Comforting Reflections
Comforting Reflections "Excuse me," murmured the young woman to the old terrier across counter, speaking softly so that he nearly had to lean across the glass to hear her. "How much for that mirror over there?" It had caught her eye as she browsed...
Fast Food
A scurrying, the rustle of carapace against stone, a hand darting out in the darkness. Fingers closed upon nothing as that sound faded away in the distance, leaving that infernal silence again. Never quick enough, not as of late. A voice, cracked,...
Eyes like the Forest (9)
Fate had other plans as the morrow brought with it grave news from the east. Gray had stopped in town one last time before heading to the northern woods to purchase food. He didn't know how long he'd be out there, and wanted to make sure he was...
Eyes like the Forest (8)
There was much to know before action could be taken. The voices that commanded Galen were always so ambiguous in the task required of him, always a place, always a face, and some hint of what was to come, but that was all. The challenge of discovering...
Eyes like the Forest (7)
No-longer-gray had awoken some hours before dawn, having slept as much as he was allowed, and made a breakfast of wild berries and a crust of bread leftover from the previous day's meal, all while watching that fragile construction of wood and straw....
Eyes like the Forest (6)
Despite assurances otherwise, it was nearing midday when the ferry had finally docked in Tarrensford, a fact the traveler would have bemoaned, were he not simply grateful to be on solid land once again. No more wagons, no more ferries, no horses, or...
Eyes like the Forest (5)
Nausea fought its way into No-longer-gray gut as his stomach once again threatened to empty itself. The gentle rocking of the wagon's wheels turning over the dirt road, while once a comforting boon to the weary traveler, now tormented him in his...
Eyes like the Forest (4)
Blood and rainwater mixed with the earth to create a viscous muck in which the body of the ox had sank. The rain had broken an hour ago, but the wind still shrieked about them cart, carrying the distant lupine howls. The attack had been fast, not an...
Eyes like the Forest (3)
A sickly green light illuminated the wooden door, caused by a hanging lantern that burned an otherworldly hue, casting a deathly pallor onto the still dark, stone street and onto the sign of black wood, upon which jagged letters of alabaster dubbed...
Eyes like the Forest (2)
A mecca of industry, Halain was a city of dull, gray stone and black iron, where chimneys belched thick, black smoke into the sky, day and night. It was a dark, misshapen blotch upon the verdant land, tethered to the mountain range by numerous railways...
Eyes like the Forest (1)
The creak of the wagon, the gentle rocking as it rumbled down the road in its steady rhythm, the soft birdsong and warm sunlight seemed to pull him ever deeper into weariness as he reclined in the open back, among the cargo. Nestled between a box that...
Eyes like the Forest (Intro/Teaser)
"You must keep going." The voice from the darkness. No form, no shape, no color, merely an empty echo, void of emotion. "I'm trying! ... I'm trying..." I answer, my own voice strained and weak, weary from my seemingly endless work. "The balance must...