
A Choice
A Dimidium Tales vignette | Mountain Domain | Eskarith, Kivith and Ryn. Eskarith is just out for an easy meal when the mountain itself tells him something is wrong. Following the disturbance leads him somewhere he swore he'd never go again.
'Dimidium Tales' is author's Morgan A. Drake creative playground, a collection of stories ranging from brief encounters to expansive journeys, all set within their Epic Fantasy Universe.
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A Dimidium Tales vignette | Mountain Domain | Eskarith, Kivith and Ryn. Eskarith is just out for an easy meal when the mountain itself tells him something is wrong. Following the disturbance leads him somewhere he swore he'd never go again.

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A Dimidium Tales vignette | Mountain Domain | Kivith and Ryn

On a ledge jutting from sheer cliff face, with wind threatening to send them over the edge and nothing but empty air below, Ryn finally lets themselves break. But catharsis isn't the same as peace, and when Ryn gets lost returning through darkened passages, they discover something unexpected: trust, arrived unconsciously while they weren't watching.

After the fall that revealed their lack of trust, Ryn can't force themselves back into the mindscape work that Eskarith says they need. Instead, they escape into The Quieting's labyrinthine passages, seeking the numbness of movement over the terror of confrontation. But the mountain has its own agenda.

A Tale from the Age of Hubris - In the depths of Dark Current winter, a desperate hunter tracks a wounded dragon through the frozen north. His brother is dying of cold-fever, and only dragon essence can fuel the ritual that might save him. But when Arn makes his kill, he discovers the terrible truth behind the dragon's refusal to flee—and realizes the old stories about dragons maintaining the…

To heal their bond, Ryn must enter the mindscape and confront the void where trust should exist. But the spiral of fear won't stop: if another severance would kill them, what does it mean that Eskarith is threatening exactly that?

One scream. One moment of instinct overwhelming thought. That's all it takes for Ryn to shatter the fragile bond with Eskarith. The ancient dragon has been protecting them, holding back centuries of grief—but now that protection is gone. Flying toward the remote eastern mountains, Ryn faces Eskarith's ultimatum: learn to trust, or lose everything.