the grand game

Now that Nyra understood becoming a player wasn’t an automatic death sentence, she looked on the notion more favorably. In fact, if the eager glint in her…

“A follower…” Nyra mused, her brows crinkled. “I’m assuming you don’t mean in the general sense of the word?” My lips twitched. “No, I’m referring to what…

Note, I’ve taken the comments in the last chapter onboard and have made a small, but significant change to the last lines of it. Instead of saying,…

I didn’t quite slam the door behind me. Matters were not proceeding as I had hoped, and instead of a grateful council, I was staring down the…

I froze. I hadn’t heard right. I couldn’t have. “Say that again,” I whispered. “The Adjudicator, he asked me to—” You have teleported 4 yards. I blurred…

Day Thirty in Draven’s Reach All eyes in the room were on me, and along the edges, I sensed the guards jerk into belated movement. “Back,” the…

Rumors traveled fast, and a host of orcish and dwarven dignitaries waylaid us en route to the council hall. Before the chief, thane, or myself had a…

Not unexpectedly, I failed to charm Castor, but it was not him I had intended on bewitching anyway. “Attack,” I barked, tugging on the mental leash I’d…

I sagged down onto the corpse. “Well, that wasn’t too hard, was it?” I murmured. Ghost looked at me askance, unable to tell if I was joking….