Tag: Lenora
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Patina – Chapter 155
I did not know where I was, she explained. Her voice was just as melodious as the last time he had heard I and his heart throbbed at holding her once again, so close. She did not smell like anything. Perhaps just a bit like old cinders, the kind you forget in the dark corners.…
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Patina – Chapter 154
He proceeded on the uneven ground – his feet stumbled on holes and cracks. There was a slight upwards slope that lead to a bald peak where something indistinct fluttered, moving back and forth. He knew that was his destination. The crimson light of the thunderbolts going off in the ceiling-sky, showing off the inside…
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Patina – Chapter 153
They helped Arguta standing up. The roar of the engines and the lights coming back up had taken her by surprise – as they did everyone else. One moment, they’d been sharing tired gazes, listening to the oppressing silence between the dead walls as the siege continued, knowing that they would soon lose any chance…
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Patina – Chapter 152
One by one, the lights sparked up in blooms of brightness. Starting from the mouth of the Generator and the Temple, they spread in waves upon waves. The survivors and the wounded, the stunned and the fighters, they all fell silent as the dead while they watched the strings of lamp light up. Past the…
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Patina – Chapter 149
To him, the nightmare just never really ended. It began with Lenora’s takeover and the first time the town had been overrun – and back then the Generator had come back more or less on its own. They had had a chance to fight. Now what chance did he have? “Leave her alone,” he wheezed,…
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Patina – Chapter 54
The Hunter let out a pained wheeze, rolling on the moss-covered roof until he hit a slab of concrete that stopped, quit roughly, his descent. He weakly tried to stand up, turning his head to regard the Eerie looming over him. It was bleeding from a thousand gashes, dripping ichor all over the ground and…
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Patina – Chapter 53
Mastra Verna passed her hands through her hair. Something was wrong, and she couldn’t put her finger on where exactly. In her long career as an Augur, she learned to prioritize her gut feeling – sometimes her body knew something before her Sight even kicked into full gear. She sat inside the glider as it…
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Patina – Chapter 52
All things considered, it was a short enough affair. Old man Salix tried his best to keep him off the Temple’s premises, but he was also a citizen of Belacqua, and had to present no matter what. He stood amidst the crowd, straining his neck to see at the best he could, between the streams…
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Patina – Chapter 51
Obviously, he saw her again. He had never been one to often visit the Temple, not even as a boy, but for some reason there was always some new errand to run, or some favor to pay back involving Seer Karole. He just seemed to find a chance to go help. And with the start…
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Patina – Chapter 50
It had been a beautiful spring in Belacqua, that many years before, when he first laid his eyes upon her. The crimson sap had evaporated in harmless red smoke and now everything that remained was the occasional pond of black tar from the Eerie scratching and moaning against the town’s defenses. Going back to it,…
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