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He could hear his destination before he laid an eye on its door. Music, laughter and voices floated through the air to him, along with the smells of fresh bread and whatever they had made for today's meal. Gray looked around, it wasn't his time to this...

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Date: Arc 716, 1st trial of Zi’da
Time: 7th break
Location: Andaris Dungeon
The rattling of the bars woke Alex, and she pushed herself upright.

“Morning sleepy head. Today’s the day, innit?”

The guard pushed a bowl of something through the bars, leaning against them as he spoke to her....

23rd of Saun, Noon-ish

So he's leaving me?

No, Syhera. You've been given a choice. Gwyn's voice was soft, soothing, and she sat on the edge of the bed while Hera fussed over her hair, He wants you to be free from the constraints of the agreement, so that you do not feel trapped.

He already...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=5148 4 Zi'da 716
“That was… decent. At least you hit the target. Not everyone can manage that on their first trial.” Violet was trying to offer encouragement to a rather meek boy of sixteen arcs that was standing in a line of equally young boys- and a few...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=41&image_id=4006 Jorick's Keep 33 Saun, 716

Jorick's Keep was amazing; completely, and utterly awe inspiring. Those were the only words Seira had to describe her new home...and as a bard, words were her trade. The fort was huge. Everywhere you looked, soldiers were...

Vhalar 36

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Ashira was not at all happy about what she was currently doing. Which, for the curious, was heading to Andaris' Adunih Outpost. The Thorns had a thing...

Vhalar 14, Arc 716

I’m going to be sick! Tristan announced to anybody who cared to listen – but especially to Faith – as the ship started moving at what he was sure was lightning speed, leaned over the rail and emptied the contents of his stomach into the ocean. The sight of the waves crashing...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=5095 4 Zi’da 716
Violet was growing bored in her routine. Since she had been clawing her way out of depression over her brother’s death, she spent time hustling patrons at taverns in darts. This morning she didn’t think she could stomach playing the...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=100&image_id=5062 13th Zi'da, 716

Science is not only a discipline of reason but, also, one of romance and passion
~Stephen Hawkin~
This was it. Tonight was the night. Organisation and the skills of such were very genuine strengths of Faith's. She had spent a...

Vhalar 78

Children are like wet cement, whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Though she was still treating whatever patients showed up on her doorstep, Ashira found the work at the Skye Verath Lodge to be rewarding enough, both monetarily and in the soul deep sense of getting something...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=109&image_id=4263 123rd Vhalar

A bolt flew out of the end of the crossbow in the training yard, hitting only a few rings from the center. For most, that would be enough - but enough wasn't what he was aiming for. When he was on the back of a Volareon, he had to hit...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=1408 Early 122 Vhalar
The Skyrider was asleep. The deep, dreamless slumber of a new mother exhausted by the demands of her child. Elsie snuffled and stretched out in the cradle beside the bed and then snored gently. Elyna slept on. She didn't feel at home in...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=100&image_id=5053 3rd Zi'da, 716 Faith was at work and it was, all things considered, rather strange. It had been only a few trials since she had been freed, right at the end of Vhalar, and it was taking some adjustment. It was a slow and difficult task in which progress...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=841 43 Vhalar 716
Lazuli had done as her grandmother had instructed and traveled to the capital to purchase land and oversee the construction of her new home in the city. Midtown was a nice enough place, and it pleased her to know that the civil war hadn't...

Ashan, 29th, 711th Arc
Andaris Library

An army is often seen as just that, one mass of people gathered for war. To the layman's eye, these people are all the same with no difference in the men that make up such an army. But the build up of an army, the division of its members into units , and...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=41&image_id=2271 78th of Ashan, Arc 704
“Now, do you remember what I taught you young lady?”

A young girl, approximately 12 arcs old, sat across from an older woman. Her hair was just barely below her shoulders, but the loose curls had brought it up from its normal...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=4948 123 Vhalar 716
They rode through the city and out through open gates. The heavy silence broken by the steady beat of hooves on stone. On the cusp of Zi’da the light started to fade soon after their departure from the house. Clouds stretched across the...

Zi'da 24

What can I give,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb;
If I were a wise man
I would do my part;
Yet what I can, I give -
Give my heart.

What was a fashionably devout follower of the Seven supposed to do upon waking from a dream where a creation of one of the...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=39&image_id=2178 Timestamp: 13th of Yimden, 716
Location: Andaris, outside the Arena

Sabine's greeting did little to help his mood. The fact that she was unharmed was a plus, but the pain from the arrow and the cloaks tossed to the ground nearby made even that seem...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=100&image_id=4304 56th Vhalar, 716
She had come into work and had been told what was wanted, what the client had asked for. Two specific things. Then, she had been told that she needed to get on with that quick smart and Faith's jaw had dropped nearly to the floor. She...

Vhalar 12, Arc 716

Ashira was annoyed. Or at least, that was the emotion that she was comfortable admitting. What she would have been far less comfortable admitting was fear and loneliness. In Oakleigh, anywhere in the Eastern Settlements really, the Thorn name was known. She was known. People...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=4993 11th Zi'da, 716 The thing that she really didn't understand about men, Faith had decided, was just how changeable they were and none more than her man. Arm in arm with Padraig as they walked through the cold night she pulled herself against him and...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=1858 20th of Saun, 716.

Being a handler for the Skye Verath Lodge meant more than what most people saw. Working with Volareon, Jacadon, occasionally Sarkin and even Gorde, they did more than than just groom, feed and treat them as little more as pets to visit...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=100&image_id=4980 10th Zi'da, 716
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The trial after she had moved in he had arranged for a new room to be built on to the house, which had been finished late yesterday. In that time, they'd fallen into a routine the two of them, or as close to one as their...