Rings of Honor

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Falcon shifted into mist and streamed toward the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Falcon had been there in 1368 when King Charles V founded it. There he would find the ancient texts amidst the 13 million books and documents. He made his way into the Rare books and slipped unnoticed past the librari...

Inside the sealed tomb a single eternal flame burned a deep red color. A lone figure remained prone and unmoving atop what appeared to be a very comfortable bed. Every luxury to be imagined surrounded the figure. But the figure was shrouded in black. No features could be seen. Black shroud, black ve...

Gregori's wards stopped Gabriel up short. His little brother had set wards not only to keep danger out… but to keep Gabriel IN should he break free of his compulsion to remain in the sleep of his people. Gabriel snarled violently as he stopped just short of triggering the first ward. Some part of hi...

The sun sank ever lower and shadows lengthened over RhyDin, and an unnatural stillness settled over the Palazzo. Not even crickets disturbed the silence after the rain stopped. Far beneath the Italianate home, Mikhail worked steadily to unravel the wards. Further still, beneath the Palazzo, the Need...

Mikhail felt the sentience and it brought him from the sleep of his people with an abrupt beat of his heart. He reached for Gregori to see if he was needed, and what he found there had Mikhail instantly becoming mist and streaming into the burning sun. The wards would protect Raven. Sunlight flooded...

The Rhydinian sun crossed the clear blue skies as though nothing were amiss. The normal path unaltered as that golden orb remained blissfully unaware that with its setting, new trouble would walk the night. Time did not stop in this world. It progressed ever onward, and that golden sun began its slo...

Dark oblivion. No sight. No sound. No sensation beyond one. Need. A vague awareness came and went. Sometimes it could almost be touched, but then it slipped away. Ephemeral and insubstantial as mist was awareness. Time had no meaning. Time did not matter, for here, it did not exist. The Need waited.

Mikhail had done most of the watch over Gabriel so far, and was even more amazed at the strength in the man than he had previously been. A moment of inattention allowed the ancient one in his care to flirt with cognizance. It was too soon though to allow Gabriel to awaken. The ‘need’ Mikhail had fel...

Gabriel’s world was a swirling, churning mass of confusion. Blood, he’d wanted the blood of the woman, in fact he had wanted it laced with as much adrenaline as he could coax from her, and he had terrorized her. The rush, oh the rush had been the first true feeling he had had in more centuries than ...

Gabriel was so focused on maintaining his shield that he was oblivious to the arrival of Topaz and Sylviana, but Lucien felt them arrive. But he was working to bring down Gabriel’s shields before it was too late. He sent images of the woman to Topaz, *see what you can do for her, please*. Gabriel’s ...

Gabriel wavered as blood poured from the five rakes Lucien had scored as a grizzly slashing at another grizzly, but the swift shift into human form had resulted in far worse wounds than the bear would have suffered, but then, that was what Gabriel had wanted. Death. Death at the hands of his twin wa...

Gabriel’s focus was on the woman, she was the one to shift to fear first. Hers was the pulse that raced as she realized what hunted her. Gabriel shoved the enthralled male to the ground hard enough to daze him as he stalked the woman, who was frozen in thrall and fear. She smelled of terror. Gabriel...

Gabriel dissolved into mist and made his way through the streets of RhyDin, toward Dragon’s Gate. He wanted untainted blood this night. No drugs, no liquor, no, not tonight. Tonight he wanted healthy and vibrant blood. He skirted New Haven’s walls and threaded he way toward the water front. He could...

“It was a good lesson,” she told him with absolutely no emotion. He was curious now, “A good lesson in what?” “In being careful what to wish for,” but her words seemed to be chosen with great care. Gabriel regarded her a long moment in silence, “What did you wish for then, that you do not wish for n...

Gabriel faded into the visible spectrum, his obsidian eyes going immediately to where the Marchioness even now sat enjoying the company of Colonel Savage. He knew that trouble lay on the horizon if this continued, but he could only warn her so far. Rhaine did not react to Gabriel’s arrival, but he f...