Daggers of Darkness, Book #5: "The First Ones" - Prologue
**Prologu**** e** The Journey _of_ the heart _to_The Heart continues for the crews of _Nightwing_ and _Se'nika_. It has been two years since the crews left Terra and they have had plenty of things happen along the way. They discovered some...
"Daggers of Darkness, Book #4: An Unexpected Discovery", Epilogue
# Epilogue "What heart takes, Heart gives," were the words spoken by the Great Lupin, Char'ena. Indeed so. One's heart of being may be called upon to suffer, or "undergo, experience, endure, sustain loss or damage". Everyone among the...
"Daggers of Darkness, Book #4: An Unexpected Discovery", Chapter-10
# 10 ( **Note:** _The author recommends listening to_ "Guardian Angel"_, by Elias Nilsson [[https://youtu.be/ehRWzT8eLMo](https://youtu.be/ehRWzT8eLMo)].)_ The faint smudge against the darkening eastern sky suddenly became a streak of...
"Daggers of Darkness, Book #4: An Unexpected Discovery", Chapter-9
# 9 "_Personal log entry, Terran Standard Date: 2516-06-20; Time: 1003 hours FCT. We are almost to Chenau-Ri. The Y'Nahrans went on ahead to scout for hostiles while the First One's 'beast ship' has moved in a lot closer. From what Miss Kei'sa told...
Tangled Vines - Chapter 1
**1** "Well, there it is," William Nicolini announced to everyone in the cabin as he looked out the view port. Mûr Zhæn, homeworld of the Mûr Tua'ansa Star Empire, was growing rapidly in size off the port forward quarter. Cassandra Nicolini,...
The Healing
**The Healing** A short story by AncientWolf based on Swift47's sketch titled, "Death Cry" As he lay on the ground, his life pouring out in a thick red stream, Rob noticed that the sounds around him began to fade into a soft buzzing hum. The...
"Daggers of Darkness, Book 2, The Heart of Élendor": Chapter-2
# 2 "Commander, Élendor Approach Control has sent our authorized flight path--transferring it to the Nav System now," CWO3 Stewert said, looking over to the navigator. A few seconds later, Tanya acknowledged receipt of the flight plan, and with a...
"Daggers of Darkness, Book 2, The Heart of Élendor": Chapter-4
# 4 "Pre-flight is complete," Tanya said when everything had been checked off the list. "Rodger that. Syl, do we have clearance to lift yet?" James asked, looking over his shoulder at his Comm. Officer. "Checking, sir..." CWO3 Stewert tapped her...
"Daggers of Darkness, Book 2, The Heart of Élendor": Chapter-5
# 5 James heard a vague sound and thought he felt someone touching him. The sound seemed pleasant and became slowly clearer. "James? Wake up, please." He felt like he had been in a deep comfortable sleep and was being made to wake up from it....
"Daggers of Darkness, Book 2, The Heart of Élendor": Chapter-6
# 6 Sylvia materialized in the command pod of the small craft just as the single alien was dematerializing. For just a brief moment, Sylvia saw the alien--not really enough to get a good look, but enough to know he/she/it or whatever was considerably...
"Daggers of Darkness, Book 2, The Heart of Élendor": Epilogue
**Epilogue** When they left Terra to go to Élendor so that they could pick up the trail of the strange pre-civilization artifact known as The Heart, the crews of _Nightwing_and _Se'nika_ had no idea where it would lead. Visiting the unusual...
"Daggers of Darkness, Book 2, The Heart of Élendor": Chapter-9
**9** "Jeezers, is this place _always_this busy?" Shauna asked Rissanivi. "Um...yes...no...sort of. Does seem different feel from when last here," the reptilian replied as she looked around. "So, where do we find the person you said you usually...