Recent content by Leah Kadashal

Ushak. After emerging from the field, Leah and Boesarius stepped into the village. A small settlement, naturally, some hundred souls or so; a place where the disappearance of six children—six of anyone, truly—would surely be devastating. But Leah feared not, not for the children who had been...

"It may be as I have been told: disconcerting and uncomfortable. It may be worse. It may be for you nothing at all." She began to reach out her hand. "The road ahead lies shrouded...until walked." Such was the nature of fate. It should have been as simple as it had always been in the War...

"I think that's for the best," Emil said. His tone was level, and though his anger was held firmly in check, his eyes couldn't hide it. Less did he care about the display of magic—sinful in its own right though it was—and more about what it could have meant for his daughter, if it had been done...

The tenor in the bakery changed the moment Nacht openly used his magic. Didem, with her gentle heart, changed least of all, her smile merely becoming a touch fragile, even frightened; Emil, back at work behind the bakery counter, nevertheless caught sight of the display and was now glaring...

"I'm glad you like it! It's the least we could do for a guest of Gild," Didem said, not missing a beat, her tone exactly as if Emil and Nacht had not stepped outside for a moment at all. And to Nacht's whispered question, Leah replied in an equal whisper, "All in due course." This occasion was...

Emil nodded. Pleased and satisfied. As much as a father who always held a spot in his heart for worrying over his child could be, anyway. ...I am nothing like that mage. "I'm glad to hear it." To Emil's dismay, there were now two such incidents, two such days which could be referred to with...

Leah just gave her usual smile, that unperturbed kind which suggested all was right with the world, in parting to Nacht as he followed Emil out through the bakery's back door. The alley was a bit narrow, enough for two men to walk beside one another shoulder-to-shoulder but no wider. Just the...

Leah slipped on the iron knuckles over her gloves, finding that with the fabric about her fingers it made for a more snug fit. "And what shall we do with Gundolgu if he does not talk?"

To hear Boesarius say it aloud, and this is always outside of my control, came as a cause for silent rejoicing, for it was an opportunity. Beneath his hardened exterior, did he lament this fact? Did the circumstances of Ushak, eluding his grasp before he had yet even the chance to try for the...

"It would be my pleasure," Didem said, settling on a Gildan salute—palm over heart, the bowing of her head—instead of a curtsy, and she rounded the counter and set about collecting more for Nacht than just a pastry onto the plate she'd procured. Ranger had followed Nacht over to his seat at the...

Leah's whip, augmented so with her Nullifying Enchantment, the one thing which might have prevented the disaster from happening by interrupting Ollie's magic, lashed out too late. It cracked against nothing but air. Alarm had become general throughout the entirety of the Forum. Some knew what...

"The peace among nations has made them, during my time in the College, wary of the inevitable wars to come," Leah said. The Armistice was something unprecedented, at least in recent history, in the Bloody Crescent—every Campanian power probably felt as wary as the Instructors at the War College...

Leah's mother had come around the counter and given Leah a hug, her father had turned around and was dusting loose powder from his hands, when Nacht spoke. "A guest!" said Leah's mother. "Well, salt and silver, Nacht! My name is Didem Kadashal." She looked to Leah then. "What is that ajam way...

"My ear is a fortress against simple offense," Leah said, smiling as she did. Like all Praetors, she too was trained for acuity in philosophical, theological, and rhetorical fields, and this education better equipped her to courteously and skillfully handle the sort of questions and topics...

Six children gone "missing" over the course of two months—this was the ruin which Boesarius alluded to, and which Leah herself had inquired of just a few moments prior. It stood to reason, then, that those seven sidhe responsible each sought a victim for themselves. For what purpose—who could...