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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 151
Elissa believed that there would be light. Wasn’t it what she was trying to do? Create a new light? Instead she was walking in the darkness. Not in the void of her mind. She was outside. The Threads were not with her. For the first time since she had memory, her mind felt… alone. It…
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Patina – Chapter 150
Sadja! Who was calling her? She was so tired. The assault was relentless… her arms ached and her heart begged her to just lay down and sleep. Sadja! Came the voice again. She blinked, annoyed at the calls. Why couldn’t they just leave her alone? She had done nothing bad to anyone. She did not…
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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 148
Sadja was being eaten alive. She screamed inwardly as laughing mouths bit into her psyche, ripping it off in a thousand direction at once, each bit a flash of pain. The roar of the mind attack went beyond anything she had experienced so far: even Verna’s power was gentler and smoother, this was just onslaught.…
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The Forever Ache – Horror Short Story
A young man goes hiking in Southern Europe. He sees something he feels he wasn’t supposed to, and the experience stings. I remember reading all those scary hiking stories on the internet, and never giving them any credit. Besides, we were going to hike in Sicily, and that’s the farthest place away from anything supernatural…
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Patina – Chapter 147
The euphoria from the Generator kicking back into life did not last long. Cries of hope and joy ran through the defenders, but steam clouds did not follow. The heat did not come back, and the Eerie were still trying to overcome any resistance, rising each time like the mounting tide of black hunger they…
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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 145
You’re a failure. What are you even trying to accomplish? Let go. Elissa groaned as these thoughts tried to pull her apart. This was taking place in her own mindscape, so those doubts looked like herself, mangled and twisted as they put their claws into her flesh, pulling her down bit by bit in the…
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