Chapter 92 Boars and Steel
Chapter 92 Boars and Steel
The air was still blue with dawn when Pit and Tib rose from their bedrolls. The Hollow was half awake — smoke curling from a few low cookfires, a...
2025-12-29 14:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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Chapter 87 Farm and Trade
Chapter 87 Farm and Trade
The fire outside Caelen’s cave barely clung on, casting just enough light to flicker over weary, determined faces. The Hollow wouldn’t quiet, ei...
2025-12-29 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 91 City’s Blight, the Hollow’s Bloom
Chapter 91 City’s Blight, the Hollow’s Bloom
The city gnawed uneasily that late summer, with every wind-swept street corner carrying murmurs of violence. Marcus Luceron, ...
2025-12-28 16:31:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 90 Path Widens
Chapter 90 Path Widens
The fire was stamped out, leaving only embers to mark its former presence. The night opened wide around them, filled with the hiss of insects and the far-off whisper of...
2025-12-28 16:13:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 89 The Road North
Chapter 89 The Road North
The cart wheels groaned as they pressed north along the river road, iron-bound rims grinding stone and soil alike. The air was heavy with the scent ...
2025-12-28 14:46:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 87 Farm and Trade
Chapter 87 Farm and Trade
The fire outside Caelen’s cave barely clung on, casting just enough light to flicker over weary, determined faces. The Hollow wouldn’t quiet, ei...
2025-12-28 14:36:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 88 Supplies and Future
Chapter 88 Supplies and Future
The road sloped down to the sea, broadening where stone gave way to hard-packed earth, wheel ruts gouged deep into the ground. Tib kept pace wi...
2025-12-28 14:35:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 86 The Rising Storm
Chapter 86 The Rising Storm
Incense and candle wax thickened the air in the Imperial Crown Prince of Haldrith’s chamber, almost heavy enough to taste. Torches sputtered and...
2025-12-26 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 85 Veil in the Hollow
Chapter 85 Veil in the Hollow
Brother Renn had lived in many places—dusty cloisters, wind-battered chapels, the caravans where silver bought passage more than faith—but never in all his y...
2025-12-25 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 84 The Hollow Laid Bare
Chapter 84 The Hollow Laid Bare
The party that descended the southern ridge was larger this time. Caelen strode at the fore, Pit and Tib flanking him as always, followed by Mirelle with her b...
2025-12-24 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 83 - After the Storm
Chapter 83 - After the Storm
The storm had passed in the night, leaving the Hollow raw and unveiled beneath the gray light of dawn. The air was sharp, the scent of stone and rain heavy in eve...
2025-12-22 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 82 Lisette at the Citadel
Chapter 82 Lisette at the Citadel
The first thing Lisette noticed when she woke was that someone was already in her room. The curtains had been pulled back to let in the early sun, and one of...
2025-12-19 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 81 — Seawatch Manor
Chapter 81 — Seawatch Manor
The shutters rattled in the salt wind, though the fire in the hearth burned high. Seawatch Manor stood upon the bluffs of the Blue Coast, a place of weathered st...
2025-12-17 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 80 The Close Council of Avalon
This chapter forced me to try a new style to present the internal thoughts of the key actors. I am happy with it, and I hope you enjoy it.
Chapter 80 The Close Council of...
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2025-12-12 15:03:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 79 – The Return to the Hollow
Chapter 79 – The Return to the Hollow
The craft went swiftly downstream, the longboat heavy with crates, sacks, and the weary weight, almost too much, with so many souls ...
2025-12-12 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 78 Meetings on the River
Chapter 78 Meetings on the River
The night passed fitfully aboard the longboat, each soul wrapped in a thin patchwork of cloaks and weary silence. Sleep came in uneasy snatches, broken by the...
2025-12-10 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 77 Rescue
Chapter 77 Rescue
From the trees, they crept along the riverbank, tracking the longboat. It was no arduous task; the men aboard made little effort at silence, their voices carrying easily ove...
2025-12-08 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 76 - River Surprise
Chapter 76 - River Surprise
The night fire burned low, crackling softly in the stone-lined pit. Outside, the mist pooled heavily in the Hollow, hung like pale smoke against t...
2025-12-05 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 75 Questions
Chapter 75 Questions
The sun had risen high enough to burn streaks of gold through the Hollow’s mist, but the valley still felt like a bowl of smoke. Caelen and Pit walked the curve of the ...
2025-12-03 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 74 Renata Spes! Hope Reborn
Chapter 74 Renata Spes! Hope Reborn
Pit ducked into the low, stone-cradled camp with a waterskin slung over his shoulder and his eyes darting like a wary hound’s. He tossed...
2025-12-01 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 73 – Stew and Stones
Chapter 73 – Stew and Stones
A stew bubbled in the small iron pot, steam carrying the mingled scents of boar meat, herbs, and smoke. It was as good a meal as they’d had...
2025-11-28 14:00:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 72 – Gloamhollow
Chapter 72 – Gloamhollow
They broke camp at first light, smoke from their fire curling into the pale morning sky. The road twisted south, and the wagon bounded and swayed a...
2025-11-26 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 71 – The Road South
Note, this is a correct and clean up of this chapter. I apologize for the multiple versions published before.
Chapter 71 – The Road South
It was before dawn that they left the head...
2025-11-24 14:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 70 – The Road to Avalon
Chapter 70 – The Road to Avalon
Dawn had not even broken over the heartland with delicate light, and already the manor of Avalon stirred like an overturned hive. Horses wer...
2025-11-21 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 69 The Shadow in the Ledger
Chapter 69 The Shadow in the Ledger
The great hall was quiet when Aldric returned, his boots still dusty from the road. Lord Eldric sat tall in the high-backed chair. His han...
2025-11-19 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 70 – The Road to Avalon
Chapter 70 – The Road to Avalon
Dawn had not even broken over the heartland with delicate light, and already the manor of Avalon stirred like an overturned hive. Horses wer...
2025-11-19 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 68 The Miscounted
Chapter 68 The Miscounted
The three boys reached the headwaters of the Blackwater River just as dusk began to fall, the swollen waters hurrying down from the high ridges like...
2025-11-17 14:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 67 From A Seed, A Forest
Chapter 67 From A Seed, A Forest
The morning broke with a pale gold light, lifting mist from the widening ravine of the Blackwater. Dew clung to the hedges, and the air...
2025-11-14 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 66 – The Uninvited Tea
Chapter 66 – The Uninvited Tea
Lord Eldric stood, watching out the tall windows of his office, his gaze set upon the eastern road, where dust curled like a warning in the l...
2025-11-12 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post