The carriage came to a sudden stop. Lord Eldridge wasn’t too pleased and nodded towards his butler, Harris, who was sitting opposite him, travelling backwards. He didn’t even need to say anything and Harris knew what to do. He leaned backwards and pulled the small curtain to one side, revealing the driver’s cabin; inside, the [...]
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Lucinda materialised in the corner of the room. Fortunately, the room was empty as she hadn’t cloaked her movements, so had somebody been there to see it, they would have been startled by a twentysomething woman from 2011 dropping into 1880s Amsterdam with no more than a flash of light to explain her presence.
Richard swung his sword towards its target. It almost secured a direct hit, but his opponent, The White Knight of Lindall Bridge, blocked it with quick reactions. He slid the blade along the other, trying to force it into the White Knight’s midriff, but the old fighter was too wily for that, and leapt backwards, [...]
The sirens wailed. It was dark, the middle of the night, and, in the streets of London, panic was setting in. The air raid alarms had just begun to sound, meaning that an attack from the German air fleet was coming – and soon. People began to dash to where they would be safe – [...]
Arthur swung his sword towards Henry’s torso. He was shattered and, with every attack on his opponent, his limbs were getting heavier and increasingly more difficult to move. The sword connected with his adversary, but Henry had managed to get his shield in the way of the attack and block it from causing him any [...]
