Shann could already feel the cold as it started to seep into his bones. While he had plenty of experience in his years working the docks with exposure to the high humidity and strong breeze in the early hours of the day that could set your teeth rattling and have you doubt your reasoning for ...

Shann stood silent as he watched the small group of survivors break into two separate parties. If anything could cement the realization of so many lives being lost in such a short time, it was seeing their numbers dwindle further. It was the logical thing to do, he kept telling himself that. They ...

Shann had smelled all manner of foul-smelling monstrosities in his life. In his younger years, when he first got into the business of assisting discerning businessmen at discreetly exporting delicate packages that for whatever reason could not go through customs or be checked by port authority, he ...

Like the others aboard the tiny boat making their way towards the only visible mass of land, Shann felt an overwhelming sense of numbness in regards to everything that had just transpired. The last thing he wanted to do was take the time to actually think about what happened or what was going to ...

Crossing the distance that had separated them from the landing boats had been the single hardest thing Shann had ever done in his life. Never had he worked harder at trying to complete something he had started. If he gave up now, pulling Zain out of the sinking ship and away from those water demons ...

The grindylo weren't satisfied with pulling the passengers overboard and dragging them down under the cold, dark water. No, these murderous little creature had to flood the lower decks of the ship so that they could trap the helpless oxygen-dependent people caught somewhere between dying in the ship ...

Zain had been asked to stay out of the way. He had been told to restrain his furry friend. He had done what the others had requested of him and he had sunk back into the corners of the minds of those that watched over him. He liked it better that way. When others chose not to pay attention to him he ...

Shann had been late to enter the room and in doing such he missed part of the exchange between the captain and the others. What he did catch was the barbarian giving the captain orders as if he were the one in charge. To top it off, his demands sounded as if he was planning on leading some kind of ...

Shann had been hoping that he was going to get some down time where he could alternate between showing off his skills at the card table and flirting with the girl. He had it all planned out. He was going to make sure that he won a few hands in a row and when she started to admire just how good at ...

Shann wasn't one to get overly excited when it came to magic or its use in healing. Over the years he had watched more men, women and children cured of all sorts of wounds by both his mother and his sisters. It had been a long time since he had found what it was that they did to be even the slight ...

Shann pulled a chair up to the table. He then had enough sense to take the time to find one of the heavier boxes in the room and pushing it up against the back of his chair. If the room was going to rock again he was not about to go falling backwards out of his chair and make himself look like an ...

So the little man was holding out on them after all. The sneaky little bastard had been hiding a perfectly good bottle in his room and now they were using it to clean a cat scratch. A cat scratch!

Shann was no macho example of masculinity, but he had the balls to put up with a simple scratch ...

"...Does someone have some alcohol?”

"If only...," if there was something else he was going to add to that thought it trailed off as looked over the room again.

If there was one thing that could make this situation better, alcohol would have to be at the top of the list. Among other things, he ...

In all the confusion, Vexako and that guy Ceallach came running into the crowded little room and for some unknown reason the girl decided that she had to leave. Had she not listened to him? Didn't she realize that it was safer to stay in the room backed against a wall where they could wait out the ...

He tried to focus on his work, he really did, but the way she kept looking at him and her odd way of speech was more of a distraction than he had at first assumed. What was it she had said?

"...Master Shann but I do ask to be taken a fool. I ask no payment from you, but rather just companions to ...