She was almost nothing now.

After years of his abuse she felt none of her old self in her body.

Who am I?

What do I like?

What do I want?

These were questions she no longer had answers for. Her mind only flooded with what his answers might be.

(Who am I?)

Insecure and useless.

(What do I like?)

Only what he allows me too.

(What do I want?)

To not make him angry.

She was a shell that...

A day to dream of things once wanted,

A house, a job, a love full hearted.

Until I spied my lack of choice,

The world decides, my unheard voice.

Perhaps that’s best, the great unknown,

My wishes and fantasies overthrown.

To see the fate I never knew,

A life unimagined, an unexpected view....

Your Wyvern grew up along side you.

The dragon riders of Illeria believed this was the way to create the ultimate bond.

Whenever a new Illerian child was born. They were taken to the nest and one of the captains would walk them past each egg. Whichever egg glowed would become that infants future mount.

Though the wyverns grew faster than humans, they became a second layer of protection for t...

Evangeline slowly opened the dusty wood chest and a shiver flooded down her spine.

She sat back on her feet. Kneeling in front of it, her hands shot back to her sides as if she had touched something hot.

A small stack of letters lay in front of her in the chest.

Still in shock she lifted the first one, and then the second. Only to confirm they were all addressed to the same person…

‘To my dar...

Ellie woke up with dread sitting heavy in her chest.

They had announced just a week prior that the offering would take place today, and if each family couldn’t choose a member on their own, one would be randomly selected.

When they first announced the mandate she didn’t fully believe it…

yes, food had been scarce as of late… and there had been more then a few days when they had only one meal a...

“So what. Do you get off on people thinking you’re some terribly interesting mystery man or something?.. just tell me who you are!! ”

He flashed her a wicked grin.

“I am no man” his hands gestured to his body in a relaxed yet almost performative gesture.

She huffed a breath.

He kept walking and she had to increase her pace to keep up with him. He was a head taller then her, and his strides ate...