For the longest time Nadine Hunt was dormant. The mage’s grip throttled of her senses into submission, so in her fragmented thoughts she slept. In darkness. In that total void where one’s inner self goes during the deepest sleeps, she felt at peace. Suddenly there came a faint awareness which only told her where she…

The ride back to Willem’s manor was made in humble silence, at least by the two agents held against their will in the back seat. Up front, his subordinates bickered and took cheap shots on each other’s less than perfect qualities. ‘Petra’, the sprite, was apparently an energy-sucking leech who Willem will have no use…

Throughout the tour of the crater Willem was strictly business, as though he had only just met the agents charged with investigating the anomalies. He knew far more than his subordinates could have gleaned, describing the nature of the land-shifting plague that had gripped Albrooke. He claimed that what they were standing in was actually…

The ride across a bumpy rural highway served as the last leg of Nadine’s commute to Albrooke. This was one of those parts of the province where tall buildings and busy streets had yielded hours ago to field upon field of frozen soil. It was rough, exchanging Undel’s neon lights for the monotonous scene composed…

When Nadine Hunt was just a girl, she knew little outside of her parents’ home in the tropical nation of Lio. Of what she could recall, she enjoyed her time in the land of short nights and bright, clear days. Her first year of school introduced her to people she thought she would be friends…