#Reilly Mosswolf

[author-a-holmes]

OC Musical Tag Game

Thank you @noblebs for the tag (HERE).

Tagging Forward, with no pressure, to; @sleepyowlwrites, @jasmineinthenight, @tyne-sharrow, @rumeysawrites

@cycleofash, @innocentlymacabre, @aalinaaaaaa, and anyone else who wants to play, consider this an open tag :D

How To Play: I want to know what 1-3 songs you feel best embody a character from your WIP/s, either in general or at this moment in the plot.

Day 3/3 for these, and I'll track down a few songs for Stella Korazon. I have a bit of a twist with Stella, because I enjoy creating music videos with clips, so... I have a couple of her already put together.

Rachel Platten - Fight Song

I found this song for Stella when @faelanvance asked me what Stella's "Soundtrack" would be if Stolen was made into a move or tv series. Couldn't resist making a music video to it after I tracked it down.

Like a small boat on the ocean Sending big waves into motion Like how a single word Can make a heart open I might only have one match But I can make an explosion

Demi Lovato - Give Your Heart A Break

This one still feels like a Stella Song to me, but it's a very niche perspective, in relation to how she feels about Reilly as the books progress. Again, a song I couldn't resist making a video to for the characters.

Now here we are so close yet so far Haven't I passed the test? When will you realize Baby I'm not like the rest Don't wanna break your heart Wanna give your heart a break I know your scared it's wrong Like you might make a mistake

Daughtry - Wild Heart

The only one here I haven't made a music video to (yet). This just gives me such strong Stella Vibes. She's been stifled for a long time, and over the course of the books, she's allowed to grow and blossom into this person with so much live and vivacity in her.

Take me back To that fire in your eyes 'Cause I know it ain't gone too far Take me back to you and to your wild heart, yeah To your wild heart, yeah You used to be the girl that set the world on fire And they doused your soul in water, but the flames reached higher You'll always be the one that keep me crazy inside And if you got a wild heart, don't you let it die

[author-a-holmes]

Find The Word Tag Game

Thank you @oh-no-another-idea for the Tag!

Tagging forward, with no pressure, to: @wordsacrossemptypages @amewinterswriting @talesofsorrowandofruin @talesfromaurea @blind-the-winds @faelanvance @ambiguouspuzuma @sleepyowlwrites @authoralexharvey @ashen-crest and @serialephemera -- Also OPEN TAG to anyone who wants to play.

Your Words Are: Wet, Cold, Grey/Gray, Broken, and Tired.

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My words were Frost, Dust, Burst, and West. I only had 2 of these in Changeling, and only 1 in Darkling, so I've gone back in time a little and done a "Find The Word" tag game for Stolen.

Stella, my beloved, I have missed you...

Taglist for Stolen: @josephinegerardywrite @strangerays @minamoroz @sleepyowlwrites General Taglist: @noirepersonal @queen-kass-the-writer @athenswrites @bardic-tales @outpost51 @talesfromaurea @minamoroz @faelanvance

Frost Ice (No frost, only ice)

Stella watched a whirlwind of emotions swirl their way across Indre's features at Nilions words. A splash of confusion, a dash of anger, and a wisp of fear. Frustration, annoyance, nervousness, determination, all vying for a place within her eyes, before she tightened her shoulders and the emotions vanished behind the kind of mask that Stella had seen soldiers wear hundreds of times.

"Then if you're heading for the basement, you'd best be on your way, girl," Indre ordered, a bite of ice in her tone that had Stella backing up another step in spite of herself.

Dust

If she hadn’t already known that the building was a base for a guild, the moment that her booted feet sank into a thick plush carpet would have told Stella something wasn’t right.

No dust rose around her as she stepped across the room, and the bed in the corner had fresh sheets. She paused at the door, listening intently for any movement on the other side, and when all she could make out was silence, Stella slipped out of the room and into a wide hallway with various doors scattered along both sides and a flight of stairs at the far end.

Burst

"Time to call the mother hen, then," he grumbled, "get Dara's fussing out of the way sooner rather than later."

"Honestly, you could do with some mother henning," Stella teased, "you look like shit."

He gaped at her for a moment in surprise, until she burst into delighted giggles, and he took a single self indulgent moment to just watch the blonde laugh before he forced a scowl on to his face, despite the ache it sent through his cuts and bruises.

"Thank you, Stella, you really know how to stroke a mans ego," he growled, sending her into fresh peals of laughter as he shook his head...

