Ambition — K.R. Bankston

Stagnant, Stale, Boring. The feelings expressed inside both camps. The time for rest is over. Our factions have decided it's time to procure more territory, setting about to do that very thing. After garnering new alliances, they begin mapping out new cities, states, and municipalities, to call their own; careful to give their opposing faction wide berth.
Tariq is content with the tenuous truce between himself and Ice, simply wanting to live his life and run his empire. Ice however, is still reeling from his loss of Kaitlyn, his thoughts continually on how he lost her; the journey being undertaken a welcomed salve to soothe his pain.
The inhabitants of the proposed new territories don't always go peacefully however, bringing about the need for bloodshed. Never ones to shy away from a fight, both Ice and Tariq continue the quest ,the futile resistance falling by the wayside, victory declared, territory claimed.
There are the select few however, enemies without name or face, who slip in as thieves in the night and upset the natural progressive order, pulling both Ice and Tariq down a new path; into detours undesired, loose ends unneeded, and results catastrophically unexpected.

**Author's Note: Thin Ice is a presented in numbered episodes as a written serial/soap opera. It is drama series dealing with daily events in the lives of the same group of characters over a set period of years.