"I am not too late," Yennefer exhaled sharply as she saw Geralt alive, a wave of relief flooding through her body and untangling the knot of worry in her chest. He was squirming uncomfortably inside a giant cauldron, his hands tied behind his back, but he was very much alive, thank the Gods. Always getting into tight spots like this one. What would she do...
The average person believed vampires were a myth for most of human history. Some mollycock used to scare children, of course. Then in 1897 Count Dracula announced his existence to the world and declared himself king of Romania, Moldova, and all of Vampire kind. Over a century later tensions between vampires and humans had been... less than ideal. There were...
***I finally get something up for Hallowe'en! I've only been trying to for the past two Hallowe'ens but I always miss. Not anything really scary, but I'll try to stuff that in for the next chapter. Then again, if you look at the tags, you might get a little nervous all the same. Readers here might have noticed that I haven't really written much about vampi...
"Do you ever find yourself missing people you know you shouldn't?" The question catches me off guard. I hadn't expected a deep conversation. Not that it's not welcome. Just... unexpected. I push the pause button on the controller as I contemplate the question. I'm not sure how to answer and so the words take a while to find. The stretched silence between u...
Author's note: I envision this being a four-part series. It will have some plot that goes beyond the usual smut. ---------------------- "Fucking Shani," Yennefer said as she plucked the reins of her horse. "Can you believe it?" "No," Triss said slowly, "I cannot. I would have thought..." She let the sentence hang in the air. "Ploughing ginger slut," Y...
***I don't suppose that you really NEED to, but if you don't follow my work, it might help to read "The Smoke-Girl & her Northern Ghost" for a bit of background on Gunnar. If it helps, this is set about 983AD. Louhi is the name of a powerful witch out of Finnish mythology, also known as the Mistress of the North. She is the inspiration for the protagonist'...
***This was written during a time when the autumn is fading and the first tentative blasts of winter lie just out of sight around the corner. It's still October and the first freak three-inch snowstorm has made its entrance and slunk out like a person who has blundered into the wrong high-school class and only realized it after sitting down. This chapter h...
Previously on "Come As You Are" - Four lifelong friends reunite for their ten-year high school reunion -- professional chef Brenda Lattimore, celebrity video game streamer Sadie Green (nee Bedford), recently engaged ski instructor Michelle Min, and local business owner Collette Hansen. Over drinks and dinner the night before the reunion, the girls discover t...
"But a promise made must be honored. As true for a commoner as it is for a queen." Geralt, 'The Witcher', Netflix movie My roommate, Rob and I were doing real well with the ladies and partying hard until this quarantine was imposed on us and we were stuck on the eighth floor in this ten story apartment building. Of course, we were going nuts and getting de...
*** Ah well, I missed Hallowe'en once again. :( This chapter predates some of the last one by a few days at one point, but the rest is pretty much concurrent. I doubt that you'd notice, so it's no big deal, really. There is a character in it which I've always found to be a little laughable, no doubt the imaginings of some "wise men" someplace. It began as...