Khi’nai was restless, tangled in her sheets. Sleep eluded her, again. She jumped out of bed and peeked into the corridor. With many students gone for the holidays, it was nearly empty. Her parents were coming to collect her in a few days’ time, so she had all the peace and quiet she needed to…
Khi’nai sat curled up on her bedsheets, her claw tracing over the cover of tattered diary. The words had been gnawing at her all night. Last night’s play had done nothing to calm her nerves—she barely remembered any of it. Her mind churned, replaying what she had read about I’lain and his master. In a…
The town centre looked particularly warm and inviting this time of year. The soft glow of hundreds of multi-coloured lanterns shimmered between the lampposts. The locals always seemed to be in good spirits, and the food was extra tasty. Flora excitedly bounced between every little shop and goods stand they passed, admiring all the trinkets…
Winter had fully set in, and a thick blanket of snow covered the surrounding countryside —a reminder of the uneventful months that had passed since the incident that shook the Academy. A small sliver of light slipped through the curtains, hitting the face of a white dragoness as she stirred in bed. Khi’nai squinted, rubbing…
The scarlet dragoness proceeded down the cold musty steps, her footsteps echoing along long dark corridor. She felt the air getting colder as she descended deeper into the darkness. A faint bluish-purple glow lit the stairs as the passage opened into a large underground chamber. The ancient sandstone walls were ragged and weathered, the room…
Khi’nai stared at the ceiling, listening to the sound of the old ornate clock ticking away. She rolled over towards it, one AM; it was time for her plan to go into action. She sat up in her bed; She slowly wrapped her paws in linen wraps to dampen the sound she’d make and grabbed…
The sun was already quite high in the sky when Khi’nai finally awoke. The previous night with Flora ended with far too late for her liking and when they finally returned home, she simply passed out in her bed. She slowly dragged herself out of the bed towards an open window. The air was obnoxiously…
Khi’nai did not sleep as well as she had anticipated. The silly brown kobold kept mulling in her head all night. Why was he so interested in Ancient Groves anyway? Why did he deface an antique manuscript with such reckless abandon? Her lessons seem to drag on for an eternity. She usually enjoyed hearing about…
The white dragoness tossed and turned in her bed. Despite her best efforts no amount of crushing her head under the pillow could drown out the rain that was pelting down on the roof of the dormitory building. She peered into the darkness with her emerald green eyes, everyone else was sleeping just fine, surely…
As the cloaked figures climbed the lone hill, a warm breeze rustled through the leaves of the shrubs. They arrived at a lone tree on the edge of an overlook and removed their hoods. The shorter of the two peered at the tree and said, “A body ingrained into the t-t-trunk? I thought their kind…