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Chapter One Dawn was breaking, and people were beginning to leave the scene of the crime. I had never seen anything quite like the incident I witnessed tonight.
Chapter 3 ~A King Fights in Battles~ Queen/King Camomile was in her study, telling her scribe what to write, when her assistant rushed inside the room, holding a scroll which...
Glistening, diamond drops of rain cascaded through the chaotic heavens. Wicked, onyx knifes flickered in the assassins lethal grasp. Wet, raven black hair clung to icy, porcelain flesh.
When I woke up, I had woke up with more important things to do. No longer a Crown Prince, I was full fledged Pharaoh. I had many things to learn. Something to fill my days.
Chapter One - Vienna > Eve < I paced the corridor impatiently. What is taking them so long. They had one simple task to do and it's already been 3 hours.
In 1570 a baby boy was born in York He would come to be known as Guy Fawkes Was he really a traitor. Or someone wanting to make a difference an innovator.
A blind man sees into the future. He expresses his fears using an Apple computer. He spams his local newspaper reporter. But his emails get forwarded to a foreign presidents daughter.
Like an angel stunned to silence by death, she closed her eyes. How could he know her name. Did she imagine it, perhaps it was the heavy Bordeaux. She regained her composure and opened her eyes.
"What news did he have?" The greying but youthful matron turned at the sound of the Abbot's voice. Her face was set in a worried expression as she flittered around the sleeping man.
The Three days of Magic. Magic in the Kingdom of Rikom was outlawed, that is every day except for three. The Festival of Everlight, which takes place every four years.
(read parts 1-6 first) #thelight "We are gathered today to discuss the future of our nations!" Sir Gregory (the English PM), "To discuss the future of our world.
Cliché #1: "Do you believe you are ready to take the thrown?" Shakes head, "No, I'm just a boy, I'm nothing special." "And that is precisely why the thrown is yours." Notes: Okay, that ending is...
#TheOpussTale I sat in my home on the mountains as I overlooked the kingdom below. It seemed to be going through many difficulties and changes.
#TheOpussTale I watched from the old oak near Pixie Town as the Queen's troops stormed in. She called herself the Queen but we all knew she wasn't. Not really.
"I cannot bare to be parted from you," Mónne murmured close to her ear, a gentle hand pushing away blonde, curling locks of hair from the Princess' bare shoulder.
*Thousands pounded the cobbled streets in spite of intense cold to celebrate Anno Terminus Night.Fireworks boomed over the bustling streets of the Market District in the city of Aber.
A magpie sat upon the shoulder of a young maid, its sleek black-blue feathers shone in the evening light.
The One Who Influences considered Tpek the thief. He had put a lot of work into this human. The story was so... Satisfying. But it had taken a lot of work.
The queen has left our beloved land, leaving her followers stitched and clamped. The queen rolled by, on her carriage of gold. In our gutted miscarriage we were all sold.
The year is 1767 and the British Empire has now achieved a secure footing in the North American continent by prying control of the colonies from the French after a series of strategic victories in a...
"If you want to know from the very beginning," the boy said, "you'll have to hear it right from the beginning. "As you already know, I'm a mage, and as Lily so helpfully described, quite a potent one.
BTW this is a continuation of my (planned) Nevermore series, set 21 years before the first book.