Getting into the hole wasn’t the hard part. Ryza crafted a series of platforms for them to walk down like a spiral staircase. Snow was unsteady walking it and definitely didn’t enjoy the heights aspect but Ryza held her hand the entire way. The lower they got the cooler it became until by the end […]
Category: The Calamity
When Ryza eventually awoke the next day, she did so slowly. She hadn’t wanted to leave her slumber. The softest most peaceful sleep she’d had in a very long time. As she awoke, she felt the twinges of pain from her arm and hip. She was still sore from the fighting of the previous evening. […]
As Snow left the town the damage was obvious and immense. Her senses had almost doubled since she’d come back from whatever it was that she was now. She could hear how empty the city was now. Smell the death that hung on the air like a cologne.
Ryza shut her eyes feeling the flare ups of magic around her. No matter what the Sanctum called their hunters they used magic as far as she was concerned. But beyond that, she could hear the screams. She could hear the ripping and the tearing and the howling.
Snow wasn’t sure what she was expecting Varuct to look like. She’d heard about it from her grandmother. One of the larger cities in the Sanctum. It had been an experimental place whose main industry was metallurgy. From ironworks to jewelry making. They didn’t supply the entire Sanctum with tools but they were one of […]
Riding a dead horse was better than riding a living one. It didn’t have weird bucks or opinions or tendencies. It did exactly as it was told. It just smelled like decay and magic. Sinister magic that made Snow’s nose itch constantly. She rubbed it for what must have been the sixth time since they […]
Ryza let the door close behind her and sighed leaning against it. Somehow she’d avoided a disaster with Snow and even more so she hoped sincerely that her uncle would give his help. She was estranged from Vayne definitely and she wasn’t sure if he was willing to even speak with her. If his relationship […]
“You don’t have to go. Please.” “We do have to mom. It’s been getting worse.” “How long between the flashes?” “He says there’s been one a day but I know that there are more than that.”
The ground was rumbling. Why was the ground rumbling? It was like a stampede of horses. That had happened once. A long time ago. Tore through the village. Had caused so much trouble. Everything but the bar was shut down for a week. People actually came in a few times. It was nice and weird. […]
There’s no fear quite like running for one’s life. The spike in adrenaline that’s so primal that all thought and pretense of high-level thinking abandons you. That was the fear that gripped the child as he ran through the forest. He didn’t look where he ran. He didn’t figure out where he was going. He […]
The Harlequin Library 