The Well Well Well

Now all this music was causing trouble, as music will. Trouble for you, trouble for me and trouble for all the others. The Knights of Az, including the Blue Knight (man), who had managed to get some quality childcare, Vivainne Desegur and her partner Constance, The Darkest Knight with his retinue of the Homeless, alsoContinueContinue reading “The Well Well Well”

Splitting the Mota

Now Sheba, the beloved of the Sphinx, had catalogued and experimented with all the strange plants, berries, fruits, saps, leaves, barks, minerals, and essences that they had once, not long, collected on their travels. She had distilled and extracted, separated, and fractioned, boiled and sieved, added and subtracted all the strange participant bits of theContinueContinue reading “Splitting the Mota”

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, cheeseContinueContinue 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 aContinueContinue 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 keenContinueContinue 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 myselfContinueContinue reading “The Armour of 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 rightContinueContinue 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, IsContinueContinue 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 aContinueContinue 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,ContinueContinue reading “The Deserted Dessert”