Chapter 34 The crisp morning had broken, the first strands of light had begun to diffuse the horizon, as the two sisters sat comfortably, perched Up high in the bough of a once-mighty sendel tree. The aged tree Stood princely in the desolate corner of the now quiet municipal campus and watched down upon the […]
Chapter 32 The night grew a little older and a little more frigid as the nocturnal fragrance of wysteria seeped in through the pores of the ancient temple. Its old bones heaved and settled as its foundations shifted. Its pulse oscillated almost beyond perception as if some other sense were required to fathom it all. […]
Chapter 30 It was a tranquil afternoon as thenoon-day sun shone its rays across the rolling hills and upon the lucent surface of the estuary that moved along languidly. Tawny Legette’s above soared from the eaves of tall white Sendal trees. They grew just below the misty pelmet of the lonely mountain. The mountains name […]
Chapter 29 She had just finished sealing the hole to the underground tunnels. And now, Grozette lay winded upon the ground, as the menacing abomination loomed above her. She scarcely managed to turn over when the dark shape flew like a long black ribbon making loops upon loops, in the velvety dark of the […]
Chapter 27 There’s a pain that can’t be spoken. Ash vani stumbled as she pushed herself on weary and sleep deprived, up to the brow of the hill. As the sighing breeze ruffled the striations of her russet hair … It was a hindrance that Kalithia province had so many rolling hills and trenches, but […]
Chapter 24 The Grand Ballroom bustled with courtesans, as entitled people with lavish trinkets attended the summit. The attendees mingled, opulently Virtue signalling as the gentry often did. Back and forth above their sparkling flutes of expensive liquors, whilst indulging in their personal debaucheries. A dandy but a deceitful way of life thought Ash Vani, […]
Chapter 23 The morning was colder than it had been recently. The skies were gloomy and overcast. The only other signs of life were the black shapes of the birds above the horizon. They ascended over the river in a delta formation as the ships Slowly drifted until. Eventually, they found their moorings at the […]
Chapter 21 The light was blinding as Brownie wandered attached to the others like a human/animal chain, she could hear a ringing in her ears from far away as the first sensation that hit her was the cool breeze and the sound of the ocean. The smell of the briny sea Found her nostrils as […]
Chapter 20 Life is like a reunion, and that’s how I first met you. Brownie was thinking about the prose of the Martian poetry in her mind it didn’t seem to make complete sense to her, it seemed somewhat contradictory, the deeper meaning escaped her. How can someone be reunited and meet for the very […]
Chapter 18 Tumjai cast his thoughts back to Those days… the dormant memories lied scattered so far away like shadows. He recalled the small rooms in the embassy that were dimly lit, they were cramped like small interrogation rooms and only scarcely decorated. Amongst the fixtures and fittings were pictures of majestic misty volcanoes that […]