39th of Vhalar 719

The past seasons hadn't been kind to Woe. It was as if the days caught wind of his past misdeeds and failings and came home to roost in Etzos, and mount him on their mantle like a trophy. That was fine. He could bear it just as he'd endured a childhood in the household of...

17th of Vhalar
Arc 719

Aiden stood outside the storage room, leaned against the wall beside the closed door. One arm crossed his chest, tucked into the crook of the opposite elbow. With his free hand, he repeatedly traced the contour of his human eyebrow in one direction, the tactile illusion...

2nd break
26th of Vhalar, Arc 719

Continued from here.

So maybe it wouldn’t work between them…

…but maybe it would.

Llyr gave Emelia little show of it when he guided her through Emea. Not like others and not like his initiates. He didn’t explain anything. He didn’t try to teach her how to...

40 Zi'da, 719

Continued from here.

Maybe it wasn't so bad here. Llyr washed the blood out from his shirt, wringing the cloth out over the basin of water. Even with... everything ... it'd started to feel rather nice, not having to worry so much about handling this or that. Sure, he probably had...

20 Zi'da, 719

Continued from here.

The trials passed on, as trials do. For Llyr, each trial came with less hope. He couldn't remain scrubbing the stone floors and cleaning forever. Eventually, he was dragged away from such chores. Given a choice to serve or not. Anyone could clean, but what...

115 Vhalar, 719

It was the sort of thing that would lead most men to jump off the nearest cliff. For those who weren't driven over the edge, it would have led to a plummet into a different type of madness. A dark and unforgiving insanity, harsh and brutal without any light to shine upon the...

Commercial Circle
92 Vhalar, Arc 719
Previous

Llyr awoke, with a searching hand that spread out over the bed. Nothing. No one. He leaned toward the space, eyes still shut, and a murmur. The biqaj pressed away, then he fell off the side.

He landed, with his palms flat against the floor, but...

Commercial Circle
90 Vhalar, Arc 719
Previous

If you could go anywhere, where would you go? asked Llyr while he looked over at Lochlann.

The halfblood-Avriel shrugged. He made a quiet grunt of a sound to acknowledge that he'd heard the question, but he didn't answer it otherwise.

Llyr...

Outer Perimeter
73rd of Vhalar, Arc 719
Previous

Llyr fidgeted with the pamphlet. He sat in his study, barely listening to the hushed voices on the other side of the door. It sounded as if the others were discussing whether it was better to hold the meeting at the house or somewhere else....

30th of Vhalar
Arc 719

22nd of Vhalar
Arc 719

Commercial Circle
68th of Vhalar, Arc 719
Previous

Llyr sat on the floor of his bedroom. Around them, splayed out in a circle were papers upon papers, books upon books. He surveyed them, and every bit or so, he moved a paper over to a different stack or flipped a book to a different page....

Commercial Circle
64th of Vhalar, Arc 719
Previous

Llyr had barely returned from Viden for a break, before Dale Garnet had nearly forced his way into the home. The blond looked up from the sprawl of research on his desk and stared at the old grizzled investigator. He didn't bother asking...

Commercial Circle
Evening, 53rd of Vhalar, Arc 719
Previous

Llyr stood at the window. Still dressed in his leathers, still seething. He'd been brooding for three trials, submerged in his rage. His headquarters, burnt to blackened char within trials of opening. More so, however, what had...

65 Vhalar 719

Llyr sat the desk. He had thought that maybe Marshal Webb would stick around to listen to him some... and Llyr could get an approximation of how much time alone he could get out of the guy... but it proved to be none at all. It'd been a quick thing, and when the other man had...

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The Theater of
Sentencing
93 Vhalar, arc 719

So very sorry to dis'point 'cha, pretty boy... the inquisitor slavered through lisp-hindered lips, as he gestured to a rack of tools clearly designed for nothing other than the infliction of agony, ...but you won'na...

Commercial Circle
50th of Vhalar, Arc 719
Previous

“The Shop… it-” that’s as far as Gerolf had to say anything. The tone and expression on the red-head man’s face said it all.

Llyr left his study, nearly ripping a hole in his jacket when he yanked it from the hook in his hurry to leave. He...

The 11nd of Vhalar 719

The spire provided an excellent overview of the Circle. High up, out of sight and reach of those nasty spiders Sintra had no doubt scattered all over. Perhaps there would be found within its walls, but not outside of it, where Oberan was perched. The air was cooler here, or...

The Great Parhn Gate
34th of Vhalar, Arc 719
Previous

The moment that Llyr Llywelyn laid eyes on the small group, he knew who they were, and he felt both apprehension and excitement at the sight. Llyr hurried to the gate's border, where the guards glanced at him but otherwise paid him no...

29th trial, Vhalar, 719
Outskirts of Etzos Prime
13th break

Well... here y'are, then.

He wasn't speaking to one man, and yet he was. If you spoke to a crowd but the words were for but a single soul, and that soul heard you, well, that was who you were talking to. Whether or not everyone else...

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29th of Vhalar 719

19th Break

Well, that was easier than he thought. Finally, some quiet time, without the pitter patter of little rat feet behind him! Woe stepped lightly as he entered the north eastern part of the Outer Perimeter. He had...

North Outer Perimeter
8th of Vhalar, Arc 719
Previous

“Is this necessary?” asked Llyr, while he followed alongside the investigator, into the house a few streets away. It was a modest thing, with a simple foyer and a sitting room that smelt heavy of tobacco smoke. His wings fluttered, then...

North Outer Perimeter
8th of Vhalar, Arc 719
Previous

“And what’s that say?” asked Llyr while he held the book open for Wren.

The young boy glanced over the page with the largely written words and sounded out, “Up the hill, there was… a…”

“Sound it out?” offered Llyr. “You know the...