Fishbely

    Before the water rushed over the stones, before fire devoured all in its path, even before the stars twinkled in the sky, before the world was born Taruk drifted through the void.  In the void Taruk found a colorless flame, and he took it in his hands and it did not burn him.  Splitting the flames in two, he held one half in each hand, and from the flames he created the gods.  In his right hand, the flame dissolved into pure blue water, and from the water the Goddess Ravisma was born.  In Taruk’s left hand, the flame gained its red hue, and from the inferno Badamiel was born.    Seeing his children, Taruk was pleased, but t

    The horse’s hooves made a sticky thok thok thok noise as they rode through the deep mud.  They had been on the road for four days when a storm had blown in, forcing them to stop at an inn they had come across.  It took three days for the storm to blow itself out while lightning streaked across the sky and winds shook the inn’s thin walls.  Ralph had not been totally convinced that the building would stay up even though the knights slept like there was nothing going on in world.     Now they were far behind their original schedule of a week to Cremhildoron, and the mud was slowing their pace considerably.  Brother Albe sulked