The Hope of Prayer

She secured the bandage about Gilliam’s little hand with a deft and gentle touch. The silly boy had decided to take his juggling routine to the next level. A dangerous level. Fortunately he only suffered a shallow cut, though it had bled enough to sca...

None of it was familiar. And yet it was. There, just over there, that boulder with the disquieting shape. She had seen that boulder before. In a dream? Surely just so. It couldn’t possibly be the same, anyway, not if what the strangers said was tr...

She parted from Sister Garaele reluctantly, practically afraid to leave the only safe, familiar thing anchoring her to a world that felt like a scattered jigsaw puzzle. But the Sister had seen the exhaustion in Sef’s bleary, red-rimmed eyes, and promis...

The day had been a nightmare. When they’d first arrived at the seemingly abandoned camp, she had thought Flicker was being overly cautious with her suggestions to hide, to send a lone scout ahead of everyone else while they sat, idle. It had taken eve...

The dreams. They’re so vivid in the moment but never linger into her waking hours. She’s only been able to hold onto a few details. She can remember darkness and then light. She can remember a voice…or voices. And a name. There’s a name. Sh...

I have, on occasion, glimpsed the others writing in a personal journal and have decided to do the same. It has been a long…long time since I’ve kept such a possession. But I believe it is a good practice, and mayhaps it will help me “polish the ru...

What have I done? What am I doing? To think that it could reach me like that…I became so, so angry. Scared. I threatened it. What an idiot thing to do. I should have said nothing. But I couldn’t. The anger, the rage…I wasn’t thinking. What ...

It had been only since the morning that she’d last knelt in worship of Lathander. It had been only minutes since the thought of him had crossed her thoughts. She’d gone inside to warm two pots of water, as requested by Eethyl, and she’d been starin...

The sky is lit with the frequent flash-quick glare of lightning, always followed closely by the almost deafening boom and crash of thunder. The ocean itself rages with the sky. The air is oppressive with elemental violence. (Flash! Flash-boom!) Th...

It was this. This was the reason they were here, this monster that called itself Cryovane. It was the reason Flicker and Keth and Eethyl had arrived to Phandalin. And they were the reason she had been awoken from that fel slumber. It was all for this mom...

Tears of frustration built in her eyes, but the weather was so cold that they froze before they could fall. Her vision remained as crisp as the wind that snapped through the mountain range, and her rage was as sharp and towering as the mountains themselv...