Tag: Elissa
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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 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 17
Were she awake, Elissa could have pushed against the veil and sent her gaze into the many possible paths, the facets of things that would be, things that were, and the thin line between them, always so fuzzy. She would have lifted her inner eyes high, higher than the treetops of the shifting towers of…
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Patina – Chapter 11
Elissa laid in her bath, ribbons of vapor covering most of her naked, wounded body. Her breaths came out pained, in short shivering spurts. Her left hand rose from the water and adjusted the blindfold that hid her eyes, so that it would stay up even in the damp air. She was drained. Mastra had…
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