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Through The Grapevine

73 Frost 19 Age of Kings [/b] The smell of herbal tea was a sharp but welcome scent. Malcolm leaned over the steaming mug, allowing it to warm his face, almost able to forget the foot of snow that had fallen outside during the night. Jared dragged a chair from under the table to join him, raking a ...

A Dance in the Snow

Emanys, the man repeated in his mind, mouth ajar as the stranger retreated to fetch herself a sparring sword. The swords were shaped like any other feder or training sword. It possessed a rebated blade and square cross section, with a flattened tip and wide forte at the bottom of the blade known as ...

A Dance in the Snow

Malcolm was quick to surmise, given the woman’s accent, that the bird’s handler was foreign, though he couldn’t place where she might be from. He offered up a polite smile and practiced quiet patience while she spoke, taking his time to decipher her meaning. “This is the training grounds,” he finall...

A Dance in the Snow

71 Frost 19 Age of Kings The journey earlier in the season had stripped the knight of his summer weight. Malcolm appeared tall and lean with broad shoulders. He wore dark winter clothing under a leather tabard to fend off the chill in the air, shoulders dressed with a heavy cloak of wolf pelts. A s...

Kiss of Frost

As Elyna moved to sit, Malcolm leaned forward and took the woman in his arms to draw her near. He silenced her with a kiss, the tight knot of guilt in his stomach unraveled and forgotten. “Not too tired,” he assured the woman, as he gathered up the weightless fabric of her underdress, acting upon hi...

Kiss of Frost

Malcolm used the last of the day light to pen a letter to Fredric, the Captain of the Skyriders who had taken up residence in the village barracks. The Duke’s demands were simple, Fredric was to take rest upon his return from his current mission before packing up his things and taking leave of Mayce...

Kiss of Frost

Elyna seemed surprised by his use of magic. It was rare to see anyone use magic in Renmere, but the knights in his crew seemed relatively comfortable with the idea of having a healer within their ranks. Malcolm had chosen to learn magic long ago and though he wasn’t very adept at the craft, he knew ...

Kiss of Frost

Malcolm looked flushed at the woman’s words, did she think he had forgotten? Never. He closed the door to ensure no one else heard and as Elyna approached, his pack was dropped down alongside her own. He embraced her, sure something had happened in the time she had been out of the keep. This couldn’...

Kiss of Frost

A restless night had caused the duke to lie in, too tired and miserable to drag himself from the warmth of his bed. This, after all, would be his last comfortable night's rest before his return to the capital. Most storms seemed to start in the ocean south of Renmere and linger whenever they hit May...

Kiss of Frost

Owen, not having expected to be stopped by the woman, turned to hear her out. He was taken aback by her assumption, which saw him relinquish control of his surprise for just a moment, long enough perhaps to give himself away. As he retook his composure, Owen straightened a little. He had not told an...

Kiss of Frost

The events of the day before had been a fuel, tinder to the forest fire that was now no more than a bad dream, troubling the man, even in rest. While Malcolm knew that he was dreaming, there was something altogether fascinating about the way in which his mind recreated the events. Through all the an...

Kiss of Frost

There was something passionate and wild about the way Elyna kissed him, as if they had just both taken their last breath and only had this single moment left to share. It made his pulse quicken, thumping away in his neck. He threw his arms around the woman as she closed the space between them, indul...

Kiss of Frost

Elyna tried to rise sooner than she should have, finding that the quick motion had sapped her form of what little energy reserves she had. Malcolm reached out to catch her as she shuffled onto her knees and fell against him, too weak still from the time she had spent in the icy waters of the lake. H...

Kiss of Frost

“Am I keeping you from something?” Atler asked. Malcolm blinked, green eyes fixed on the king. “I apologise, your majesty.” He sounded distant, far away. Owen knocked Malcolm under the table with the back of his hand, across from where the king sat. “Everything all right?” He whispered. “Sorry, I wa...

Lover

There was something about the weight of her hands against his chest, that triggered a primal urge in the man. Elyna let her hand go lower, teasing him to attention with very little effort at all. Her kisses were tentative and tender, daring him to partake. All of the woman’s teasing seemed to make t...

Lover

Elyna sat up, which saw Malcolm prop himself up on an elbow. He pressed a kiss to her shoulder and smiled against the smooth skin of her arm. Was she ready to leave, so soon? At least, he thought, it seemed too soon for her to go. Malcolm took a moment to listen to the quiet of the keep and realised...

