Immediately, her face and skin felt seared, hot and dry all over. The sweat that prickled her flesh evaporated into a crust of salt as soon as it touched the air. Caewen wondered if it was possible to blister and burn just from the radiant heat coming off the creature that had landed not more…
Fair Upon the Tor #93 (a bit late this week…)
Once they were past the two low hills with their masses of relics and oblations, Dapplegrim came to full halt. “It is close,” he said. Another long draw of air through his nostrils. “It descends. Hurm. It wheels down upon us.” Caewen looked up, but she could see nothing against the inky clouds and few…
Slight delay
Just a slight delay on the post this week. The writing is done, but it’s gotten to be a bit late to get it up today (our little toddler was not in a mood to go to sleep at his usual time). Will have the next post up tomorrow I expect.
Fair Upon the Tor #92 (updates Mondays)
“Shouldn’t we come with you?” asked Keri. But Caewen shook her head. “What point would there be in that? One person, or three or a hundred will not make any difference, surely. Not against a dragon.” “Perhaps not.” Though even as Keri conceded the point, she still had a look in her eyes that made…
Fair Upon the Tor #91 (updates Mondays)
A short time later, the two of them, Caewen and Sgeirr, were pushing through the crowd together. Behind them came a small band of Sgeirr’s retainers, some in armour, hands listlessly on their swords, a couple in drab robes, a few more in the rough linens of work-a-day serfs. Caewen was conspicuous among them as…
Fair Upon the Tor #90 (updates Mondays)
With a wide, friendly smile, Caewen plonked herself down on the seat right next to Sgeirr. “Hello!” she said cheerily. Sgeirr looked as if she had just seen a dog get up on its hind legs and perform a jig while reciting a line of poetry. She blinked a few times, apparently lost for words,…
Fair Upon the Tor #89 (updates Mondays)
Soon enough, they started to pass small knots of people talking together, then a few more, and then suddenly they were deep in a crowd. All around them people were eating and drinking. Conversation and half-halting songs lilted and drifted. Caewen almost wanted to scream at them all, run, run for your lives, but she…
Fair Upon the Tor # 88 (updates Mondays, or mostly. I guess Tuesdays sometimes too)
In sight of Samarkarantha’s tent now, they could see that it was lit from within. The glow through the cream and light red-brown canvas made it stand out against its neighbours, which were all darkening as the dusk was coming down. Overhead, the sky was still full of a deep luminous light. A few tattered…
Fair Upon the Tor # 87 (updates Mondays)
They stepped gingerly between the sleeping men and women, at the same time doing their best not to get caught on the thorns of the briar tangle. The leaves and stem of the plant were a strange mottle of emerald and grey, and the spines were not the small hooked jabs, like on a natural…
Fair Upon the Tor #86 (updates Mondays, or most Mondays anyway…)
Caewen did. The creature’s breath smelled like wet moss and heather on a winter’s morning, when the frost was just lifting. She dashed her lips with a touch of wet tongue and said words into Caewen’s ear. Strange words. Old words. And true. So very true. Caewen felt her eyes widen. She heard the ancient…