It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.

“Her clothes still smoked from the wizard’s assault. But to him, she always smel…”

“She could hear the rattle of hooves on stone evolve into a thunder of pursuit.”

“Ellen drank long and deep from her water bottle and wiped her mouth with her ga…”

“She could Captain to his Your Majesty any time.”