§ Once we were on our way, with our people and the Pendorian officers crammed into four of these big vehicles, (except the fairy warriors, who chose to seek their own quarters), Colonel Morgas filled us in on some details of the current situation. She had to shout to be heard over the engine and the teapot din of the …

§ Oberon had another squad of fairy warriors assist Serera in escorting us from Tëan Tír, and included a pair of flying mages riding hippogriffs to monitor and, if necessary, purify them, as the only currently available countermeasure against Demonic Blindness. In the skies of Western Pendor, an escort of Pendorian sea-wyvern-mounted aerial cavalry joined them. Despite being so far …

§ My meeting with the Fairy Queen, which I had hoped would clear things up, only made them cloudier. Well, I can’t say it quite that way, can I? I had new things to be confused about, like Morrígan’s very odd claim about the relationship between my mother and father. I had been taught that he had ensnared her and …

§ Although Morrígan had started out by making me put my questions on hold long enough to have a good cry, my mind was still an obstacle course of problems and issues, and I still had to talk to her about them. She had invited two experts along for me to consult as well. Rather than allowing idle talk with …

§ I won’t say that Morrígan entirely gave up on her desires, but she kept her advances to a minimum and limited her actions to some light groping and kissing. Maybe she would have tried for more, but I remembered that I had come here with things to ask her and forced the issue. “Your Majesty, I have to discuss …

Just a quick reminder that I am taking the last full week of every other month off now. Next chapter unlock will be May 2nd. § After I received a promise from the Fairy Queen for a private consultation, the subject of Mother’s death continued to loom over the dinner, keeping the mood muted. But finally, conversation turned toward the …

§ The whole situation still felt very odd to me, and if I didn’t consider Tenre generally trustworthy, regardless of her clear dislike of me, I would have been turning everyone around and leaving at this time. I looked over to Dilorè and Serera, and they had the same slight frown on their face that I imagine I was wearing. …

§ My suite is located in one of the houses occupying the opposite end of the cavern from the Fairy King’s throne. I learned during my first visit that the locals call this cluster of buildings the ‘castle town’, and it exists mostly to give higher ranking fairies and their non-fairy visitors mortal-like accommodations, to cater to the sensibilities of …

§ It was Dilorè’s shift at the helm when we arrived in Tëan Tír. This time we used an official landing area, a grass field about a mile away from the Fairy King’s Castle.  “This is where Prince Manlon normally parks his launch,” Dilorè explained as she taxied the craft to a parking spot. “It’s also used by the valley’s …

§ Rod did not speak to me again until the next day, and it wasn’t until we were over the Tabad. In fact, we were passing the massive mountain called The Giant’s Fortress, where I had previously become involved in struggles between Tabadan tribes, although we were well to the west of it, rather than over the inhabited regions. As …