Archive for January, 2007
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
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Hypnos. A vengeful bastard, if ever there was one.
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"Hypnos is a gentle and benevolent god who sometimes takes the form of a singing bird, sometimes that of a winged youth or old man. He carries a drinking horn, from which he pours sleep-inducing opium. He is most beloved of the ...
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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
There was a time, so very long ago, when a King decided that no one
should dance in his Kingdom. He wasn't a cruel King. In fact, his
people loved him so much that when he decreed one day that "Dancing,
in all forms, shall be outlawed, forthwith, and forsooth!" they, hung
their heads ...
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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
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Beneath the heavy flagstones of the Kings Throne room a light was
shining. It was dim, and flickering and threw only enough warmth to
let anyone who was watching see two small figures sitting by the table
it stood upon. Before them, a small fireplace was flickering the red
dying embers of a wood ...
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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
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Damione was fast asleep, snoring gently in his bunk across from
Gracie's' little bed. The room was dark now, the only light coming
from the pinpricks of red glowing embers that came from the fireplace.
As she watched the last dying stars of the fireplace tumbled into one
another, flared briefly, and then quenched ...
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Sunday, January 7th, 2007
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High on the highest turret of the castle, Dromad, the black crow
picked at his stone black feathers with an old, cracked beak,
momentarily letting his piercing gaze fall from the splintered window
that looked down over the great hall. Righting himself, he flustered
his long narrow feathers and peered back into the scene ...
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