aluria

The days of questioning grew with each passing season. The urge to see each day to its end faded. Aya wandered listlessly each year questioning why she was still around. Why was she born with such power to extend her life beyond anyone's predictions? Why had she not ended the misery yet? She knew she was still on this earth because hope still lay within her. One day mages would stand beside non-mages with joy in their hearts. That mages would not have to hide themselves, remaining in the shadows as before. Yet she was afraid of the past repeating itself. Year after year, she wandered the earth, helping where she could yet finding fear in mo

A branch broke beneath the man. He paused; worried that he had given away his presence. Then he remembered he wasn't trying to be quiet. He stopped and shook himself. His mind was always so quick to imagine adventures and things. Got him into trouble more than a few times. Glancing up to the sky, he noticed unique colours from the corner of his vision. Turning, he found a young lady asleep on a large branch of a tree. The man didn't know what to make of the young lady. She wasn't dressed as a begger although her clothes were a little worse for wear. Her skin didn't have the weathered look of working under the sign and even the way she slept

The Prince yawned, stepping out from the doorway into the blinding sunlight of the morning, His men were waiting for him with the horses already saddled. Around them the small town bustled to life for another day of work. There wasn't much different from this town and the dozens they had passed through in the last few weeks. At every town he would visit their head and speak briefly to a gathering before retiring to the local Inn for the evening. The next morning they would set out once again to move on the town and repeat. They all mounted up and slowly made their way out of town. A few people bowed as they passed but most when on about da

Her age, the year, even the month she had long since lost track of. Wandering for so long she did not know where she was, what country or even continent. But it doesn't matter. The world has changed. Countries as they once were no longer exist, the continents themselves shifted. The land was fractured, a mesh of what was and what is. Bits of the past forgotten yet visible, covered in the new earth that had taken over. In some ways the disaster was a godsend, fracturing the human race, forcing them to return to a time before technology allowing the earth time to heal from the devastation wrought by man. One can only hope man will be

This day has finally come. I have waited all my life for this I think. I will truly belong somewhere after today. These ran through Aluria’s mind as she stood off to the side, trying to listen to the rest of the ceremony. She was waiting her turn to be sworn in and take her post as Earth Representative on the High Council of Mages in Illarsis. It would also mean that she would become the highest ranked mage on Earth. She was 16. In the last six years she had traveled around much of Earth meeting many other mages. She had seen such wondrous sights she has never been able to tell her earth friends or her family. All her souvenirs she has l