Episode 14: Ulda

After the moon revealed its pale nudity over the sea, the sailors for a moment paused whatever they were doing to stop and look up the celestial body in appreciation. The truth is that during their voyage, they were getting tired of the same pitch dark nights. Except for the tantalizing brevity of the shower …

Episode 13: Meathead

Across the maroon blue sky, a sinuous cloud coiled itself around the bleared white visage of the pallid moon. Echoing in the air was the haunted screech of an ominous bird with yellow topaz eyes, observing a bulky sized man running through the woods. In a muddy road, a hefty man holding a torch on …

Episode 12: The Dark Side

"You can't bear all the brunt of responsibility..." She could practically feel his gentle, sunny gaze, but she couldn't really smile back or say anything reassuring as she would like. Except...hope that he'll look at her a bit longer like that. Seeing that didn't really help at all, he folded his legs toward him and …

Episode 11: Michaela’s Identity Crisis

Suddenly the humid air was shrouded in dark, and clouds shaped like an embryo of a still-born, curled up, and the people scattered like ants at the sound of thunder. Hail, the size of cherries, began to descend from the sky and those who still were outside in the streets ducked their heads from the …

Episode 9: Prelude to Bloody Salt

(A Portrait of Abram Soussiere, titled as "Moore in powdered wig"       Nothing seemed to change much after Octavia's evening with the Hulders, except Gale noticed that Michaela was acting strange. When he asked Theodore, he cocked his head to a side and asked, "I'm not sure, Gale. What's different?" For example, she …

Episode 8: Octavia aka Octave

Stroking Theodore's back, Gale smiled and said, "Theo's condition was a mild bowl problem. He has quite a sensitive stomach." Michaela nodded, neither openly expressing outright relief or worry. Gale's eyes blinked at her eyes that remain pinned on her son, wondering if he has to teach her how to move her eyebrows. He taught …

Episode 6: Not used to

As the Hulder Herbology stood slightly apart from Mr. Derby's neighborhood, Gale and Michaela bade farewell to the kindly Saucers. Pipa wanted to cling more closely to Michaela's arms that were holding the plushy doll-like bunny rabbit with beautiful beige facial markings. Theodore's pink nose sniffled a little as Pipa gently laid her pinky finger …

Episode 2 Unexpected Visitors

The villagers of Fullgreens woke up one by one to the pleasant, distinct song echoing across the green mountains. Nobody could trace the mythical source of this sonorous rise and flow. To the lovely maidens and lads of Fullgreens, the song seemed more mellifluous than most mountain inhabiting birds, especially since it was the day …

Prologue

In a house that looked more like a cabin in the woods than a cottage in the small town, Gale was about to close the windows of his small pharmacy that overlooked the carriage paved cobbled street. He flipped over the open sign to his "Hulder Herbology." His neighbors were also closing their shops and …