The Wisdom of Smaller Creatures

It is a fact, related the Wandering Rabbit, that in this world, the wisest creatures available to inquiry are small and often of a timid inclination. Young mice, for instance, are taught philosophy and the art of cuisine from a tender age. It is also well known that rabbits invented football, billiards, skiing, bridge, cheeseContinue reading "The Wisdom of Smaller Creatures"

The Hostel for the Homeless and The Rabbit

The Darkest Knight opened a Hostel for the Homeless under and by, quite close, next to, above and below, and soon the gates of the city of Az. Much that any wandering ancient or young, with nothing on their backs to call a shirt, might have a pallet to lie and a bit of aContinue reading "The Hostel for the Homeless and The Rabbit"

The Ancestral Pile

When I was a young Darkest Child, my home, a chateau, seemed much undone by siege and siege engine. The stone was fall all about in great heaps and only some few chambers and dungeons kept the cold and wind in their place. The reason, this is because my parent and mother were very keenContinue reading "The Ancestral Pile"

The Armour of the Darkest Knight

The Sphinx returned to the bartisan above the great gates to parlez with the Darkest Knight. The Council has convened, and you will be in the knowing of your fate this very morning soon, the Sphinx told the Knight. In the mean, I would have great interest of the design of your armour. I myselfContinue reading "The Armour of the Darkest Knight"

The City and the Darkest Knight

Now, Sheba and the Sphinx came to the Great City of Az, wherein the Blue Knight and his partner the Blue Woman Knight made their current. The Blue Woman (Knight) had recently been delivered of a fine Baby Knight and was keen to go questing in the Badlands where adventure was all but unavoidable andContinue reading "The City and the Darkest Knight"

The Heavy Lump

Outside they traveled by day and rested. Soon, by the way, they came to a wide place of high grass in which it was, to be lost, an easy thing, so simple. How shall we come to the other side without a circle happening said She Sphinx, my left leg is shorter than my rightContinue reading "The Heavy Lump"

The Sphinx’s Tail and the Poison Frogs

In a month or a year they travelled and in it they discovered many new and old plants that could enhance the healing from Sheba’s medicament store. But in all that time they not found a solution to the disappearing of the Sphinx. Until the Sphinx came passing upset. One day travelling, Sheba mused, IsContinue reading "The Sphinx’s Tail and the Poison Frogs"

Stony Ground

Sphinx came to Sheba upon a flying carpet. Where shall we travel more quick as well, she said. It is of no use to me today, said Sheba, as I needs must scour the ground, as we go to discover those herbs which might hide there. I shall carry these carpets for use at aContinue reading "Stony Ground"

The Deserted Dessert

Then when they had gone along, a long way, they came into a deserted desert with no. Little patches of nearly dead but grown and not. Every once in a while. Then when it was deserted, look, a small tree, old and withered, maybe a thousand years old, maybe only one thousand years old, stood,Continue reading "The Deserted Dessert"

The Shoulder of the Hill of a Woman and The Wasteland

Then, that is what happened next, most exciting. The Blue Knights made their thanks and tributes to the Sun, the Wind and the Ice. Of all mostly to the Penguins and their Regal Empress, who had saved the world. Hurrah! Soon, when they had gone, the Blue Knights, with Sheba and the Sphinx, travelled toContinue reading "The Shoulder of the Hill of a Woman and The Wasteland"