Kuno made a humming sound at the suggestion that Reiner might drink less, not sure how he felt about it yet. "We've seen a lot, since the 34th. Survived a lot. It can change a man, seeing the things we've all seen, in ways no one expects." His tone was more introspective than was normal a...

When Kaus spit and shook without hesitation the child flashed a grin, revealing surprisingly straight, white teeth. In the circumstances, surrounded by mud and privation, the expression was unnerving, dipping into the uncanny places that any sentient mind knew on an instinctive level to be wary of....

The young captain of the airmen grimaced but replied to the implied need for payment with, "A true citizen does not require a reward for doing their duty. But if this urchin does not see ensuring the safety of their nation as payment enough, the government is prepared to supply whatever is req...

The responses were good, the newly minted Captain decided. Guilt, panic and nausea, but not pulling away from the one who bore the news so unwanted. Now he needed to reinforce the idea, that their connection was still in place. Also, to remove himself from the category of 'victim' before such an un...

Confusion, intense and suffusing creased the youth's face as much as it filled their stance. Nothing of the intention to flee at the first afforded opportunity had gone from the skinny body, but a certain curious wariness had crept in around the edges. Some of the words, spoken in a foreign accent ...

When the Vampyr took the woman's hand a sigh seemed to pass through the crowd encircling folk, like a wind through grass. In that instant, Dreyfus felt some of his life force pass through him, down his hand, and into her. Her eyes brightened and her form lost its seemingly hesitant nature to reclai...

The bright yellow eyes watched, a hand slid up under the chin, as the Vampyre explained what he knew of the day of disaster and the events that may have led up to it. What the Myshalari spokesperson might have known of the event was not mentioned. This was, if anything, an interview by one who repr...

If his small use of magic to aid the growing town, putting a good flagstone under the feet of people who had every reason to be his enemies, was noticed by the soldiers they didn't say anything to him about it. To be fair, none of them had said anything to him since he'd arrived on the Sturmreiter ...

"Are you...dead?" The women seemed at first not to hear Dreyfus' own questions, not as though she were unable, but as though she were too caught up in her own confusion. When she realized he was asking she drew he hand back close to her own chest and held it there, expression wary. "...

The Captain listened carefully, brow furrowed in concentration and the choices milling around behind it. After the calculations of duty and orders and the best course for his nation, he said, "If you can currently lead directly to the one the dire beast seeks, and time is of the essence, I wil...