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Without pausing, Zilla intensified the mental pressure until her mind throbbed. Her body trembled with the strain. Just as she was about to reach breaking point, a column of flame ...

Zilla looked around the room for inspiration, trying to find something that she could not damage. Finally her eyes turned to the rose pin on her cloak. She removed it ...

"And I am coming with you," declared Violetta. "No," said Vrael. "Stay with Queen Arya at Ellesmera." "No," said Violetta, with equal determinedness. "Queen Arya is perfectly capable of defending ...

Zilla lifted her hand and smiled. She snapped her fingers and murmured, "Thrysta." A tongue of flame scorched the air and looped around itself gracefully. "I can't really control it," ...

Zilla turned her palms over, pulse quickening. "This is what you meant, isn't it?" she gasped. "No words, only will. Teach me more! Show me how to make fire, or ...

Zilla swallowed, mind racing. This was completely different to Shen's definition of a lesson. "You mean that a magician envisions something, then uses his will to make it happen?" She ...

Zilla ate her food in silence, stopping only to feed her falcon. She avoided Grey's keen gaze. Finally, all the food had been sampled and she was sated. She turned ...

"Why would you teach me all this? And you said you are immortal," Zilla said quickly. "H-how? I mean—if it is not rude to ask..." She trailed off and ducked ...

Zilla gave a shy smile before turning to the food. The first platter was full of steaming roasted vegetables, the next piled high with succulent meat. Roasted potatoes glistened in ...

"Yes, Master," she murmured, imitating the style of address she had used with Shen. Then the food appeared, bore by life-like stone statues. Her falcon clicked its beak as one ...

Zilla padded around her circular rock chamber, trailing her fingers over the wall absentmindedly, avoiding the bell rope which would summon a maid. She reached the opening, where a chute ...

Shen frowned. He was in no state to kill these Riders. He had wasted too much energy on the girl. He turned his hands outward. “This is not the end, ...

Yes, fleeing sounds like him. He can lead you on a merry dance around the country.

Fine by me :)

I think you confused Grey and Shen, yubbies. Grey is not a soldier, so he shouldn't be wearing purple..