It was a quiet eve, with snow heavy upon the grounds outside. One that made a woman glad that she had no business outdoors that she could not delay. And so, she was...puttering. She'd rearranged a counter top to clear it so that the lights given to her might sit above ( Read more... )

Midwinter gifting was never a chore in Khemrys's eyes, far from. No, it was a pleasure, and a task with which to fill the empty hours of winter when it was folly to work outdoors as was her wont ( Read more... )

Khemrys paused, arms full of sheets on the way to the laundry room. She had thought ( Read more... )

She believed she had everything set. The door, as always, was open, but one of her work tables was now covered in a cloth and set about with plates and bowls. The cot was neatly made up, the shelves around were clean and well clear of clutter. t was neat. It was tidy. It was...empty. She had grown far too use to company on the road, far to used to ( Read more... )

The Wastes were a vast stretch of devesatation, not as a desert would be, with arid life in plenty for those who know how to look, no but in life gone wrong, twisted as even the very bones of the land had been. blasted stone littered the vast exapanse, and swelling sand dunes dotted with ruins...but also there were pockets of life. Turgid, swollen ( Read more... )

It's going to be a cloudy day, the sky a drab, overcast grey. The early morning chill is still making its presence felt, to the group's discomfort. Luckily, it hasn't rained, so the going is still relatively easy ( Read more... )

[I'll put in a link tag from what ever post we use to get out of Milliways here *grins*]Arvon was a wild land, little would Khemrys know it, the last sanctuary of the Old Blood, the place of final retreat once their lands had become home to a new kind, a new breed with little power and shorter lives ( Read more... )

She could feel it, and she was suprise dno one else showed at least the faintest signs of agitation. She knew the shifters here, she knew that they too were moon tied...so why did the moon rising in the late afternoon sky not tug at them until they could hardly breath?

There was so much to do, so much to prepare, to let go and yet...she coudl no ( Read more... )

Stumbling, I leaped across the outcropping and spied a deep fissure in the rock ahead. I knew I could squeeze myself in easily, and from there either hide from his piercing gaze or else render myself invulnerable to sword thrust or dart blast, for no sunlight broke that gloom. There would surely be some means of egress, would there not? I tried ( Read more... )