Tag: Sadja
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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 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 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 31
When Sadja opened her eyes the strange man was still there. She struggled against the ropes holding her to the vehicle even as it sped through the pines. “Finally awake, hm?” He said, turning to take a look. She growled, but could little else. He had put something around her mouth that kept her from…
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Patina – Chapter 29
A little secret the Hunter had not shared with anyone for the last ten years was that he quite liked snow and the winter time. Cool weather kept him awake and alert, even though it was often hard to withstand, while everything turned white and soothing. Even noises dulled. A watchful peace descended every year…
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Patina – Chapter 28
Cloria’s fingers uncapped the final vial of Verna’s holy water. She crouched before the last man and began to trace holy symbols over his naked torso, muttering spells of protection and rebuke. “May this blessed water shield you from the treachery that lurks in the wood,” she concluded. The man nodded, as did the other…
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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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