Every heart holds answers the mind cannot see.

I have Opened the Way. Papaver and psilocybin are my guides. Mana screams in my veins. Music thunders through my bones. And the answer is just beyond my grasp.

I know it's out there. Deep in the wilderness, deep inside me. Living days all at once. A singularity of time and space. The forest opens before ( Read more... )

I'm still catching my breath from Feralas.

There's so much processing to do. Kae can pretend to be squeamish all he likes - but bovine lung tissue is the best thing for the job. Alchemy isn't all flower-picking and puffs of coloured smoke and turning iron into gold, after all; but at the mere expense of getting one's hands dirty alchemy can ( Read more... )

Likes & Dislikes Questions

1. What hobbies do you have? Fishing, cooking, pharmaceutical research and development ((read: DRUGS)), getting hopped up on hallucinogenic stimulants and going into the deep woods for a week to hunt game with a giant cat or wolf companion.

2. Who is your closest mundane friend? Describe them and how you ( Read more... )

2.

My knight in shining armour. It sounds juvenile, doesn't it, something out of a storybook? Yet there he stands, leaning over a flanged mace nearly as long as I am tall, and his platemaille gleams in the starlight. Of course, tonight it's not so much the plates having been polished that makes them shine as the remnants of the battle we just ( Read more... )

Half a century of study under a master had taught him patience. He had tended scores of generations of plants for subtle changes. He had tracked the seasons and weather and stars for the right conditions, waited years for the single perfect bloom.

He thought he knew.
( Returning to his homeland.... )