The green and growing things gathered in the greenhouse. They shuddered their leaves and rasped their roots, communicating as only plantlings can. In the ivy-covered house beyond, the plant mage…
He collapsed, exhausted, in a spray of dirt and mulch. He’d run too long and too hard through the Wastes, past monsters with too many teeth and watchers with too…
She was in love with the lake. With the murky waters and spiralling dust lit up like stars in the sickly sunbeams. With dark fish that darted around her, curious…
The lizard peered into the pond, tilting their head from side to side. Instead of a little brown creature with a pointed muzzle and splayed toes, their reflection was a…
They stared at each other, boy and unicorn. In the background, his mentor clenched his fists. ‘Look away, boy! Before it imprints! Unicorns are not for you.’ The boy reached…
Curl up smaller, thought the snake. Don’t move, don’t hiss. Maybe they will think I’m a rock, and move on. The shadow over her did not pass. She started to…
They stumbled in from the cold, slamming the door to the storm outside. The cabin was coated in cobwebs and dust. They choked a little on the stale air. But…
There was a knock at the door. The mage stood, smoothing the thick fabric of her gardening robes, and opened it. The plantlings scattered with a rustling of leaves and…
The mage paused on the path home. She could hear … mewling? The high-pitched but muffled cry of something very small and at least a little scared. She followed the…
The queen, resplendent in tabby-and-white fur, regarded the spirit at the foot of the stairs with a lazy half-lidded glance. ‘And what is it you seek again?’ She asked in…