Denali Christianson

@denali-christianson

I was just scrolling through Tolkien quotes when I came up on this one. Some of my other favorite Tolkien quotes include, “Fly you fools!” and “You shall not pass!” (Huh, all my favorite quotes seem to come from Gandalf XD)

My post picks up right after the man says, “Rest easy, my children.”

ENYDD

I wanted to cry. Not from…[Read more]

@inkhorn

yes! That’s correct! heat. =) my students usually take about three weeks to get that one. lol.

Hot air rises, but the higher into the atmosphere you go, the colder it gets. Things move by kinetic energy, which is a form of heat energy, and heat is literally the molecules moving at a faster pace, meaning that heat can literally never…[Read more]

@jared-williams

Yet another maybe brilliant maybe not so brilliant guess to your riddle was given to me. Is the answer heat?

@denali-christianson

has a terrible habit of making wry comments about the weather.

That is such a random quirk! I LOVE it!

@denali-christianson

WELCOME BACK! And YES, throw Niarok back in. The new characters are:

@emma-walker ‘s Isella who is a compassionate and brave princess and has a connection to time. She is sometimes able to control time itself, but it exhausts her. I believe she’s twenty-ish (emily-waldorf ?)

I pulled Khalon out and dropped Enydd in. She…[Read more]

@denali-christianson

Hi! I’m Jared, currently writing a fantasy romance novel. However, my characters come from a YA fantasy series I’m working on (which the fantasy romance is a prequel to).

I don’t play by the normal fantasy magic/race tropes but come up with all original magic systems (called essence) and races (about 12 different original…[Read more]

@joelle-stone

@denali-Christianson

anybody home?

“Just…need air…” Alessio whispered, wilting again.

Nithel’s jaw set, and he nodded. He put his arm around Alessio, under the youth’s arms. He stared at the lowered head, the pain aching in this youth. He had to resist the urge to kiss him, and looked around the room. It would probably be easier to put Alessio over his back, but it would probabl…[Read more]

There wasn’t a chance of him making it through a dark, enclosed room ever again.

And he was bordering panic thinking about it, he couldn’t come up with a contingency for it. There wasn’t any controlling the situation or coming up with a plan. He just. couldn’t.

It was all just a haze of pain, numb and breaking into his marrow. It was like bo…[Read more]

@joelle-stone

Me and my class are going to  battle a court case (not real) against another class in front of a judge. My role is the Closing Prosecution Attorney. It’s really fun!

@mischievous-thwapling

@wingiby-iggiby

@jasmine

@denali-christianson

@joelle-stone

Sorry I haven’t been on lately! Does anyone have ideas for what’s next?

~Kylie

Tears still slipped from Nithel’s eyes, but he felt Alessio relaxing. He gave the youth one last squeeze, Nithel’s head pushing against Alessio’s shoulder and neck, more tears falling. He pulled back, hands still on the youth’s arms, just enough to look into Alessio’s eyes. Nithel moved to where he could see them, if that means kneeling,…[Read more]

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Heheh…

😅

Get a grip,

Alessio didn’t have any energy to react at all, but the world didn’t stop just because he had. He knew they had to get moving, he had to come up with a plan, that was the only way to survive…

It wouldn’t happen. His brain couldn’t process anything else.

He felt himself pressed tighter, enclosed in warmth li…[Read more]

Alessio clutched Nithel madly. Like his son the first time Domnik saw a man’s arm severed. Like his son would clutch him at night, when Nithel stumbled on him, weeping. He shouldn’t have had to fight. Cruel world. Nay… it was man. But my son is a man. Avigail… He burns inside, aching enough for physical pain. Alessio, what did they do to…[Read more]

“No, no…I should’ve expected it.”

Alessio squeezes his eyes shut, trying to block out the words. He’d always taken the responsibility like that, as if it was his fault whenever someone hurt him. Nithel didn’t deserve any of this. What if Alessio was just as abusive as his family, inadvertent or not?

They called people with special powers aber…[Read more]

Nithel hadn’t been expecting the punch. He’d only wanted to stop Alessio from breaking his hand on the stone, to calm him down, to make him breathe. But Nithel slung back against the wall, stars dancing in his vision, and pain cutting up his jaw. He released Alessio, one hand reaching back to steady himself against the stone, the other flying to…[Read more]

“Alessio.”

There weren’t any windows, and it was dark and trapped. He knew he recognized the voice, but he didn’t have time to think. It always smelled like urine, or something sick that you could never forget. He’d die before he let them drag him back there.

Someone grabbed his hand and Alessio jerked back against the wall.

“Let me go!” H…[Read more]

@everyone sorry I haven’t been as active recently!  I think we have so many characters in here that it’s getting hard to establish any new character dynamics besides the relationships we already have.  Also, I have a friend who’s going to be joining Story Embers soon, and I don’t want to just drop her right in the middle of this unbridled chaos l…[Read more]

Our eyes were locked dead on each other, staring through the chaos that ensued around us. It was an unblinking bridge of pure, numb hate.

Histories of bloodshed and violence could not sum up against the antipathy channelled in this single reciprocated glare.

The background noise lowered to a hum, drowned in the ocean of hatred that crashed…[Read more]

@inkhorn

I’ll say Mejt. She seems like an intriguing character (and she’s got a cool name)

Awesome! I’m leaning toward her too, just because I’ll be writing her story first (probably)

@denali-christianson

Ha! Soooo I neglected to mention this, but I’m going to be fasting tech for Lent, which means I’m not going to be on SE at all…

Okay! Have a go…[Read more]

I haven’t posted one of these in a while so I thought I’d put one more out here, just to see what you all thought of the pacing of this…[Read more]