They grabbed me as I was checking the fish traps this morning.

It’s always my job to check traps, while my twin brother Jack tends the garden, and Dad milks the goats and feeds the chickens. We’ve had this routine for years— ever since mom died.

We’ve lived in our tiny cottage in the middle of the woods since Jack and I were small. It isn’t much, but it keeps us safe and warm through the hars...

Leyra frowned as her gaze fell on the creature at her feet. She had never seen anything like it in Herap, or in any of the other realms she’d been sent to in the last 4 earth years.

The creature’s body was portly, and covered by thick layers of green and blue fur. Pink spikes meandered from the top of its head, all the way to its nub tail. Four lidded cerulean eyes met hers, as the creature ex...