The sheer silks felt strange draped over his body as Shale waited in the guest quarters. Anxiety and doubt alternating as the wait dragged on. When he had been caught stealing from the Lord he feared the worst, but Lord Karmac was remarkably merciful on the less fortunate. When the guards had explained that Shale…
Speeding north on the back of Pegasus, Orion watched as the landscape rushing beneath them changed as they traveled. Leaving the sunny bright cool lands of the Mediterranean in the full glory of autumn behind, now an endless landscape of barren grassland of the vast steppes of Russia opened up before them. Gone were the…