1)
“Strong words for a man who seems to enjoy needling the rest of us constantly as he strides through life controlling every situation.”
“I take my enjoyment where I can, Chant. As, my spies tell me, you have been known to do.”#epicfantasy 2)
“And I wonder how many of those spies are still alive now.”
“It matters not; when it comes to eyes for the throne, I’ll have to begin anew when the invaders are all gone.”
“When? Not if?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 17, 2020

3)
“When. The fools are burning and despoiling, so they’ll have nothing to eat when winter comes.”
“And what of us? What will WE eat?”
“There’s food hidden.”
“Forty-year-old root vegetables? The soles of unused soldiers’ boots?”#epicfantasy 4)
“Everything’s palatable, doused in enough sauce.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 17, 2020

1)
“Are these drinks…” Chantratha is peering at bottles, behind the bar. “…safe?”
Wolf shrugs. “I didn’t hear of any jailers falling sickly.”
“RIGHT, then!” And the King of Neverune is clawing through bottles like a parched man.#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 29, 2020

2)
“Corkscrew, corkscrew…”
Chantratha sighs, plucks a bottle out of the nearest royal hand without ceremony, and applies a corkscrew to it.
Palonder is examining a slate on the wall. A chalked cellars-ledger. 3)
“A Hook In The Throat?”
“A mixed drink,” Wolf explains. “Popular among the lowest orders.”
“MIXED drink? Like we serve at Castle fancy-feasts? For JAILERS? In a remote rural keep?” Chantratha is aghast. “THIS is ‘efficiency’?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 29, 2020

4)
Wolf shrugs. “Mixed as in: you mix the cheapest ale with equal parts wine vinegar and water, then add hot pepper juice to make it less disgusting…and you have A Hook In The Throat.” 5)
Chant shudders. “And what do you have in your gut? Or coming out your nether end?”
“Not discussed in polite society,” Palonder guesses.
{snort} “We’re COURTIERS.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 29, 2020

1)
Luckily for a certain Lord Wolf and his understudy Palonder, Wolf has magic up his sleeve, and an anticipatory nature.
So the quarrels shudder to a halt in midair, and hang there humming and quivering.#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 12, 2020

2)
Wolf sidesteps.
Just in time to jostle Chant’s arm.
So her hurled sleeve-knife slices open the woman’s ear, and not her throat.
“WOLF!” 3)
“Chant, I need information, and most women find it hard to speak while they’re choking out their lifeblood.”
“And you know this HOW, exactly?”
{sigh} “Courtier? Hmm?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 12, 2020

4)
“Is that going to be your flippant answer for everything?”
In reply, Wolf snakes a hand into Chantratha’s bodice, snatches out the little knife she keeps sheathed warmly there, and hurls it.#epicfantasy 5)
Pinning the fleeing woman in armor’s right hand to the doorframe.
“I apologize for the intrusion, Chant, but I was in a hurry.”
“So you see,” Palonder observes calmly, “he DOES have another flippant answer in readiness.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 12, 2020

Behold, the cup of blood is full, to the brim, and overflowing
For I have conquered this land, and its defenders to their deaths are going

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 12, 2020

Those screams that echo through the castle now, so high and desperate and clear
Mean the royal family has met my freed monsters, and for the first—and last—time, know true fear

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 13, 2020

She slew him, and he died slow, and hard, and in much pain
And beside him they found, written in his own blood, her name

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 14, 2020

1)
“Another king, I presume?”
“They usually are, down here.”
The King snorts awake, and demands to know, “But why so many? Why US?”
“The eternal lament: why me? Why us? The eternal reply: because.”
“What does THAT mean?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 4, 2020

2)
“It means the gods are cruel bastards, and are as bored as the rest of us. So they throw these mortal moots together, to watch what happens.”
“We…we’re all on stage? The gods are WATCHING? 3)
“Oh, Elvar! They’ve seen kings play with their wee-wees before, I assure you.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 4, 2020

2)
Chantratha kicks at her viciously, but—
As happens so often in life, just a trice too late.
There’s a flash of unleashed magic, and the floor is suddenly empty of spasming hard-faced women in splendid… #epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 14, 2020

4)
“We’re at war right now, and so on duty. Moreover, I see a distinct lack of handy drinkables. So discussions of philosophy must wait until such leisure times. We can settle for cursing instead, if you’d like.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 14, 2020

You ever consider putting together a collection of The Wolf stories? Would love to have that. I, sadly, have not been able to read them all and miss quite a bit. They are so entertaining! Oh, yes. I'm heading for a collection, when we reach the end of the current arc. I'm having lots of fun with Wolf. ;}

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 14, 2020

1)
The rolling BOOM that shakes the stone walls around them, and brings dust and grit plummeting unpleasantly down, is thankfully far behind them.
Chant looks at Wolf. “You think that’ll end the pursuit?” 2)
Wolf shrugs. “That depends on what’s left of the keg.”
The King lets out a loud, ugly snore, like a drunken boar.
“THAT’S not going to help with stealth.”
“I rather think we left stealth behind us,” Wolf says dryly. “Come on.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 2, 2020

3)
As they proceed, down more stairs and along a narrow passage with rusty-barred cells lining one side of it, Chantratha asks, “So, which ancestor of the King’s was that? King Aramadarr?”
“None of them. That was an earlier royal 4)
…line of Neverune. You don’t think Elvar’s ancestors founded a kingdom, did you? His people were pig farmers back then.”
“And just how is it you know THAT? AND all about the kings?”
“I READ, Chant. You should try it some time.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 2, 2020