"Well," Anton murmured to himself after finishing his prayers, the sonorous score of titanic battle filling his mind as witchfire dueled with dragonbreath, "I suppose that I'll have to see about getting to a real temple." While it was impossible to tell if the unnatural symphony...

Anton felt slightly foolish for his worry as soon as Carina explained that she had been away. Vanessa had mentioned something about that, but it seemed too... convenient, and when all the world was ending he didn't think himself lucky enough for that to save anyone he cared about. He didn't even bo...

While hoarfrost and horrors descended upon the Every Waking Moment , Anton obeyed Jac's first suggestion. He prayed. Or at least, he tried to. He was not supposed to pray, his entire upbringing and society making the very notion of beseeching something so petty as a god to be anathema. And yet, he ...

For a moment, Anton assumed that Carina was merely being modest as she explained that she had few post-show admirers, but her aura showed no sign of anything beyond honesty. That, in turn, made him visibly confused. True, she wasn't center stage, for reasons he could not fathom, but surely others s...

The old butler would have ordinarily never permitted any riffraff inside of his master's manse, but Anton had insisted that other survivors of Zaichaer may not have been as fortunate in retaining their access to funds as he was. That was the excuse that he had given the staff at least, politely neg...

For the first time in his life, Anton truly believed he had committed himself to more than he was capable of accomplishing. Dragons were potent creatures, that much everyone knew, but if he had known that it was an Ancient whose wroth had been awoken he may have played things closer to his chest. A...

There had been very few pleasant surprises in Anton's life in the past few months. He was not expecting to receive one today of all days, but it seemed that the gods had a sense of caprice about such things. An unbidden sigh of relief escaped him before he realized what he was doing, but the young ...

For the first time since arriving in Gel'Grandal, Anton was on pins and needles. The speech itself was not much of a concern, he had faced far more combative audiences in academia than a bunch of doddering old men who were only half listening after all, and he was freed of the anxiety inducing proc...

Searing had been filled with sorrows, but Ash was spent in constant action. Anton and Vanessa had carved a path through a large chunk of the known world in the past season, all in the name of gathering resources and supplies for his corner of the world. Some would consider him insane for avoiding t...