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“Bigger than my head!” the thief gasped, peering at the gem. “Is it…could it be…the All-Gods-Stone?”
The warrior shrugged. “One way to find out.”
The thief looked at him. He looked at the thief.
And after a long silence added pointedly, “YOU’RE the thief.”#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 17, 2018
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The thief nodded grimly, slipped over the parapet, and reappeared in the chamber below, stalking catlike to the heap of treasure.
The glow of the gigantic gem brightened.
The warrior backed away from the balcony. And then off it, out into the hall behind.#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 17, 2018
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By the time he reached the bottom of that hall’s stair, he was running hard.
The explosion came as he was racing through the archway, and plummeting into the deep dry ditch that had once been the moat. It was fierce enough to shake the castle, and…#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 17, 2018
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send small, wet pieces of thief pattering down all around him.
The warrior rolled over thrice to wipe off whatever was left of Urhandrus the Procurer that had painted his back, then clambered up out of the moat and started the trudge home.
Without looking, he knew#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 17, 2018
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…the next head-sized, glowing gem would be coalescing out of nothingness atop the miraculously-still-heaped treasure. Ready for the next greedy thief to happen along.
It was a long walk to Thiefsgrave Keep, but the trip, like all his earlier ones, had…#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 17, 2018
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…been well worth it. Like kings, tax collectors, and border guards, thieves got to be an acute rectal pain fast—and swifter and swifter, these days.#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 17, 2018