Lover

Elyna giggled and Malcolm couldn’t help but smile at her. Why did this feel so easy? She had stripped him of his nerves with a single act, which had pathed way for a memorable experience. A gasp and a soft grown from the woman threatened to undo him moments after their union. When Elyna moved her ha...

Lover

Beautiful. The man had been called many things, but Elyna was the first to call him beautiful. Handsome perhaps, wolffish even, but never beautiful. What did she see when she looked at him, he wondered, something akin to what he saw in her? The thought was dismissed with the swift unveiling of more ...

Lover

Malcolm had raised the woman’s offering to tie about his neck, the small golden feather cool against his warm collar, weightless. He drank in the sight of her from a distance that was soon closed. It was Elyna who initiated the next kiss and Malcolm who encouraged a further state of undress, relievi...

Lover

Had Elyna expected him to lie to her father? His letter up until the point he had set it aside had been nothing but fact. Any more than that would hurt them both. He frowned at the thought of her thinking him capable of anything but the truth. As she went on, Malcolm was both flattered and mortified...

Lover

Elyna discarded her hat before unwinding the scarf from around her neck to let it fall away. Malcolm didn’t move, couldn’t move, as if in a trance, spellbound by the simple act that said so much more than any words could have. She rose up on her tiptoes, her mouth an inch from his own, and asked him...

Lover

The tentative kiss grew in ferocity and demand, like the snowstorm that had battered the region since early frost. His heart drummed a lustful melody against her hand, quick, hard and rhythmic. Malcolm had not expected to lose himself to the kiss, yet lost he was, hands held against the woman’s jaw ...

Lover

A bead of black ink fell away from the edge of the inkwell. Malcolm brushed the quill along the side to remove any excess ink before it was touched to the page. He was seated on the bed against a wall of pillows, with a book on his lap that doubled as a makeshift table for the piece of parchment he ...

Lover

Just as Malcolm thought himself confident enough to answer the woman, she slapped him with an accusation that left him feeling like a fish out of water. Did he stand with his mouth agape? He blinked, at a complete loss for words. Elyna had a way of doing that, just as she did with the smile she some...

Lover

The rail was cold, even through the leather of his gloves, but the man seemed to invite it, drinking it in through outstretched fingers in an attempt to chase some of the heat from his bones. Elyna was right to think him nervous, though he didn’t often suffer such fits of nervousness in his experien...

Lover

Earlier that afternoon, the King’s carriage, drawn by four of the most beautiful horses Malcolm had ever seen, came through the boundary gate and arched towards the keep, bypassing the small village. A company of twelve royal guards on horseback followed the carriage, more than the stables would hou...

Winter Mist

Malcolm averted his gaze. It was somehow harder to look at Elyna now than it had been at the beginning of the evening. He tried not to entertain the thought of her and Yvan’s recent meet up. What had transpired, he wondered, between the two of them on that day. It must have taken place before Leonid...

Winter Mist

He both admired and feared her passion, which spoke of unresolved feelings for the Captain. Elyna left the table to pace the room, wrapped up in the transgressions of her past lover. Did she want to help him or was this something else? Elyna asked after Leonide and the child’s welfare. “I’m not aski...

Winter Mist

Malcolm smiled at that, the thought of her not wanting to share him. Unfortunately, given their station in life, there would be many instances where they would be expected to dance, and no doubt, not always with each other. He had a wide, handsome smile that his brothers had told him he didn’t wear ...

Winter Mist

Learn to live for themselves for a time. Malcolm considered the suggestion. Then he had been correct in his assumption, Elyna would take her newfound freedom with both hands and run with it. She would live her life and he would live in support of it, cheering from the sidelines. He forced a smile. I...

Winter Mist

Mal she had said, and everything that came before seemed to be sucked out of his head and swiftly forgotten for a time. Mal. It was so informal and… well, rather sweet. He was quite sure no one had ever shortened his name. He looked across at Elyna and realised she expected a reply, something to ass...

Winter Mist

“Yes, yes,” he agreed, while smiling, “I shall make all these demands of you and more. You must give up everything,” he teased, “and dote on my every will and whim.” Malcolm stared at the woman, for a split second it seemed as if she had believed him. Malcolm laughed. “Elyna,” he said, dropping his ...

Winter Mist

“Then I shall make him suffer in keeping this business between us two for a time,” Malcolm said, grinning. He exchanged his smile for something far more tame before Owen approached. “The guards say we should head back,” Owen announced. “There’s a storm on its way.” Malcolm looked skyward as if to co...

