29: Prophecy Fulfilled "Yes Shiva?" asked High Councillor Sigmund. "High Council, the prophecy is coming to pass. The object of the prophecy is fighting the Queen as we speak," said Shiva. "How did he get through all the guards?" asked Sigmund "There weren't many. Queen Regina sent most of them off someplace else because there was an attack on the other...
Edovan was sure he had died and gone to paradise. Not Sovngarde, that old school Nord concept of the afterlife for brave and valiant warriors, who feast forever in a giant mead hall with the heroes of olde. No, this was his own PERSONAL paradise, and he knew it was, because he was in Yagaritte's bed, and she was was with him. Well, more like wrapped around h...
********* CHAPTER SEVEN As the Duke's carriage was back in its normal place in the stables of Haldyne, the Ducal Lady ordered it prepared to carry her back to Swanford the next morning. This wasn't unexpected, and frankly didn't slow down her companions too much at all. Her two white horses were fast and strong and knew the road northeast to the village wel...
CHAPTER THREE "Already our child weighs heavy on me and slows my labors, my beloved." My darling wife Alta casually mentioned to me late one evening, just after mid-summer. "I sure that it does!" I congenially replied. Already her belly was quite swollen and she still had several months left before the child was due to be born. "Indeed, I'm quite falling...
Note: this story is a sequel to the stories "The Color of Air." and "The Color of Sea". While this story should stand on its own, the previous story has the details on how Captain Drake and Color Of Air began their partnership. +++++ The Port of Raxas would have been merely gloomy to the human senses that I once had. They would have seen only dimly lit cor...
* * * * * It was still dark in the morning twilight. Only the barest hint of a lightening sky far on the horizon of the mostly still black sea as they passed the harbor betrayed the coming dawn. The air was quite chilly for Edovan, and when the wind blew, it cut right through him. He pulled the hood of his coat up (Yagaritte had procured one for him, about...
Tommy Maddox lifted the last bale of hay into the feeder and leaned forward against the fence, thinking how unfair it was that he couldn't attend school with his friends this fall. He had so desperately wanted to leave the farm and the loneliness that he had known for most of his life. His father had died while Tommy was still young and was just a faint memo...
Oddly, the fear of running out of money during the long overland journey soon proved to be a chimerical concern. If anything, their coin purses just seemed to grow fatter and heavier with every stop that they made along the road! Right from the very start, Oddtus had made some sort of deal with a westward going caravan heading towards the big walled city of...
Notes: 1) My thanks to Roz for beta reading! 2) If you see this anywhere but Literotica, it isn't supposed to be there! ***** Lislora took a few moments to calm herself before she changed. Her cousin's ease in discussing inappropriate things with her was concerning, but the fact that she couldn't stop trying to envision how Isonei had managed to 'see to...
I am a stag     of seven tines I am a flood     across a plain I am a wind     on a deep lake I am a tear     the sun lets fall I am a h...