the cherry rose

Four...maybe five years... Gods, had it really been that long? It seemed like just yesterday she had dropped baby Lucinda off with Gwen and Cleo before taking a short trip to Fal'Addas. Of course, she told no one where she was going. It would only be a couple of days. Well the days turned to...

Eilerias sat quietly by the fireplace back in her own home, across from the Raven Club. She moved back in after the death of the club's owner, her former fiancé. She was knitting a tiny pair of yellow socks as she rocked in her rocking chair. Picking up another tiny yellow sock to compare the...

Evelyn lifted her gaze from the heavy tome that she had just finished reading and rubbed her eyes. Maester's Grimoire of Advanced Daemonology and the Application Thereof. It had been such an engrossing read that she hadn't noticed the passing of time. "Hmm... Morning already..." Hoisting herself...

The dull light of dawn filtered through a large window. Charity lay in bed, arms behind her head and a grin on her face. She had just returned home after a nighttime heist on the docks with her small gang who called themselves the Imps. Under the advice and guidance of her father Gilgamesh...

The sun shone cheerily in the cloudless blue sky and the carriage bumped along at a leisurely pace. Four women sat inside, on their way to their first family vacation. Charity laid on her back on the seat, her head in Honey's lap. She reached up and gently pushed Honey's hair out of her face...

Rocking back and forth on her heels, Charity stood outside of the Brass Bee, hands in her pockets, as she waited for her girlfriend to make an appearance. "Honey!" she cried joyously as the young woman rounded the corner. Charity looked around to make sure nobody was watching them, before she...

Charity unwillingly awoke as sunlight splashed across her face. She remembered receiving a letter from her father a few days prior asking her to meet with him and a feeling of dread immediately overcame her. Charity knew that she had been the one who had asked him to find time to meet with her...