Tag: Arguta the Smith
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Patina – Chapter 174
Arguta reached Elissa’s chamber – her heart pumped something different from blood now, and her skin felt flaky and creaking with something that was not flesh. She sputtered and coughed. She felt like all the water, blessed or not, was leaving her body to be destroyed, or maybe syphoned away. Her old mind swam, trying…
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Patina – Chapter 169
Sadja marveled at the expanse of flowers. She walked barefoot on the tickling blades of grass, enjoying how they felt under her soles. “And you say it’s like this every year?” She exclaimed, her hands coming up to cup her cheeks. She couldn’t believe it. This must be some kind of trick, for sure. She…
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Patina – Chapter 157
By morning it was time to rebuild. No matter Fortunato’s hunch about the town being more or less safe from now on, decades of experiences trumped any lovely sentiment like that. And the morning dawned on the embers of a half-destroyed town. The outer districts were all but destroyed, reduced to little more than rubble…
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Patina – Chapter 156
Cloria knew she had come too late – but maybe for the the first time in her life, or the last few years at the very least, she was grateful someone else was having all the luck in the world. She cried out from Bernardo’s embrace, a long and wailing sound, her throat parched from…
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Patina – Chapter 146
She’s doing it for you – Hunter’s words ran in circles through Sadja’s mind. What did he really mean? She had noticed the Augur seemed unnaturally fixated with her, but… she had hoped she was getting over it. “What do you mean?” She cried out over the explosions as they took cover beneath a piece…
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Patina – Chapter 139
Sadja blinked and tried to stand up, but something kept her laying down. As she recovered her senses, she found out she was laying on a makeshift bed, the mattress dirty and full of holes, likely salvaged from someone’s home. She wasn’t the only one. Groaning, she tried to stand up again, and only managed…
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Patina – Chapter 136
The cold was settling in even through the deepest reaches of the Generator. As the sun stopped bathing Belacqua in its light and the leftover heat escaped, Arguta and the others had to put on thicker and thicker clothes. It was getting hard to work with gloves and coats, and metal was turning deathly cold…
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Patina – Chapter 133
There was a tense moment, clear as crystal and just as fragile, before panic would set in. Sadja smelled it. She had pulled away one of the townspeople, an elderly man she happened to be helping with groceries, away from a bursting pipe. Her back ached from the jet of steam, but she was faring…
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Patina – Chapter 129
Elissa followed the old woman down into the Generator’s belly. She had covered her hands with gloves, blaming the cold, and she could write off the ugly feeling that hooked her at the stomach on nerves. But it was much stronger than last time. The metal walls, the pipelines, the intent to reshape and control…
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Patina – Chapter 113
Sadja had followed the Hunter on a series of days of training, outside in the snowy woods. She got her first few killings, though it was mostly small-fry, tiny critter Eerie that wouldn’t be able to threaten the town. All in all, after she told him about the failing generator and the worries about holy…
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