Lessons With Mara: Dangers of Magic
In my previous paper, I had written a few choice words with vague mentions to a particular mindset belonging to an instructor that I should not have riffed on. Though that paper scored highly, I now find myself needing to write yet another essay but on...
Lessons With Mara: Heart and Mind
Today, I write this paper on the basics of magic to serve as a springboard in the future for my own thesis on the arcane and mystic. Magic is a broad term for many forms of controlling and manipulating arcane forces. There are different branches...
Through the Stained Glass
Sunlight began to fade over Dewclaw as soft tones of orange gave way to the black and blues of dusk. A customer stepped out of a bookstore while waving back toward the owner with a big smile and a book tucked underneath one arm. The door creaked shut...
Cast and Broken
Mists gathered on the mountain, twisted and swirling before coming down and through the town at the base. The mists were heavy enough that it was difficult to see going up the mountain and more than that, the people took it as an omen that the spirits...
Seek and Sought
A long road skirted the side of a range of mountains that covered a valley. This road was mainly used by travelers and merchants who had business outside of the valley and so it was littered in various parts with carts drawn by various feral creatures...
Trade: Paint Under Light
Adjusting to city life had seemed like such an easy thing when said aloud. The words and phrases said together usually sung a message about adapting and simply needing to unpack and live in your home a week or so to feel a part of the world around you...
Venom Mask
A clocktower stood in the center of a city, hands frozen in moments that hadn't moved on for years. The sun above the tower was coming down just as a panel in the face of the clock opened to show the face of a tawny-furred painted bat. Bright violet...
Party Twisted
Three heroes made their way to a tall castle that rose through the center of a forest, piercing through the canopy of trees and reaching out to the heavens. The King had sent them here to deal with a growing problem that threatened the stability of his...
Deltaruined: Lost Buster Part 2
Kris and Ralsei and honestly, neither had expected to wake up at all. They were a bit suspicious of why Susie was nearly naked but then they looked down at their own clothes noting the damage and instead chose to congratulate her instead. With a grin,...
Deltaruined: Lost Buster Part 1
A world of darkness welcomed three destined heroes who were meant to close a corrupted fountain and return balance to the world. These three were a prince of a fallen world and two warriors of light but there was friction between one of the heroes and...
Uncertain Connections Part 2
It was difficult to believe that what happened had happened. Both siblings spent a long time in their rooms thinking over what had happened until they fell asleep dreaming of each other. Bianca drifted toward memories of her brother naked in various...
Uncertain Connections Part 1
Snow fell on a quiet city where the sidewalks were regularly dusted of the stuff and the streets were kept safe for vehicles. The buildings were packed tightly together except for the campus of a university. It was a city where students and staff made...