Jaleb the Specialist commander had one hundred specialists under his command. They were all gathered with him here today as he had The Banshee surrounded. She was beginning to be a menace, performing assassinations against individuals with no real pattern between them. The Specialist Order could not ignore such a

Xi Cì walks forward towards the pack of five werewolves. Sure, Untoltelage and his apprentices are equal to the number of werewolves. With Xi Cì on their side, Untoltelage outnumbers the werewolves. Those numbers are meaningless. Only Untoltelage and Xi Cì are even worth counting in the balance of a

“You left your precious artifacts in that mountain?” Xi Cì asks, “Untoltelage, that seems like it is kind of hard to get to. I understand that you can’t just keep your most important belongings on you at all times, but it’s going to be a bit inconvenient to

Untoltelage was leading the kids through the woods in search of his precious artifacts that store multiple lifetimes worth of magic. He knows that it is somewhere to the north. He passes tree after tree under the canopy of this forest. He can’t shake the feeling that he is

Untoltelage finds what he is looking for. Wolf tracks. The wolves were extra afraid of the forest fire after getting singed by Untoltelage. He follows the tracks. The kids follow. They follow. But they think Untoltelage is acting strange. Untoltelage is looking at the ground. Looking at tracks. They wonder

“Where are we going?” Hyethra asks. “We are going to find my magical artifacts.” Untoltelage says, “If they are where I last saw them, they should be far north into the mountains.” Untoltelage walks north and the rest of them follow. The journey that day is uneventful. But they all

Hyethra doesn’t know how long it has been. She is very impatient with waiting for Untoltelage to wake up. She thinks he’ll make it through his wounds, but the possibility of him dying and leaving them stranded in the woods with no help is terrifying. She doesn’t

Jostahim is a nine-year-old boy. Him and three other kids were taken to a stone structure set into a wall. One of the girls of the four surviving kids left to go inside the building. There were police guards in the way. She hadn’t cared. She went through them.

Quastiffany is a nine-year-old girl. She sits in a van with the three other survivors surrounded by about a dozen police. But they don’t like normal police. Quastiffany isn’t going to judge them on their outfits, though. She knows to be thankful. But it is so hard to

Erage: Untoltelage and his four apprentice: Quastiffany, Jostahim, Hyethra, Kekister (Plot event idea I had last night. Shapeshifter names Xi, as in the Chinese Xi. Xi is an adult woman that the nine-year-olds would consider an old lady even though she is only in her 40’s. Xi is pronounced