‘No!  You cannot hope to beat him like this,’ Tralagar urgently hissed in the back of Kre’s mind. “Now you decide to talk?!” Kre snapped back.  The fury of his retort caused Barry to pause in his advance and look at the boy quizzically, but the pause didn’t last long, and he took another step...Read More

Of all the things that he imagined might happen while he was manning the base, this hadn’t been on his list.  As he considered his luck and the odd way in which the absolute worst things seemed to happen to him lately, he supposed that he really should have anticipated this. “Master Beleg stepped out...Read More

They weren’t gone long before Kre started to imagine all the ways in which this whole thing could go wrong.  Aside from the obvious one where any one of them could get caught out of doors after hours, which would have serious unknown repercussions, there were at least a dozen others that started to fog...Read More

They had come up with a decent plan, as far as Kre could tell. Admittedly he had no prior experience with situations like this, so he had no baseline for what they should be doing or how they should be doing it. Still, Beleg, Dain, and even Virryn seemed happy with the plan, so he...Read More

“That said,” Beleg rumbled, “we need help too.  There are just the three of us, and this is a job for an army.  Yahaestra is quite possibly the worst place in these lands to do what we intend, but we have little choice of our own.  We are looking for friends of ours and can...Read More

Dain nodded, sitting himself down in one of the chairs and partaking of the small meal in front of him.  “We must be quick about it then, as I am expected back in the stands soon.  I only came to inform you that you would not be fighting this night.  There were a number of…...Read More

“Ahehee’, azee’ baa nihi,” Dain murmured to Grivallt.  The Ylveryan bowed low, and Dain returned it with a tilt of his head.  “The honored Master speaks the old tongue as well as any elf.  I shall wait outside for when the Master is ready to depart again,” Grivallt replied, taking a step to the side...Read More

A sudden thought struck Kre, and he blurted it out without thinking overmuch on it.  “Is it just those of you… uh… working for the weapons collector?”  He wasn’t sure what to call it exactly and he wasn’t terribly comfortable calling it out for what it was. Virryn paused a moment and finally nodded.  That...Read More

Kre looked up at Beleg, wondering how he could ask about what was happening without breaking their little master and servant act.  He had an immediate flash of his first meetimg with Kitalia given how blunt and straight forward this Ylveryan woman was acting, and he briefly wondered if the two were related.  As the...Read More

“That worthless pig of a man,” Beleg snarled as the two walked towards their assigned room.  “Slurring the Ylveryan people is one thing, and a terrible thing it is, but to keep slaves?  That’s a sin worthy of the lowest plane of hell.” “Is it really that pervasive?  We never heard much about slavery up...Read More