Shin kept his hand on Coal’s side as they road. The map was open in in his lap as he tracked their progress. There was a single village on their path and he hoped that it would be on the way to the Free City. The city was constantly moving, always subtle but always far. […]
Category: The Calamity
On the way out of the town, they moved at a slow trot but the moment they got a few dozen feet out they started running. Not hard enough to stress out the horses but it was a comfortable gait. Isaac looked up at the sky and saw the stars twinkling to life above and […]
The night was waning as the pair of riders ran across the plain. They’d been riding for the better part of a full day. After they left Isal the first stop was to go to one of the fringe towns. Getting the horses was one thing but getting actual supplies to handle the long travel […]
Isaac unfurled the map and tried to catch the last amount of light from the sun. Holding the map in front of his face he lowered it and stared down at the city before him. Unlike the villages and town’s he’d seen up to this point he was staring at a real city. It just […]
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A Long Road Home: Chapter 7
Shin looked up to the sound of the bars of his cell being opened quickly. They hit the wall with a clang and he was staring at a trio of Norian soldiers and a captain in front of them. Not the one that brought him in but he recognized the rank from the tassel on […]
Isaac slumped against a desk, his body feeling like lead. He could vaguely hear the birds chirping outside but he wasn’t able to go out and be in the sun with those animals. Instead he was stuck inside and making reports. His pen going across the paper slowly, checking boxes, signing forms and doublechecking results.
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A Long Road Home: Chapter 5
Shin picked through the bodies in the cave they had come through and scowled every time he turned one over. The skeletons were burned to a crisp but they were a bright white instead of a blackened char. The results of being consumed by holy flame. It also meant that he couldn’t use these bones […]
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A Long Road Home: Chapter 4
Shin pressed one hand to the ground and pointed the other toward the cave. His eyes glowed and instead of seeing the other side of the bank he was looking at himself and Isaac from the canyon. Digging his hand into the ground a small circle formed and then he flicked his wrist forward. The […]
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A Long Road Home: Chapter 3
Many of the homes were a lit with fire and shouting was echoed only by screaming and metal whistling through the air. Isaac hit the first building and watched as it collapsed under it’s own weight with a thunderous crash. A man ran by on a horse, savage laughter leaving his mouth. Bodies littered the […]
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A Long Road Home: Chapter 1
Why… why can’t I see… Flames crackled all around loud and angrily. It was the only noise to break the silence on this broken battlefield. No groans, no moaning or empty prayers. Just crackling flames hungry for more fuel. An angry gust whipped across the field feeding the flames.
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