Ch4.28 Fatal Prophecy
Dark is falling as the group sets out. Sky and Machado are wearing Guardia heavy-duty jackets, thick leather reinforced with an underlayer of steel chain and strategically placed steel plates. Both are...
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“This way, quickly,” Gwydion urges, leading the Bunnies down a narrow alley.“Hey, where’re we goin’, exactly?” Cherry asks.“Somewhere safe,” Alma states by way of answer. “Well, safer.”“And where’s...
View ArticleCh4.30 Fatal Prophecy
Silence falls among them, an eerie, ominous silence, smothering and frightening and made all the worse by the amplified murmur of each footstep. Alma can almost feel the tensing of Gwydion’s muscles as...
View ArticleCh4.31 Fatal Prophecy
“How many bolts left, Edison?” Sky asks.“Uh...three.” The burly Guardia Popula sergeant fires, just to keep an enemy’s head down. “Two.”Sky scans for movement as Machado reloads. He knows a few have...
View ArticleCh4.32 Fatal Prophecy
“What was that?!” Saira asks, bewildered, stepping to the spot where the Bunnies disappeared, now featuring a gaping hole.“I really don’t know,” Gwydion replies, putting the young Bunny down on the...
View ArticleCh4.33 Fatal Prophecy
“Hide here,” Alma orders the Bunnies, getting them all to take cover in a darkened building doorway, its shadows providing stealth and protection against anyone looking from the square. Mayumi kneels,...
View ArticleCh4.34 Fatal Prophecy
Sky makes the most of his long legs, loping swiftly through the tangled streets and alleys of Three Rats. The fused nature of the ward – parts of two cities mashed together through some magical...
View ArticleCh4.35 Fatal Prophecy
“Ah, Dion!” Math calls with relief. “Finally you arrive.”Followed closely by Alma and the Bunnies, still carrying the youngest of Alma’s children on his back, Dion crosses Math’s marble platform,...
View ArticleCh4.36 Fatal Prophecy
Appearing at the headquarters of the Guardia, still chafing under Somrak’s teasing, Sky ignores the slender Guardia Dei and heads directly for the Commander’s office. Chuckling, Somrak follows. After...
View ArticleCh4.37 Fatal Prophecy
The Curia Concilium, probably the most famous and least-known building in all of the Insula. Perched on the very top of the volcanic mountain that gives this nexus of converging and contrasting...
View ArticleCh4.38 Fatal Prophecy
“I don’t like their being kept here,” Sky mutters to the Commander as they stride through the curved corridor of the Curia, Somrak following behind.“No choice,” the Commander replies. “Don’t worry....
View ArticleCh4.39 Fatal Prophecy
“The Sikari?” Alma whispers. “But who controls them? Are they here to save us or–”“We have to assume they’re here to kill us,” the Commander states. “Officially to kill the assassins, but we’ll be...
View ArticleCh4.40 Fatal Prophecy
They stand in the laboratory of Gylden, the High Mage, Professor of Applied Metaphysics and Energy Shifting, and Geryon’s uncle. Located in an annex to the Academy of High Magic per se, a...
View ArticleCh4.41 Fatal Prophecy
Another huge, tooth-loosening boom hits the door, assaulting the ears of the defenders, making the door bow inward, a small gap opening between it and the frame this time. The seal which Sky painted in...
View ArticleCh4.42 Fatal Prophecy
Dion turns quickly to the unexpected voice coming from the temporary portal entrance. His view of the visitor is briefly blocked as Alma steps forward, her posture showing what is almost relief at the...
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View ArticleCh4.43 Fatal Prophecy
Rushing from the Academy of Magic’s portal, through the hallways, Sky leaves the Commander and Somrak behind, forgets about them entirely. The message from the Oracle is imprinted on his brain – he...
View ArticleCh4.44 Fatal Prophecy
As the God Striker, drained, goes inactive, Dion begins to see the room more clearly than before. And he sees his best friend across the room – dead or merely unconscious, he has no idea. He begins to...
View ArticleCh4.45 Fatal Prophecy
SilenceShe is bathed in silence. That is all there is. Is there even a memory of sound?Her eyes are open but sight seems to have abandoned her. There is an image there, for sure, but her mind refuses...
View ArticleCh4.46 Fatal Prophecy
Around the Council room, voices rise and fall in bickering and furious whispering in response to Math’s latest statement. The Archon breathes deeply. He knew it would not be an easy Council session....
View ArticleCh4.47 Coda
Caos e Ordem, Mal e Bem,Têm ventre e berço igual.A um do outro não convémSer amigo nem rival,Porque cada força que enfrentaA que lhe serve de freioFere a face que a contemplaDo outro lado do...
View ArticleRed Sky in Morning
“I BIND THEE, AZZAGEDDI, IN THE NAMES OF THE RULERS OF HELL…”The words burn into his flesh like loops of acid, the agony hardly of note compared to what he has been suffering for...how long? A day? A...
View ArticleGryphy
It is raining.Clouds have crept through the usually clear night skies to obscure the stars and the grim rain deities who have taken rainfall as their calling tug and poke at the heavy, lazy collections...
View ArticleThe Fencer
Fencer, Alma, Melinor“Keep your guard up, Alma!” the Fencer orders from the raised stone platform at the end of the large exercise room. “Faster on that response! Melinor, she is your opponent now, not...
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Hello, dear readers! We are excited to announce that we've moved. Blogspot has been very very good to us, but we wanted to add some new features to the website, and Blogspot just couldn't support...
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