the grand game

I crossed ten more ledges and just as many bridges, zigzagging between the two cliff faces, which I now realized were the two sides of a deep…

It’s a day for surprises, it seems. For a long time, I couldn’t move. Frozen in place and with my attention turned inwards, I replayed the Adjudicator’s…

I stepped out of the portal into a world enveloped by heavy banks of smog and was immediately assaulted by a barrage of Game messages. You have…

I didn’t build a den, not really. What I did was assemble a second sled with a closed top, tightly insulated with layers of furs and fat….

… Illusion deactivated. The air before me shimmered, transforming into a glittering wall of towering ice that marched off in both directions. Yelping in surprise at the…

In the coming days, the wolves and I roamed the icy plains. The pack was better than me at finding game. For one, they had the numbers…

They weren’t dire wolves. That much I could tell immediately from size  alone. None of the wolves  stood taller than waist high. They appeared bulkier though, but…

The bear charged again. I dove out of the way, and it rumbled past. Staying down, I tried to conceal myself in the snow. You have failed…

I woke again a few hours later, yawning and red-eyed. The events of last night seemed almost surreal, and for a moment I wondered if I hadn’t…