Aaron walked glumly, eyes fixed on the ground, mouth set in a manner that mirrored the hemisphere of rising sun on the road behind him.
No flahooler he; life was serious and he knew it. There was a peat harvest to get in, and if he didn’t get it he would have nothing to sell and [...]
Iron hands gripped her about the waist, and the ground flew away as the Iron God Ascended to His heavenly abode. The great cloud-castle was a mass of white balls, like puffball fungus, with countless black rope bridges and towers and things hanging between them.
The Iron God landed, the flames from his feet dying out, [...]
The sky was dark.
Normally there were stars or moons overhead, or the great god-planet taking up most of the sky, but not tonight.
Grarl’s eyes could see the infra-red spectrum easily. If there were clouds, he would see them. And yet – nothing. He had entered his hibernation on a moonlit night. Now, following one whole [...]
A thick fracture ran up the front of the cliff face. K’tharl thought he could almost see tiny trolls running up the crack, kicking the stone open wider, intent on calamity.
People were running all around him, away from the wall. He didn’t undertand why, they would not outrun their deaths. K’tharl knew he would die [...]
Leaves exploded in a tornado of decapitated foliage. The madness ended and the leaves fell to the floor, and animals ceased their shrieks of terror and surprise at this sudden infraction. A week passed and none were wiser of the strange detonation, but for a hunter who passed through the area and found an area [...]
He sank to his knees. Right there in the street. We all kind of backed off a little bit – people don’t really do stuff like that. You might see it in a comic book or something I guess, but not in real life.
But there he was, on his knees, looking up at us, pleading [...]
Dappled lights played across its armoured hide as it lumbered slowly through the thick forest. It did not know where it came from or how it got here, all it knew was it was sad.
It had all it needed to eat, it had all of the light and air it needed for its hide to [...]
Honour turns to dust as time goes on.
That shocks you, I can see it in your eyes. To be honest I’m amazed that you can even process what I just said, this society is so focused on the value of honour, on sacrificing oneself for one’s lord.
But you have not lived as I have. You [...]
He screeched, roared, felt the pain rip through him and he dropped to his knees. The bedroom was empty, he was glad of that, and no-one could hear him this far out in the countryside. So he roared his lungs out in pain fearing for what was hapening to him. He did not fear death, [...]
She looked out upon an ocean of stars, great flaming pinholes in the curtain of reality. There were no suns, no planets that she could see, only those beautiful shining points, not having to pass through any atmosphere at all.
She wore no helmet and no space suit, the internal generators of her backpack supplying all [...]