The world from the Doorstep
 
 
  The sun sat heavily in the top of the sky, unhindered by clouds or fog, soaking the forest canopy below in light and heat. Aurnaek floated lazily some hundred feet in the air, the sun playing off his copper scales as he coasted about, watching the rolling hills unfurl themselves below him like a green carpet off to the horizon. Gliding as he was with his wings at full stretch, and with the sun at his back, Aurnaek knew his scales appeare

Through and Through
 
 
  Kalen had just finished stacking the small stones he’d found scattered about the cave in a neat circle when the telltale impact outside that denoted Cefyrn’s arrival shuddered through the ground around him. Kalen glanced up, watching the gryphon rustle those stark white feathers in the sharp light of the early morning sun. The gryphon tramped in from the rock outcropping, the darkness of the cave casting the powerful muscles of the beast in

Through and Through
 
  Kalen tugged at his leather gloves idly, leaning against a wooden support beam. Smoke, heat and noise hung heavily in the dark interior of the Hammerhold inn, giving no hint of the noonday sun Kalen had seen before entering. He sighed, glancing one again at the door to the inn, firmly shut. Alyiah was late. Again. Kalen was crafting a suitably annoyed comment for when she did inevitably show up when a conversation from a nearby table drew his attentio