Trust Sates

A gilden palace. Near its peak: a gaudy chamber littered with wasteful trinkets, each to be smelted on the morrow. Therewithin stood Marshal Ryal of the Starless Ebor, proudly southly wolven. Secretly cursed. Night had fallen, and her leanly squire,...

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"Freed"

Valant warmed a touch too much. She stiffened; seven 'nesses of hue sundry, knee high, scrubbed and washed with ladle-poured water many a scale that shined red of a body which had started to heal, the scars to crase the lines tween in a fortnight to...

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Leaf

You had to sink in your teeth all the way; air made the blood bitter. He'd heard it from Cal too many times to count. The canopy blocked most of the light; the leaves, almost all of it. Bycil watched from a few yards behind Caldain, who lay fond...

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The Way of the High

She still planned to lay the daughter of the Queen, who had left for Avindor; the heir would, after all, need guidance ever should Her Grandeur pass. Besides, Dorissa didn't think she'd forget that she violated her, did she? A few licks of payback were...

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Send Off

Thousands of wings beat outside. The quadrupedal dragoness, Gerlis, walked down the hall, plate blood splotched. The stripped dragontal Kerith thrashed while she dragged him by the neck with her left forelimb. From the right side of the Hall of...

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Her Grandeur

Gerlis stood at the back of the runner and before the double doors twice her height. The tinted slight sickly green grey clouds of the morrow shifted and convulsed, mushing, rumbling, shading horridly the forty marshal guards, lined on both sides of...

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Fire to Ashes, Ashes to Fire; I Will Remain

He flew over set after set of dried terraces 'tals farmed rice on, a brown-striped white variety, hardened past the southerly to survive here in the cooling season, and passed the lone administrative tower, while the mountains far to the sides took...

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Two Ways More Than One

Rone settled her hands into the wet undergrowth while continuing to lay in wait for prey to pass through the moonlit clearing. It had been at least thirty sunticks since she started, naught having passed by for her lean limbs to snatch. Her wings...

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Never Bound

A flake of dried blood fell from his lower lip. Following haunches, Valik rested his chest, nestling atop straw, tail curled around him and wings tucked yet tips still scraping on rock whensoever he so much as fidgeted. Most of his myrtle scales...

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Twail Twixt: Chapt 2 - Topaz

Behind padding paws, the wheels of the stagecoach rolled on cobblestone, the levelish surface a relief from the pockmarked dirt paths that were preceded by those of the mountainside--snow laden gorges trampled clear by bears--and Ariss looked forward...

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Twail Twixt: Chapt 1 - Crestridge

As light fell through glass and onto white scales set aglint 'gainst the evening, the dragoness paced up and down the vaulted entrance hall, claws tapping marble tiles, gait measured and stately; her servants had rolled the runner back from the double...

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Like Rock

Riesh's green scales slashed through the gelid wind, shunning its calling, its pulling and leading, as he descended from a peak, twain hindlegs and twain forelimbs tucked. He ignored the hoar frost riming him. A stoic...

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