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Our clash ended more quickly than I'd expected. Maybe Arivor had gotten as weary of our struggle as I had, but I doubted it. Once he lost his side of the fight, he enjoyed our games too much for that to be true. As he slumped over my sword, he laughed with bl...

Raimie Life in this corner of the woods had always bored me, but what else should one expect when living so far away from civilization? I didn't mind my slow-paced life or its consistency. It was soothing to know that I could predict everything that might h...

Rhylix If you're reading this, please know that I never hated you. Considering the life I'd led, today should have felt like any other. As usual, a Zrelnach warrior was berating me with her reddening face accenting her gray eyes. The light of the late a...

Raimie When an invisible and impossible force stopped pulling me backward, I oriented to where I was. What the hell had that been? As I jogged home in starlight, I tried to piece the phenomenon that I'd witnessed into my limited understanding of the world,...

Raimie Huddled on the floor beside a candle, I glanced through Eledis' gifted book with a blanket draped over my shoulders. So far, I didn't understand why my grandfather had wanted me to read this. The book most definitely discussed the subject I'd asked ...

Rhylix You weren't to blame for our conflict. The rare times when Allanovian's Council let me step outside of the city, giving me a taste of fresh air, came as a welcome relief from my regulated life. I enjoyed escaping the weight of a mountain pressing ...

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Raimie   Raimie from the line of Audish kings... Had I heard that right? I couldn't have. It was... A burst of hysterical laughter jolted me back into working order, and I stooped to retrieve Shadowsteal from the ground. I didn't know what was going on, bu...

Raimie Water cascaded over me, and sputtering, I tried to escape from the stream. This proved quite impossible, considering my hands had been bound behind my back. Instead, all I did was scrape myself against something with a rough texture. What had happen...

I'm waiting for someone to release me. I've been waiting on this for what seems like days at times and others, years. Alone, time has lost all meaning. When they put me in the containment chamber 'for my safety', so long ago, they'd insisted my incarceration ...

Raimie Intent on getting out of Fissid and the trouble I'd found there, I took a step outside. My foot landed on something squishy, and on finding what had caused the noise, I leapt back, slapping my hand to my mouth. Shuddering gasps barely kept me from lo...

Rhylix In fact, if anyone should take responsibility for it, it's me. I wouldn't make it in time. For hours, what had repulsed me had lingered in the direction of an incessant pull, and I'd pushed as quickly as I could toward that complicated miasma with...

Raimie The patter of distant water droplets in a deep quiet was the first thing I registered when I woke up. For a moment, I simply breathed into this hush, wrapped in the pleasant disbelief that I'd survived. Questions were held at bay until I'd finished w...

Raimie As the memory I'd just re-experienced faded away from me, I stared at a familiar stone ceiling with a frown and my brow furrowed. '...been here before?' I mouthed before speaking aloud. "The Esela aren't extinct." A snort answered me while somethin...

Rhylix I'm the one who pushed you toward our lives' destruction. The human boy's body slackened into sleep, and I watched the first rise and fall of his chest with thin lips. "You like this one," my constant nuisance said at my side. "Perhaps." I had ...

Rhylix And others, in their hate, took advantage of our weakness. Visiting Salna was always a trial and a pleasure. On the one hand, the smith was one of the only people in Allanovian who treated me as if I weren't a pariah, letting me use her forge when...

Raimie I wasn't sure what woke me up. Save for the occasional spatter of water outside, Rhylix's clinic was silent as the grave, and yet, a frustrated scream was ringing in my ears. In my head. And I could swear that I knew this voice. Listening to its noi...

Raimie Over the course of my fight, several Esela had crowded into the hall, forming a person-high barrier on either side. Opposite me, the boy—my opponent—was glaring daggers my way, restrained by my father. My father who was looking at me like I was a mo...

Raimie Waiting in a small chamber beneath the mountain, I paced between its walls, rubbing my hands together while I chewed on my lip. Over a week had passed since I’d learned what Allanovian’s Council expected of me, and the thought of it still had me weig...