rising daylight illuminating each page he read. The Royal Archive, the repository of his King's thoughts, desires, and dreams, etched day by day through a magic link. It had been months since he religiously...

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Absolution

The breeze swept over the land, bending grass and plants in green waves stretching over kilometers, carrying the scent of the impending solstice, of sweet nectars. And corruption. One anyone could smell by approaching one had been a great abbey...

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Dragon Bending

"Fucking hell, why do they always hide on those mountains?" growled a distant voice in the snow and tempest, the wind howling above. "Yes, Dragonborn, we have a Dragon problem near our village! Yes, Dragonborn, he's far up the mountain! Yes, we don't...

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Criminal nights - 1

Lamplight reflected on the tepid pools forming from the natural condensation of water. Above and below hung stalactites and stalagmites in the small tunnel, like ramparts. The rock, dark as charcoal and marred with pickaxes' dents, pressed from all...

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Milk Bar

A hand on the left pocket of his coat, checking for the changes he always kept in it, the coins rolled and tumbled between the gloved knuckles as his gait lad him forward. Martin exhaled softly and admired the breath condensate before it was carried...

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Good Doggy

Rain dropped onto the hinterlands, hitting the coniferous and fauna alike. Its presence dimmed the sunlight, abated the scents track, turned trodden paths into muddy pits. Even flowers seemed to have closed themselves, hiding and kneeling beneath the...

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The Ride of a Lifetime

"Hmmm... Perhaps Horsing around? What do you-" _SMACK!_ "No Horsing around... Soo... We got that out of the way. The Devil and the Centaur? A ride through hell? The Lustful Cavalier!" "You're still stuck with the title?" "I'm lacking...

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Onyx

"Thump! Thump! Thump!" Someone clobbered through the Royal Library, and this augured another terrible day for the servants organizing the library's aisles or copying the old documents. Many idle hands, there to fill the place and ensure tranquility,...

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