Winter Mist

Malcolm waved back to the party to bid them to stay before he turned his horse to head down into the valley. The chestnut mare threw her head back in disapproval. Red did not enjoy any amount of standing in the cold weather. Once they were on the move again, the mare worked her way up to an easy tro...

Winter Mist

“Not that one,” Owen protested. “Honestly, brother, you have no style.” Malcolm frowned at the figure in the mirror looking back at him. “A ride?” He countered, “how stylish does one need to be for a ride?” “You’re the Duke of Mayce, act like it,” Owen encouraged. “Here, try the black one on again.”...

More Ale

Four hours sleep was all the man had gotten before rising for the new day. He rolled over in the double bed and rubbed the sleep from his eyes, his mind quick to contemplate how different the evening might have been if he had chosen to stay in the city. Still, there was work to be done and Malcolm w...

Winter Mist

The table in the library had been exchanged for something a lot bigger, big enough to seat ten men. A handful of benches made for adequate seating and at the head and tail of the table, the high backed leather chairs were positioned, one taken up by the Duke, the other by Cage Endor’s eldest son, Te...

Winter Mist

Her kiss had found the edge of his mouth. What was she doing, he questioned himself for a split second. What would he be accepting to condone such a kiss? He was kind, he remembered her saying the season before on his thirtieth name day. Girls like Elyna Reyes didn’t want kind men, they fell for mon...

Winter Mist

Once Malcolm had returned to the group, it was Owen who approached him first. The young man was wearing the kind of smile that Malcolm could not resist but reply in kind with. Owen had always been such a joy to be around, like the sun after a gloomy long day of rain. He had a way of lighting up a ro...

Winter Mist

“Reyes…” Malcolm said, upon turning to offer his younger brother his full attention. Malcolm smiled, not quite like Owen had, but something a little more guilt ridden. He had not expected to see her here and knew she would have questions. Like why, when he outranked every member of the crew, includi...

Winter Mist

The tables were positioned either side of the entrance, one stacked with a spread of delicious nibbles, crackers, meats and cheeses, the other with a vast selection of wines, different alcohols and desserts. A thousand candles glittered above them, decorating four double ringed chandeliers. Two fire...

Winter Mist

15 Frost Age of Kings Year 19 [/b] Fredric Cardel was the captain assigned to lead the intelligence mission based in the duchy of Mayce. With just shy of fifteen years experience as a Skyrider, Fredric had an air of confidence about him that made him seem almost cocky. He was a long, lean man of av...

More Ale

Malcolm, startled, turned around to find Elyna had hurried after him, cloak in hand and ready to palm off. How strange, the man thought, that he would forget something so dear to his person. “My brothers and I hunted these wolves,” he explained, “on one of our first missions. I paid to have the furs...

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“Well, I would never wish to invite bad luck,” he said, “not willingly. In such a case, I’ll promise to merely hold onto it, so that when you’re ready to celebrate something, we can share it together.” Malcolm found himself smiling at the woman, one of those smiles that was all too easy to wear in h...

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Elyna stood up, a move that begged the man’s attention. He unfolded his arms and set gloved hands against the seat on either side of him, ready to rise if her next move called for such. However, Reyes remained close, even if she did not meet his eye, he couldn’t help but notice. Was it something he ...

More Ale

Malcolm took up the space beside Elyna on the bench seat and put the bottle of wine down on a flat piece of ground beside it, choosing to put it out of sight and mind for now. “I don’t think wine is a good idea,” he said, and Elyna seemed to agree. He leaned back against the white wood of the bench ...

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“Race you?” The man asked, looking a little perplexed by the challenge. “Race you where?” Elyna wasn’t waiting to explain, which forced the man to give chase. He took the bottle in hand and raced to catch up with Enlya, who was, at the same time, attempting to put distance between them. Malcolm wasn...

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Elyna had let her arms fall across the table and on reaction alone, Malcolm had covered one of her hands with his own. The gesture was brief and short lived. He would not forget himself, not so soon and with only a few drinks to blame. She offered up the suggestion that they go somewhere to do somet...

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Elyna thought him kind, but kindness had never been his intention. Truth, loyalty, and fairness, these were the pillars of his ideal form of leadership. Kindness, despite all its charm, was an unintentional side-effect. Malcolm thought on the woman’s question for a time, taking a moment to consider ...

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Malcolm listened to the woman’s account, surprised to hear that Leonide was expecting. He let his gaze find Thomas at the table over and watched the man for a spell, curious to know his thoughts, sure that if only he could draw his eye, he might be able to read whatever thoughts lay beyond glassy bl...

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