Emberhare

B2 Chapter 33: Lady Velra

Vale’s mind swam with questions after the Highlady’s explanation. She watched idly as Caledon left to find his sister, and Shiver, her family. She felt a hollow ache blossom within her at the s...

B2 Chapter 32: Sacrifice

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Shiver stood before Marta and Pov in the very same room she had abandoned them.

The decision she made on the day she had reunited with them in the Dreadwood. Leaving them in the ni...

B2 Chapter 31: Dreadwalkers of Flora

Dreadwalk: I strode in the shade of the twilight woods

The room around them was enveloped in darkness. Blaze, who was standing right beside her, disappeared. For a m...

B2 Chapter 30: Dreadwalker of Shadows

Shiver walked under the midday sun in the late afternoon, closing her eyes and relishing in the flavour of the shaved ice that still lingered on her tongue.

Shiver’s thoughts centred around...

B2 Chapter 29: Chef Spicefury

Shiver – after Flora’s revelations

There was a single question on Shiver’s mind.

Well… it was more accurate to say that there were two of them. Shiver had pushe...

B2 Chapter 28: Fearshaper of puppets

“You honour him. You always have, you know?”

Silas flinched in momentary surprise as Caledon Brimstone strode out of the shadows of the workshop. He had been so engrossed in his work that...

B2 Chapter 27: City of Viridian

Caledon strode through the Archcity of Life with Viveria in tow, in search of their butler.

More than that, his brother and friend, Silas.

The Dreadwood, in its entirety, was often refe...

B2 Chapter 26: Brimstones reunite

Highlady Solastra Flora, the Kindly Gardener, was one of the most powerful elves that walked Elucidor. The Dreadwood was the garden that she tended to, a vast and immutable beast.

For her to ...

B2 Chapter 25 - Revalations

“Shiver! Thank Avalkin you’re safe!”

Vale rushed forward, wrapping Shiver in a tight hug as she stepped through the tear in reality directly into Solastra’s court.

Caledon app...

B2 Chapter 24: Fearshaper of Stars

The fox hesitated. 

Many creatures of frost had deigned to challenge it. All had failed, ever since it had partaken in the succour of the forest. In the very moment it had, its horizons ...

B2 Chapter 23: [Legendary]

“To see a Fearshaper of Trepidation in such dire straights… what have you done to yourself? Where is your guide?”

‘I’m perfectly fine! Haven’t the clue what you mean.’<...

B2 Chapter 22: Iltheria

The night Shvier left Viridian – after speaking with Solastra 

Shiver strode forwards, into a field of flowers. 

Each and every one of them, the same as what she had glimpse...

B2 Chapter 21: Tears of the Phoenix

Caledon sat on the outskirts of the Emberwood, his head in his hands. His Phobia was planted in the ground before him, offering him a degree of warmth and light as night fell. He held his head in h...

B2 Chapter 20: Authority of the Wyvern

Caledon couldn’t help but admit, that even with Zel’s prickly personality on display, his guide come through for him at every critical moment.

When he had first been absorbed into the spr...

B2 Chapter 19: Emberwoods

The day after their entry into the Dreadwood – when Caledon abandons Vale

Caledon Brimstone stood in the midst of darkness and silence. With every ragged breath, he could f...

B2 Chapter 18: Insight of the Griefwalker

Vale rose groggily, groaning as she sat up, awakening from her nightmare. Her gaze, wandered perhaps instinctually, to Triol’s skeleton, who stood before her.

The sight of him confirmed the...

B2 Chapter 17: Screams of a Friend

A week ago – on the road to the Dreadwood

Caledon sat with the reigns in his hands. He stared out into the darkness of the evening, staring up at Idriel and Valafo...

B2 Chapter 16: Hamlet of Death

Vale’s eyes shone as she walked beneath the lanterntrees. Quietus had instructed her to use her [soulsight of the witness] to seek out creatures that she could hunt.

They had stumbled acros...

B2 Chapter 15: Soulsight

Vale had awoken to find that Caledon had left her. She was all alone in the Dreadwood, abandoned.

For a moment, she had been stunned to silence. Casting stray glances in her periphery.

...

B2 Chapter 14: Shiver's choice

Shiver stared up towards the roof of her room. Marta’s snoring punctuated the silence, at regular intervals, and she was reminded of the life that she had been on the brink of living, be...

B2 Chapter 13: Flirting with danger

Caledon shuddered awake, realising that he had fallen asleep on his watch. He had intended to establish a rotating watch, to ensure that they wouldn’t be caught off-guard for monstrosities which ...

B2 Chapter 12: Nightmares of Soulhaven

Vale Revenant stared out into the darkness of the Dreadwoods, her limbs burning with fatigue.

They had combed over the woods, and hadn’t found any sign of Shiver or their guide, Virgil.

B2 Chapter 11: Deep and Meaningful

“You’re a Fearshaper… I can hardly believe it.”

Pov’s eyes were wide. They widened even further when Shiver drew her Phobia into reality. Blaze was entranced by the blade, her hands...

B2 Chapter 10: Knights of the Dreadwood

For all of her talk of getting strangled by an errant vine…

Shiver hadn’t anticipated that it would actually happen.

Which was why she had barely been able to ready her Phobia as vi...

B2 Chapter 9: Entering the Dreadwood

Shiver sat in the midst of a nightmare of ice.

She listened to the wind around her, straining her hearing over the roar of the blizzard. She stared out into the frozen darkness, searching for...

B2 Chapter 8: Realm of Trepidation

“Father, aren’t you curious about what lies in the skies above?”

Berevan laughed, his booming laughter filling the courtyard.

“Cal, what have I got to be c...