They say that, long ago in a time gone by, when people whispered her name on their lips, it was in prayer, not in fear.

My shattering knee echoed through the room to accompany the screams as her hammer finished its arc. I think the screams were mine. I couldn’t be sure though.

It was hard to imagine the people hearing her name in the streets and feeling… hope? That’s what she was once. Apparently...

There he was, running towards the the gate. He would save us as he always does. He just needed me to buy them time. He’ll come back. He always comes back.

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…

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Why wasn’t he coming back? He freed the prisoners. They won the day. Why wasn’t he coming back.

Any second now.

The bridge started to lift. Why is he not coming back?

You’re running in the wrong direction. I wanted to scream after you....

Not to be cruel to your crooked heart but

Neither you

Nor I, ever lived in a world where we

Never loved each other.

Nowhere in the great vast universe

Nor in

No time did we

Not live solely to let our souls meet.

Never, I know, you want to hear that

Neither one of us can escape the

Never ending curse of

Not being alone.

Nevertheless I say to you be

Not bitter my darling that there is

Nothin...

“I warned you that you didn’t know what you were doing! We all warned you!” Archmage Leonel whirled on her with barely restrained fury. “But you always have to know better, don’t you? Play with powers you can barely comprehend.”

Selene simply focused on her breathing as her eyes scanned the room full of bodies, refusing to let the devastation show on her face. Refused to give Leonel the satisfact...

“You’ve been building up the courage to knock for the last fifteen minutes Julian, if you were going to leave you’d have already done so.” The black-clad sorceress finished off a signature at the bottom of a letter, looking over the parchment worth more than a peasant earns a year at the farmlands. “You stand there any longer and I’ll just read your mind for the message instead.”

The mage opened t...

1st of Rainfell

The Grand Enchanter sent for me today, informing me that my last trial not only placed me first - as expected - but that it caught the attention of the Duke of Tala’an. I didn’t bother arguing with him about taking on the job. He let my family take me out for far too many banquets for me to have any space for any arguing. That means I’m spending the rest of tonight preparing for a ...

She couldn’t scream anymore. She tore her voice apart days ago. Was it days? Longer? She couldn’t tell anymore. That didn’t mean her body didn’t try every time. Didn’t mean she didn’t scream in pain to the point she’d be choking on her own blood.

They tell you of the heroes who are captured. How they eventually give in to the pain. That they are too weak to fight or stay conscious. Or they speak ...

Okay I know you think that killing me will please her. But trust me. It won’t.

Just think about it for a second. In less than 5 minutes the timer will reach zero and I’ll be gone. And you’ll have done your task, your final task before she finally loves you the way you love her. But how many times has she promised this? How many times did you hear the words ‘one more task’?

You can kill me. Wait ...