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{Verdandi} To honor with blood: Part 2
She passed down the slope into the valley's heart, the sand still pulsing underneath her feet, subsuming itself in her clothes. To both the left and the right, large stone doorways loomed into the stone face; living quarters. She altered her course to the lake slightly and angled up into one of the alcoves.
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{Verdandi} To honor with blood: Part 1
They had made it into the golden city which stretched beyond the horizon. The storm of spears still several hours off. The ruins greeted them in a humming throng. The reeds beside the Nile river swayed in greeting amongst the otherwise empty waters. A stone bridge marked their way into the city, large statues of Sobek and Ptah guarding to either ( Read more... ) -
{Sione} It's over: Part 2
She stumbled through the freehold and up towards her chambers. Her throat was thick with tears she'd been choking back on the climb to the surface in an attempt to retain some essence of leadership but the dam was breaking and soon nothing would hold it back.
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{Sione} It's over: Part 1
She hit the wall behind her faster than she'd seen it coming. Her eyes had been on the object of her rage; a tall, blue troll she had once called Uncle and seen die more than a year ago. His fist caught her hard in the stomach as she had danced left to his first throw. She couldn't let him get her hands on her. If he got a grip on her, it would all ( Read more... ) -
{Verdandi} To taste the fading autumn
Goodnight, Henry...The last words she had said to him. The next morning she had gated to Aurora and to George, and from there, to Egypt for two weeks. And now she'd returned, but to what? The feeling of violence and pain, gunshots, and unanswered questions. Jaime had said nothing of it when she'd come home, never once mentioned his death as she ( Read more... ) -
{Sione} That placid dame, the moon's Celestial Highness
Her wings splayed in a tangled mess behind her as she sat at the desk, the feathers still shining in their effulgence. There was little to mar such perfection of form, even amongst the studious nature of her flurried writing. One hand trailed down to her lower abdomen, flicking faintly over the spots where only hours ago, there had been torn tissue ( Read more... ) -
{Verdandi} Walking with gods
The two Dreamspeakers stepped through, folding between the spaces and across the barriers that held this world and into the next. Their destination: the lands of the gods of Egypt. Into the heart of those varied and rich lands, golden with sands and the weaving grasses that sang by the Nile. As likely to drink a person who tread its ground as the ( Read more... ) -
{Jinx} The fine line of life and death
I can’t remember my early childhood very well, but it seems like most others don’t either. Not before four or five anyway. It’s like all the secrets of the universe are born into us from the moment that conception occurs, as though Heaven has some secret channel into our minds to tell us what we’re going to need to eventually figure out again after ( Read more... ) -
{Sione} Pearl of Wisdom
I have never, never been so infuriated in all my life...
( Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. ~Mark Twain )