Tag: dark fantasy
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Patina – Chapter 41
Sadja’s mind had wandered through dark corridors. Sometimes she was back in the underground hallways she had escaped from, but this time no matter how far she ran or how fast, a tall figure in white always reached for her from behind, holding her with her hook-like hands and pulling her in the dark with…
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Patina – Chapter 40
The girl was bleeding silver. She had been doing as much for hours by now. Her forehead shone with a faint glisten of fever, and he had foregone a bit of sleep to check on her. As the fire crackled and the last hour of night gave way into an uncertain morning, he rummaged through…
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Patina – Chapter 39
For days, Verna’s mind had wandered back and forth from Belacqua, from her best and brightest pupil. Every time she reached for her mind, everything seemed perfectly composed. Her brilliant Sight marooned in a sea of deep-seated fears, their scars giving shape to each of her tomorrows. Those were the reins she had to put…
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Patina – Chapter 38
The Hunter stood up, pushing the Eerie corpses aside. The night was licking its wounds as the wall of silver flames and smoke spread around, eating through the assailers and their cursed flesh. From downhill rose a choir of shrieks, calls, mangled words spoken by misshapen mouths. The smell of charred bones touched his nostrils…
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Patina – Chapter 37
She was beginning to understand why they called it the Tide. Wave after wave of monsters rolled uphill, breaking against the defenses, but as they withdrew and charged once again, they reached ever higher. A few of the smaller ones already skittered past the burning piles of firewood, piling on the corpses of the slain,…
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Patina – Chapter 36
Walking had never been as easy affair for Elissa, even less so since the… drastic measures she took in her childhood. Usually she had her palanquin bearers to carry her about, or at least a few guards would help her; but this was far from ordinary circumstances. To complicate matters, Augurs were not known for…
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Patina – Chapter 35
Sadja lost count of the hours. Fear and hunger dug their claws deep into her, and she was just waiting for a chance to get free and run… run away. Fast and without looking back. For the time being though, her only companion was the frigid embrace of winter and the bruises left from the…
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Patina – Chapter 34
There had been a time when Cloria swore she would never make use of certain rituals. She was an enlightened, highly-educated and trained Venatrix. Even though people showed more respect to the girls in white much more than they would her, she had never looked back on her decision to leave the Order and take…
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Patina – Chapter 33
The Hunter had to find shelter. Though his heart seemed to know each minute by its name, counting down the remaining hours until the forest truly came out to devour them, he was also in pain, hollow with hunger, and each fiber of his muscles begged for relief. And the girl did not stop fighting. …
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Patina – Chapter 32
As winter began a few weeks earlier than it was supposed to, an entire people’s Vestals and Augurs heralded their hearts and mind against the Tide. So many years after the last war and the the end of open hostilities between mankind and the Old Country, most towns and villages had the luck to have…
A. Montresor 