I was wrongstrong-headedI know that now. Please, grant me another chance.” Sentenced to death, or a “fate worse than death,” whatever that might be, Amenstar fell to her knees before her hard-faced parents. Clasping her hands, tears streaming down her cheeks, she beseeched them, “On the grassla...
“Kill ‘em all!” The canny orcs chose a perfect spot for an ambush. This deep defile, almost a canyon, was the only pass through this stretch of the Barren Mountains. They’d hidden on ledges shrouded by gorse, hurled rocks onto travelers to stun and panic both horses and humans, then rushed from a...
He’d tumbled backward onto his rump into the woven seat, so his huge boots stuck out of the side of the tiny vehicle, almost as high as the crumpled wings. He was screaming that he didn’t want to fly. Knucklebones was shouting too. “Turn around, you idiot! Lean out there and grab that wing!” “Lea...
Fearsome as it was, the threat of the dragon receded. The beast could only destroy his body. A lord of the undead could destroy him utterly, body and soul and being. The lich that had been the One King seemed to revel in the humans’ terror. It raised healthy-looking hands above its hideous, rotte...