It felt like it had been years since Xitlali had begun to take her anger out on his flesh. Since that first searing stripe of pain had bloomed along his spine, since she had made the first stinging slice across his ribs. And it felt like it had been decades since he had screamed as …
Tag: second installment
30
Her stomach dropped out as the World tilted slightly only to right itself as soon as it shifted. Before she even had the chance to wonder what in the fuck a ping lanced across her mind, just sharp enough to catch her attention but not sharp enough to drop her. With a sharp breath, she …
29
He frowned when the first sense of wrong went chittering across the Currents and looked over his shoulder at the cabin because aside from the sandstorm ambling across the dunes off in the distance, there was nothing that could cause that wrongness to thicken the air. He frowned harder when that feeling intensified as he …
28
"Are we going to talk about it?" He felt bad making the Qishir jump, felt worse when he jumped off the stone he'd been sitting on and whirled to face him, coldfire flaring up around his fists, eyes pinpoints of concentrated battle rage. It took a moment for that battle rage to dissipate and the …
27
He dropped his face into his hands, index and middle fingers pressing against his temples, elbows propped on his knees. It was well into the afternoon and he was exhausted. Tired on a level that no amount of sleep would help with, not at this point. He had stepped outside onto the porch to take a break from …
26
"For the record, I don't agree with this," Jaro spoke in her ear and she looked up at the ceiling, shaking her head slightly, trying to reign in her impatience and failing. The Soulless had gotten a little too outspoken after spending the last several centuries guarding Relyt Greymend; as though his primary station as …
25
"You cannot go to the City!" Nhulynolyn slammed his hands down on the counter with enough force for the cabinets built into it to rattle ominously. She hadn't seen him this vehement in centuries and it was weird to see it now, facing off against his identical twin, weirder still that it was happening in a place she'd heard …
24
It felt weird to be standing on the cabin's porch again after being gone for so long. To be standing here looking out at the oasis and seeing first the lake and then the river instead. Seeing the bodies from the raiding party and then the smoke in the distance from Thayne's army after Amèl …
23
"What do you mean a jar is missing?" He flinched at the fury that rode that voice. He hadn't served Qishir Xitlali long but it had been long enough to teach him that certain tones spelled out a danger none were safe from. And while he hadn't taken whatever this all important jar was, he …
22
"So what the fuck is this all about?" the Qishir asked, arms crossed, hands tucked in his armpits to hide the damage to his knuckles that Azriel hadn't been able to Heal completely before Thae'a had come flying through what was left of the camp to find everyone. The memory he had of the expression …
The Seven Worlds 