Ymiden 37 720

Eternity didn't eat breakfast out because she planned on a big lunch and she had to leave the house in a hurry. Droopy, the dog her friend had left with her for a few days, had recently been acting strangely. Her friend had left her with fairly simple instructions. Just feed him...

52nd Day of Ymiden 722

Leander was walking along a path.

To the left of this path was a forest, deep and heavy, almost claustrophobic and oppressive in nature. Overwhelming in darkness, which was saying something because the darkness of the night was surrounding him. The problem was no...

Ashan 14 722

Bodies. Too many bodies. That’s what Eternity thought as she stood around in the line to get into the bank. The line started around the corner from the bank and circled around it, all the way to the rear of the institution. It was a huge line. Why was there a line? Eternity...

1st Vhalar, 722

Do you want to practice for our concert now?

Seira looked up from her book when she heard her sister's question. They were giving another concert in a few trials, so it seemed like a good idea to get as much practice in before the event as they could.

Yes. she responded...

Ashan 1 722

Continued from here!

Eternity's mind was racing with words—her own, those of her adversary—creating a jumbled mash that manifested as rage. Eternity squeezed her hands into balls and took her previous stance. With one foot forward and her hands were up.

The fact that his advice...

Ashan 1 722

As it got late, Eternity could feel how little money was still in her pockets. She had barely had any cash to spend when the night began, but she had been tricked into playing some card games before ultimately getting up from the table. She hadn't come there to gamble, she'd come...

26th of Saun 722

Despite his best assurances and cajoling of his apprentice, Renfreud was growing impatient with Rakvald. He wanted to learn magic, as Rakvald had promised, yet the master mage knew his student wasn't ready. Anymore than Rakvald was ready to be his teacher. So as he rested, he...

Vhalar 6 722

Eternity didn’t truly comprehend how much she had improved until she went up against her peers. She started winning, finally, and was one of the faster ones of the bunch. She couldn’t hit quite so hard but her lessons had taught her that a well-placed strike was just as if not...

Vhalar 6 722

Once Eternity’s instructor was satisfied with Eternity’s punching form, he finally decided it was ready for her to actually try fighting. He squared off with her and beckoned her with a finger. “Let’s fight. Do your best to land a hit.” He tossed aside his shirt as he liked to...

Vhalar 6 722

Continued from here

The next morning Eternity was the one to get woken up by a swift kick to the bed frame. She expected it to be her friend, Melna getting revenge on her and it was. Melna was muttering something but it was too early for Eternity to think straight. She knitted...

Vhalar 6 722

Continued from here

Eternity woke up Melna when morning came with a hard kick to her bed which jolted the woman awake. “You were talking in your sleep all night you know,” Eternity said with drowsiness. She still couldn’t believe she was in the military. The bed was terrible,...

Vhalar 6 722

Eternity had expected a handful of things and had fantasized about what her first day would be like if she ever joined the military. Of course, she didn’t want to work in the military but there she was, standing there with a bunch of other recruits. She tried to search her memory...

21st Saun, 722

It was snowing. Some of Seira's classmates stared out the window longingly at the fresh snow that covered the school yard in a beautiful cloak. Others grumbled quietly as they did their work. The teacher eyed them with a frown before sighing and going on with the history lesson....

35 Ymiden 722

Dan was less than half awake, when he thought he heard wind flapping in the sails of a boat on the nearby lake and the muffled yell of a captain calling orders. He sat up, gathered his spear from beside his bed, slung his knife belt around his hips, and stumbled out of his tent onto...

123rd of Ashan, Arc Unknown

CROW! Steven called out into the dark clearing, in the middle of that long forest. It was the only time they let him outside, out of his cell, out of the place he shared with Nurse and Ethyl. Steven couldn't be free until he closed his eyes, tired from the good...

26th of Saun 722

Lessons for Renfreud. Throw the man a bone.

26th of Saun 722

Run run run from hungry hungry Renfreud.

82nd of Ymiden 722

As he entered his dreamscape, Woe didn’t waste much time. In truth, he didn’t know how long he had, before an alarm awoke him or before Kandor decided he wasn’t worth the company and decided to execute him in his sleep. Somehow he doubted the latter was within the young man’s...

Ymiden 2nd 722

Through the dark, Oberan struggled, unseeing.

His legs screamed, his lungs labored. Every gasp of air was like swallowing fire, orange tongues lashing at his throat. Every breath returned from his body not a second later in a dry wheeze. Sharp pain stabbed underneath his...

2nd of Ymiden 722

Rabbit flesh rotted in the sun of the forests, as the outlaw Woe Sanderling left another dead animal in his wake. He didn't need the meat, not being hungry, starving, or poor. He was a fur-trader by vocation, and was an expert trapper. However, as fine as he was at fixing a...

Ymiden 2 722

The waves had been strong earlier in the day. It’d driven all but the most confident swimmers out of the water. The water had calmed down significantly since then but people were still hesitant to going back to swim. They feared another unexpected torrent of waves that had injured a...

Ymiden 1 722

Eternity looked into the sky. It was sunny, the air was salty. She didn’t know why but she felt like she was lying on sand instead of her bed. That’s when she remembered that she was at the beach! She sat up and saw that she was exactly where she was supposed to be. Everything started...

90 Zi'Da 719

You got it, Craig? Scotty asked, raising a brow in mirth at the friend on the opposite sofa.
Aye, Craig said with a lean back in his seat. The end of the joint between his lips burned a bright orange as he inhaled. It's lit.
Wonderin' if it'd take ya all arc, Drae laughed from...

1 Ymiden 722

The small boat rocked back and forth, violently but predictably. Maxine let a bend come to her knees to keep her balance as the vessel fought to remain buoyant on this strange water. It was too small a thing for the open ocean. It was a sturdy sailboat with a great black sail bulging...

120 Ashan 722

It started just as everything ended: in darkness.

The sky above was stygian and nearly opaque with murky shades of a nebulous storm. Lightning flashed between the foreboding haze, offering brief bursts of deep purples and blues to break up the blackness of it all. Thunder growled...