The Chronicles

1  Tele Makus's Hut 2  The Patrols are all bones 3  Wico on the Shores of Blue Tubulus 4  Difenitor is dead 5  A star sign and the death of a Seer 6  Thiricles and Arlice 7  Life Beneath Cruelty or My lament 8  the Wedding Party 9  The Empty Citadel 10  A Slow Infiltration 11  Oginust Departs 12  Blees and the Wall of tele Makus 13  A True Believer 14  The Youth 15  The Maiden 16  The Outcast 17  The Thief 18  The Singer and the Cook

"What is it?" - Lentor Maginus offers to Eron of the Horse while he, in mimicry of direction tries to see and thus know why Eron will not continue down the Fiek way and down back home to the citadel of their master Difenitor, who no doubt waits for their return.  Lentor doubts and wonders at Eron's diffidence, confidence, but the full belly and the loins slaked in the women of Fiek win, and he reins up, stops, is quiet and he waits. Down below smoke rises, and with good eyes you could see an army, the horse, the peoples gathered, but neither have good eyes, and all Eron has is his dislike of his boss and his disposition, or luck, or intuition or any of it, and he waits longer, silently, watching, listening, then he turns back to see the rest of his cadre; beside Lentor Maginus, Oron has ridden up and has spoken little.  behind them both, drunk on the wagon is the Red Bath Priest, happy to be stopped as the wagon is not a luxury.  In it two girls, Hoffar and Eras, tribute,...

Tel a   Ma kus ’s  hut is decor a ted  with item s  taken from the ruins in which the Hut is located, some spoil from a past  of  his own, and the leavings of the few who dare the pass for advantageous  routes, or  superstitiously  ignored  opportunities to stead anew  and even those as yet unsung heroes following their own stars up into the high val ley on the way to their destiny by way of  Tela Makus’s  head.   I say it is a hut but it is more, and like a cave built in ruins who’s makers were recent enough that their rubble could be put to decent enough purpose for shelter, and yet to distant to  decipher  or understand more  of them than preference of  c olor,  repetitiveness  of  design  or   thoughtfulness of  location , it is more of a camp on the high side of the vale near to the broken wall and the maw of the Blue Tubulus.   Down below in Wico, on the sho...