

Elf vs. Orc 4She let him go. She couldn’t do much else. He was an elf, sure, but there were rules, and you didn’t kill healers and you didn’t kill priests.Elf vs. Orc 4
The rage had to go somewhere. You couldn’t go from halfway to gnawing your shield back to normal just like that. Celadon swallowed it, bitterly, the stone shattering, the red sea pouring through the wreckage. She threw her head back and snarled with the pain.
The elf lay sprawled on the ground beside the bed, holding his throat, his eyes closed. He was breathing in tight little gasps. She could have stomped on his head, but of course she wouldn’t.
She was furious.


Elf vs. Orc 3Sings-to-Trees was being strangled.Elf vs. Orc 3
He’d always expected a patient to kill him some day, but he’d thought he would be a lot older, and it would be an angry bull or a careless moment with a manticore or something along those lines, with an outside chance of being crushed under a nearsighted troll. He really hadn’t anticipated anything like this.
The orc had been giggling to herself for a few minutes, and when he tried to talk to her, she only giggled harder. He didn’t know if she could speak any of the languages, or if she was so delirious that she wasn’t even hearing him. He had no real idea what the normal temperatu


Elf vs. Orc 2Celadon Toadstool was delirious.Elf vs. Orc 2
The funny bit—uproariously funny, it seemed to her—was that she knew she was delirious. The world was billowing around her. It looked as if someone had meticulously painted the inside of a cottage on silk, and then hung it in a gentle breeze. The corners floated inward and collapsed back out again with a sigh.
That someone would go to all that trouble, painting a cottage on silk, was hilarious.
She knew she was wounded. She couldn’t quite remember how she’d been wounded. Imagine not remembering a thing like that!
This also struck her as hilarious. &nbs
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