Chapter 36 Faraway overlooking Mārin village, a small coven congregated. descant figures in black robes, wearing conical hoods. The noir shapes wore terrifying occult masks and flocked queerly for a black mass. They held their lanterns aloft and softly chanted their demonic whisperings as they trafficked their light onward into the bleakness of the night, […]
chapter 35 Ash vani looked on from the dark corner of the tent. A spectator, she witnessed Min approach the blind Queen. She appeared to recognise her presence as she turned her ear and her gaze to roughly where her eyes sat neath the blindfold. “Is there someone else here?” she inquired in an uneasy […]
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 31 The echo of drums encroached ever closer as the faint sound reverberated feebly through the ether, a whisper at first, but then it grew overtime as it signaled ever increasing quietus. From afar, they could make out the stomp of an Army marching beyond the drum strokes, advancing to meet them. It got […]
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 26 She loves me. T’was night, and the stars above them glistened like crushed diamonds on blankets of pitch-black velvet. The amber moon (los) and the silver moon (Nula) shone down. Like lucid maidens picking apart forget-me-nots and scattering them into the solitude of the silent night. She loves me not. Was this all […]
CHAPTER 25 “I Tallulah, pledge my obedience, I will work for wickedness and numb my heart.” Recounted the anomalous Witch as she struck a distinguished figure with a youthful appearance. She sported an ivory gown that shimmered in the sunshine and wore tiny white flowers that were incorporated into strands of her slate grey hair. […]
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, […]