Recent content by Raea Stormcrow

She waited, the moment stretching long enough to become uncomfortable, eyes scanning the shadowy forest for any other threat. When none presented itself, she let loose a breath she did not realize she had been holding and lowered her bow. Her blood still sang with adrenaline. "You're welcome. I...

The high-pitched whistle of an arrow in flight, a flash of feather and wood. The shaft passed a foot from the villains head, its wind of passage stirring his hair. "Drop the sword and step back. Then we can have a nice fireside chat about gloating over your victory before you actually have a...

She started at the unfamiliar voice, and found that she had...drifted in her thoughts, and lost her situational awareness for a time. A bad habit in some parts of the world, she knew, although...she had not really experienced those place yet. Might never, come to it. Blinking, she did not look...

She pulled her hood close, keeping her face in deep shadow, and moved along. This was Alliria, her home. This was Alliria, the place she had abandoned in her search for some final adventure at the end of her life - a life cut short by illness and troubles that remained inexplicable to those of...

"There are some that would say the same of me," she said in a quiet voice. "The evil you speak of is not Dornoch's sin alone. There are those who would point to the wealthy elites of Alliria and cry out against us for the very same crime..." She straightened, and started walking again. Slow...

She nodded, not needing more than that to understand. There was an understanding of the difference in class, but some things could be found no matter the class involved. Her suffering was not equal, simply different. "Any place that sets store by being man or woman is a strange place," Raea...

She shook her head slowly. "Until some few weeks ago, never have I been outside of Alliria," she said. "I've heard of it. A strange place with strange ideas," she added. A nation where women reigned supreme, and men were treated as lesser citizens at the best, and as second class citizens at...

"Didn't plan to," she replied. There was only the barest trace of forced joviality to it. She had, well and truly, long ago come to grips with her situation. Some days the sting was more noticeable than others, but there was no doubt in her mind of the final destination and its proximity...

But he was not continuing in the direction he had come from; he moved past them, ignoring the road and made to head into the timber opposite them. Zulryn's soothing words did not even appear to reach the fellow; he muttered and spoke to himself in gibberish words that made no sense. And then...

"I do not know," she said honestly of the first question. Truth be told, she was doing a rather poor job of being something or someone meaningful to others. Add that she was not entirely certain of the real motive behind putting her neck on the line for others... The subject material was...

"Its not okay," the man panted at Zulryn, his eyes wild and unfocused. "They'll get into your mind, burrow down into it. Make...make..." Raea stepped back from the pair, her own eyes wide. The raw terror in his voice was enough to cause her to be uneasy. What could drive someone to such...

"Maybe," she said slowly and not entirely convinced. "I...have come to the conclusion that it is selfish of me to have done as I have done," she said. She thought of her parents, of whom their protectiveness was simply a product born out of their love for her. She had left, for better or for...

"Don't do anything yet," she answered simply. She saw the shape moving through the woods, too, but it remained at the edge of sight, almost as though it were little more than a shadow. It was quite frankly spooky, and she did not like it at all. She heard the sound that Zulryn had been hearing...

Like a ghostly whisper on the wind. There seemed to be some kind of sense to it, as if it were trying to tell her something....but she could not make it out. She nodded to Zulryn's question, and looked into the woods. There seemed no one source for the sound - a song, it almost seemed...

The sun felt wonderful. It always did, during the right time of year; when summer came on, it would be overwhelming, the sticky heat making every moment uncomfortable. Well, almost every moment. She moved slowly and carefully, always aware that every step might deposit her on the ground. It was...