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The Golden OathThe rain did not fall so much as it hovered, a suspended gray curtain that blurred the boundary between the city streets and the fog rolling in from the harbor. I sat on the edge of the bed in the small, rented room on the fourth floor of the Whitmore Hotel, watching the water bead and slide down the windowpane. It was a view I had chosen for its isolation, a place where the noise of the city...0 Comments 0 Shares 1 Views 0 Reviews
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The Faded RuinThe air in the basement laboratory did not smell of mold or damp, as one might expect of a subterranean chamber in a Victorian industrial complex, but rather of a sterile, aggressive sweetness, a cloying aroma of overripe peaches and crushed lavender that seemed to hang in the stagnant atmosphere like a visible veil, coating the back of my throat with a sensation that was both soothing and...0 Comments 0 Shares 3 Views 0 Reviews
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The Faded RuinThe air in the Bureau of Environmental Compliance tasted of ozone and stale coffee, a metallic tang that coated the back of your throat and refused to be swallowed. You sat at your desk, a rectangular island in a sea of beige cubicles, the fluorescent lights humming a low, electric hymn that seemed to vibrate directly against your teeth. It was 4:15 in the afternoon, the hour when the day’s...0 Comments 0 Shares 1 Views 0 Reviews
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The Wistful SilenceThe rain fell in sheets. Thick. Cold. It hammered the roof of the manor like a thousand small fists. Elias stood by the window. He held his coat. It was heavy. Wet. The wool soaked through to his skin. He did not care. He watched the gate. No one came. The house was old. Stone. Grey. It smelled of damp earth and old paper. The air was still. Too still. The silence had weight. It pressed against...0 Comments 0 Shares 1 Views 0 Reviews
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The Distant GardenYou wake in the cellar. The air is thick with the scent of rotting apples and old iron. You do not know how you arrived here. You do not know why you are here. You only know that the silence is heavy. It presses against your eardrums like deep water. You are a soldier. You remember the uniform. It is torn. It is stained with mud and something darker. You remember the mission. You remember the...0 Comments 0 Shares 2 Views 0 Reviews
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The Golden SongThe sword was too heavy for my arm. It hung at my side like a dead limb, the steel dark and cold. I wiped the blood from my knuckles with a rag that had once been white. Now it was brown. It smelled of iron and sweat. "Again," said Sir Julian. He stood by the wall. He did not move. His face was calm. His eyes were hard. "Your guard is open. The left side. You know this." I nodded. I knew. I had...0 Comments 0 Shares 1 Views 0 Reviews
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The Wistful SagaThe feast hall of Duke Thorne’s castle was a cavern of noise and heat, the air thick with the scent of roasted boar, spiced wine, and the unwashed bodies of two hundred men and women. Sir Aldric stood near the edge of the dais, his armor polished to a mirror shine that reflected the flickering torchlight, yet he felt as though he were standing in a void. His eyes were fixed on Elara, the Duke’s...0 Comments 0 Shares 1 Views 0 Reviews
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The Wistful AsylumThe cold in the town of Oakhaven was not a mere drop in temperature but a physical weight, a gray leaden hand pressing down on the shoulders of every resident until they hunched inward, seeking the warmth of their own bones, and you, Dr. Elias Thorne, stood on the porch of the old infirmary, your left hand trembling so violently against the rough bark of the oak tree that the skin had long...0 Comments 0 Shares 1 Views 0 Reviews
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The Faded BouquetThe rain in Leeds does not wash things clean; it only makes the grime slicker. I sat in the corner of the canteen, the only place in the base where the air didn’t taste of copper and stale coffee. Around me, the men laughed, their voices roughened by the week’s work, but I kept my eyes on the object resting in my jacket pocket. It was a small, rectangular thing, no larger than a deck of cards,...0 Comments 0 Shares 1 Views 0 Reviews
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