The Lead Crown: Ch 4b, Your Highness (Pt 1)
Tranquil Waters: The Lead Crown Ch 4-1, Your Highness Aodhan had often heard stories told around the campfire of groups that included injured hunters far from home and trying to return. The men in the stories did not often manage to get back to their...
The Lead Crown, Chapter 3-6: Noriene
Tranquil Waters: The Lead Crown Ch 3-6, Noriene The Strangled Cockerel wouldn't have been Noriene's first choice for a meeting place but, then again, that's why it was so perfect. She pushed her way through the hinged doors and pulled her cowl closer...
The Lead Crown: Ch 5a, What's In a Name? (Pt 4)
Tranquil Waters: The Lead Crown Ch 5-4, What's In a Name? The cool spring breeze flowed constantly into his face, a pleasant contrast to the bright sun that shone down upon his spread wings. Kesst couldn't remember the last time he had been able to...
The Lead Crown: Ch 5b, Convergence (Pt 1)
Tranquil Waters: The Lead Crown Ch 5-1, Convergence Friar Arlowe didn't remember having anything draped across him as he sat by his son during the night but he woke up in the morning covered by a quilt. The soft sound of discussion brought him out of...
The Lead Crown, Ch 4.6 Malcom
Tranquil Waters: The Lead Crown Ch 4.6 Malcom As usual, Malcom awoke before the sun. He had slept in Dr. Brownell's sitting room, seated in what must have been a generations-old rocking chair. To his right, curled up near the smoldering coals in the...
The Lead Crown, Ch 4.6 Noriene
Tranquil Waters: The Lead Crown Ch 4.6 Noriene Noriene rubbed either side of her head with her first two fingers as she made her way down the hall. It was well into the night and she'd spent far too many hours that evening obsessing over what limited...
The Lead Crown: Ch 4b, Your Highness (Pt 5)
Tranquil Waters: The Lead Crown Ch 4-5, Your Highness The following days passed quickly for Friar Arlowe. Once Doctor Brownell had finished with Cruff the old Raccoon Dog sat beside his son non-stop. The rest of the group handled the required...
The Lead Crown: Ch 9.5b, Shock and Awe
Tranquil Waters: The Lead Crown Ch 9.5, Shock and Awe Tobias had visited the Newport Cathedral often in his youth at the behest of his father. Gabe Severna had been as strict a man as any Tobias had ever met but he had always meant well. Since the...
The Lead Crown: Ch 9.5a, Accountability
Tranquil Waters: The Lead Crown Ch 9.5, Accountability The hotel was a fine place to house a base of operations as far as Sanmer was concerned. It was a centralized building from which access to the city could be obtained in any direction. There were...
The Lead Crown: Ch 9.3b, Shock and Awe
Tranquil Waters: The Lead Crown Ch 9.3, Shock and Awe The fight against the Church's men had been a tough one. The group was outnumbered by almost two to one and while the soldiers who fought against them were all battle-ready a good portion of...
The Lead Crown: Ch 9.3a, Accountability
Tranquil Waters: The Lead Crown Ch 9.3, Accountability Theo looked sorrowfully down at the nearly-empty vial that he had repurposed from its original job as a specimen container into a tooth pick case. It had once been stuffed full of tooth picks but...
The Lead Crown: Ch 9.4b, Shock and Awe
Tranquil Waters: The Lead Crown Ch 9.4, Shock and Awe Aodhan and Sister Aurelie did not have long for goodbyes; the conflict in the Church did not wait for them and nor did the Bishop's men delay in their duty to deliver the Sisters Divine to the...