science fiction, fantasy – Page 10

This Textured Darkness,#25

“My source tells me the bark is odd. Flesh colored with specks of red. The shoots spring up, only to die.”

“What if the child is already dead?”
“He is alive. Else why would Jah demand that he be rescued?”

“Here is the message you must take. Read it before it is waxed.”

“You will be fine as long as you remember to stay out of the taverns and pleasure houses.”

He caught Laveth stealing wood from the royal forest, but rather than hanging her, Ranald took her to bed.

“I’ll send a feather dyed blue, its color changed from beyond. When you receive it, know that King Rand has been granted a path in the Deep.”

“I remember my father as a plunging warhorse. Fearless, but not always wise.”

“Your father’s soul is at stake.”

A plague entered Casoria, and there weren’t enough men to sweep the dead from the streets.

The King’s corpse lay in the open until nightfall when it was gathered with the rest.