I opened my eyes to the place I had longed to be.

Not a house, but still home.

The tall trees towered above me, their leafed branches stretching towards the sun. Yet drooping down, sabotaged by their own weight, lying on top of each other, light breaching the canopy like the stars in the night sky. It provided sanctuary to all the small creatures of the forest from the ferocious predators of t...

“See all around you, the misery left behind by your torment”. The young wizard boy stood, shaking, as the northern wind whipped around his small figure. “Cruelty will not serve you!” he proclaimed as his blue lips trembled. “And there will be no-one to save you from your ruin, not even me.”

The people of Ardengate had been kind, they were not a savage people, they looked after their neighbours a...