“To arms! The main gates have been breached!” The messenger streaked through the halls calling its warning as the palace guards readied their weapons and assumed their posts. The distant clash of steel echoed along the walls, a frenzied din of fighting that was drawing slowly nearer. “Sounds like they’re…
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Traversing the Western Great Fields, just north of Kahm and Esnan where the path forks and crosses the Cobalt Run, I chanced upon a pair of wanderers soaking up the mid-day sun on the warm grass, curious sheep ambling lazily around them. I stopped a while to talk; they told…
Comments closedShe nocked an arrow and drew the bow up in a smooth motion. She exhaled slowly and her breath pooled in a misty cloud, swirling golden in a stream of light before dissipating. The forest was deathly silent; no birds dared sing with a qi’rel so near, its spindly limbs…
Leave a CommentI swiped my phone screen and checked the address. This was the place alright, a middle class apartment block shrouded in trees with a view of the river. What struck me more than the mundanity of it was that my sister would have anything to do with anyone from a…
Leave a CommentA gentle drizzle left a light dewy web on their hair and picked softly over their phone screen. They pulled the sleeve of their sweater down over their hand in an attempt to rub it dry, but that just made wet streaks across the screen. 23:05 – they’d missed the…
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