The Not Clever Fox

Now, together through the wall, through the smoky dark, now the air, relief and commitment. Many distances to cover before they might come to the city, the City of Az, the Greener City. First appeared but an orchard, albeit an orchard as wide as the seas. The trees, lines of trees with boughs of fruitContinueContinue reading “The Not Clever Fox”

The Shadow Wall

The shadow that deceives watches. Some journey, dust, sound, they went, they traveled, it was not hot, it rained. They were together and yet in the rain fell shadows not is with the shining armour to rust, to decay, to stifle. There is a darkness that watches, a mind that sees. The darkness cloaks uponContinueContinue reading “The Shadow Wall”

The Three Gauntlets

No more dreams, no more visions, the Blue Knight sought travel to the castle that was the stronghold of the Guardians of the Cave there whence Vivainne Desegur and her beloved Constance kept their vigil for the world. He came that he might shew to them in speech that Shining City which he had seenContinueContinue reading “The Three Gauntlets”

The Quest of the Quiet Knight – The Dark Figure

The Blue Knight was tired of sleep and unwilling to dream. He tended to his horse, Prosek, and made him to saddle. He vowed to move on from this stone circle of visions and to act he knew not what. When it came, the dream was of a different kind. A vision more of feelingContinueContinue reading “The Quest of the Quiet Knight – The Dark Figure”

The Quest of the Quiet Knight – The Greener Man

Not asleep, asleep. Not dreaming, dreaming. The Blue Knight entered his dreaming ill at ease. A man, the colour of a man. Sensing that all control was lost, neither sword nor spear in his hand. He was not the master of this place. Seeing a city on the hill, smoke rising into choking air, foulContinueContinue reading “The Quest of the Quiet Knight – The Greener Man”

The Quest of the Quiet Knight – New Growth

Sleep, stones, figures, figure, tree, horse, dreams. His vision, a deserted place that was a plain, no life to be found, a broken place where no life could be found. A barren place where no life could be found. There was not anyone, not any plant nor animal, not dead but empty and void, notContinueContinue reading “The Quest of the Quiet Knight – New Growth”

The Quest of the Quiet Knight – The Flaming Sea

Night, when The Blue Knight had closed his eyes and the stones about the circle were dark figures once more, one came to his feet was a man holding a flagon and drinking vessel. He spoke in a low voice at once. I have a tale of man’s folly and rights that is to change.   ContinueContinue reading “The Quest of the Quiet Knight – The Flaming Sea”

The Quest of the Quiet Knight – The Manly Sword

The night later in the dark, the Blue knight fell to sleeping though he knew it not, in his sleeping eye a man made of stone came close and he was afraid like a child. The stone spoke to him saying. This is the dream of a child who will become a man. In theContinueContinue reading “The Quest of the Quiet Knight – The Manly Sword”

The Quest of the Quiet Knight – The Stones

The next night when he slept once more the figure of a woman carrying a basket of herbs came to his feet and said to him, Each of us can only find a path that is suited to us, each path is separate, and each path is of equal value, but each path is notContinueContinue reading “The Quest of the Quiet Knight – The Stones”

The Quest of the Quiet Knight – Of Conflict

The night when the moon alone above the sky, the Blue Knight fell once more in slumber deep at the circle of stones. In the dark the stones came a figure. This night a man, bow and quiver at his back stood to his feet. He said, The world will war until all truths areContinueContinue reading “The Quest of the Quiet Knight – Of Conflict”