We’ll be returning to our usual once-a-month post today. We hope you enjoyed the extra chapters, dear readers! May your new year be one filled with laughs, love, and learning lots of brand-new things! <<< Take Me Back to the Beginning! or << Just to the Previous Part, Please! CHAPTER 18—ONE DAY MORE Everything about…

<<< Take Me Back to the Beginning! or << Just to the Previous Part, Please! CHAPTER 17—UNDER COVER OF NIGHT She tried valiantly to remain focused on her father, though she felt more nursemaid than daughter: checking up on him throughout the day, asking what business he had every morning and inquiring where he’d been…

<<< Take Me Back to the Beginning! or << Just to the Previous Part, Please! CHAPTER 16—A CHANCE ENCOUNTER Emaile’s eyes flicked open. The old familiar ceiling stared back at her in its dim, shadowy recesses: the old rafters, as dull as every other day she’d woken to see them from her childhood until now.…

<<< Take Me Back to the Beginning! or << Just to the Previous Part, Please! CHAPTER 15—A QUIET MOMENT The kitchen was closed, but the cook was still kind enough to provide some bread from that morning for Emaile and Haurchefant to sneak up to his study. That and, of course, two large mugs of…

<<< Take Me Back to the Beginning! or << Just to the Previous Part, Please! CHAPTER 14—GROWING THORNS “Lord Haurchefant, please, you cannot send me back yet!” Emaile pleaded, clapping her hands on his desk first thing the next morning. She was still weary from her late hours of study, but after all the spells…

<<< Take Me Back to the Beginning! or << Just to the Previous Part, Please! CHAPTER 13—DEFENDER OF DRAGONHEAD Her next visit to Camp Dragonhead could not come soon enough, and it fortunately passed with just as much delight as the one before—if not moreso, as Haurchefant, naturally true to his word, had far fewer…