Greenling
Then, I felt his arm wrap around my shoulders and give them a squeeze.
“Don’t talk like that” he quietly demanded, “don’t ever.”
It wasn’t very long before one of the maidens found us like that. His thick arms crossed in front of a chest built like a barrel, and it seemed that before I could even blink we were shuttled off to another part of the Hall and made to practice a dance we’d already done ten-thousand times before.
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A sinister shape moved in the shadows…
My hands and legs were bound with ropes of darkness. The darkness writhed, like an eel, seeking to cloister my mouth and eyes with its suffocating grasp – and all the while those eyes continued watching me, ever present, ever intens