Tag: fantasy

Careful Who You Ride With

As night fell, Caitlyn and Dreighton were awakened to eat.  The captain told Fawnlum’s party to go first, in the galley space in the hold.  Steadying themselves as they climbed below decks, guided by the swaying lights of the lanterns, they let the ship’s cook serve their stew and soft-tack. “Begging your pardon, miss,” the…


First Time Overseas

After jogging northeast for four days and making good time, Fawnlum reached the port town of Rijult. Now she and the rest of her company walked briskly along the docks of the trade city, to keep up with Sienna, who had secured passage across the Brierren Channel. “You’re not putting us in a leaky rowboat,…


The Local Dragon’s Past

She took a sip of her ale.  “I was involved in a certain conflict in the land of Calador, as some of the current generation knows.”  She spoke slowly, without a hint of her usual good humor. Maybe it was because she had powers of persuasion, or because it was a chance to learn something…


The Idiot Hero

After nightfall, Baneck and Torsar entered Morgenferrin Copprin’s tavern – – The Watchlight. Easily the biggest and swankiest place in Dumian, or the continent of Khostead, for that matter, it was right next to Lady Copprin’s inn and store. She had many other such businesses; but these she personally worked as her base of operations….


Consequences

Fawnlum sat with Baneck at the Lichners’ table, along with Baneck’s mother Amilyn, his father Granholm, Uncle Torsar, Saraty, and her own mighty father, Brajon Raijum. Standing next to the windows were Sienna, Honee, and Nepta. “Ho-ho!  You should have seen it, nephew,” Torsar chuckled. “Fawnlum had to leave, of course,” he continued.  “But ol’…