Embers of Dawn: Chapter 9: Dancing Delights
Chapter 9: Dancing Delights The sound reached them before the light did. It came in waves, a deep, pulsing rhythm that wounds through the winding stone corridors of the Gilded Feather like the call of something ancient and untamed. It wasn't music in...
Scales and Honor: The Shattered God: Chapter 32
Chapter 32: Athenais’ Story The ride back to the city was enveloped in the biting winds of despair, the sun might as well have been a ball of ice for all it’s good. Raven hair fluttering, her cheeks burning from the cold, Nivra kept telling herself it...
Scales and Honor: The Shattered God: Chapter 10
Chapter 10: Dinner Concerns that been just a faint whisper where now a nagging shout in his ear. Minute by minute he saw the aura of confidence about Lyndis fade and dull. Where once her movements carried purpose and determination, they instead were...
Scales and Honor: The Shattered God: Chapter 11
Chapter 11: Reach Mornings were dreadful things that dragons were better off without. Its why they generally missed them, hissed away the sun's uncivil arrival to strike at their eyes. The winter did little to sway this fact, chilly winds only...
Darkened Skies: Chapter 35:Gryphon's Reward
Scales and Honor: Darkened Skies Chapter 35: Gryphon's Reward The wind whipped bitterly through Athenais' feathers as the gryphon drifted over the many snow-covered rooftops of Struport's outer town in near silence. She was nothing more than a...
Scales and Honor: The Shattered God: Chapter 25
Chapter 25: The Cave The princess awoke upon course and damp sandy floor. Her mind was reeling from brief flashes of oppressive darkness, gasping for air, thrashing as her lungs filled with seawater. She held her chest as pain crackled at even...
Bahamut's Light: Chapter 24
Chapter 24 After a night of passionate reunion, Arcturus demanded to see the Lumarians. Once brought to Skywing and his Lumarian soldiers, the paladin could not contain his happiness. His arms wove themselves around Skywing’s neck tight enough that...
Gilded Cage: Chapter 14
Chapter 14 The journey through the squawking steeples was an arduous one. The gods themselves seemed to have cursed their journey. Winds howled through the rocky tops, buffeting feathers and beak, hampering their flight to the point of madness....
Emerald Secrets: Chapter 11:Preparation
Scales and Honor: Emerald Secrets Chapter 11: Preparation Veledar was having a nice dream. Nice from a dragon's perspective anyway. He was circling high in an endless blue sky, enjoying the wind kissing his wings. Down below he saw hundreds...
One Good Deed: Part 3
Arcturus sat down on the grassy land that grew near the mouth of the cave’s entrance. The sun hung in the air, sending its warm rays to bathe the human in its pleasing embrace. He took a deep breath, taking in the smell of the salty ocean. With a sigh,...
Scales and Honor: The Shattered God: Chapter 9
Chapter 9: The Queen You don't always wake to find yourself under spearpoint, but here Cordenth was regardless. It couldn't have been to a serenade from the morning birds, nor the chill of a winter breeze. He'd even have asked for sunlight to stab at...
Scales and Honor: The Shattered God: Chapter 37
Chapter 37: Confessions and Dark Deals Before the shimmering ‘shard of Bahamut’, Ossai stood resolute, her eyes never straying from the misty waters. She’d valued her life through these many years as the puppeteer of some grand game, only to find...