last stand

CORTOS "Who is in command here?" asked Kristen. One of the surviving Guardsmen, known aptly by his fellows as "Cold Blood", took a perfunctory glance around. And then he said, "You are, ma'am." Kristen tried to get a reckoning of their number, the Guardsmen, and she found the task shockingly...

When Elizabeth awoke, the world was dark. It took her a few moments to realize she was presently face-first in freshly-trampled soil, at which she slowly raised her head, rolling onto her back and wiping some of the dirt and blood off her face with her gloved hand before really opening her eyes...

"This was just the first wave..." the Guard Lieutenant repeated the scout's report, his voice hollow with horror. Strewn all about him, Zael, the other Initiates and the surviving few Guardsmen were corpses and corpses of goblins. One could walk for fifty paces in any direction and not touch the...

Raigryn quill scratched away at the parchment. There was little noise to join the rhythm of his handwriting flowing across the page. There was almost no breeze to rattle the windows and the house was on the edge of the town, away from the bustle. The small town of Brillen-on-water spanned both...