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This Guide has now been made a permanent part of the description of Worlds' Crossing. I hope it will serve to clarify what can and cannot exist or take place on this strange little world.

The Definitive Guide to Worlds' Crossing

Introduction

Worlds' Crossing is a land in a dimensional pocket, not a planet. Largely unexplored, it is, if anything, more purely magical than Hellifyno was before the Slayers came. Portals exist between Worl… Continue

Aesmodeles left me last night. Who could have guessed that so loving a gesture as exchanging tiny pieces of our souls could lead to devastation? For those pieces grew, poisoned us, nearly killed us.

In our desperation, we asked Wyrm to balance our souls and save our lives. We lived - but we changed. Aesmodeles believes my soul is now darker than his, and when I look inside myself, and see what he has become, I know it is true.

The result? We are strangers to each ot… Continue

Asmodelius had received the invitation from Lilith with dread. Lilith was famous for giving dinner parties where someONE was the main course. He feared that someone was meant to be his wife, Echo. Yet he decided he and Echo would attend, for he wanted to know just how far Lilith would go. He wouldn't let any harm come to his love. He did not, of course, tell her what he anticipated.

Echo prepared carefully, wearing a slinky black dress of silk and gauze, piling her h… Continue

He burned that night into me, soul and body.
I was kindling to his match
A vessel of oil lit by the flame of his passionate torch,
Blazing up to meet his fevered kisses,
My hot hands clasping him,
His hotter mouth on my breast,
I gave myself to the roaring beast that fired his eyes
Merging, fiery souls and fiery bodies
We burned without and within
We burned.

For the first time since Wyrm had marked him, last night I saw my son. Dragon Teers was almost unrecognizable, his green scales black, his eyes dark with hatred, his expression a permanent sneer. When he snapped, "You are not my mother!" I thought my heart had shattered into a thousand pieces. But there was worse to come.

Wyrm would have kept to his oath. He would have removed his mark from my son, as he promised when he made the hateful bargain that Katie would bear his child. But Dragon Teers… Continue