The piece of jewelry was old, hundreds of years old. Sometimes when he touched something, he just knew. Most instances, when challenged to discover which was an actual artifact and which was a cleverly constructed replica, Baylee had picked the artifact every time. It wasn’t just knowledge with h...
Tu’uua’col said, “even though you are his father.” He swam easily at King Vhaemas’s side through the palace in Voalidru. As usual, even though he’d been the king’s advisor and trusted friend for years, all the other court personnel stayed away from him. The merman king’s face turned bitter, and h...
He ate warmed-over chowder greedily from a beaten metal bowl, pausing only to chew the chunks offish. “Do you know who the pirates were that attacked your ship?” Captain Tynnel asked. The boy shook his head, still chewing. “No, sir.” One of the few Breezerunner’s captain had allowed into the room...
Other than the splintered masts and the cracked hull, she looked serviceable, and much of her crewincluding Amreehad survived the descent. Shang-Li also happily noted that Moonwhisper sat on one of the remaining yards. Somehow the owl had managed to remain with the ship and hadn’t gotten lost i...
The Russian black marketer had pulled out of sight even more in the wake of Evstafiev’s death. Heath and Gunney Towers had been hard-pressed to find the man even with the money Heath had spent looking for him. Bribery was a secondary and desperate economy that flowed through Kandahar. Finally, th...
Incredibly, the mercenaries were holding their own against the sahuagin, starting to push them back into the harbor in some areas. The sheer ferocity of the humans surprised her, and made her respect them as well. Out in the harbor proper, ships burned. Three of them listed heavily in the water, ...
Their panic initiated a wave of swift departures that sent out ripples through the club crowd. In only a few seconds, the entire bar was in an excitable state. I stopped where I was and slowly raised my hands. “Dwight Taylor, I am—” Before I could finish my introduction, as well as my intention t...
Tohl stared at the grinning visage of Borran Kiosk standing before him. The battlefield on which they stoodnear Morningstar Hollows, a small village northwest of Alaghônwas one Tohl had seen many times, but never during the time of the epic battle between forces of the living and hordes of unde...