The following day, a ground frost lingered on the forest floor. Felsted started work early, carefully excavating around the Lapis stone. He found that the stone, was far larger than it had first appeared. The deeper he dug, the darker the red veins of the stone were. The blue of…

Tenacious An elf’s life is hard, thought Tarron the barn-owl, as he watched his grey-haired old friend digging the foundation for his new cabin. You have to be tenacious to survive. Tenacious, yes, that is a good word to describe Felsted. A tenacious old elf. These thoughts echoed around his…

♾️ ♾️ ♾️ ♾️ ♾️♾️ ♾️ ♾️ ♾️ ♾️♾️ ♾️ ♾️ ♾️ ♾️♾️ ♾️ ♾️ ♾️ ♾️♾️ In an undefinable time period ahead of this point in my story, but that is agreed exceeds the thousand-year mark, the one they call the first of all wizard’s will begin his opening…

Drew sat contemplating his experience on the moon. Had he really left Elthenia through a shaft of moonlight? Unconsciously, Drew shivered as he watched Longshanks stretching close to the singing Lapis stone. It was now snowing heavily again, and the giant stag shook the snow from his antlers, some of…

The elf children of Wexmede orphanage are still sleeping, thought Drew, looking back at the mansion entombed in mist. Its drawn muslin curtains giving the impression that the mist had somehow worked its way through the sashes and air vents and was looking out at itself from each window inside…

Drew was amongst the stars. This is how it felt, as he lay half asleep, unable to keep his waning eyelids open and yet unwilling to allow them to close. As a child, he used to stare out the garret window of the children’s home, onto the icy lake by…

As Felsted and Mala observed the Lawcundali fiend, it began to fade until both elves sensed it was no longer present. “I have never felt the presence of one of the Lawcundali,” said Mala, still speaking quietly. “I was always of the understanding they could not take form on Elthenia…