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    Assailant -- Year 226

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    "But the dream, the echo, slips from him as quickly as he had found it and as consciousness comes to him (a slap and not the gentle waves of oceanic tides), it dissolves entirely. His muscles relax as the cold claims him again, as the numbness sets in, and when his grey eyes open, there’s nothing but the faint after burn of a dream often trod and never remembered." --Brigade, written by Laura


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        Thread: frost or flame, skeleton me; birthing
    Post: frost or flame, skeleton me; birthing

    She couldn’t bring her second child into this world without experiencing the echoes of her first – it was in every twinge and urge, every wave that gripped her – and though she closed her eyes against...
    Kora Forest 1 1,296 11-25-2019, 03:45 PM
        Thread: slung low in the highlands; castile
    Post: RE: slung low in the highlands; castile

    “It’s rude to try roasting someone with fire,” she returns, “but that didn’t stop you.” And it won’t stop Kora, either – especially when that grin of his hasn’t faded in the least. Castile shrugs off ...
    Kora Loess 5 2,139 03-03-2019, 01:42 AM
        Thread: slung low in the highlands; castile
    Post: RE: slung low in the highlands; castile

    Though the recent shift in power would undoubtedly draw newcomers here like an undertow, Kora knows nothing of the changing of the Loessian crown. What she does know is that she has drawn a stranger’s...
    Kora Loess 5 2,139 02-16-2019, 02:08 AM
        Thread: Tracing futures lying in the dark; any
    Post: RE: Tracing futures lying in the dark; any

    Ever since she left the Isle, she has continued to wander, avoiding an encounter with her persistent younger brother. She didn’t particularly care to see the look in his kind brown eyes when he discov...
    Kora Forest 2 1,664 02-08-2019, 01:51 PM
        Thread: slung low in the highlands; castile
    Post: slung low in the highlands; castile

    She knew Leander would be looking for her. He was relentless, that way – someone who never gave up on family. The same could no longer be said of her, now, could it? Her mind turns to what she and Woo...
    Kora Loess 5 2,139 02-08-2019, 01:20 PM
        Thread: Please stay, for this fear it will not die; Kora
    Post: RE: Please stay, for this fear it will not die; Ko...

    On the Isle’s northernmost shore, Kora had watched as the child borne was made into a child no longer. She had looked on as the babe’s infancy had been traded in for something else – something womanly...
    Kora Nerine 2 1,720 02-07-2019, 12:41 AM
        Thread: where the days have no numbers; sinner, any
    Post: where the days have no numbers; sinner, any

    For better or for worse, she had brought her brother here. Even in the waning of the winter season, the southern lands were too warm for her comfort. Yet Kora was more concerned with the warmth at her...
    Kora Brilliant Pampas 1 1,931 01-13-2019, 04:25 PM
        Thread: hold high in the lowlands; woolf
    Post: RE: hold high in the lowlands; woolf

    They weave their magic under fading starlight, but they take no notice – why would they, when they have created a starscape of their own? What passes between them isn’t intimacy in the normal sense. N...
    Kora Icicle Isle 8 3,148 01-09-2019, 06:17 PM
        Thread: show them the joy and the pain and the ending; Any
    Post: RE: show them the joy and the pain and the ending;...

    Perhaps that is the problem with Kora now – perhaps her heart is no longer flesh and blood. Perhaps it has frozen over. Perhaps it is for the best. Blood that runs warm and riddled with fear had never...
    Kora Icicle Isle 9 4,028 01-09-2019, 01:26 PM
        Thread: it harms like a lamb; leilan
    Post: RE: it harms like a lamb; leilan

    Underneath her irritation, curiosity stirs – the stallion seems unphased by the now subzero temperatures and swirling snow. He even has the cheek to quip that she isn’t boring, which indeed she is not...
    Kora Icicle Isle 6 2,556 01-09-2019, 12:41 PM
        Thread: hold high in the lowlands; woolf
    Post: RE: hold high in the lowlands; woolf

    He tells her of spinning galaxies and stardust. In a previous life, Kora’s cerulean eyes might have widened, her soft lips forming a small circle of wonder at the mere idea – but her intrigue is much ...
    Kora Icicle Isle 8 3,148 12-22-2018, 12:57 AM
        Thread: show them the joy and the pain and the ending; Any
    Post: RE: show them the joy and the pain and the ending;...

    A quiet sound – a faint wisp of laughter – falls from her lips as Heartfire dances around her words, just as she herself had done. Kora doesn’t press the matter, however, since she finds their mutual ...
    Kora Icicle Isle 9 4,028 12-18-2018, 11:33 AM
        Thread: it harms like a lamb; leilan
    Post: RE: it harms like a lamb; leilan

    Save for the flicker of delicate ears, the stallion’s initial impish comment passes without acknowledgement – however, his brazen inspection of her personage does not. Her chin lifts, and a freezing w...
    Kora Icicle Isle 6 2,556 12-17-2018, 12:16 AM
        Thread: hold high in the lowlands; woolf
    Post: RE: hold high in the lowlands; woolf

    Adorned in ice, her delicate head tilts ever so slightly as their gazes collide. She might have deflected his musings, but something in his voice speaks to a deeper part of her, stirring reveries of h...
    Kora Icicle Isle 8 3,148 12-14-2018, 11:56 PM
        Thread: it harms like a lamb; leilan
    Post: RE: it harms like a lamb; leilan

    Telltale footfalls inform her that she has not escaped his notice. Perhaps she could have quelled the Winter in her veins in order to do a better job of evading him, but the mere thought of suppressin...
    Kora Icicle Isle 6 2,556 12-11-2018, 02:40 PM
        Thread: hold high in the lowlands; woolf
    Post: RE: hold high in the lowlands; woolf

    His approach sends reverberations through the earth, his footfalls like the beat of a drum, though the slog of mud and snow dulls the sound that causes delicate ears to twitch, a glowing gaze to turn....
    Kora Icicle Isle 8 3,148 12-10-2018, 11:48 PM
        Thread: show them the joy and the pain and the ending; Any
    Post: RE: show them the joy and the pain and the ending;...

    While there is little she can read in Heartfire’s carefully crafted features, Kora does not fail to notice how the frozen droplets disintegrate into thin air before reaching her. This time, the curve ...
    Kora Icicle Isle 9 4,028 12-10-2018, 10:11 PM
        Thread: it harms like a lamb; leilan
    Post: it harms like a lamb; leilan

    As the warmth threatens to penetrate the ice that encases her, the cold that surrounds her deepens. Though the coming season could only be considered the mildest of summers while on the Isle, the Wint...
    Kora Icicle Isle 6 2,556 12-03-2018, 11:46 PM
        Thread: show them the joy and the pain and the ending; Any
    Post: RE: show them the joy and the pain and the ending;...

    The approaching mare stops and looks at her, and after a moment of consideration the stranger speaks her name. At that, her golden ears flick delicately backward. Was this yet another relative? Perhap...
    Kora Icicle Isle 9 4,028 12-03-2018, 10:50 PM
        Thread: hold high in the lowlands; woolf
    Post: hold high in the lowlands; woolf

    It was near dawn, and she had yet to sleep. As she ventured out beneath a night-darkened sky, she was afforded a certain solitude which she found more necessary at present. Despite the season, a trail...
    Kora Icicle Isle 8 3,148 12-03-2018, 09:51 PM