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Echoes of an Age Past – Chapter 5 Sunlight broke through the low clouds overhead, shining down on the valley below in dazzling shafts.  The six travellers paused on their path, next to a broken cliff down which a small river splashed in a waterfall.  Behind them, their path lead back under the shadow of the trees, into the steep hills and further west.  Ahead down the valley, the silver ribbon of the river shone in the fresh sun before it disappeared out of sight in the forest they'd emerged from at dusk the previous day. "Amazing," murmured William, stepping forward to the edge of the cliff and kneeling down in the periphery of one of

Echoes of an Age Past Chapter 4 "Lucas..?   You're a half-elf; can you tell us anything about the old elven kingdoms?" The rogue puffed himself up slightly at Nicky's question, glad of the attention. "Interesting question," he said, rubbing his chin slightly, "Let me see; where to begin?  Well the thing you have to understand about the elves is that they are not human.  This is something a lot of people don't grasp.  Not only that, the days of the ancient kingdoms were long ago, so a lot of what we knew has been lost to the mists of time." "Okay I can understand that," nodded Nicky, "But what d

Echoes of an Age Past Chapter 3 Mark stabbed his sword a little way into the iron-hard dirt and wiped his forehead.  The battle had been brief, and he hadn't been wearing full armour, but the storytellers always seemed to forget that vigorous fighting, even for a few minutes, worked up a powerful sweat.  His cloak was pushed back, over his shoulders and he only wore his padded gambeson as armour, but he was infinitely glad for the cool air.  He looked around, still slightly shocked they'd come through as easily as they had.  William was tending to a jagged tear in Lucas's arm, the monk's palm glowing s

Echoes of an Age Past Chapter 2 The dark-haired young man gaped across the table at the girl in front of him, "You're kidding me!  You're leaving already?" Sophia shot a stinging look back at the man, who was wearing a face like a kicked puppy, "Oh come on, Jack, you knew we weren't staying long.  We just stopped by to grab some supplies anyway." "Even so, 'not long' is quite a bit different from 'just four days'!  I haven't seen you in over a year, Sophia and now I barely have time to say hello to you and Nicky, before you go chasing off into the wilderness again!" Sophia rolled her eyes, "We'll be back once we're done.  The guys we're goin