Recent content by Baise

Baise enjoyed a good mystery. Most of the time that was a malignant spirit or chaotic magic that was out of hand. It could be a person too. Everyone had secrets, but not everyone was interesting. Admittedly, Baise knew himself well enough to admit that handsome and interesting was more appealing...

“A courtier? You don't dress well enough," Baise declared. Jude rolled his eyes. He knew the tone of his adopted father trying to cause mischief through word play. "Not a common labourer. Perhaps a commander of a mercenary company?" Baise took a more serious guess. "Maybe a force camped...

"I've come from the west," Baise said. He was deliberately vague. "Jude and I travel around these days, but we were going to buy some supplies to head north. First to the town of Mattis and then on to Belgrath. We want to take the portal stone." He grinned at Jude who had made a good start...

Baise paused at the edge of the table. The man's stare was rather fierce, for just a moment. Baise was perfectly capable of being disarming, especially for such well construction individuals, but perhaps not when the tavern was listening. Baise smiled politely and took his chair. He slid one...

The atmosphere in the room settled down. Baise could still feel eyes on him, but the voices returned to their own conversations. He felt out of place and uncomfortable. Baise reminded himself that he had been through far worse. A mortal plaything in a fae realm was much further from safety...

Baise grimaced. He glanced across his shoulder. "I fed those things a scrap of bread and the stupid things..." Caw! "...the stupid things followed me in. Get the door please Jude." The three ravens flapped out of the door when Baise waved his hands at them. When the locals were being...

Avoiding the use of magic was easy enough. Baise had gone for a very long time without having any power over it. He had been in the fae realms for hundreds of years mastering his arts as a warlock for his lover. He was still out there, but Baise had turned his back on the courts after everything...

Baise smiled back. He enjoyed the poetic way the two women spoke. It was refreshing. People found him strange. Jude was strange too. Baise had spent a few hundred years in a fae grove away from the world. It changed a person. He also very much liked Aurelie's smile. Jude giggled softly. Baise...

"Bored gods." Baise's expression darkened for just a moment. It was a gathering of storm clouds that dispersed before the rain could start. He had known bored gods. He had loved one for a few hundred years. Baise smiled back. "Oh I don't think any ghosts have come here with me. If you've...

Jude decided to answer, tilting his head back to look up at the shop owner. "Dad says that it's best not to use magic in a city cos folk there are st..." "Superstitious," Baise interrupted. "Because people in cities - humans in particular - can be superstitious about magic. They say that a...

Her curiosity only inspired his own. As she leaned across the counter, Baise listened to every words. Except for one brief moment where he warned Jude against reaching for the shelves. Baise had eyes on the back of his head. The boy might not have been his by blood but he had his own...

Jude seems perfectly happy with a simple sprog of chamomile. At least for now, Baise thought to himself. Jude twirled the stem, sending the white petals spinning around yellow. "Why ever would anyone want to blend in?" he asked rhetorically. Baise stood tall and pretended to brush something...

"What a charming way to greet your customers!" Baise declared in his sing-song voice. He was as well dressed as ever. Today he had a pale pink tunic that hung from his slender shoulders and a pale linen waistcoat over it. "Judenotouching!" he hissed quickly. Behind Baise was the young boy...

Caw! Fabrice cried out from Baise's shoulder. Jude made a small disappointed sound and stepped back. "That's it now," Baise encouraged. He stayed at the entrance to the cave until Jude was by his side. He looked to Amaryllis. "I'm worried because every promise made by a faerie is just a...