West

There was a flicker of recognition in his expression before his features settled back into stoic indifference, and Stella snatched her hands away and took a step back, stuttering an apology.

"Ah, you're Reilly's newest project," the elf said, leaning his shoulder against the doorframe, and crossing his arms as he studied her, "I thought he'd have you shut up inside a glass box, protected from even the mere mention of 'Vine'."

[author-a-holmes]

Hi detective

Your characters go to a hat shop because for plot reasons they need fancy/silly hats to survive a Situation. What do each of them get?

Hello Sleepy, darling. Thank you for the fun ask, and apologies as always for the delay <3

HATS...

Lizzy would hate this so much because she'd feel like everyone was staring at her. And the last thing she wants is to be the centre of attention. So she'd probably pick something that she'd be able to use to hide behind...

For Andric, I'll admit to this one being entirely self indulgent. I don't think it's possible for a man can look bad in a leather fedora with a braided band.

Reilly would absolutely lean into the silly. This is the man who dressed as a female prostitute to complete a pick-pocket job once. He has no shame, and would probably think it's a great, hilarious, game. Something very Mad Hatter-esque. Maybe with a veil of some sort. He'd claim is was for anonymity, but really it would just be because he could.

Stella! Stella wouldn't even know what sort of hat to buy if she was looking for fancy, and for silly she wouldn't know where to shop. She's nothing if not practical, so she'd probably let Dara pick for her... which would end up with a fancy hat. Dara likes nothing more than dressing Stella up in silks and lace and velvets, just to watch Reilly's jaw bounce off the floor.

I've grabbed this image from the 1969 Hello Dolly! with Barbra Striesand specifically for the warm colours since I think it would go with Stella's golden yellow hair, but honestly, any of the hats from the costumes in that film would be something Dara would pick out for Stella.

And now I may have to put the DVD on because I have all the songs stuck in my head lol <3 Thank you for the ask lovely.

[author-a-holmes]

I hadn't thought about this, but you're right. There's a HUGE emphasis on OTP or "One True Love" that any previous love gets dismissed or removed.

But I like characters with history. Even if a love ended badly, the characters have learnt something from it. Been hurt by it, and figured out how to evolve beyond that point in their life.

Character dynamics are important, even when they're in the past because the past effects how your characters behave in the present moment.

(I realise you're talking about Fandom, OP, but if I can pull an example from my original writing... Stolen Spoilers Beneath the Cut)

Reilly Mosswolf has a past love, that I'm hoping will rear her head in book three. She used his position, and his feelings for her, to advance herself through the guild.

But Reilly truly loved her, and that's left scars. It's part of the reason he panics so hard when he realises what he's beginning to feel for Stella, because there's a definite moment of "Oh shit, I can't go through his again"

And as OP says, watching a character deal with the memories, the history, the fallout, and the scars, from a past relationship, enough to be able to open up to someone new... that's where some real heart-crushing magic can happen!

You know what I think its grossly under-rated in fandom? Second loves.

What it's like to love and lose and then love again. To suffer through either the death of a loved one or the death of a love you used to share. To know that loss, to know that hurt, and to still make yourself vulnerable to someone again. To love scared, to love wounded, to love anyway.

[knuttydraws]

Can't remember the last time I drew something unrelated to Dragon Age, but @author-a-holmes broke the spell 😆 So here they are, Reilly and Stella from the unpublished "Stolen" novel. They were absolutely delightful to draw and now I love them ❤

[author-a-holmes]

Hi detective love

Pick one (or a few) ocs and describe a typical outfit. And, of you're feeling fancy, a nicer outfit for some event. Reference photos are optional.

Hello Sleepy, darling <3

How. How did you know that I'm actively working on compiling Artist Reference Sheets for my characters right now? :D

I don't actually have any set up for my Fey Touched project (yet!) but I do have some for Stolen, specifically Stella and Reilly.

And, since I know you've expressed an interest in Stella before, lemme share some of her preferred outfits...

Shoving it below a cut because it's image heavy <3

Stella Korazon (Stolen)

By choice, Stella dresses for simplicity and effectiveness. She dresses in muted browns to help her blend in, and likes clothes with pockets to keep her thief tools easily to hand.Her boots are her most expensive item, because she travels across Moryann. They have to be sturdy, hard wearing, comfortable, and also silent when she’s breaking into people's homes.

