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For All Whom We Love and Value - Chapter One
Read the Prologue here The White was an excellent ship, in Phoebe's admittedly very limited experience. She was Captained by Admiral Croft, a good-humored man promoted after the Trafalgar action some years ago and stationed in India ever since. Phoebe had encountered the Admiral and his wife at a party some years ago, where Mrs Croft had been praised openly as the kind of Naval wife one wanted aboard a ship, and in whispered rumours as half the reason the White had so few dicipline problems among the newer sailors, compared to other ships of its kind. Mrs Croft was as kind and good natured as her husband, but Phoebe had seen her silence a young Midshipman, who had been so ill-mannered as to whistle at another young lady on the docks, with no more than a quelling glare.
By Natasja Rose3 years ago in Chapters
How to Claim a Life
We bought a chess game; A beautiful mahogany, handcrafted coffee-table-conversation-piece that was to be my first step at backing away from this exhausting digital life we're all plugged into. Of course, the first thing I wanted to do was take a picture of how beautiful it looked in our living room and share it for the world to see. Alas, I refrained.
By Christina Hunter3 years ago in Chapters
For All Those Whom We Love And Value - Prologue
The air was hot and fragrant, filled with the scent of the spices and incense being sold in the marketplace, or loaded onto ships of the EITC, destined for faraway lands, and heavy with the humidity common to this time of year.
By Natasja Rose3 years ago in Chapters
Desert Dealings
The inn of Gadgetzan was dim and smoky, reminding the blood elf seated at one of the long tables of an ogre den somewhere in the ruins of Alterac, where once--when he was a much younger man--he had excavated for iron. He sipped absently at a cup of something fermented. He couldn't put a finger the name of it at the moment, and what it was slowly doing to his lower intestine was just as unknowable. He watched the door though, blowing an ungentlemanly burp out of the side of his mouth, waiting for his contact.
By Ashley McGee3 years ago in Chapters
The Queen of the World - Chapter Three
Read the previous chapters here... Prologue Chapter One The meeting of allies took time to set up. After all, even messenger birds could only fly so quickly, and some of the attendees were travelling from the far corners of the empire.
By Natasja Rose4 years ago in Chapters
Remember the Past - Prologue
There weren't always dragons in the valley. Perhaps they were not here now; illusion by such as skilled practitioner as they now faced could be indistinguishable from reality. They did not look like the dragons on heraldic crests, and if there had been dragons in the valley before, surely it would have been worthy of a month of local gossip, at least.
By Natasja Rose4 years ago in Chapters
The Queen of the World - Prologue
There weren't always dragons in the valley... None at all, in fact, unless you counted the ones in the stories Aleksandros of Dorion told his elder daughter would eat her if she didn't go to sleep at night. When that tactic failed in the wake of her childish giggles, the warrior-king resorted to a more practical maxim, suggesting that she at least pretend to be asleep so the rest of their small family was not kept awake.
By Natasja Rose4 years ago in Chapters
The girl that drowned.
She's "the girl that drowned". I am flipping through an old photo album, which is odd, because no one really has them any more. But I found one I made when I was a child. My own daughter had found it, and had been adding some of her photos to it. I picked it up and idly flicked through it... and suddenly there she is.
By L.C. Schäfer4 years ago in Chapters
