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Elf vs. Orc 4She let him go. She couldn't do much else. He was an elf, sure, but there were rules, and you didn't kill healers and you didn't kill priests.

The rage had to go somewhere. You couldn't go from halfway to gnawing your shield back to normal just like that. Celadon swallowed it, bitterly, the stone shattering, the red sea pouring through the wreckage. She threw her head back and snarled with the pain.

The elf lay sprawled on the ground beside the bed, holding his throat, his eyes closed. He was breathing in tight little gasps. She could have stomped on his head, but of course she wouldn't.

She was furious. Mostly at herself, truth be told. I

Elf vs. Orc 3Sings-to-Trees was being strangled.

He'd always expected a patient to kill him some day, but he'd thought he would be a lot older, and it would be an angry bull or a careless moment with a manticore or something along those lines, with an outside chance of being crushed under a nearsighted troll. He really hadn't anticipated anything like this.

The orc had been giggling to herself for a few minutes, and when he tried to talk to her, she only giggled harder. He didn't know if she could speak any of the languages, or if she was so delirious that she wasn't even hearing him. He had no real idea what the normal temperature for an orc was, but h

Elf vs. Orc 2Celadon Toadstool was delirious.

The funny bit—uproariously funny, it seemed to her—was that she knew she was delirious. The world was billowing around her. It looked as if someone had meticulously painted the inside of a cottage on silk, and then hung it in a gentle breeze. The corners floated inward and collapsed back out again with a sigh.

That someone would go to all that trouble, painting a cottage on silk, was hilarious.

She knew she was wounded. She couldn't quite remember how she'd been wounded. Imagine not remembering a thing like that!

This also struck her as hilarious.

Her name, in Orcish, was Urrsharruk-gah, and she had skin

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Bee on Anise Hyssopby `ursulav

Photography / Macro / Nature

Okay, I'm actually kinda proud of this one. I was fooling with the raw files rather than getting them splatted out as a jpg, and there really is a significant difference in output if you're willing to mess with the little sliders and whatnot.

Plus, I mean...the eyes! Look at the eyes!

This is the anise hyssop in my garden--bees and butterflies go absolutely nuts for it. I'm gonna plant more this fall, I think, it keeps all the bugs in a frenzy.

Other macro photos from today's excursion can be seen at [link]

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~thescarletaracnid Jun 9, 2010 Writer

that's incredible

~brushfire Oct 2, 2009

aww what a cutie! awesome shot!

~Percavius Sep 20, 2009

This is beeautiful

~Nela-G Sep 16, 2009 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I've never seen a Bumble bee with those kind of eyes. Thats weird. nice catch though! It might be a drone (male bumble bee) with some lusistic properties in its eye. most drones have a solid black colored eye. Also, drones hardly leave the nest, so u got a rare opportunity to snap a pic of it. <3 Must fave this!