Tag: post-apocalyptic
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Patina – Chapter 180 – Finale
Elissa walked alone beneath the stars. At first, she believed she had chosen this place at random, but between the dark shadows of the trees she picked up the outline of a long-abandoned machine, and though she had never seen it before, she know what it was. The Hunter’s sled had seen better times. The…
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Patina – Chapter 179
Elissa came back to watch the sleeping wolf-girl on her throne of brambles. Her simple robes covered her lean and fit body, the soft curves of her legs and her breasts, towards the gentle slope of her neck and her beautiful sleeping face. She felt a great swell of sorrow rise from the hollow where…
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Patina – Chapter 178
The once-Augur did not reply. She did not really expect her to, even in this place and in her presence as the Threads grew ever more frayed and uncertain, like strings pulled into a knot, or notes ruined by a growing discordance. So, she only had her own good sense to fall back onto. Not…
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Patina – Chapter 177
Valeriana had only found the town thanks to her powers, honed through years of experience as the High Seer. She crouched next to the window of the metal flyer as it approached the spot. “Is this the right place?” Asked the pilot, and she nodded. “Cannot be otherwise.” She sensed his doubt, the tension tightening…
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Patina – Chapter 176
Sadja held up her bow as she kept bleeding and sobbing and heaving. Her breath was raspy and ragged as she watched Fortunato gasp at her feet. The thing that had once been Elissa took another step towards her, shaking her head, she couldn’t have said if in mockery or sorrow. “Don’t come closer! Or…
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Patina – Chapter 175
Elissa’s first steps with her new body felt like learning how to walk all over again. She shifted and stumbled on longer legs than she was used to – and for the first time in years she used her actual eyes to see. She could see she could see- She could see the wolfgirl standing…
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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 173
Sadja’s eyelids fluttered. She felt so complete right now, so ready for whatever the future had in store for her. This was the ending to her journey and the start to another, and she wanted nothing more than to share it with the person who had helped her the most and who had taken her…
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Patina – Chapter 172
What do I do, she asks the disembodied presence next to her. Not what have I done. Or what am I going to do, words that would be tinged with regret and doubts – concepts that by now are far behind her, fading like candles in a snowstorm. No, instead her heart, or the burning…
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