On the plain below, Ashur paced angrily, stamping the muddy earth. The flames of his eyes sizzled and flared, casting pools of rich amber light in the supernatural darkness. A half score of bodies lay scattered on the wet, cold ground, men who had tried to drive the unicorn away. Their screams st...
Her neck throbbed with a dull pain; her back felt stiff. One arm tingled from loss of feeling where her head rested on it. She opened her eyes slowly ... to gaze directly into Onokratos's eyes. She didn't flinch or look away. She'd had time to think; sleep had calmed her. Eyes are windows to the ...
Despite the old man's blindness and all the gray hair and the beard, there was no doubt it was his former guardian. But what had happened to his eyes? "Drushen!" he exclaimed, grasping the old man's shoulder. "It's Innowen!" Drushen turned his face upward toward the voice, his jaw falling slack. ...
Streamers of iodine and purple clouds laced the sky, wispy fingers that did nothing to hold back night's progress. Frost waved a weary hand at the horde of insects that buzzed around her face, in her ears. The plain that fostered no other life was a home for countless varieties of insects: ants, ...