“I’ll take Before and After for 1200, Alex.” “The days Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, often used as a blog post title to encourage comments on any topic.” With that unfunny Jeopardy joke out of the way[1], thanks for reading so … Continue reading
Eirik followed Baltasar out of the main hall, and they walked in silence until they reached the compound’s outer wall. They turned to walk along the path that ran in its shadow, and only then did Baltasar speak. “The letter … Continue reading
And so ends Three Arrivals. It comes to 9933 words. I sort of wish I could’ve eked another 77 out of it, but in editing I tend to take things out instead of putting them in. You may have noticed … Continue reading
The Hall of the Guild of Aendemancers was not as blatantly ostentatious as many of its counterparts. It was a walled compound, a couple of smallish outbuildings surrounding the main hall. The latter was the most impressive of the buildings … Continue reading
Profaning by various parts of the Twelve is relatively common, particularly among the upper class and moreso among mages. Given that I’m not given to being particularly profane, and that the average human doesn’t believe in a hell to damn … Continue reading
And so we make it through another week. Apparently I haven’t driven any readers away since last week, so I guess we can put that down in the good news column. Either my sole RSS subscriber has started to read … Continue reading
Eirik would have found it very difficult to explain the way the world looked to him right then, particularly to someone who had never consciously used magic, and even more particularly to someone without a solid technical idea of what … Continue reading
I probably made a mess of what I was trying to do with this entry. Oh well. Could be worse. For what it’s worth, this is also the longest entry so far: wc calls it 756 words. On a somewhat … Continue reading
As Eirik opened the door, the smell of fish hit him like a slap to the face. The Wandering Spirit was normally a fishing vessel, and even though her hold was empty on this trip, she would never be quite … Continue reading
I’ll give you three guesses on Captain Eriksson’s first name.
