certher
Stories
9
Chapters
109
Words
468.5 K
Comments
32
Reading
1 d, 15 h
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The grizzly barrels forward like a runaway truck. I shuffle right, betting on a clean sidestep, but its paw shoots out faster than thought. A wall of fur and bone clips my chest. The hit lifts me clear off my feet. I slam into the earth so hard the world blurs white. Mud fills my mouth. Ribs scream. Health below 50%. Mud fills my mouth. I spit it out and drag in a shaky breath. Every inch of me hurts, but the screen swears I’m only halfway gone. That feels like a sick joke. I scramble up…
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Darkness bites the light the moment the arch seals shut behind me. For three breaths I see nothing. I keep the sword point forward and count, same way I used to steady nerves in a blind hallway breach. One, two, three. A faint green glow seeps from thin veins of moss that stripe the tunnel walls. Enough to stop me from tripping. The floor slopes down in long slabs patterned like reptile scales. Water drips steady somewhere ahead, a slow tin-roof rhythm. I angle the blade low and start walking. Every…
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He had spent years constructing them not as people, but as silhouettes burned into the walls of stories other people told. They had become a kind of myth in his mind, embalmed in secondhand adjectives and mournful looks across dinner tables. Brave. Beautiful. Gone. But myths, when confronted with fact, collapse in ways that feel like betrayal. There was no grandeur in the stone. No revelation in the dates. Only arithmetic. A beginning. An end. Nothing in between. It struck him with the quiet cruelty of a…-
227.3 K • Ongoing
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Harry pushed open the classroom door with his elbow, arms full of Honeydukes loot. “Truce offering,” he announced, stepping inside. She was already at the worktable, sleeves rolled and wand balanced between two fingers as she stirred their latest trial base. Her school robes hung open over her blouse and skirt, her tie barely done up and loose at the collar. Her legs were tucked under the stool, socks folded neat at the ankle, and Harry looked for a second longer than he meant to before dragging…
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227.3 K • Ongoing
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Harry Potter, known by everyone as the hero who beat Voldemort, felt out of place standing in the fancy front hall of Greengrass Manor. The place was huge and perfect, almost like a museum, and it made him nervous in a way that even dark wizards didn’t. He wasn’t sure if he was being welcomed or judged. Daphne Greengrass, his girlfriend for the past six months, had finally said it was time to meet her family. Their relationship felt safe, but Harry couldn’t help wanting something more. He missed the…-
62.3 K • Ongoing
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