This is the second chapter of, "A healing touch." You may want to read that story first, but it isn't necessary. I was disoriented when I struggled awake. The sun was high in the sky, and I had been moved out of the tent, and into the sun. A female was in the cot with me. She was sound asleep and had wrapped her arms tightly around me. She seemed to crav...
August 21st, 1885 If there existed a better time to traverse the Hadrian pass and stride through the Glimmering Woods than August in the year 1885, I was sure that it had not come to Arcanum since the last Age of Wonders. I was concerned at first, when the Hadrian Pass turned out to be a treacherous crossing plagued by immense waterfalls and shifting, smoo...
A Brief History of the Elvish Race As the human tribes grew more numerous with each passing winter, the elves were forced to retreat from their homelands settling on Eire. The Emerald island was already settled by an ugly misshapen people known as the firbolgs which they easily conquered and enslaved. Known as the Tuatha de Dannan, the elves were a tall, fa...
I was hard up for cash one Christmas season as I was only working part time while going to school and had practically no money to buy anyone presents. I applied for a job working as a Santa's elf for a mall set up. They apparently were in desperate need of girl elves because looking around at my new coworkers, found that they were all men. Perhaps most women...
Setup: The world of Murla is home to many inhabitants of all walks of life and of all races. After the fall of the Valation Empire at the hands of the Northern Coalition the world has seen a new age of prosperity as the dark forces of the Empire scattered into the wilds and for now peace rules the land, yet even scattered as they are the forces of the once p...
Guilty x Creatures : Dark Elf Arc : Chapter 2 : After Midnight Anton kept his eyes shut as he tested his ability to move, he didn't quite have full motion just yet but what he did have would be enough to work with. He moaned through his nose as he feigned coming to, and one of the dark elves immediately started to laugh close by. "Well, well, well! Looks l...
(Synopsis: Santa's elves haven't had enough to do and have been playing naughty pranks on each other in dreams. Santa has decided that he wants to use this ability to reward the good men and women of the world.) Trial Run Santa called Jimmy into his work shop. "Jimmy, I'm planning on starting a pilot program to reward the good men and women of the world....
Rafa woke to the sounds of Nat moving around. "Morning Nat." He said as he stretched his back with out letting go of Isabella. "It's more like good afternoon Rafa and you really should go see your dad. He's going ballistic that Juan Carlos as already issued her pardon and let everyone know that she is a member of our tribe now." "Why is he ballistic?" "We...
Narlissa Quickhands, half-elf and master thief, awoke to find the first rays of dawn already filtering through the trees. It was not late by any means but there was no time to go back to sleep. She needed to be on her way if she were going to get to the treasure before the ship captain and her traitorous mercenaries. She rolled over to see Aramil still fast...
In the ancient kingdom of Nevar, there was a grand estate that was so old the young folk said the country was built around it. For centuries, the house was a welcoming inn for traveling adventurers, desperate lovers fleeing with their forbidden love, and magicians who entertained the guests with their amazing manipulations of light and sound. There were gard...