Vhalar 15, 710th Arc

The damages were considerable. The crew has lost a few good men, the mizzenmast was badly broken with the spanker torn by the splinters and some of the sails on main mast and foremast also needed repairs. Moreover, no one still knew whether the belly of the ship was alright,...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=101&image_id=3083 11th Vhalar, 716

She frowned in deep concentration and shook her head. I am missing something and I do not see it she said to him, her expression clearly frustrated, but she looked back down at the problem he had given her. Rather than get frustrated,...

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A flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.

8th of Ymiden, 702 Arc

“Mama, wake up…,” a bony hand pushed back dark matted curls from a woman’s face, and a little girl leaned in, kissing her on the cheek, “I have...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=3850 67 Vhalar 716
A shock of cold air saw his lungs burn, choking him from the dream as Malcolm gasped and sat up. The sky was pink and yellow, boasting the first light of a new dawn. The mortalborn’s arms felt heavy and stiff as he opened and closed his...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=99&image_id=2604 Vhalar 3 Arc 716
Barracks

Yana’s eye studied the images in the book intensely, bent over the pages while one periwinkle hand caressed the leather cover. She had the day off, and had decided to spend it by locking herself into her room in the...

Vhalar 10, Arc 703

The bath house in Andaris was far from the first of its kind that he had visited, but it was one of the more luxurious ones with its marble columns and statues, the Mortalborn thought as he stepped through the door. The twin suns had burned down relentlessly on the city for the...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=92&image_id=2360 1st Vhalar
There had been a time that Drustin had started to grow taller than his female friends. Shooting up into a gangly youth and then up, and up and up until he had to bend to walk through most doors. Still a slender man he wore loose, clothing to...

7th Saun, 716 Saun's unbearable heat scorched the near abandoned training grounds. Few brave souls dared to spar briefly before retreating into the shade. Rafael sat on a bench at the edge of the square, shielded from the blistering twin suns. Today’s training had been called off. A rare...

/gallery/image.php?mode=medium&album_id=149&image_id=3818 11 Vhalar 716, Midnight The small and shallow streams of Hang Wood felt claustrophobic to Lihobri compared to the vastness of the ocean. Every time the Scruffies invited her here, she came begrudgingly, understanding the lucrative position...

9th of Saun

It seemed Ymiden came and went faster than Aelius expected. He was another year older, making him 25 years of age now. He didn’t feel any different, but that was to be expected. He chalked it up to his extended age, figuring he would outlive the average human born at the same time as...

/gallery/image.php?mode=medium&album_id=149&image_id=3819 40 Vhalar 716, 01:25 The winding streets of low-town reminded Lihobri of the porous cliffs at Widow's Point. Everything was dark, dingy and foul-smelling. The smells bothered her particularly, since she was used to the pleasant scent of the...

Vhalar 6, Arc 716

The Mortalborn surveyed his class. About half of the chairs were empty. A few of his students had unfortunately not come back after the civil war, but according to the list that he had been given at the beginning of the course there were six absences that were unaccounted for....

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Malcolm had purchased a wagon, an item they had long needed out on the farm for some time now to cart goods back and forth, especially materials from the city that were difficult to get delivered during these hard times, Rynmere post civil...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=2262 64th Vhalar 716
Returned to the house on the hill, Malcolm had then used one of his Mortalborn abilities to take away the pains of her pregnancy. Although grateful for the respite and relief his actions had only prompted her anger to surface.
They...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=981 60th of Ashan, 716

Vivian sighed as she looked out the windows of House Warrick. She didn't much enjoy the capital city, the crowded streets and general air of political jockeying and corruption that covered the city like a poisonous miasma making her...

27th Vhalar, Arc 716

It was hard to believe how much has happened ever since Saun. The uprising of the Brunan clan was as much a surprise as it was expected. The damages, however, were brutal. The city was on fire. Lives were lost and Ayissi dreaded every day that she was no out on the sea. It...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=100&image_id=3346 3rd Vhalar, 716 Live as if you were to die today, learn as though you would live forever. She had read that somewhere in the many and numerous trips to the library that she had taken. It was good advice, she supposed, but really it was a little odd....

33rd of Saun, Arc 716
midday

So this is the place, huh? Hart asked. He was standing on the front doorstep of the little house, his eyes alight, completely at ease.

Quio was standing beside him, and he was not at ease. Mostly he was trying not to fidget. He knew he looked out of place, shabbier...

Saun 34, Arc 716

Tristan was just sitting at a table in his favorite tavern, the Blacksmith Arms, drinking and playing cards with two of his questionable acquaintances, when somebody – no, a whole group of somebodies, trampled down the stairs, rudely interrupt his game. He looked up –and froze....

/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=1380 60th Vhalar 716

The ballroom was a battlefield. Something she had learnt from Zvezdana Venora and felt all the more poignant as the evening wore on and later into the night. No one was rude, no one said anything directly that could have been construed...

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There had been a knock at the door the same time for the past three days and each time Malcolm had ignored it. He didn't know what the time was, what the weather was like, or what day it was in Vhalar, only that he was hungry, exhausted,...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=1408 35th Vhalar

It had become something of a tradition for the crew to have breakfast together. Elyna wasn’t able to adventure on active duty and she knew that once the baby was born, she would be expected to provide a competent crew of Airmen and...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=100&image_id=3250 40th Saun, 716
Why she was doing this, she did not rightly know. She hadn't spoken to Master about it, not at all. When she woke that morning, she had not intended to do it. But somehow, in the ten trials since she had dreamed of Malcolm dying, she...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=1408 34th Vhalar

There was a saying that it never rained, but it poured. Elyna knew that she’d seen rain in spatters and gentle taps. In the slow stream of droplets down a pane of glass. She knew the mist of rain and the kiss of it against her face in the...