The Distant Year - CHAPTER 5
"_NO, NO YE PROMISED... YE PROMISED YE RAT FOOKIN' BASTARD YE PROMISED ME!"_ The girl's screams rang out from a throat so hoarse blood flecked her lips, screaming herself nearly mute with rage, loss, agony as she watched Bart's form crumple beneath...
The Distant Year - CHAPTER 3
They found her some hours later, still sobbing, hidden deep in the corners of the rookery. Something in her flight had driven her to the only thing more alien than herself in this place -- White Glint, in her infinite grace, had deigned to allow this....
The Distant Year - CHAPTER 2
The Rookery was the highest part of the Western Citadel, Fort Ivory's lifeline to the outside world. Emblematic of the western complex's administrative role, it was not far down the steps from Commander Maxos' own office -- and the seasoned commander...
The Distant Year - CHAPTER 1
PART ONE: DREAMS The darkness was nearly total, a primeval sort of blackness that was unlike the moon-bathed night nor the ebon-gray shadows of well-run tunnels. This was darkness. Pure, elemental darkness. Lidia's sidheborn gaze was not totally...
The Distant Year - CHAPTER 4
Incredulity overtook fear in Lidia's face. Her green eyes were wide but slowly, surely the fire that had cooled in her belly deep in the heart of Winter's grasp flared up, and all of the advice, the cautioning and warnings fled from her mind in a...
Chasing the Unicorn - PART 8: ANOTHER PLACE
The air was still. Too still. No wind or birds carried sound across the empty spaces, no chatter of voices or milling of hooves. It was too still. This was Bart's first inkling that something was amiss. Bart, now a newly-minted Paladin and Queen's...