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The mercenary was impatient and brash without any time for pleasantries, but his business would have to wait for now. He was in a new world with dangers beyond what he could possibly understand — ancient magics and legends from before time began, and now they were in the epicenter. This was a...

Mari guided them with the sheer swiftness of a sloth climbing trees. He pointed out shimmer snakes and mud crawlers and all manner of penta-pede, and pools of water dotting the cratered ground. They were clear as glass but he warned them not to drink their contents. Their meter was off and would...

He moved with precision and focus in his smooth quiet steps, slow and plodding but accurately placed on the uneven ground — a staircase hewn by hand and covered with trash and human filth. The air was heavy and moist and burned their noses with acrid fumes, though the slaves barely noticed. They...

It seemed Irina was human after all. Her smile cracked at the sudden outburst from her well meaning sister, innocent as she was, a decent person who'd been sheltered from the truth of their lives. That Hydralines were as monstrous as the ruthless lords back in Nye, and their accounts fattened...

The icebergs were nearly gone but the smaller ones were their own threat; shards thumped the deck like knives stabbing the wood. Ice fell in hailstorms from the waves high above him, death in spades he escaped with the twisting of his body and the swiftness of his steps. He fired another earth...

Kwame tensed when she maligned the man like a criminal in court — fool was the word and Kwame was one too, because under the same circumstances faced by the knight, he would've done the same thing. He followed chivalrous codes ignored by knights in the modern era, oaths of honor and vows no...

Damian was surprised when Ava approached the truth of his time travel, perhaps her muscles didn't use all the energy meant for her mind. He nodded at her with a raised brow and a lipless smile at her simple explanation, for even in its rudimentary fashion, she was closer than most would ever...

"Yeah well," the man mumbled in response. "I wasn't born yesterday, you'll wear him down until he tells you the name." He smiled imagining them around Kwame like buzzing flies. "Give us the name Kwame! The name! Give us the name Kwame!" Despite her taunts he would avoid that mistake. "While...

"Why should Yua worry? I only have a couple years before my brain turns to mush, might as well help while I can!" He leaned on his cane and smiled as snakes swarmed the warband. The men danced like fools spinning and leaping from the biting mirages, spears twirling and slashing through thin air...

He contemplated the woman on their trip across town, a malaise gripped him and she lingered on his mind, a sense of dread for his place in the world. That more existed beyond the known universe, a gnashing maw of demons and devils with bile oozing from their mouths, eyes burning for everything...

They were accompanied by wondrous bugs bigger than birds, though perhaps wondrous wasn't the word they would use. Indeed they were gigantic and many bore long barbed stingers, venomous mandibles and colorful patterns — nature's way of saying please leave my lawn. They eyed the stomping apes who...

"Thanks ain't enough mate," Zak was almost incomprehensible over the roaring sea, her teeth bared as ice advanced in massive waves, white chunks punching through the deck like fists. He smacked one away as it flew towards his face, barely avoiding a lethal blow. "Oh wonderful," Zak grunted...

Huracan was piecing this together like a puzzle in his mind. They were snakes from a ship and crashed into a sight, but how did that make any sense? Was someone punched in the eye? Were they ships from a site that crashed into a snake? He must've lost something in the translation process — or...

He clicked his teeth hearing what Anya said, how naive to think Hannah wasn't already imprisoned, poked and prodded by well intentioned men heading to hell. He offered a sympathetic smile and slowly shook his head, meeting her eyes with sorrow in his own. "Oh, my dear Anya." His words dripped...

Mischa hardly needed courage in her pencil pushing workshop, and only once had she seen violence of any kind — a pirate attack where she hid and hoped for the best. Her life was peaceful besides that one isolated incident, so what the hell did she know about war? Her stupidity hit like lightning...

"Oh was it not satisfactory?" Bean stepped back and ushered Nihall forward, beckoning him with exaggerated waves. "Go on then, master o' master of sign creation, may your sign be the greatest sign of all signs. Kingly even! May it burn into the retinas of those who see!" He stared at the singer...

The witch wheezed and sputtered and laughed like an old creaking door, a gravelly sound from the black, rotten bottom of her throat, bubbling with hatred and bile. Her tongue slid from her mouth and traced her lips as she smiled, black toothed with viscous ichor. "I will relish when she withers...

He paced the floor as anger rose in his stomach, a wave of warmth at their incessant noise. Like gnats buzzing in his skull. They were relentless and he had a nagging suspicion, that even if he argued with them again and again and again, they would come back with a dozen counters. "Would I tell...

Bean stopped in the middle of the street. He looked up at the cavernous ceiling high above them; glowing mushrooms were like stars in the deep darkness. He took a long breath and for the first time in many, many days, he actually sounded bitter — sharpened with hatred for the bard. "I hate him...

Huracan had no idea what Spivey was screaming about, but he doubted this was a friendly greeting. He wasn't sure why the man was mad though — was Huracan supposed to have telepathic powers? To see the future and know who crossed his path? To stand and fight killers with his bare hands? His...