Skyler squinted at Cael, pursing her lips to one side as she held his gaze, trying to determine if he was serious or not. She already knew he was, but it still seemed odd that she was actually...
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Skyler squinted at Cael, pursing her lips to one side as she held his gaze, trying to determine if he was serious or not. She already knew he was, but it still seemed odd that she was actually...
Skyler allowed herself finally to relax from the ball she’d curled herself into, unfurling like a folded flag let to flow in the winds that stirred the sands of the Fallien desert. The elf was...
The light was quickly slipping away as Sei handed the girls their reward for successfully impressing him in their mock fight. Skyler looked the sleeping bag over, trying to appear grateful, but...
At first Skyler didn’t even notice the knock on the door. It was Cael’s reaction that clued her into who was knocking. Unfortunately, even Skyler’s insistent yell to Hawk not to permit the...
Skyler blushed, her face and neck hot with the flush of embarrassment. Not just because she felt silly for doubting Cael, and for being angry with him over a stupid letter. The pink tinge of her...
Skyler slipped into her bedroom which was kept private only by a violet silk curtain from which she removed the cord that tied it back. Cael was apologizing to Hawk for her lateness, and explaining...
Her footsteps echoed off the walls of the buildings on either side of the alleyway, but hers weren’t the only ones that bounced back to her. She cursed silently and tried to walk faster even as...
At first, Skyler barely noticed when Cael approached. She was focused only on trying to catch her breath. Every time she tried to inhale deeply, the breath would catch in her chest and she would...
Skyler let her mind wander as she trailed one hand in the water, her eyes following the varied visitors to the capital of Fallien. A building cast a welcome shade over the fountain for the time...
Skyler had only stepped back into the mineshaft a few yards and crouched there in the darkness, watching as Anita took the attack further outside into the gray drizzle. The weapon the girl used was...
"I promise if I slit anyone's throat it won't be by accident," Skyler purposefully ignored the sarcastic tone Anita used when she said 'accidentally', and smiled mischievously at the girl as she...
Great, Skyler thought to herself, Never be rid of the brat if she's got a lock on me for life. The girl had already run into the darkness and Skyler stood counting slowly to one hundred. As she did,...
The sheer variety of the weapons Anita had was actually a bit impressive, and more than a little surprising to Skyler. As vehemently as the girl had bad-mouthed Skyler for being a murderer and one...
"Didn't know my mother to rip anything from her chest," Skyler said flatly, as though it were a fact the girl should have already known. The girl, who spoke too loudly and too often, had moved on...
So the protection charm would be innately tailored around her own special abilities and skills. Skyler considered what this might mean, only halfway hearing as Sei referred to her as Hawk's prodigy....
The pieces of the puzzle were falling into place as Sei told his story, and aside from the distraction of his daughter, Skyler found his explanation to offer a bit more reason for her to trust him. ...
Skyler watched the girl with a raised eyebrow as she crossed the underground chamber to introduce herself. As Anita extended her hand and bragged on her own credentials, the assassin looked down at...
Traveling through Corone to get to Akashima had made Skyler more than a little jumpy; and she absolutely hated being jumpy. Instead, she decided to just be angry, and took it out on just about...
Skyler hated sand. At first she thought it was pretty, the myriad colors and sizes of the different sands. But it got everywhere. And of course, Hawk thought cleaning up the mess it made was a...
Hawk didn’t so much as snigger this time when Cael kissed Skyler. It was light, almost as if he was only stepping out to run errands - maybe pick up some milk at market, chop some firewood, have a...
As Cael stepped out of the room, leaving Skyler alone with her thoughts, she sat down on the stool with her towel wrapped around her shoulders. Tears stung her eyes, but she let them fall freely. ...
Her heart stuttered for a moment, the same quavering beat it had when the hemlock had become too much for her system to overcome. Of course he didn’t want to kiss her - besides, she berated...
The levity was a relief, joking and smiling, for a moment forgetting how close they had come to never escaping the prison, how near she had come to succumbing to the Hemlock thrown in her face. As...
She was still too exhausted to try to calm Cael’s almost violent outburst at his elder brother, so she satisfied herself with watching the emotions pass unhidden over his face as he defended the...
The voices were like those heard while deep underwater - and what made this sensation more real was that Skyler felt like she was drowning, her lungs burning with breath she really didn’t want to...