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Raimie   As I approached the gate, I once more took note of how empty this fort had been. Even when exploring between its buildings, Rhylix and I had encountered not a soul. Sure, the battle had depleted this place’s ranks, but that seemed unusual. But then...

Rhylix   To my great surprise, Nessaira had made tracking her a challenge. Not difficult! I’d simply had to expend more effort than usual with it. I’d lost her soon after entering the forest, and since then, she’d left few signs of her passage, only the occ...

Raimie   Rhylix looked ready to leave. With his hand on my shoulder, he said, “I’ll bring you a report on what I discover in the morning.” But I didn’t know if I should let him go. Despite what he might think, I knew what he meant to do tonight. Nessaira w...

Raimie   At Oswin’s prompting, four people joined us at the tower’s top, and Oswin was right. I did know them, if only nominally. As they entered, each of them quickly scanned the room, but while the woman and the… small man or perhaps teenager squealed on ...

Raimie Eventually, the two of us found the tower’s cell block, and spying Rhylix up ahead, I motioned for Oswin to stay back. For once, he didn’t protest this, probably because he had clear lines of sight down the hallway. I meandered toward my friend, but...

Rhylix   As I ran out of the tower, the scene I’d left behind kept playing out in my mind, mostly in sound. “Nyl, where are you?” Raimie dazedly said. A barely audible whine filled the room, but by the time I’d leaned through the doorway, it had stopped, a...

Rhylix   Slowly, I pieced together what had happened to me. I’d died—obviously—and slipped into that place full of only black, the space between realities. I always went there after death, if only for a heartbeat or an eternity. I could never tell which. Co...

Rhylix   I started with my cursed height. To this point, I’d never bothered with correcting that horrible aspect of my body, but if daily magic use was to be forced upon me, I might as well make myself comfortable. Yes? The view from one foot down was… disc...

Raimie   The great stone doors of Tiro cracked open loudly in the forest’s quiet, and on seeing the city peeking from in between them, I grinned at Rhylix… or Ryvolim, I supposed. He smiled back before heading toward the opening, but I couldn’t blame him for...

Raimie   I didn’t stop for any other pleasantries with my family. Storming through the door, I was out of the house faster than I’d thought possible, fighting to keep my breathing under control. Gods, why had that been so difficult? You HAVE been avoiding ...

Raimie   The world had taken on a slight haze. At my side, Ryvolim was happily chattering about our initial adventure in Da’kul, and I half-listened until he started raising his volume. “And then- then, this asshole asked for my lock picks-” he practically ...

Kylorian I watched Ren’s new ‘friend’ run after his companion with my head cocked and disquiet roiling in my gut. Before, the blonde-haired one had come running down the street, shouting those two words, and my mind had spliced another time and place over t...

Kylorian   The route to the meeting point with my siblings was hidden and somewhat frustrating to traverse. It hadn’t always been that way, but as we’d grown up, what had once fit our child-sized bodies had become restrictive instead. While squishing my way ...

Raimie   It had been a while since I’d been able to sit back, relax, and read, purely for my own enjoyment. Something always got in the way, whether that was a life-threatening emergency or another tedious duty, but today, I’d somehow finished my appointed t...

Raimie   Muttering a greeting, Kylorian joined me and Hadrion with a glass already in hand, and sipping at it, he regarded me with a measuring look over its rim. Setting the glass down, he said, “I’ve done my research on you since we met, Raimie. It seems y...

Little   After waiting in a small copse of woods near the Birthing Grounds for six hours, I’d started getting frustrated with the group I was planning on infiltrating. For Alouin’s sake, dawn had been two hours ago! How long did it take to break camp and mar...

Little   Soon enough, the Overseer faced the Conscripted squad, which made me gulp. The man’s skin was barely visible over the sheet of Corruption bulging beneath it. “Report,” he said. The squad’s captain took a step forward, crossing his arms behind his ...

Little   Later, I eased the barrack door shut behind me, backing away from it. Picking my way through snoring, drink-addled Conscripted soldiers without waking them up had been a tad difficult for me, considering sneaking and nimble feet had never been my sp...

Little   The hostile Eselan was much too close, so I stumbled backward until a wall halted my retreat. Hell. How was I getting out of this ? “What are you?” the Eselan asked. “Not a Kiraak. I don’t sense Corruption in you. I suppose you could be sworn to me...

Little   Fortunately for me, the Birthing Grounds seemed to follow a day-night cycle. As I dazedly wandered between barracks, weaving all the while, no one was outside to mock my stumble or notice my wounds. I was grateful for the silence all around me, a re...