Her leather trousers are also well worn with travel. Stella’s pants are laced closed, and also have lacing on the lower half of the leg so they can be adjusted around boots, or for riding.

For shirts, Stella is partial to long tunic style shirts. Usually in linen or wool, and still in muted tones although she sometimes departs from brown to other natural dyed colours such as greys, greens, or blues.

Her tunics are usually long enough to hit the pubic bone/half way down the ass. The sleeves will be narrow, or tight. She can’t have loose sleeves when picking pockets. The reference image below has open sections on the sleeves, but they might also be solid fabric. Her shirts are really the area Stella has a variety of styles.

The neckline could be wide, as in the reference image, or it might be close to the neck, or it might be v-neck and laced.

Stella also wears a thin brown leather belt. It’s long, and wraps around her waist twice, before being tied off in a loop-like knot.

Attached to her belt, usually on the left hand side, is one small brown leather pouch. It’s where she keeps her thieves' tools.

Stella's never really had an opportunity to wear a nice outfit to a special event, until Book Two, Takeover.

I send her and Reilly to a ball and have to put my scrappy little thief into a gown so I may or may not have put my Highschool textiles design class to use and drawn her a dress...

The dragonfly brooch is worn on her hip and can be used to hold back the skirts to give her a larger range of movement. Additionally, hiding beneath it's tail and wing segments, this dragon fly is hiding an intricate set of lockpicks.

The lovely Knutty (@knuttydraws) accepted a commission of Stella (And Reilly) based on these details, so I'm just going to show that picture off at the end, because I never get tired of staring at it...

[author-a-holmes]

Happy STS! I'm turning your question back on you cause I really wanna know. What's a line or scene from your works that you're proud of?

Hello hun! Thank you for the ask <3 I hope your weekend's going well!

I'm not gonna lie, I thought this would be an easy one to answer but I've been staring at my screen for ages trying to pick just one line/scene.

Do I share my most recent one? Or the first time I remember reaading back a line and falling in love with my own words? Or something in the middle of all that?

I've finally settled on a scene in book two of my 'Stolen Stories' series, where Stella runs across a creature I've designed called the Krilla-Setika. I really love this scene in part because it was quite fun to write Stella just falling back in base insticts, her fear overiding thought when she's usually very held together, but I also just really loved describing the creature I'd created.

It was great fun adding details for the reader, the longer Stella stared at it, and just upping the creep-factor as it advanced on her...

They retraced their steps back towards the window they'd used to enter the building, moving quickly but not quite falling into a run as Reilly pulled them both to a stop at every corner so he could carefully check the next hallway. It was the soft clicking sound of claws against stone made them both pause, but Stella could already tell it wasn't coming from the hallway Reilly was in the middle of checking, her free hand landing against his shoulder as she glanced behind them and froze. It looked like a weasel, with large bat shaped wings, but it was huge. Almost twice as large as the mountain lions that roamed the peaks to the north and as Stella stared at the creature that seemed to be dripping shadows of smoke, its clawed feet clung to the wall and it skittered up to hang from the ceiling, it's wings spreading wide as the finger-like hooks at the wing tips embedded into the walls, bracing the creature and keeping it in place as Stella backed away. "Don't run," Reilly hissed in her ear and she shivered, eyes transfixed by the creature before her, but the longer she stared the more she saw. Scales covered its body, but it was somehow still translucent. She could see the hall behind through it's smokey form, and she shook her head, her skin crawling with the desire to get as far away as fast as possible. "Stella, don't run," Reilly warned again, his hand still curled around hers, but the creature tipped it's head at Reilly's voice, and she took another step back at the movements of a hunter, a predator, and she wanted nothing more than to flee. "Walk, don't run..." Stella could hear Reilly, knew the man well enough to know that he had to have a reason for the recommendation, but as the mass of dripping shadows began advancing slowly, her control snapped and she turned on her heel, dashing for their exit with Reilly's hand still grasped in hers.

[author-a-holmes]

It's a really powerful tool to put emphasis on something important and/or emotional in a scene.

It's also one of my favourite tools to use so I have to be careful I don't overuse it.

One of my favourite examples of this in my own work was a flash fiction piece I wrote about a character, Reilly Mosswolf. His sister goes missing, and then turns up dead a few weeks later.

But I wrote the scene where Reilly's told that his sister has been found, and he's just a raw open wound full of regrets, so repetition was a really effective way of showing the spiralling of his thoughts.

