sword-and-sorcery

The Oracle handed her a small, leather bound booklet, about as thick as a pamphlet, and said, __ou are a teacher, yes?__t was nice of the Oracle to phrase things in the form of a question and let people feel they were imparting information. __es, I am.___xcellent. I know teachers value learning, and this book has very valuable information on gargoyles. If Terak remains part of your life, this you__l want to know.__arissa weighed it in her hand. __his is a very light history.__he Oracle arched one fine brow. __hy would I bother with that? This, my dear, is about how gargoyles mate.

The second the door closed after him Laire started jumping, a huge smile on her face and her body shaking in repressed excitement. ____l go, I__l go, I__l go. You don__ even like the Oracle. Let me.__efore the first words were out of Laire__ mouth, Fallon started to shake her head, and as soon as the green-haired woman took a breath, Fallon used it as her opportunity to say, __o way.___lease please please.___et me rephrase. No way in hell.__aire stopped jumping, a small pout coming to her lips. How she had been able to prevent an ankle fracture while jumping on those spikes, Larissa would never know. __hy not?___ecause if they have an orgy going on, you__l want to join. And if they don__ have an orgy going on, you__l want to start one. I__l take Aislynn with me.

One thing this night taught her beyond all doubt - all males were lunkheads, all of them. She recognized that protect the poor helpless girl and don__ worry her little wee head tone. ____ not stupid. I__ not going to run into a situation I have no business being in to show no one can boss me around. I__ not a warrior and tonight made that clear in large neon signage. But I deserve to know about events that concern me and help make the decisions on how to handle them.

How many did she kill?___ozens, my Lord, until her sword was dull with the blood of her enemies.__eign stroked the edge of the dagger with his forefinger until a drop of blood was drawn. The blood absorbed into the blade. __nly that? I will see her bathed in blood before me.

Make no mistake, little human. You are under my protection now, and I protect what is mine.

This woman was consuming him, bit by bit. She was becoming the reason and the reward of his existence, and if he did not shield himself, everything he did not have to give would belong to her.

I don__ do magic. I turn your attention back to Friday night and the big-ass sword I was carrying. My job is to run and swing.

Well, here were the ugly facts. She had no mad-ninja-skillz to rely on and her family didn__ know where she was. She didn__ know where she was. The only way she was leaving was if this creature allowed it.

You are sweet to be so concerned over my love life, but I__e decided only to date guys who have bigger swords than me.

From Bralloc__ mounted position he could see over the heads of most of his men, but the thickening darkness of evening coupled with the storm made it impossible to see more than a few yards. He jerked at the reins and swung his horse around, pushing into the crowd. The large grey charger was nearly as mean-spirited as her owner; she snorted and bucked her head, then nipped, stomped and shoved her way through, giving every indication that she was enjoying herself. His men drew to either side, and the crawling excitement in Bralloc__ belly became an angry swarm of insects. The scout _ the ballsy woman whose name he could never remember - stood several paces away. Bralloc paid her no heed, however, and the mixture of nervousness, relief and fear on her face didn__ even register in his mind: his eyes were locked on the captive at her side. His lips twitched into a smile and he licked them, like a ghoul eyeing a fresh corpse. He forced himself to move slowly, deliberately _ sucking each individual drop of marrow from the bones of his anticipation..."-From 'Feral

Noontime was absolutely the perfect time for a duel in the dragon__ opinion as this was also lunchtime, his favorite part of the day. As the saying went, he could kill two birds with one stone.

Dragons were notoriously finicky about whom they ate, and thought it the height of bad manners to be kept waiting by their selected fare.

When I look at my bookcase and see one book after the other upon its shelves, I think to myself, There is a God.

The Lion banner sways and falls in the horror-haunted gloom;A scarlet Dragon rustles by, borne on winds of doom.In heaps the shining horsemen lie, where the thrusting lances break,And deep in the haunted mountains, the lost, black gods awake.Dead hands grope in the shadows, the stars turn pale with fright,For this is the Dragon's Hour, the triumph of Fear and Night.

While his brain lay slowly dying, Bevan felt his body come back to life.

When a mortal man breaks a people, it is always blamed on the gods.

I've stolen books. They're the only thing worth taking that don't belong to you.

I didn't falter and together we matched, step for step. Each swing of the sword was blocked, each step countered. No blade ever made contact with flash. We twirled around; my concentration far too focussed to feel dizzy. All I could see was Macrucio's wicked smirk, one that reminded me far more of my past than even Nathaniel did. I wasn't fighting Macrucio now; it was my former life I had to eradicate.