Recent content by Kestrel

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    Private Tales Old Flames Never Die

    Kestrel wasn’t looking him, not initially, so it was the shift of the texture underneath her feet, the sudden slosh of tangy water around her ankles, that drew her from her reverie, the tingling of… of something along her nerves. Her senses screamed, screamed at the wrongness, at the horror of...
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    Private Tales Old Flames Never Die

    His response sent her stepping backwards, attack rebuffed, but even as he flourished she reacted. There, the glint of silver coursing through the air, two throwing daggers lancing through and burying in his sleeves - pinning them to the wall behind him. He could get free, but it would take him a...
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    Private Tales Old Flames Never Die

    Ping, PING! Went the blades as the man in front of her deflected them. The half-elf jumped back, amethyst eyes narrowing as she took in the sudden change in the man in front of her, the mannerisms, the tone of voice, even the ease with which he defending himself different than it had been a...
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    Private Tales Old Flames Never Die

    That voice. It was… weird. Darker. Not… like him. She’d never heard him sound like that, never seen that cold look in his eye as he turned his attention to her, dark magic flowing out of him and affecting her daggers… and for a moment, it threw her, yanking her blades back away from him as she...
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    Private Tales Old Flames Never Die

    It wasn’t exactly a clang, but it was a ping as her dagger met… whatever it was he’d done to block her. It wasn’t fire, she was prepared for him to use the Blackfyre against her, it was just… black. And it earned a second - a split second - of hesitation from her as she stared at the...
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    Private Tales Old Flames Never Die

    The pirate captain’s stumble took him several steps away from the masked man, at an angle to the attacker’s point of origin… … and revealing the slim figure just behind him. She was against the wall, leaned back against it with her hands braced… like she’d wanted to back up, but the door wasn't...
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    Private Tales Old Flames Never Die

    The creak of the door into the open room was so loud, so loud, ratcheting through the silence of the bedroom, allowing the din of the fighting outside to spill in along with the light from the hall and… … nothing else? Just that door ajar, the man standing in the room silhouetted as a lack...
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    Private Tales Old Flames Never Die

    The hallway was long, interrupted by statues and opulent decor but otherwise empty, squares of moonlight patched on the carpet from the open windows; if the curtains had been drawn, it would have been more difficult for them, trying to find their way without any visible source of light. Kes’s...
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    Private Tales Old Flames Never Die

    It was a deep rhythm, the kind she could feel in her bones, the kind she could just sink into - hah, sink. Almost. The back and forth, the rolling pass of each moment with the creaking of the sails overhead and the snap of lines being jerked taut in the breeze. She could hear the splash of the...
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    Private Tales Old Flames Never Die

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    Private Tales Where Nightmares Fade and Dreams Bloom

    The dark-haired half-elf took a slow, deep breath at her captain’s question. Can you manage just a little longer… The strain was incredible, but it wasn’t like a weight she was carrying. It was like swimming through thick molasses, each movement bogged down by the sheer effort of keeping it...
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    Private Tales Where Nightmares Fade and Dreams Bloom

    The half-elf darted into the door as soon as her beloved captain had cracked enough room, her hand trailing along his arm as she did so to come to rest on his upper back. The Blackfyre was boosting her abilities, making it easier to keep the cloak of magic up around them both, but she didn’t...
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    Private Tales Where Nightmares Fade and Dreams Bloom

    Kes’s attention was drawn from the tower to the form of the Blackfyre as it spoke, her eyebrows arching slightly… and then there was a … tendril, reaching out for her, and her shoulders squared in alarm, but they were standing in full visibility of at least a dozen guards and Gavin had her other...
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    Private Tales Where Nightmares Fade and Dreams Bloom

    Kes’s amethyst eyes swept to the tower in question, taking a good, long look at it. It was higher than the walls around it, solid stone, with minimal windows except at the very top. Its smooth facade meant that they wouldn’t be able to scale it easily from the outside, which meant going in...
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    Private Tales Where Nightmares Fade and Dreams Bloom

    Kes wrapped her hands around the lapels of Gavin’s jacket, crisscrossed and secure, a grip that would afford her security without the risk of choking Gavin out. She had no idea what the Blackfyre had planned, but from the bickering that she was hearing the one side of, neither did Gavin… so it...