It's on tumblr, if anyone's curious, and can be read HERE.

you know what trope drives me absolutely feral? Repetition. Just :

"Hey, hey, it's okay"

"Shh, you're safe, you're safe, it's alright "

"Look at me. Hey, look at me"

"Stay with me. Come on, just stay with me"

"It's over. It's over now."

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry"

"I'm here. I'm right here"

[solamancyzine]

Welcome to our “get to know our creators” series! Presenting…

WRITER SPOTLIGHT: @author-a-holmes / @kita-lavellan​

Role: Writer

What do you like or find compelling about Solas’ character?

I find his intelligence the most interesting thing about him. I like the way he can weave words so he never actually tells a direct lie, and how he can mastermind plans that span years. I also love how for all that intelligence, he's still just a very simple person who wants simple things and makes stupid mistakes by misjudging other people. He's very real and very human, and that makes him almost tangible and very relatable.

What do you think is going to happen in DA4?

I hope that what will happen is that the veil comes down, restoring magic to elves and releasing the evanuris. At which point Solas will realise he's misjudged everything again and must return to what remains of the Inquisition and ask for help, because he can't protect the world from the evanuris alone. A temporary team-up that resolves at the end of the game depending on how you've played your relationship with Solas up to that point.

What do you love about being a writer/artist/comic artist?

Great question. I'm primarily a fantasy/sci-fi writer, so what I love most is the freedom to create. Worlds, lands, languages, creatures, powers, and of course, characters. Putting the characters into situations and finding ways for them to get out of those situations is good too (plot), but my favourite part is the worldbuilding. I have more worlds in my brain than I have time to write novels for, if I'm perfectly honest!

Link us/share with us one piece you want to show off (link to finished art/fic) and tell us why it’s special to you

 I regularly do short writing exercises. I get a prompt word, and find a picture that evokes some little writing nugget in my brain and then I write for 15 minutes. That's how this piece started, but it kind of developed a life of it's own. 'Regret' is a piece that I already knew the story of, but I hadn't ever intended to write down. It's a small piece of backstory for Reilly Mosswolf, one of my two main characters in my novel, Stolen. Part of the reason I had never planned to write this is because Reilly has internalised the pain of this moment and I kind of wanted to do the same so I could bounce off that as I wrote him, but the word and the image unlocked this scene and it exploded onto the page. I'm really proud of the emotions I've captured in this piece, especially since it was still completed in my standard writing exercise time constraint of 15-minutes.

Link to Fanfic -- (Content Warnings: Death and Implied Torture) 

[moryann-stolen-stories]

Stolen Stories;

Prequel - The Lost Mosswolf

Book One - Stolen

Book Two - Takeover

Book Three - Origin

Book Four - Loyalty

Book Five - E

Book Six - N

The Stolen Stories are a Romantic Epic Fantasy series. The manuscript for book one, Stolen, is already completed, but I didn't want my first, bumbling, foray into the world of self publishing to be done with this series.

This series, and the characters of Stella and Reilly specifically, are my darlings, and I love them too much to use them as a learning experiance.

A combination of learning, and finances, means that I don't plan to publish Stolen until the first half of 2025. With six books in the series, at two books a year, the Stolen Stories publication should span 2025-2027, with the prequel "The Lost Mosswolf" replacing the Fey Touched Trilogy's free prequel story on my newsletter.

The Lost Mosswolf

Blurb Pending

Stolen

It had been a long couple of weeks for Stella Korazon.

When a simple pickpocket job that goes horribly wrong sends her entire life spinning into chaos, Stella must figure out how to navigate the treacherous world of Moryann alone.

Finding herself in the City of Antillune she is quickly pulled into the middle of a brewing war between two thieves guilds when she finds herself coerced into stealing from Guild Master Mosswolf.

Surrounded on all side by rogues, liars, spies and betrayal, it's a constant struggle to know who she should trust, but standing in the heart of it all, can she find somewhere, or someone, to call home?

Takeover

Blurb Pending

Origin

Blurb Pending

Loyalty

Blurb Pending

E- Currently Unnamed

Blurb Pending

N- Currently Unnamed

Blurb Pending

[author-a-holmes]

Hug! I love you.

