Nightmares are just dreams that you don’t understand. Bad memories of things that happened to you, at a point in some lifetime you probably can’t remember. Continue reading →

There is a huge difference between understanding and speaking a language. Especially when it’s physically impossible for you to mimic or reproduce what you’re hearing and smelling. Continue reading →

My light was gone and I was alone in the illusion once again. I could hear and see mana while wandering those silent halls. Continue reading →

I’ve always had a strong sense of justice, but marksmanship takes practice. To gain accuracy requires many targets, life is cheap. I never truly understood that, until I met Michael. Continue reading →

When I heard the word Labyrinth, I immediately thought of a maze: Winding tunnels in various obscure directions with no clear goal and traps everywhere. Continue reading →

The most important things in life are usually so boring that you wish it was possible to fast forward through them. Unfortunately, while I can skip over days, months or years when telling a story… it wasn’t so simple in reality. Continue reading →

I was a blacksmith, not a mage, nor a healer, just a girl who liked to make weapons. At 14 I was technically an adult, so I entered that silly competition. Continue reading →

In a world without magic, what doesn’t kill you, only makes you weaker until you inevitably succumb to your injuries. When it comes to magic, the rules are always much more difficult to understand. Continue reading →

Mana is a lot like radiation on steroids, except it wouldn’t simply mutate DNA at random. It would typically force a controlled evolution, altering specific aspects of a creature until it actually transforms into something more powerful or intelligent. Continue reading →

I gave Ethir that mark because I knew he would do something incredibly reckless. He was a child desperately seeking a place to belong and wanted to prove his usefulness to me. Maybe I should have asked him directly, to steal from a bookstore. Why the hell would anyone immediately think, royal library? Continue reading →