They left the bonfire circle and kept going. Soon enough they had left behind the lilting songs of the night-worshippers, and found what appeared to be the edge the fortuneteller’s market. Most every tent was hung with signs replete with mystical eyes and weird symbols, stars and hands held upright to show a decorated palm….
Fair Upon the Tor #54 (updates Mondays, usually)
“Yes. But I don’t expect we’ll be long. I just want to wander over to the fortuneteller’s market, take a look around–that’s all–oh, I meant to ask, uhm, you don’t know where the market is, do you?” “You are hopeless. You really would be happy to just wander around the whole of the moot until…
Slightly delayed by a cold
So I’m quite under the weather with a head cold that started in the throat a few days ago, but then moved to my sinuses with a vengeance. I have the next part (and actually a good few thousand more words) written, but I usually like a take an hour to make sure the writing…
Fair Upon the Tor #53 (updates Mondays)
They managed to get Keru on top of Dapplegrim, and together they walked along slowly, making their way first out of the shallow corrie, then down the wending hillside way. Caewen and Keri walked on either side, supporting the boy so that he didn’t fall. As they trod along, a few magicians did overtake them…
Fair Upon the Tor #52 (updates Mondays)
His eyes opened wide: jarringly awake and alert. “Ow! What in the all the earth’s fire–?” “This is made the spit and blood of a sea-foam hydra.” Quinnya dribbled more of the stuff into his cuts. “Also, wine from vines in the gardens of the Temple of the Silver Dusk, ashes from the funeral pyre…
Fair Upon the Tor #51 (updates Mondays)
Caewen could not bring herself to be angry. She felt only flat, worn out, coldly irritated. “There was no cheating.” Quinnya said nothing, but stared in her off-kilter way, as if by staring she would force Caewen into some sort of blubbering apology and confession. “If there is nothing else?” said Caewen. “I would like…
Fair Upon the Tor #50 (updates Mondays)
As she turned to go, she felt their eyes on her back, along with the stares of those wizards and witches who were still lingering at the fringes of the space. There were muttered whispers, coughs and questioning stares. Caewen and Keri started off towards Dapplegrim. “Is it unusual? Not taking a side?” “Reasonably, yeah….
Fair Upon the Tor #49 (updates Mondays)
The two of them, Caewen and Keri, wove a path among the torches and open fires, coming at last to a slight raised knoll atop which there was a small sweep of stone carved into a platform. On this plinth, facing them, were two strange creatures. On their right sat a withered old man, skin…
Fair Upon the Tor #48 (updates Mondays)
The stars above were bright nail-heads sunk deep in a soggy dark sky. A ghost of the day’s receded sun still draped itself across the western horizon. A few trails of high cloud showed up gleams of orange and gold, cast from somewhere beyond the rim of the world. There were people scattered around, but…
Fair Upon the Tor #47 (updates Mondays)
At length, she said, quietly: “Here is my last question, though it is not for my sake.” One long draw of breath. Now, she had to remember all the details. “Far to the east,” she started, “there is an Empire called Actria. I am told that they have long been threatened by a cult of…