PART TWENTY-NINE: The gift that keeps taking: Smoke along with muffled echoes, rose simultaneously into the dense atmosphere of the dark...

PART TWENTY-EIGHT cont’d: An un-total recall: “I know Kedem was drafted to go to the palace. Can we try and see if it is possible to...

PART TWENTY-EIGHT: A sight for smoky eyes: “How come you don’t remember, where we took the lady and her friend's body?” The first man...

PART TWENTY-SEVEN Cont'd Friends in high and low places: “This is probably the closest I’ll be or come to having a free time of this...

PART TWENTY-SEVEN: A session-al strife: Leaflets ruffled, as feet shuffled simultaneously to the rhythm of preparation in the...

PART TWENTY-SIX Cont'd Father behold thy son: “I thought that the attack was too much. And that we had already done some very cruel and...

PART TWENTY-SIX: Striking invitations and images: Rifra marched purposefully to the other side of the small royal guest parlor. Four...

PART TWENTY-FIVE Cont'd: I hate to say; 'I told you so.': “There has been some trouble ma'am,” panted the young man breathlessly. “I...

PART TWENTY-FIVE: A jewel of great price: The local jeweler plopped the gem into the bowl of mixed liquid substance, then watched and...

PART-TWENTY FOUR Cont'd Small stall, small world: Dirata the market woman pulled at the string on the bunch of flowers in her hands, one...

PART TWENTY-FOUR: Where there is smoke....: Dezen the sixth magistrate, scanned the beaten pathway in front of him. He then looked...

PART-TWENTY THREE Cont'd: From one royal to another: King Nerlak put his royal seal on the last parched sheets of proposals, that had...

PART TWENTY-THREE: Stand, shake and scatter: The 'fly-lord' swiftly scrambled to his feet. With deft and determined extremities, he...

PART TWENTY-TWO Cont'd: Stand up for me: Reinah piled her carefully washed fruits into a piece of sturdy wrap cloth and then proceeded to...

PART TWENTY-TWO: The un-holy trinity: Heinus clapped his hands together in a satisfactory gesture. Expressing himself in what would be a...

PART TWENTY-ONE Cont'd: One good turn....: The older man rubbed on his aching knees. Breathing through his mouth, he managed to steady...

PART TWENTY-ONE: The dark, 'the mark' and the star: A gulf of sooty smoke, whirled in the hollow yet dense atmosphere. Propelled by...

PART TWENTY Cont'd: Stand-in or speak out: "I will need you to put in a word for me, just before the senate session begins tomorrow."...

PART TWENTY: 1/6/16 Baby, baby, baby: The three sisters huddled closely, without saying a word. All that really had to be...

PART NINETEEN Cont'd I saw something but said nothing: The woman stared at her husband dolefully. Feeling every bit of the hopelessness...