Haybales

The sound of footsteps had invaded my near sleep. They sounded like they were behind me. Ice now had his head up and claws digging into the ground. We were both looking behind the oak, I couldn't see anything, but I was sure Ice could. He had started to snarl when a shape hurtled into the clearing, almost knocking my face clean off.  It was a girl. She looked from left to right a few times. Her back was facing me, so she didn't spot me until Ice growled. I cursed him quietly as I lifted my arm, ready to defend myself. In turn, the girl pulled out two black and white throwing knives. The knives just added to how deadly she looked. She was wear

There was a soft rustle to the left of me. I opened my eyes and looked down. Ice was in a deep sleep. He was lying on his stomach and his mane spilled over his face, coving the right half of it. His head lay between his paws and his tail curled away from his body. He looked so peaceful, so harmless, it was hard to remember his snarling face from when I had first met him. He let out a long, steady breath as a breeze ruffled his mane. I did something corageous at that moment. I slowly unfolded my arms and lowered a hand ever so carefully toward Ice. I gulped when my hand was an inch away from his back. A bird called out in the distance which ma

During our walk, Ice and I found a stream, which we drank from. There was an unnatural lack of animals in the forest but as night fell, we found ourselves in a sandy clearing. I could probably lay across it five times before my fingertips reached the ferns on the other side. There was an abnormally large oak to the right of the clearing and in the middle of that, was a hole. There were two small, yellow pinpricks of light angled toward myself and Ice. This unnerved me, having something watching me, whether it be squirrel or Lupite, I didn't like it. Ice looked up at the tree and ran his tongue along his lips. I sighed and thought about my own

She was right next to me, though I couldn't reach out to embrace her. Stormeagle Hold's great iron doors were infront of me... home, but I couldn't enter. A great shadow engulfed the Hold, dragging me down with it, across a floor of pointed stones. There was a blinding flash of light, then clear blue sky. My left arm felt like it was being ripped off. I reached up with the arm that was being dragged at my side to find out what the source of the pain was. The action caused another pain, this time down the length of my back. Turns out, the floor I was being dragged on wasn't all pointed stones, but there had been one. I groaned, letting myself

Was there an underground lake above us, or even better, a lake above ground? Maybe that was where the moisture on the stalactites was coming from. Every now and then I had to duck out of the way of the sharp rocks. There was one that was so big I had to crawl under it to carry on. I was thinking about testing the amulet to see if it still worked when something brushed against me. I thought it was Ice, at first, but he was a few paces infront of me. The thing had been behind me... I swung around, arm outstretched, ready to blast the thing with a spell. There was nothing there. I glared at the air for a moment before turning around to follow