Sophina gasped as Evelyn muttered a few words and held out her hand. What looked like a dozen long, very sharp icicles shot out of her hand. They flew past Sophina's face and struck the wall where Jon had been standing a moment before. The icicles shattered into hundreds of pieces. Sophina covered her face as several shards of ice shattered on her armor. S...
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Choices With Wynne, Morrigan, and Zevran all exhausted and Leliana still asleep, we decided to delay travel for another day to allow for recovery. I climbed into our tent, grimacing at the two new holes in the canvas. Aedan, Alistair, Sten, and Shale set up some sort of watch schedule, and after a few minutes to fix trampled tents and s...
I woke up in my bed and stretched, a happy sort of soreness greeting me. I hadn't seen Dimitri last night, mostly because when Ryder brought me to my rooms he advised me to avoid Dimitri, because he would be informing him of what we had done. I got up to see that it was well past breakfast and that a servant had brought in some fruit while I had slept. I bi...
Chapter One Hundred Seventeen: Burn It "Alright, so...hear me out before you make a judgement, but...I want to burn down the Alienage," Cailan said. I choked -- on what, I couldn't say -- and began coughing, while Alistair thumped me on the back. Aedan sputtered, face turning an unusual shade of crimson, but Kallian merely raised one eyebrow inquiringly....
/ /Author's Note: This story, Terrible Company, is sprawling sword-and-sorcery fantasy satire with a diverse cast of characters. Over its many chapters, those characters will have interactions (both with each other and others) that cross many of the lines that exist between Lit genres. I have come to believe that breaking the story into those different categ...
Act Four: Food for Thought Chapter Two: Take Me Down Author's note: This chapter uses some unconventional formatting for some rather unconventional dialog. * * * * The bronze bell above the glass door jangled and tolled. The door remained unmoved. The rose girl watched the bell jounce about. "Someone's coming." Tomoe did not look up from the fat Sudoku...
(For Talenwolf; the editor who shows that anger builds as well as destroys and has been an insane level of support with this story - and a few others) (Note: the start of this story is gory, involving a tale of torture and genocide. It is not too graphic but it is rough) (There is a great deal of violence in this tale but I promise it will make sense befor...
Alauria opened her eyes slowly and found herself staring up at the ceiling. This time, she knew where she was, and the memory of last night brought a slow smile to her face. She knew that Lindsay wasn't in bed, which meant it was safe for her to take in the new level of intimacy of their convoluted relationship. As she stretched lazily, she let out a small g...
I want to thank LadyCibelle and Techsan for making my story a better read. We all hear talk about life changing experiences. I have one I would like to tell you about. It happened somewhere around twenty-seven years ago. I was freshly out of college and on my way to be a successful accountant. I was in the top five percent of my class. I easily found employ...
***I suppose that I ought to mention that there are several parts to this, and they're widely separated in geographical terms -- though there is interaction between them. The heads up -- to avoid confusion is that I tell you what you're looking at right after my notes to you, the reader. So that's what's happening here; we're leaving the group on the mountai...