Chapters tagged monster girl

by sumedokin

Chapter 3

_Jail / Warden_ Trees bleached black by darkness reached to a starless sky blackened by night. From treeline to treeline a cold mire wrapped its boundary, coloured black by the shoreless sea. Treacherous were these marshes. Like firm land they promised safe passage. Like stormy...

by sumedokin

Chapter 3

_Reluctant / Humiliation_ The stranger lay in her cot when I entered the infirmary. Snugly bedded. Eyes shut. She didn’t move so much as a muscle. I slid the door closed, “Good evening.” No answer. I inched towards the side of her bed, then nudged her on her shoulder. “...

by sumedokin

Chapter 3

_Disguise / Escape_ There is no road safer than along the Walpurgis Night’s Band, as long as you know which side to travel on. Since long before the border between the kingdoms of the Order of the Chief God had been drawn, the Walpurgis Night’s Band crossed the long stretches...

by sumedokin

Chapter 3

_Dream / Latex_ Her father was a Champion of the Chief God. As was his father, and his father before him. Then, her father had eleven daughters with four different women, but no sons. They thought that would be the end of the Alba heroic line. Yet there Madeleine was. Deep i...

by sumedokin

Chapter 3

Long were the nights when sir Wilfred rode over the frozen plains of Brauðblóðsokkur, and long did those plains stretch out. Bands of undulating lights spanned the night sky with a mix of rose and green, and green and rose, so fluid that its blinking became indistinguishable from...

by sumedokin

Chapter 3

_Stuck / Mistake_ To err is to be human, and though Albin Raweksep Sierota was accustomed to success, he had long made peace with the fact that he was not and would never be perfect. No, making mistakes he could tolerate. What really bothered him was that his mistakes were never...

by sumedokin

Chapter 3

_Ghost / Forgotten_ Pain in their thighs. Fire in their lungs. Dark blots in their vision. Leaves brushed past them and branches whipped against their skins. They never relented in theri sprint through the foliage. No matter how dizzy. No matter how fatigued. Richard shot pan...