“Again.” The room glowed with bright purple light as the spell was cast again. Runes aligned in a circle glowed to life to an almost blinding degree. The hooded woman narrowed her eyes ignoring it as she filtered the screams out of her ears. She didn’t care about the screams of the pain, she cared […]
Category: The Calamity
“Why did you stop us from helping her!” Sefirin asked his eyes wide and scales already forming over his body. “We could have saved her!” Sofie shouted and looked away. “And now we don’t know where she’s going. Or what’s going to happen to her.”
It had been three days since the encounter with the star man. The trio of siblings had taken to the skies and not stopped for much. Their nightly rest featured two people on rotating watch including Emeralda. It made their sleep schedules difficult but Silva wouldn’t allow them to take chances. She could still see […]
Her face felt numb. The kind from when she fell asleep at the table. Not the first time she’d done that in her lifetime. She blinked slowly and wiped drool from the corner of her mouth. Stretching her arms above her head, she started to sit up and cracked her back.
“Concentrate Sofia. You’re better than this!” They found a patch of ground that was sand free. It was cracked and dry but it was better than getting sand stuck in their pants and their boots. They ate some of their rations which weren’t anything like properly cooked food in the castle but it was better […]
“Come on Cancer. You volunteered to help me out today.” “I didn’t realize that helping you out meant you’d use my as a pack mule.” Sagittarius giggled glancing over at him though she could barely see him under the mountain of boxes he was carrying close to his chest. “My apologies Cancer. I usually have […]
“Don’t say it Sefirin,” Silva said as she took a hard step into a pile of sand. It had long since filled her boots and the heat that assaulted her was beyond suffocating. There was no heat like this in Agrentum. The closest that she had seen in her life was when she visited her […]
Bloop. Bloop. Bloop.
The wind wafted over her white fur. Her tail swayed against the solid rock underneath her but that was the most movement she had done since climbing up here. If she looked behind her, she could see Luthagen. But instead, she was looking ahead at the shifting dunes and hot sun.
The sun had finally set that night and something about the night this time was far more unsettling. Despite it the six of them gathered at the outskirts of the city, there were many fires built in the city proper. Most people were gathered around them, using them as a cover for the night and […]
The Harlequin Library 