The man’s screams were grating on my nerves. For Unolas’ sake, it was only flame! Nothing to get too excited about. Fire magic was commonplace. Now, if I had been really exotic, I could have tried Meyerham’s Festering Pimples of Acidic Pus. That would have been worth screaming about.
Finally, the screams extinguished and the burning [...]
I sit cross-legged on the platform on top of my tree and breathe in deeply. The morning winds carry with them the sounds of a world awakening to life again. Oak and ash, hazel and pine… all the scents of the forest envelop me. Petals drift along the breeze from the flower fields of Grahms’ [...]
“Here they come again!” Cortix cried. His eyes were bloodshot and his hair was ruffled. His armor was beginning to rust, and he smelt like a pigsty. He hadn’t had any decent sleep for five days.
Neither had we.
It was the fifth day of the new goblin offensive, and I hoped it would be over soon. [...]
Ha HA ha HEE HEE hoo! Die, die, I cannot die!
No matter what they do to me, I cannot die!
They cut and shock and slash and drown, I cannot die!
They beat and choke and strike and flame, I cannot die!
Girls, girls, lovely girls! They cannot die!
I hunt and catch and bruise and rape, they cannot [...]
Another one was carried in and laid to rest on one of the beds. I sighed, looking along the rows of figures lying sleeping in the semi-darkness. The two apprentices who had carried the body in looked apprehensively at me, and then quickly sidled out of the room while I checked on the newcomer.
He was [...]
