Gryphon Rising (Part II)

The Old Road is a hard one, and we who wander it hear many things which are about as welcome as a sudden scream in the night. I was with the Padre when we heard the call of the heralds. They were announcing that the Gryphon would take back under its wings the Gryphlet that it had shed so many years ago.

What did not surprise us was that the High Mistress of the Gryphlet, that industrious and point-scoring madam who once ruled the Atlantean College, had been placed as First in the roll of those who would rule. I believe in her prowess. She is not quite totipotent, but she is valiant in war. She is also a darned sight more intelligent than many of those we have seen rising like winter gaslights in the realms.

What amused us was that the Mistress has been pursuing, it seems, an even higher status. The doctoral scrolls are poised to rack up another victim at the Educational Academy of the Southern Ocean.

All that taken together seems to express a stand explicitly denied by her. She will rise to rival her counterpart at the College of Wyverns, and she will have a well-oiled machine of undoubted vigour and size to help her in that endeavour. Will she come to reign supreme in every sphere? Only time will tell.