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Darklaw Saga #2: Kami has a deep connection to the Wild. Avestine has a deep connection to Kami… — The old man flipped over a railing and crumpled with a grunt. Reeking of whiskey, the commander studied his handiwork. He propped his hand on the hilt of his sheathed sword. His leather cuirass hung unbuckled. As he glanced at on-lookers huddled against the shop walls, his stare came to…

I wanted to feel her. I wanted her to feel me. I wanted so much. — We still had several miles until we were back at the hotel. “Funny, Ladies!” I shouted. My voice vanished into the trees. “Inca? Marianne? Where are you?” The sound was odd. No echo. Should there be an echo? I stood on the rise my friends had passed over. The forest…

The hardest step is to pass from the dreamy midnight of what one wants to be to the cold morning of what one is. — The Last Time Alex had lost weight. Her black-and-navy fatigues belonged to someone much larger. Along with the oversized clothing and wild brunette curls, her wide green eyes deceived if they suggested childlike innocence. “You’ve looked better, Alex,” said Virtue. “She’s not going back,” said a dark-skinned woman standing with Alex.

Publishing was never my dream. A life of adventure was, and fiction was one way to do that. So I put form to my fantasies. But I didn’t stop there… I learned to scuba dive, failed wonderfully at snowboarding, tore my ACL kickboxing, was once a ranked racquetball competitor, gained…

Seeking that special alchemist who can transmute pain into pleasure. — I’ll hit you and love hearing the smack, the whine, the cry. We’ll talk. I’ll ask what you want. You’ll tell me what I want to hear. I’ll tell you what a good girl you are and kiss you when you cry. You’ll be naked, and I’ll be dressed because…

Someone wants Eucher dead. — The next evening, Theodore sent his men late to Father’s house. It was dark when I left with an escort of Theodore’s five guards and seven of my own. Theodore had also sent a litter and six slaves, and so for the first time since I left Africa, I allowed…

Some want Eucher’s coin. Others want his blessing. — I went to relieve myself of my wine in the garden. Afterward, I wandered among patches of cheery colors that reminded me of my uncle’s villa in Africa. A man in his later years with graying temples and a careful manner approached me. He wore an orange freedman’s cap and…