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Ray "Azrael" Mason "You need a ride?" Raven asked as she gestured to a rusty pickup truck parked a few steps away. "Or do you want to walk to wherever ...

Naomi An awful death rattle had started coming from the bike more than ten minutes ago as Naomi tried to coax it to run on an empty tank. She'd hoped ...

Chapter 2C: Shadows of what might be and what was Astrid broke the awkward silence that ensued after the fight with the would-be-thieves. “So, about those warm clothes... and Ziafar, ...

Bryony Thatcher Well, she'd say one thing for the blood sucking, pasty faced Alnwich family and it was this: they knew how to throw a good shindig. The music was ...

Petronella Psinskey "He used to sing, do you remember, Pol?" Petra gave the owl's feathers a fond stroke and he nipped at her gloved hand with his sharp beak. She ...

Admiral Dunagan Cornelius Pentecost Dunagan was not entirely certain how he ended up in a booth with perhaps the two most dangerous ladies in terms of his career, but somehow ...

Chapter 1I: Pride Comes Before a Fall Maybe the mana crystal was particularly potent or, more likely, she'd simply been starved of this feeling for too long and Astrid was ...

Ray "Azrael" Mason Azrael watched as the kid screwed his face up really tight and focused on the paint splattered canvas balanced on the easel. He tried not to let ...

The Then Most people think that when you're dead, you're dead - gone, obliterated. No more. But it isn't true. It takes a human soul 13 days, 13 hours, 13 ...

Naomi | Sioux Falls | 5 hours from Minneapolis by Motorbike Yesterday. That was when Naomi was supposed to have left the area; she'd been planning it for days. And ...

Admiral Dunagan Cornelius Pentecost The redhead was pretty but Admiral Dunagan believed in propriety so he kept his eyes fixed firmly on her face, which ought to have been pretty ...

Admiral Dunagan Cornelius Pentecost Dunagan flashed a smile, not even slightly repentant over his ill words for Delegate Schultz, may Mortem torment his everlasting soul. "I daresay it's a fortuitous ...

Chapter 1F: Don't wake the Living While the others went to 'clean up', Astrid stood over Valon's unconscious body and wondered if he'd notice a few bruised ribs when he ...

Admiral Dunagan Cornelius Pentecost "But Admiral, what about Hephaestus the Forger? Don't Inverstadt produce the finest glass ornaments and jewelry, you've said that yourself. What if that's because t

Aedolas There were some things Aedolas knew to be true and he didn't know how he knew them, only that he did. He'd thought for the longest time that his ...