Category: Monster Compendium

  • 4. The Cracks

    Three weeks of nights, and the cracks are spreading from every place Nell has kissed him.…

  • 3. Given Freely

    Aurelian can’t take anything, only feel what Nell chooses to give. So she climbs into his…

  • 2. He Speaks

    Nell winds the key and the doll draws breath, courtly, wry, and grieving her grandmother as…

  • 1. The Estate

    Nell Ashby inherits her late grandmother’s crumbling house, and a life-size porcelain gentleman in the locked…

  • Bonus – Our Own

    Years later, Vael has passed the song to her daughter, and Wren and Kesh have a…

  • Epilogue – Home

    Wren lays the brood into the new halls but keeps one egg that is hers alone.…

  • 7. The Claiming

    Wren comes back by choice and asks them to let their scents go. Vael lays her…

  • 6. The Way Out

    The eastern reach collapses, and Wren’s maps are the only record of where the trapped workers…

  • 5. Kesh

    Wren asks Kesh to take her to the dark halls where he has sealed thirty years…

  • 4. The Ask

    With their scents locked away so every word is true, Vael and Kesh tell Wren what…