Tag: 100-days challenge
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Patina – Chapter 28
Cloria’s fingers uncapped the final vial of Verna’s holy water. She crouched before the last man and began to trace holy symbols over his naked torso, muttering spells of protection and rebuke. “May this blessed water shield you from the treachery that lurks in the wood,” she concluded. The man nodded, as did the other…
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Patina – Chapter 27
The morning light shattered in a thousand shards through Elissa’s mind, sending her careening back on naked feet. She stumbled left, right and finally hit the walls to her room, slowly sliding until her body, shaken by raspy breaths, rest on naked legs on the cold marble. She grit her teeth as the images flooded…
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Patina – Chapter 26
Sadja felt at once something was wrong. The father came back inside, he cleaned the saber and gave her a long look. It was always hard to understand their emotions with their black faces and unblinking, glowing eyes. But she could smell his doubt. And something else, beneath. A sense of shame. He shook his…
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Patina – Chapter 25
Sadja thought she had awakened, but seeing herself laying in a corner was a clear indication something was amiss. She knew the place: the off-white walls, the polished floor and the flickering lights glaring from the tube-shaped lamps like angry eyes; that horrible smell that burned her nose and seemingly crept up her nostrils until…
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Patina – Chapter 24
The Hunter groaned. This eye was killing him, and he was lucky this was a figure of speech yet. Yet. The crimson string pulsated with vivid force now. He was getting closer. Pulling on the reins to steer his sled, he passed by a couple of catoblepi that did not seem fazed at all by…
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Patina – Chapter 23
The glider approached the ground, falling in a lazy circle. Unlike the last time, it did not fly over a celebrating crowd. There were still screams, though. “What’s this pathetic mess?” Verna shook her head, looking down through the chamber’s window at the surrounded soldiers, a few dozen people massed together behind a curtain a…
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Patina – Chapter 22
Things had changed for Sadja, and not for the better. She followed the daughter, brother and father as they walked through the tick trees, their boots creaking over hardened sap and glistening resin. Sadja sniffed the air and she did not like what she found: the usual scent of too-ripe peaches mixed with the metallic…
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Patina – Chapter 21
Elissa smiled, giving back to Bernard his water-filled cup. The man bowed until his hair brushed against the edge of the pool. “Thank you so much, o Augur.” “It’s just my duty,” she graciously replied. He picked up the recipient, still fuming with scalding water. “If I can speak my mind,” he said as he…
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Patina – Chapter 20
The Hunter looked ahead from the treetops. Not the most comfortable place – but a necessary evil, especially after the Fae’s warning a few days before. He was running out of time, and he needed to find his quarry as soon as he could. With his gloved hand he scraped off some of the Old…
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Patina – Chapter 19
Cloria’s mind wandered. She sat atop their tank, trying to get as much comfort as she could from the cool iron, the echoes of hard work etched in every bolt result of mankind’s crusade against the dark. Some of the chassis, the engine and the boiling pistons keeping the burning beats’s heart alive still bore…
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