Love you too, Sleepy one <3 <3

"Why did you have to knock over the bloody vase?" Stella grumbled as she and Reilly ran through the streets of Antillune, the city guards barely a street behind them, and gaining. "It's not like I knew it was there!" he shot back, but Stella could hear the laughter in his voice and rolled her eyes as the pair of them spun around another corner. Piles of autumn leaves, slick with fresh rain almost sent Stella's feet skidding and only the firm grasp of Reilly's hand on her elbow stopped her from going over entirely. "No," Stella growled at him once she was sure she was going to stay on her feet, "It's not like I said anything like 'Be careful as you clamber in after me, there's a bloody great vase on a side table'!" "Can... can we argue about this later?" Reilly asked, laughing outright as he tried to catch his breath between his chuckles and staying ahead of the guards but as Stella shot him a fresh glare over her shoulder it just sent the guild master into a fresh round of snickers.

[author-a-holmes]

500 days ago was, for me, April 16th 2022 and I'd just taken delivery of my first piece of comissioned artwork.

I got a drawing done of my original characters, Stella Korazon and Reilly Mosswoolf, by the amazing @knuttydraws and it's been my PC Desktop Image ever since.

wait guys im curious— what were you doing 500 days ago? you can use a diary or whatever to check i just think that it'd just be cool to see

[indecentpause]

"Never seen me before? It doesn’t matter, if you’re comfortable, you are still welcome to tell me all about any projects you’re working on!"

*Nervously clears throat, and steps up to the podium*

Hi there! I'm Ari and I'm here to ramble about Stolen!

It's my baby, and it's taken over my life. It started as a stand alone novel idea, but then I got about 1/3rd of the way through it and realised that I had waaaay too much plot for one book, so I went back to my outline and figured out I had at least enough for three books. Then my best friend (FaelanVance) said it felt unfinished, and I should probably do a fourth, so I took another look at the plot and now it's a 6-book epic Fantasy series, with heavy romance undertones.

*blows out breath*

So Stolen is actually book one in the series, Stolen Stories. My main character, Stella Korazon, is a jack-thief. A thief unaffiliated with a guild, that can turn their skills to a variety of different types of thief jobs. When she finds herself in the City of Antillune, she is approached by someone from a local guild and is bribed/coerced/blackmailed into stealing some plans from a second guild in the city.

Halfway through the job, she decides that she can take the plans, sell them back to the guild master she's taken them from, in exchange for the gold to run from the guild that initially hired her. Unfortunately for her, but fortunately for me or I wouldn't have a book, it doesn't quite go according to plan! Instead she ends up under the protection of Guild Master Reilly Mosswolf (Spoilers, her eventual love interest).

90% of my cast are thieves of one stripe or another, and the book is full of heists and rescue missions, and Stella learning about how a guild works and functions, or at least how Reilly's guild works and functions. She's unknowingly stumbled into the middle of a turf war between the two guilds, and inadvertently has become a powerful piece on the board.

Which will become much more obvious in book two, when things begin to heat up between Vine and the original Antillune Thieves Guild! Book two, Takeover, is my current writing project, while I edit Stolen. I'm only about 40k into book two but it's already ramping up to be a lot more tense, both on the rivalry front between the two guilds, and the slowburn budding romance between Reilly and Stella.

My goodness you have so much going on!! That’s impressive! I love thieves and charlatans and rascals and I’ve always liked the idea of a thieves guild, and a turf war is always interesting to read about! ALSO HEISTS YES I LOVE A GOOD HEIST

I’m so glad you were brave and reached out! I’ll definitely keep an eye on this and anything you might share about it!

[author-a-holmes]

Belated OC Kiss Week

I was sick when Kiss Week was on this year, and I was very VERY much looking forward to those prompts.

So I'm taking advantage of the fact that I need some promotional posts next week across all my socials, and completing the prompts a month late.

And I'm loving some of these prompt fills I've come up with tonight.

My favourite part about OCKissWeek is that I get to play with characters that are either on the back burner, or who don't always have POV scenes of their own within the main books I'm working on.

[author-a-holmes]

@duckingwriting

#im not screaming and making ungodly noises that confuse my cat#thank you!

I speak only the truth! :D The sweeetness between the two characters really enhanced the gutpunch of Harper's story <3

You've temped me to go and find a scene of my own to share now though lol, So...

