Leather boots hit red soil as Karla is forced to her knees by the estate's guards. The pair Wolfkin each grip a shoulder as the blonde rogue twists around, her wrists tugging at the rough rope boxtying her arms behind. She huffs through silk mask concealing her lower face as her blue eyes scan the moonlit courtyard for possible escape routes, and more importantly, her target. She knelt in front of a multistory manor, with servant quarters to the west and the stills and wine presses to the east.

Blooming Anew





“Okay, so, wait. I just want to be clear about this… I'm

not

working from sunup until sunset?”




Romy sat across from Vitey on a cozy sofa in what the latter called the living room. Well, she supposed it was hers now too. She was still getting

“Man, I forgot how obnoxiously huge this place was.”
“It is quite ostentatious, isn’t it?”
Stark, Fern, and Frieren stood before the doors of the Adventurers’ Guild headquarters. It was a massive structure built into the trunk of a titanic, ancient tree whose branches shaded its offspring. A village sprawled among the great tree’s roots, reaching out in a semicircle from its southern side. This village (known as Elderwood in the local human tongue) thriv

    

“Ellliiiseee! I went poopoo again!” Lillian shouted at her friend. She and the rest of her friends had just found themselves in a small clearing in the forest trail they had been trekking for about half an hour. The small sorority group of four were all united in their love of nature walks, especially ones that have been sparsely traveled around the college campus they lived on. However they were also united in one other thing