The Beautiful Mountain
The Beautiful Mountain (08/16/2020) Standing in the distance, I gaze across the sea, And sea a mountain yonder, It's looking back at me, So innocent and pure, So glorious and vast, It's tugging at my heartstrings, My...
The Love Song of a Warrior-Poet
The Love Song of a Warrior-Poet By Mantrid Brizon You are like the verdant fields, so radiant and vast. With curves like the mountain ranges and a smile as wide as ocean blue. Every time I awake alone, I miss you. I never...
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Chimerical By Mantrid Brizon Episode 26: Abscond The group of eight heavily armed and armored hunters follow Kazkhar and his three minions down the road. Without horses, they alternate between a brisk walk and light jogging, maintaining...
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Chimerical By Mantrid Brizon Episode 25: The Imperial's Advocate Abara walks through the thoroughfare and toward the bazaar of Dune. Her mother and father are busy working their respective jobs, so she has taken it upon herself to buy...
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Chimerical By Mantrid Brizon Episode 24: Exposé "Don't hurt him!" Tsanavi pleads. Ra'kanishu grunts as he is forced violently to the ground by several armed villagers. Though he does not resist his neighbors, the word has already...
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Chimerical By Mantrid Brizon Episode 23: The Golden Hands Two weeks pass after Ra'kanishu has burned the letter containing the details of his past. Every day is similar to the one before it. He works, eats, bathes and sleeps with his...
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Chimerical By Mantrid Brizon Episode 22: Origins Several days have passed since Ra'kanishu revealed his secret to Jo'dehki, and the time has come for the Imperial and Tsanavi, his Suthay lover, to pledge themselves to each other....
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Chimerical By Mantrid Brizon Episode 21: The Hungry Cat Jo'dehki walks with a spring in his step, elated by the encounter with Celewen only hours earlier. The Cathay-Raht looks up at the sky to see that the sun is inching towards the...
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Chimerical By Mantrid Brizon Episode 20: Exigent Circumstances Sitting on the steps of their home, Tsanavi rests her head on Ra'kanishu's chest, his arm draped over her and holding her tightly. Their house faces toward the village...
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Chimerical By Mantrid Brizon Episode 19: Compunction Jadhi sits up in her bedroll as Jo'dehki grumbles in his sleep, tossing and turning as he suffers a nightmare. Feeling quite badly for him, she rises from her place and creeps around...
The Seventh Realm 00
The Seventh Realm: Volume One By Mantrid Brizon Episode 00: Prologue The tall, red grasses shift and crunch beneath the pawlike feet of the young Ketlan woman as she walks through the forest and away from her village. Zakera, the...
Sterling
Sterling (06/13/2018) Someone once told me to 'be who you are', Even if that causes pain and leaves scars, But heeding their words I do not regret, I'd rather live true than tell lies I'd forget, But some of you do not live in the...