They all wanted a piece of her. She knew it, seeing their eyes, seeing the faint red glow of the edges of their scales as their blood became inflamed when they saw her. She even saw a few coiling off in the corners to talk to each other about possible sharing agreements--half a princess was better than none. She didn't know how they knew she was a ( Read more... )

The twist on the tale, as he always liked to say, came at the beginning, when nobody would have expected it. After that, it all seemed to settle out into the normal run of affairs, with a poor helpless princess and a fine knight charging to her rescue. The twist, though, as twists are wont to do, came around again at the end, when the knight ( Read more... )