Abyssus Abbey 2 Chapter 6: Demesne
## Chapter 6: Demesne Amidst the howls and roars of fleeing fiends, Tuco ran for the exit. The trouble was, he wasn't sure exactly how to find it through the chaos. Bits of various prisons--iron, glass, plants, gold, limbostone--every material he...
Abyssus Abbey 2 Chapter 5: An Outbreak of Monsters
## Chapter 5: An Outbreak of Monsters For a time, Tuco and Pike sat together on the steps and talked, Pike tucking himself under Tuco's massive arm, his fingers softly tracing the hard lines of Tuco's scaled brawn. They burned a torch so that Pike...
Abyssus Abbey 2 Chapter 4: The Throat
## Chapter 4: The Throat Lust wracked Tuco's dreams. Some distant part of him was aware of the solid stone wall against his scale-plated back, the musty smell of the room mixed with the heavy fog of his musk. But he had fallen asleep still planted...
Abyssus Abbey 2 Chapter 1: The Vault of Hell
## Chapter 1: The Vault of Hell Tuco stepped through the glowing crack in the stone wall and immediately pitched forward. His stomach wrenched and twisted inside him, and he was plummeting through sheer darkness. He flailed frantically for the room...
Abyssus Abbey 2 Chapter 9: Summoned
## Chapter 9: Summoned Tuco glared through the invisible wall of the summoning circle at the Brother who'd captured him. The little monk was scarcely two-thirds Tuco's height, and less than a fifth his size, and Tuco was strapped with muscle, fangs,...
Abyssus Abbey 2 Chapter 10: Homecoming
## Chapter 10: Homecoming Tuco fell. For a horrible moment, his stomach wrenched inside him and he flailed in terror. The wind and rain were cold against his naked scales. His thoughts raced around his brain like lightning. Hhalbor had betrayed him!...
Abyssus Abbey 2 Chapter 11: Wicked Little Town
## Chapter 11: Wicked Little Town Even as his wings lifted Tuco from the ground, dismay seemed to bear him down again. What had he done to his father? What was happening to the grass beneath his feet? It made no sense. The words of Belial echoed in...
Abyssus Abbey Chapter 5: In Tongues
## Chapter 5: In Tongues Tuco was nervous to speak to anyone as they got ready that morning lest they notice his change. He didn't know why at first, but he felt instinctively as though he should hide it. Surely the black color or the long tips would...
Abyssus Abbey Chapter 10: Imp and Goliath
## Chapter 10: Imp and Goliath The storm was on them, water pouring down in sheets. Tuco thought it must be about midday, but the sky was so dark it might almost have been night. The rain made travel treacherous, as heavy mudslides ran down the...
Abyssus Abbey Chapter 16: Lust Knight
## Chapter 16: Lust Knight Tuco's voice echoed down the stony corridor as he repeated the Latin words Pike read to him. Even with his excellent memory, twenty pages of Latin was far too much to memorize for a ritual, so Pike had to read a sentence or...
Abyssus Abbey Chapter 15: Two Wrongs Don't Make a Rite
## Chapter 15: Two Wrongs Don't Make a Rite The little iron door creaked open and then two long, furred ears appeared from behind it. They belonged to Pike, and were soon followed by the rest of him. He had a bundle of papers stuffed under one arm as...
Abyssus Abbey Chapter 13: Small Sacrifices
## Chapter 13: Small Sacrifices "Our souls?" Pike shouted. His voice echoed down the long stone corridor. "Shhh!" Tuco had found Pike and Etreon at the far corner of the large cloister, poking around the walls for the missing door to the library....