dismals

The man from the Dismals did not speak at once.

How this particular group had come to the Dismals was not revealed.

From the first he had assured us there was no way out of the Dismals.

The man who was from, and of, the Dismals stroked his head.

She couldn't seem to pull herself out of the dismals.

Neither he nor the beast from the Dismals had been waiting for us.

Taken by black sorcery, we were thrown into the Dismals.

Such horrors are to be found in the Dismals, as we can testify.

It was the man from the Dismals who replied.

Without rising to his feet, the man from the Dismals turned and mind-spoke.

Must we get all the way around the Dismals?"

At the same time, it became evident that our companion out of the Dismals wanted something from us: information.

It was a good morning, somewhat warmer than we had experienced since leaving the Dismals.

It was a real, old-fashioned attack of the dismals.

No need to fall into a fit of the dismals, Phoebe.'

Too, the Dismals appeared to follow another law.

"Could those battle-birds have been called from the Dismals?"

We had been four humans, and a beast from the Dismals; now we were five.

Within a few moments, we heard quick steps on the stair, and the man from the Dismals came among us.

Having too much knowledge was impossible, and the more we could learn about the Dismals and its inhabitants, the better.

Thus began our shaky partnership with this Lord of the Dismals.

The man from the Dismals turned his back on the Chosen to fully face the stone.

The stranger threw up arms far too long to match its stature and began to beat at the air before the man from the Dismals.

Before she slept, though, our sister first made sure of the jewel from the Dismals, dropping its cord once more over her head.

After a pause, in which the man from the Dismals made no answer, she spoke again: "Is this the king?"