I returned shortly before dawn, making my way carefully up the wall and crawling back through the window. My departure seemed to have gone unnoticed: the room appeared to be undisturbed and my door was still bolted. I had feared that my absence would worry […]
Night has fallen and Alarca and Geor are still speaking with the others. I tried to join them but Geor ushered me back to my room assuring me all was right and that I should rest. It’s frustrating sitting here not knowing what horrors take […]
From my room I can see little in the fading twilight but the alarm bell continues to ring. It is a distant and lonely sound, a child crying out in the night. Geor has spoken of a neighboring town only an hour’s journey away. I […]
We have safely arrived! I cannot believe that I, or I should say that we, made it out of the forest. After finding the winding road that runs through those trees we made quicker progress and came upon a small inn. The inn is run […]
Dermond’s wound is infected. I fear for his life.
After his collapse I combed through the forest praying to find anything that could help him until we reached a real healer. My efforts were fruitless. All that grew around us were the Elder Flowers Dermond had […]
My memories of the time after the incident in the cave were fractured into pieces by the flat of Dermond’s sword. I shall do my best to recount what befell us.
I opened my eyes. Surprising, so surprising for I had believed in the cave that […]
This afternoon we broke our steady march to water the horses and rest our feet. Dermond led the cart off the path and, after passing through a thick grove of trees, I was pleased to discover he had brought us to the bank of a […]
I was torn from a web a dreams that night by the howl of a beast. I lit the small lantern I had requisitioned from the university and, drawing a cloak around my shoulders, stepped from my tent. My companions had done the same. They […]
Just outside of the city and a few paces off the main road I stumbled across a beautiful bloom of wildflowers, they were many colored and slightly angular. They grew in connected patches away from the shade. I thought I knew all the plant life […]
I have only fragments of memories from my time in the cave: noises, screams, breath in the dark, the thick and rich smell of rot, the unearthly glow of the mushrooms deeper within… I shall try to recount them as best as I am able.
It […]
