“Nice job, Ripp!” Alex shouted. “Now, let’s get the hells away from here!”
“Way ahead of you, bosses!” The swiftling cried, racing from the hill and leaping into the air then so...
2022-11-17 23:47:05 +0000 UTC View PostAlex was more nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs as Theresa, Claygon, Brutus and Ripp swooped toward the snow-covered hill.
The huntress’ hands were already blu...
2022-11-17 00:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe fae roads weren’t what Alex had imagined, not what he’d imagined at all.
On Baelin’s map of Thameland, they’d appeared as golden glowing lines, shedding sparkling light like sunbe...
2022-11-16 01:38:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey, Khalik, I need your help,” Alex said suddenly, dragging his nose out of the immense tome of demonology lying before him.
The prince held up a finger as he jotted down a note, frowni...
2022-11-13 00:30:19 +0000 UTC View PostIt was perfect.
Power bled from it in waves touched by a hint of the aeld’s natural warmth. A mound of snow nestled beneath the branch melted away from its touch, and its golden-green light...
2022-11-11 20:41:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a beautiful day in Greymoor; a lovely winter’s morning where it felt like all the world was at peace, almost as if the rivers of blood spilled on the Research Castle grounds in recent days...
2022-11-10 23:15:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Sixty-five thousand would be a very fair price, I would say.” Govert’s eyes narrowed as Troy tottered back into the room, bearing two hot cups of cider.
He carefully placed them on the...
2022-11-09 23:26:01 +0000 UTC View PostTo say that the living quarters were in an even worse state than Alex had feared would be an understatement…Troy hadn’t been exaggerating. Dust clouds rose in mounds, provoking fits of coughing...
2022-11-08 23:31:15 +0000 UTC View Post“My name’s Troy,” the baker sighed, wiping his brow with a handkerchief. He was bent so low over a table, that he looked about ready to collapse. “Troy of Tauberurg, from the Rhinean Empire...
2022-11-05 19:56:48 +0000 UTC View PostAlex Roth, the very first Junior Crafter ever hired by Toraka Shale, emerged from the workshop with a smile on his face and a spring in his step. Tucked away in his satchel, he carried a writ of em...
2022-11-04 22:49:04 +0000 UTC View PostI am…coming…are you safe, father?
“I am safe,” Alex said out loud.
“Hm?” Shale frowned.
“Oh, sorry, I do that sometimes,” he chuckled. “I was talking to...
2022-11-03 23:50:29 +0000 UTC View Post“Before you say anything, I want to dispel all notions that this is a ‘hollow tower’.” Toraka Shale leaned forward on her desk, tenting her fingers. “I don’t tolerate such trash practic...
2022-11-02 23:26:24 +0000 UTC View Post“Agh, you couldn’t have brought him a little later?” Lagor complained, glaring at the crowd as they slowly closed in on Claygon. Little by little the ring of curious onlookers surrounding the...
2022-11-01 23:31:05 +0000 UTC View Post“So, I’ve been doing some thinking in the last day or two.” Alex leaned forward, elbows pressed to the table, glancing over his shoulder at the room his sister and his girlfriend shared. “Y...
2022-10-29 22:07:07 +0000 UTC View PostSelina looked at Alex solemnly, earlier warm feelings draining away as she thought about the story her brother had told. What he’d said was horrifying, a tale of monsters she could barely i...
2022-10-29 00:09:19 +0000 UTC View PostSelina was tingling with excitement as she took the stairs two at a time. From somewhere behind and above her, she vaguely heard Shiani calling her name.
“Selina, be careful you don’t fal...
2022-10-27 23:27:35 +0000 UTC View Post“—and so heat rises, travelling as high as it can go,” Shiani was saying, pointing to the flame. It was a tiny, controlled flicker caged within an oil lamp in the table’s centre. Glass wall...
2022-10-26 23:36:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Professor Jules is not going to like this,” Alex murmured. “I’m not sure I like it.”
Baelin, his eyes sparkling while he remained floating in mid-air as he scheme...
2022-10-25 21:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Ah, Alex, Claygon, welcome.” Baelin looked up as the young wizard and his golem stepped into his office.
The ancient wizard was bent so low over a map table, that his beard-braids threat...
2022-10-22 19:57:20 +0000 UTC View Post“Ooooh I like the sound of that.” Hart snarled, his large eyes twinkling in anticipation. “You said you went from being a skinny baker’s boy a year ago to turning into…well, you?...
2022-10-21 21:26:47 +0000 UTC View PostAnd so the Fool, Chosen, Champion and Sage planned their future.
It wasn’t the first time they’d talked like this, but this time—at last—they spoke with all their secrets out...
2022-10-20 17:58:08 +0000 UTC View Post“—and then I came here, and you punched me in the face,” the Fool finished his tale. “And that’s it. That’s the whole story, and I swear I’d rather box a behemoth than tell it again....
2022-10-19 18:27:18 +0000 UTC View PostAlex had met Cedric in Coille Forest a long time ago.
The Chosen was as boisterous as he was friendly; the type of fellow who made even Alex—who’d desperately wanted to avoid all...
2022-10-18 17:23:56 +0000 UTC View PostAs days went in Alex Roth’s life, there were few as important as the day he received the Mark of the Fool. That day had altered his lifepath forever, and the only other that could compete was the...
2022-10-15 23:29:38 +0000 UTC View PostIt took him longer to tell Drestra than it had to tell Baelin.
Though, he supposed the tale had grown longer since that day in the chancellor’s office. Perhaps he’d be well served to writ...
2022-10-15 00:42:23 +0000 UTC View PostAlex Roth exploded.
Or at least, his mind did.
Thoughts and emotions clashed within, leaving him paralysed, yet filled with an overwhelming desire to burrow into the earth and disappear...
2022-10-13 22:50:55 +0000 UTC View Post“Hello to you too.” Alex gave Drestra a surprised smile. “Can this wait for a while? We’re kinda in the middle of something.”
“I’d really rather it didn’t,” she said, her vo...
2022-10-12 23:35:55 +0000 UTC View PostAlex burst into the entryway with a smile so wide that his jaws should have been aching, but even if they were, he wouldn't have noticed anyway. As the doors burst open and the cold night win...
2022-10-11 20:19:41 +0000 UTC View Post