PART NINETEEN: Hide and they will seek: Rifra's mother watched sullenly, while her husband securely fastened the steel latch on the heavy...

PART EIGHTEEN Cont'd: See something and say something: "Your majesty," started Dezen tentatively. Just as soon as the last of the exiting...

PART EIGHTEEN: The princess and the poisonous prattlers: As Manipa spun her seductive and deceptive wiles on the stunned and distracted...

PART SEVENTEEN (cont'd): A Tale of two kingdoms: Covens, candlelights and conquests: The witch swiped the top of the stony slab with her...

PART SEVENTEEN: Movin' on up: "Even though you are underqualified, possessing far below the necessary requirements for the job. We have...

PART SIXTEEN Cont'd: When pay day is also pain day: There was a child writhing on the floor in agony. Her distraught mother looked on,...

PART SIXTEEN: Dead Men can't talk: Rifra worked to control the shocked and curiously murmuring servants, while making sure he answered...

PART FIFTEEN Cont'd: A treasure for your trouble: "Maybe he sleepwalked out of here." Joked Duhan, Bronid's younger brother as he...

PART FIFTEEN: Skip two squares and head straight to 'go': "Oh," was all the senior guard could utter. A sense of foreboding washing all...

PART FOURTEEN (cont'd): Tell me quick and tell me true: "Oh Hanad," exclaimed his mother. Then she buried her face in the cup of the palm...

PART FOURTEEN: An uncomfortable trip down memory lane: Methus walked down the straight, long and large palace hallway absentmindedly. It...

PART THIRTEEN Cont'd Warning: road blocks and obstructive pillars ahead: Ethia had not really slept the previous night. Having come into...

PART THIRTEEN: Stolen and seperate identities: Ethia tightened the veil around her face and reinforced the shawl draped loosely from her...

PART TWELVE (Cont'd) When light comes on darkness fades away: Bronid watched his two sons slurp and smack their meal with relish. He felt...

PART TWELVE (Cont'd) When light comes on darkness fades: Bronid watched his two sons slurp and smack their meal with relish. He felt such...

PART TWELVE: LORD of the lords (HE Who laughs last): Heinus stretched his neck over the fly-lord's form like a reptile. Very thankful...

PART ELEVEN (cont'd): The Diagram of Di-abolical: Rifra's heart slumped at the way his wife cringed when he came close to her. It had...

PART ELEVEN: A royal un-invitation: "Do not be so vile and cruel, my comrade. For you know not who sends her." Said the second palace...

PART TEN (Cont'd): Pride, pretense and prejudice: The fourth, second and third magistrates gasped in horror, when the first magistrate...

PART TEN: The manifestation of an oblivious phantom: Methus was still in a fit over Rifra's newest revelation about his 'sister's'...