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Rhylix Ever your friend, Arivor The next day dawned clear and beautiful. Any other day, I might have run through weapons drills, anticipating a pleasant morning once I was finished. Today, I watched enemy soldiers march down a slope toward my allies. B...

Raimie, Rhylix Raimie Why had I ordered my friend to do something that would almost certainly get him killed? In the moments before my portion of the battle was joined, this question rattled around in my head, and I couldn’t shake it loose. Did I not care...

Raimie, Rhylix Raimie If I’d learned anything from the battle, it was that Daevetch was incredibly helpful when it came to beheading Kiraak. As I dragged my blade through another neck, Dim cackled beside me, drunk on power, but I couldn’t match their energ...

Raimie After who knew how long spent running, I had to stop and catch my breath, if I didn’t want to keel over, that is. Gasping, I leaned on my knees while glancing at Dim. “Did we lose him?” I asked. “Doubtful,” Dim said. “Even if we did, he could catch...

Eriadren   For what seemed like forever, I aimlessly wandered down the city’s streets, half-hoping I’d run into humans that might end me. I vaguely recalled passing through the wealthier neighborhoods at some point, observing the same violence there as I’d s...

Eriadren   My efforts to murder Doldimar weren’t going as planned. In fact, nearly a year into them, I had yet to step out of camp. Reive said that my inability to kill made me a liability. I could endanger any team I might go on a mission with, and no matt...

Eriadren   Finally, I was here. As the last of Doldimar’s soldiers slid off of my blade, I kept my eyes fixed on the doors in front of me. Behind them was my goal. Behind them, I’d find him. Hopefully, I’d get to enjoy killing him before Reive and the othe...

Rhylix, Raimie Rhylix “…might become a problem,” I finished with nary a flourish. When Raimie stared at me without comprehension, I sighed. “I’m stuck in a cycle, one that follows the same routine every time,” I said. “In each of them, I’m born into a ne...

Raimie When returning to the battlefield, I hadn’t been sure what to expect, but it certainly hadn’t been this. Save for notable exceptions, the scene was tranquil. Quiet. The only movement found here was in the sway of the nearby branches, the ruffle of te...

Nylion, Rhylix Nylion In the dark of night, I waited for my target to come home. Raimie had fallen asleep not long ago, which had let me take control with relative ease. I hated doing this, limiting its recurrences as much as possible, but I had a final th...

Doldimar The woman in front of me was making a noise I refused to acknowledge. I’d gotten used to their screams so long ago that I couldn’t remember when it had happened. If I was to cling to a modicum of sanity, I'd had to. Instead, I’d learned to hear th...

Mycella, Gaelen   Mycella I’d lost my son again. This situation wasn’t that unusual, as Gaelen was highly independent and much more self-sufficient than any four-year-old had a right to be. Long ago, I’d learned to give him space, but today, his disappeari...

Noblinson, Gaelen   Noblinson I hated having these conversations. The first one was bad enough: sitting a parent down to let them know that our lords and masters had taken issue with their kid, but the second one? Who liked telling a parent that their chil...

Corsivis, Gaelen   Corsivis “Again!” Despite my trembling muscles and generally out-of-breath state, I clumsily tried to do as I’d been told. I lunged at Gaelen, doing my damnedest to get around his defenses, but he merely swiped my attack to the side, as ...

Noblinson, Gaelen   Noblinson Applications of Magic was the one class that I both loved and hated to teach. I loved it because… well. Who wouldn’t? It involved manipulating the body’s form and summoning desired objects from thin air, among other things. Wh...

Quincy, Gaelen   Quincy “Please, don’t make me come with you.” When the summons had come, this was the request my son had made of me, which had only furthered my confusion. To me, Gaelen’s recent behavior had been even more odd than anything he’d done in ...

Gaelen, Mycella Gaelen With a crisp, fall snap in the air, today had dawned bright and beautiful, and I tried to enjoy it, despite the itch pressing me to escape from my self-imposed prison. It had been five days, and still, Sarai spent most of her time wa...

Eriadren   With my legs crossed, I sat as close to a thin strip of gray as I dared. Across from me, Arivor copied my pose, eagerly leaning forward as I told my tale, albeit with one significant omission. As if picking up on what I'd left out, Arivor asked, ...

Middle   In the two months since the battle against Teron’s forces on a nearby beach, protecting Raimie had gotten much more difficult. Fortunately, that difficulty hadn’t lain with the man himself this time, although he was prone to making fantastically rec...

Raimie   The winter months were over, and I was glad for it, even with how much we'd needed the break. We’d needed the time to recover from a devastating battle, time to get established, time to make plans. I’d needed the time to rest and learn, and if I’d a...