V.
Adolescence is an arduous affair regardless of your species. Apparently the shorter-lived ones only have to deal with a few years of it but still complain - and I suppose that having one's physiology so drastically changed in less than a decade would make anyone whinge. On the other hand I don't think the humans know how easy they have it. ( Read more... )

Part five of Slide Rule is so long I've split it up into two entries for ease of reading. 9_6

5.
For a place of tragedy and warfare, the upper ruins of Lordaeron contain some reasonably intact property, and those houses clean up nicely. My new quarters may never have the grace or flare of elven architecture, nor could all the festooning in the ( Read more... )

4.
Tonight we hunt in Feralas. This wilderness was our haven of choice for our first trysts, a lifetime ago when I was teaching Khaavren to love. We've spent the evening hunting sprite darter eggs without success, then hiked up to a secret place to revisit memories of each other. Our hands and lips tremble as if we're touching for the first ( Read more... )

3.
Some nights I can't stay asleep due to nightmares. Some night's it's simple insomnia. Some nights it's Khaavren. I don't mind those nights at all.

We've snuck into some troll ruins in the highlands of Arathi, not far from the little farm we invade from time to time. It's not too cold this time of year, and it's remote, and when we make love ( 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... )

Slide Rule is a work-in-progress. It's a story about love, sex, silence, and spiders that weaves between past, present, and future - an examination of where Ori is, how he got there, and where he's going. Each part is divided between two sections: one present, one past. Or at least it was "present" when I began writing it; in game terms, the ( Read more... )