The goblins watched the motley crew assemble. Kate's face reddened as the invaders pointed and laughed. One towards the left turned to his comrade and...

Kate backed up against the wall. Her defense was now her trap. She grasped the goblin sword. She wished she had figured out how to create armor. The l...

Kreelan woke Kate from her nap. "The South wall needs a little mending, but everything seems to be holding up so far."

Kate's back ached. She stood up and stretched. She looked around at their progress. Roughly three quarters of the perimeter of the village had been planted. There were trees were they could put them, but most of the circumference consisted of bushes and even a few flowers.  "Okay, enough of a bre...

The torch landed on the dry grass of the roof. They all watched as the flames danced above them. Kate silently urged the roof not to light. Either she didn't have to power to make it fireproof or she had no control over the dead grass. After a minute of hesitation, the flames spread across the ro...

The whispers distracted Kate. She strained to hear them speak, but of course, they were in Elvish and not wearing any flowers like the one she had picked for Kreelan. Instead, she pushed them out of her conscious thought and returned to her practice.  The leaf in front of her twisted and curled u...

Kate followed him in silence.  Kreelan's feet seemed to hardly touch the ground as they danced through the mat of leaves and small branches covering the dirt. Kate always felt somewhat graceful but lumbered in comparison to him. She worried about the goblins. Were they in the forest? Kreelan was ...

"Why are you calling me a princess?" Kate asked. "I'm nobody special. I don't know how I got here. I don't even know where 'here' is."  Again the man - wait, an elf- she corrected herself - spoke in his strange language. Kate realized that she only began to understand him when part of the tree wa...

Kate perused the shelves in the secondhand bookstore. So far she had either read all the books or they were topics she swore she would never read. Sparkling vampires . She shuddered.  Kate scanned the shelves one last time before deciding to leave. This trip was going to be a bust. She sighed. J...