Recent content by Raf

Time itself seemed to slow. Black spots flickered into existence, the crushing push and pull of gravity encasing the area as Raf and Kalix fought against one another. The struggle seemed to loom within the aether of existence itself. Tearing at the very fabric of reality and slowly beginning to...

Panic rose in his chest. It was an emotion that pierced so suddenly and quickly that he wasn't sure how to process it. Over the years he had dulled himself to the world. Everything around him had been part and parceled. Compartmentalization had been the way he had survived the Academy. All the...

Raf stood as still as an oak as Kristen edged closer to him, his face an unremarkable mask as Alistair and Kalix fought. He flinched ever so slightly as the latter jabbed his finger into the former's chest. Watched as Alistair leaned in and whispered towards Kalix. His features impassive, his...

Raf found that once more the cynicism which had been so ingrained in him proved true. Banick didn't care to avenge these people, much to Kristen's chagrin. He watched the nobles brief outburst, shaking his head once more and thinking again how nice it was to have someone around that actually...

"Guess it's easier than digging around the ashes." Raf remarked to Kalix as he called this little endeavor a waste of time. A part of him agreed, if only because the Elven woman seemed to babbling a mile a minute in a language he could absolutely not understand. The Academy didn't exactly...

Raf slowly tilted his head in a nod. His eyes lingered on the corpse within the room for a minute longer, lips thinning as though he were about to say something. Then slowly he shook his head and motioned for the others. A thousand questions swirled in his head. What had those things been...

Raf wanted to ask a dozen questions, wanted to know what the fuck they had just stumbled upon and why it was there. Before he could offer a single syllable though Kalix took charge. His voice was devoid of the usual bluster, and the firmness of his tone made the others fall into line without...

A loud snap suddenly rang up just as Raf stepped forward to finish the creature Kristen was dragging up the airs. The sound echoed out before he could take another step however, and the creatures neck was suddenly depressed and torn away by the ethereal chains holding it's throat. A last...

The weight of gravity lashed down onto the hulking creature. His lips turning to a scowl and a struggled groan escaping from his throat. He half turned towards Raf, as if trying to understand the magic, then spotted Kalix. Rage flickered over his features. The man’s attention turned, his hand...

Raf was entirely focused upon the arcane bolts that surged through the air. Vaguely, just at the edge of his senses he heard a yelp. A cry of pain likely jumping from one of the bolts victims. Yet he couldn't pull his eyes away. The moment that his gaze slipped away so would the magic. So he...

Hearing his name seemed to snap him out of the strange trance. That hollowness within him suddenly expanding and wrapping around him as he remembered not to care. Remembered that such feelings had been beaten out of him. Mouth fell open to speak, but before he could answer Alistair the...

Raf did not hear the cries of desperation from the Elven woman. Nor would he have understood them if he had. The Academy had never stressed the understanding of language, had never pressed them to learn anything that might not benefit them in war. It was the way of things. Lips thinned as he...

"Kress." Raf had seen brutality before, they all had, but that didn't make what lay before them any easier. He felt bile rising in his throat for a brief moment, fingers tightening on the reins of his horse. Lips thinned and he let out a quiet curse as he pulled himself forward. There wasn't...

Raf wasn't the smartest Initiate. He was certainly not the most dedicated. But not easy he utterly incompetent. Kristen's shining optimism obscured her vision, but Kalix and Alistair were likely thinking the exact same thing that Raf was. Years of training, studying, and being pressed into...

Raf flinched as Kristen wrapped her arms around him. He expected a punch to the side, a knife buried in his back, some sort of...violence that would flicker out from the other Initiate. Before he could get over the fact that nothing came, Kristen already pulled away and offered a warm smile...