FDA Notice This Facility hires Predators Certified since 1 - 28 - 20XXOver 700 citizens served0 Customers Eaten so far Notices like that had been written up as a stopgap when humans and monsters alike weren’t sure what the future held and what they could trust. Health and Safety organizations had written those up quickly for the sake of transparency, and because paper printouts were easy to work with. Once written out, they were required to be placed in an easily visible spot, and th

 Paige and her horse rode through the night, hoping that they had slipped through before the blockade was completed. She was a young servant of a duke, not an official messenger. But all of those were out on other deliveries. The duke had been consolidating his alliances for a stand against King Aurum’s forces, if it became necessary. At the rate things were going, it probably would be in a matter of months. The duke was not exactly a good man himself, Paige considered, but he was far les

 Blaise feigned cheerfulness as she waved hello to the librarian, Ms Thistle. In fact, she was nervous, and was pretty sure the old lady knew it. They had built up a friendliness in the student’s months hanging out in the library. It should be fine, Blaise wasn’t hurting anything. And the librarian seldom needed to get upset. The situation that had Blaise concerned had started when she’d noticed a display book, one of the ones meant to draw visitors’ attention, had a mostly-new

 Boris was a young man with a talent for magic. Not a rare talent, but a talent. While the root of his power was ancestry, not learning, he did study to figure out the best ways to shape and hone his magic. And to best use it to get what he wanted out of life. Something that annoyed his attentive travelling companions.“Surprised you decided to come with us,” said a roguish fellow in light clothing - for an adventurer that was. Timburt or something was his name. He went by “Tim”

    
There were a few rules Qega, the Electrum Dragon Champion made sure to live by. The first was to get the name of anyone he was about to eat, and ensure he did something to make sure he could remember them afterwards. Aside from being polite, it helped in the event that a resurrection was called for.


    
He didn’t apply this to normal animals, though.

“Oh, don’t look so glum, Alexander!” An iron gauntlet smacked encouragingly into chainmail. “With a legend like you leading the charge, we hardly have anything to worry over.”“Apologies,” Sir Alexander replied, mustering up a false smile and hearty chuckle to cover his expression. “…I only wonder if we truly understood the king’s order. Did he really mean for us to journey to slay this particular dragon? I mean, sh-sure it’s possible,

Aradak

series part 1

: Careful introductions



By bobkiss88






Aradak







The skies we’re almost perfectly clear as he soared through them. Despite the nat

She ran as fast as she could, her breathing heavy, the load on her back even heavier. She shifted the straps digging into her shoulders as best she could, but she never stopped running, sprinting. She had to get to the castle. It was the only hope.All around her, terrified screams and pained cries echoed off the cobblestone, bouncing around between houses and down streets, filling the city with a horrible chorus, wailing over the constant roar of ever-growing flames. And above it all, in furious