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Sometimes Secrets Help Us; Sometimes They Save Our Lives

Baneck carefully tapped the rune into the cooling lump of iron, under Honee’s watchful gaze.  On the other side of the forge, Granholm lifted a similar piece of iron out of the steaming water.  He broke the metal apart, revealing the silvery dragon’s scale contained within. In the orange glow of the forge’s fire, there…


The Plot Thickens

Though the coming daylight was murky, it still let them see in normal light again. “What was that all about?” Sienna groused, as they quickly gathered up. “I have no idea,” Lucas answered. “Caitlyn, go into those woods and see how many were in there,” Fawnlum said.  “Sienna, go with her.  Then catch up.  We’ll…


Would Someone Come Fight Us, Please?

Fawnlum led the way across the Serod stream.  She had not dallied in town.  Despite everyone’s muted misgivings, she led her troupe back into the Windsaeve, bearing Lucas’ new wares.  The view was in black and white and shades of gray.  But it was working just as Lucas said it would:  the thin silver headbands…


Friends Face the Darkness Together

Fawnlum added a couple large sticks to the fire, very thankful the streams were still safe.  But they were not the haunt of their quarry, so after having trekked east along the Gonall for a couple days, she had led them south on a game trail. In the darkness – the pitch-black nighttime – they…


Family Secret

The clatter of wheels rang emptily in the night, as Baneck hid under the canvas in the horse-drawn cart, and Torsar guided them out of Dumian and toward Khostead’s western rocky shore. Granholm continued refining orgite in the Lichner forge, while Honee let herself be seen coming and going around the house, giving the illusion…


First Encounter

Caitlyn sat on the tree limb, more than 12 feet above the ground, with a small torch tacked into the trunk beside her, burning low.  She looked away from all the sources of light, preserving her night vision. Fawnlum could feel the oppressive atmosphere filling the night around them.  She glared into the darkness, then…


We’re Not Alone

“The magic of the Ice Queen,” she quietly said, to everyone’s captivated attention, “is a prize which some will stop at nothing to possess.  Even our old warding-totems won’t stop all of them.  How will you arm her, so no wizard, rogue, or vengeful dragon can lay her low, as she stands between you and…


The Danger Back Home

It was cool and clear, and the night air had an especially crisp quality. Baneck looked up as his father Granholm entered the house, after having hung an iron totem carved with magic runes to prevent eavesdropping, above the door of the family home. Then he sat, joining Baneck, Amilyn, Baneck’s younger sister Lynnia, and…


Opportunity in the Rough

Loray read the note, and choked back sobs, as she buried her face in her hands. “Thank you,” was all she could say. The glisten of tears in the corners of her eyes reminded him of his starry sky. He had asked himself this question before, many times, as he had felt the poisoning of…


The Deep-cover Agent

The white-bearded wizard Exedo straightened the nape of his robe in the hallway mirror, as his fellow wizard happened to pass by. “You know you don’t have to spend so much attention on your appearance.  Not unless you want to impress a certain somebody.” “I have no idea what you’re talking about.” “She’s too young…