Fall From Grace, Chapter Twelve
“How do I look?" Yasmin leaned back from the boiling soup of flesh. “Please don't talk. The bones will misalign." Amira tried to blow a raspberry. There was a gargle and rattling teeth. “Sit still!" In a distant life, Yasmin's workshop had been the...
Remiel's Fall From Grace - Chapter 1
[/color][/url] remiel's fall from grace - chapter 1 by zmeydros (edited by tiliquain and sheera castellar) it had been silly of me to expect i'd get some relief from the bible cult that was trinity stronghold before i made it to earth.
Fall From Grace, Chapter Three
They emerged into an amphitheater. Kavaia departed from the open mouth of the parenchyma, her bracelets glinting in the light. Sadik barely managed to follow in time. The cell was already moving up the xylem again, the vascular tissue thickening with...
Fall From Grace, Chapter Eleven
After hundreds of years, the gladiator stadium was once more filled with bodies. Once, in a time that many gods could still remember, this building had been the pride of its district. The arena had been stained with the blood of warriors, the stands...
Fall From Grace, Chapter Seven
Chaos erupted. It began with a horrified scream. A god pointed at the fallen branches, her cry cutting through the clamor. Heads turned. Eyes widened. Gasps of horror turned to cries of fear, warbling screams of grief. In seconds, the sound was one...
Fall From Grace, Chapter Nineteen
Chaos reigned. Gidros behind him. Thimera in front. A swarm of Exalted in the air, an army of Faustines at his flank. Metal storms, shining wings, dozens of claws. Sadik and Amira had been tossed from the throne by Thimera. She stood above the...
Fall From Grace, Chapter Five
A breeze sliced through the chambers. Curtains billowed through archways. Fires blazed inside the braziers. Hundreds of leaf blades shuddered along the walls, swishing beneath the sharp howl of wind. The four poster bed, adorned with a canopy of linen...
Fall From Grace, Chapter Six
When consciousness returned, Sadik could only move his eyes. Something metallic lived inside him. Like wet cement, it had poured through the cracks in his flesh, setting every inch of his body as hard as stone. His lungs were two hollow shells in his...
Fall From Grace, Chapter Ten
He awoke to a warm, soothing light. For a moment, Sadik imagined that he was bathing in the sun once more. Memories filled his mind. Flowers and leaves soaked in the waning cry of dusk. The gentle kiss of dawn, washing away the shadows of a training...
Fall From Grace, Chapter Four
The goddess of death kept her home darker than Sadik would've liked. Curtains had been draped across columned archways, blocking the view of a terrace. An oculus at the top of a domed ceiling was overgrown with vines and wooden capillaries. Braziers...
Fall From Grace, Chapter Nine
Faustine leaped into the air. Lightning pierced the sky. A bolt of blue against a belly of red, like a tendon yanked from flesh. Grisly light and sheets of blood. For a moment, she seemed a vision of an ancient demon. Four swords held in four arms,...
Fall From Grace, Chapter Eight
The fall would take thirty-nine seconds. Long before he took his vows, Sadik had been walking patrol along the hard light crenellations of Acheron’s walls, watching the red rock canyons through the heat of the day. Someone had bumped his shoulder....