DeadLife Standstill, Part 3

The blue-eyed warrior clan matriarch noiselessly slipped into her living quarters and locked the door. Her daughters rested silently in their sleeping quarters.

She missed their friend, the green-eyed acolyte. Their quarters were so peaceful without…

DeadLife Standstill, Part 6

As she returned at the very end of moon rise, the blue-eyed warrior clan matriarch wept with delight when she saw the scroll hanging on her door. The sealing wax pattern showed the scroll to be from her brown-eyed outlander warrior and not the matriarchs. He’d probably sent the…

DeadLife Standstill, Part 7

As the night wore on, the blue-eyed warrior clan matriarch grew restless. She pulled out her secret dagger, wrapped scroll and charcoal stick around it, and shifted her travel skirt, attaching the dagger to her inner thigh above the knee. Her daughters were out, so she scribbled…

DeadLife Standstill, Part 1

It had been many moon cycles since the blue-eyed warrior clan matriarch, the brown-eyed spirit healer, and the blue-eyed frame healer had started the fight against the advance of DeadLife Nightmare.

DeadLife Standstill, Part 4

Author’s Note: Some of these episodes have more dialogue. I’ve opted to use script form to save words and space. Let me know whether it works for the next series.

As the moon was setting, the warrior clan matriarch woke up and threw some fruit and a…

DeadLife Standstill, Part 5

The matriarch pulled out the fruit and the water jug.

Younger: Mom-mom, this is where your big gathering was, wasn’t it? And that’s when you taught us to quiet our minds, isn’t it? Are we doing those exercises again?

DeadLife Standstill, Part 8

As the moon and sun traded places the next morning, the blue-eyed matriarch looked around her quarters. It was quiet because the girls were gone.

She felt anxious. It had been years since she felt this anxious, long before she was a warrior or matriarch…

DeadLife Standstill, Part 2

The blue-eyed warrior clan matriarch sat in the cave at the feet of the other matriarchs. The fire flickered but gave no smoke as they were burning the sacred arrow tree wood; according to legend, the War God created it so that it wouldn’t smoke as it burnt so His warriors would…