Content/Trigger Warnings: Memories of Abuse, Traumatic Past, Emotional Abuse

Extract from Takeover, book 2 of the Stolen Stories…

"Well?" she asked, "If you're going to interrupt and be nosey the least you can do is tell me what you think," she tried joking, but the nerves were clear in her voice as he slid his eyes from the plans up to meet her impatient gaze. "You literally never fail to impress, Stella, these are really good," he said, garnering a slight frown of confusion as she shook her head, puzzled. "What?" "You asked me what I thought…" Reilly explained slowly, but Stella simply blinked at him and shook her head. "I meant what's wrong with it, where I can improve, not…" "I don't see anything to improve, Stella," Reilly said, voice soft as though he was worried about startling her further. "You've spotted every point of entry or exit that I can see, listed tools and equipment needed for each route, highlighted potential points of interest, suggested guard locations…" he pointed to the bottom corner where and huffed a soft laugh, "You've even listed best weather conditions for remaining unseen… I'd let anyone in the guild trust their lives to this, what could you possibly improve on?" "But… there's always something," Stella muttered frowning, watching Reilly's features soften in the face of her confusion. "Not this time, darling." She bit on her lip hard as she heard her Da's voice in her head, scoffing. She had to have missed something, she always did, and her frown deepened at Reilly's reassurance, causing her to step closer to the table and glance down at it herself. Maybe it was a test, maybe she would spot the flaw in her designs, but as her fingers stretched out towards the parchment to brush lightly over the inked lines it vanished from beneath her hand. "Hey—!" "Come on, I'll prove it to you," Reilly said simply, already rolling up the parchment when she spun to face him, "I told you I'd trust the lives of anyone in the guild to these plans… so let's go run a heist."

Poor Stella :D For context, at this point in Takeover she's still not quite aware that the manner in which she was raised was anything other than normal. Reilly, however, is painfully aware and making a concerted effort to gently get her to realise her own worth.

Hey btw, to new writers who want to write angst: Nothing illustrates darkness as well as sparse and brilliant highlights.

If you want to write a character with an unspeakably awful past, there’s no need to go into deep and gory details about how horrible it was. Readers who can’t relate to it won’t relate to that, and the readers who have been there generally don’t want to see that. Instead, highlight some of their happiest moments but make them unsettlingly small.

Sprinkles in some realism, too. Having a character go “my parents were abusive monsters and I’ve literally never had a happy moment in my life” isn’t realistic, and both the people who haven’t witnessed that kind of thing outside of fiction, and the people who have personally lived it will just go “yeah, yeah, tragic childhood, misery, darkness, we’ve all seen it”, and being nothing but negative makes the character both uninteresting and unlikeable.

Now, having someone casually think or say shit like “I think my happiest childhood memory was that christmas when dad was in prison. Nobody was yelling or throwing anything and mom was sober the whole time”, and be genuinely surprised by other peoples’ concerned reactions - now jesus christ that’s bleak.

[author-a-holmes]

Hi detective

In honor of Thanksgiving (for me) what are some things your blorbos are thankful for?

Hello Sleepy, Darling. I hope you're having a lovely holiday with the family etc etc.

As for the characters, and what they're grateful for...

Fey Touched Trilogy

Lizzy's grateful for Booker specifically. Lizzy can count her friends prior to coming to the mortal realm on one hand. On one finger, in fact, and she relies of Booker a lot.

Andric is grateful for a lot of things. His work, his friends, his training. He's grateful that he's settle in a job he can find fulfillment in, that he gets to protect people. He's grateful that he has a handful of good, reliable friends, and that above all of them Nameer will always have hsi back. He's grateful that his training means he's capable of managing complex situations alone, that he doesn't have to rely on his family, but he's also grateful that his family will support him, should he ever need it.

Booker is thankful to Madeline Hail, Lizzy's mother, for taking him in as a child. He was half dead from grief when Maddy came for him, and he absolutely knows he wouldn't have survived without her intervention. Even if he wasn't grateful for it at the time.

Stolen Stories Series

Stella Korazon is a tougher one to answer for. The way she was raised she was specifically taught not to be thankful to anyone except her Da', so early-days-Stella that would be where the answer might stop. Later stages, when she begins to question some of the ways she was brought up, Stella might be inclined to be thankful that some of the choices she made panned out the way they did. And be thankful that Reilly didn't decide to kill her for the way their first meeting went down. So, ultimately, she's probably grateful that the guild master's an inner softie.

Reilly Mosswolf is thankful that he's surrounded by people who care about him. That the guild was left to him by his mentor, and that Stella walked into his life just when he needed a bright ray of sunshin. Reilly tends to live in the moment, so the things he's thankful for are things that actively affect him now, rather than long-term gratefulness.