They spread like mice through fertile fields and overtook the land. – Balladamned (A Zythian song) A dash of fizzing green liquid splashed across pale white flesh and puckered red, scabbed-over wounds. Queen Corydalis gasped, and then sputtered and flopped, atop the frozen crimson altar block to ...
Jenka knew it was Aikira’s. His rage formed a head and exploded from his chest out through his arms and down the length of his sword. It was all Aikira and Marcherion could do to avoid the impressive sizzling streaks of emerald energy that were blasting seemingly at random out of the end of Jenka...
His three flat barges were in a line gliding swiftly through the narrow channel, approaching the formation from the west. As Bzorch had commanded, they split up. Hodge’s group, with two dragon gun crews and fifty of the best men, made a wide arc around the westward side of the spire. The two grou...
He was slung and whipped around as his dragon fought with tooth and claw to break the grip around its lower midsection. He saw the mighty frost wyrm trying to carry Zah away from the area. He wanted to help Zah. He owed her his life for what she’d done out on that distant island. She’d heedlessly...
“I think she, or more likely the place, is calling out to me. The truth is, the second journey I was hinting to you about was for us to travel up into the peaks to seek out the supposed ice palace Skully told me about. That’s why I wasn’t sure you’d want to go. I’ve been damn curious about it sin...
He was feeling as well as he had since before the Brawl, despite the wet and gloomy weather. If Loudin, or Mikahl, had seen him coming, then most likely they would have set a trap or an ambush for him, but they didn’t catch sight of him until he topped the ridge opposite t...