Month: March 2022

Evie: A Wintry Ambush p3

Artwork by ArtOfVenus, vignette below!

page 3 and vignette at the WordPress link

Evie scouts the northern woods for a troublesome ogre. But there are other creatures besides ogres lurking in the forest!

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Then little flashes of white falling from high in the trees caught my eye.  It was snowing!  It had been so long since I’d been this far north—I hadn’t seen snow for a couple years, at least.  

And it was so pretty!  It looked so surreal and beautiful falling through the branches.  I found myself wandering through the trees with my head tilted up and my eyes on the falling flakes.  It was mesmerizing to see the little clusters of white swirling about.  

Even better, it was settling on the ground, filling in between the blades of scrub grass and beginning to cover the low brush.  Everything was becoming fresh and new…and so was my attitude.  

I decided to press on.  Experience told me the snow might help me complete my mission faster.  At worst, I knew I could find a sheltered area to make a fire and spend the night in the valley.

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This is page 3 of a full Evie story in collaboration with ArtOfVenus.

If you enjoyed, go give ArtOfVenus a look on his DA page or other links, and he’s worthy of your subscription budget at Patreon and/or SubscribeStar.

And watch for more with Evie soon!

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Evie: A Wintry Ambush p2

Artwork by ArtOfVenus, vignette below!

page 2 and vignette at the WordPress link

Evie scouts the northern woods for a troublesome ogre. But there are other creatures besides ogres lurking in the forest!

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The deeper into the valley I went, the colder it got.  I hadn’t been this far north in a long while, and I wasn’t quite dressed for it to be this chilly.  Worse, the sky was getting more overcast as the day went on.  It was going to be a long frigid hike back to the inn where I’d stashed my gear.  

I wished I’d at least worn some leggings and a warmer tunic.  And I wish I had my special Cryptae Ranger-issued overcoat.  Unfortunately, the last I had heard, another Ranger was wearing my coat when she infiltrated a fortress…and she came out of the fortress without it, so my coat was likely lost forever.

Besides the cold, I was tired, hungry, smeared with dirt and speckled with mud. I was discouraged and ready to head back to the nice warm inn and a long soak in a very hot tub.  

I’d found no signs of a large creature in the area–no large footprints, no droppings, no scattered bones.  Yet there were many many footprints of smaller creatures—ones who would stay away if there were a large predator in the area.

Maybe the reports of an ogre were inaccurate.  Misunderstandings, maybe, or a little hysteria.  Perhaps it was another kind of creature entirely that was harassing livestock and raiding homes.

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This is page 2 of a full Evie story in collaboration with ArtOfVenus.

If you enjoyed, go give ArtOfVenus a look on his DA page or other links, and he’s worthy of your subscription budget at Patreon and/or SubscribeStar.

And watch for more with Evie soon!

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