The pheromones lay thick in the air. Sergeant Tanner stared at them, a beautiful color over top of atomized blood and the end of the world itself, and ignored how their contours danced seductively atop the bones that had once been the rest of his brigade. Six hours into the fighting, and the sun itself … Read moreAn End For Crows (Part 27)
Five thousand years ago, as humanity died off and contagious cancers ravaged the remnants of their species, the Admiral turned his gaze up to heaven and wondered where his god resided. He’d spent decades in churches searching for answers to battlefields strewn with shattered bone and curdled blood, and he’d spent just as long curled … Read moreAn End for Crows (Part 26)
We gathered together. The Regent. Tane. Teri. Jay. Quen. Myself. A few others, names I’d never known, but they greeted each other like old friends. Something deep inside of me told me that we needed more than just those few Crows, but we were out of time, out of resources, and out of options altogether. … Read moreAn End for Crows (Part 25)
I was the key. I was the solution, I was the final touch on a masterpiece and yet, sitting there in the chair, I hesitated. It sat glimmering in the back of my mind, just behind my eyes, just underneath my thoughts, a twirling incandescent screaming thing that begged to be used, the mind of … Read moreAn End for Crows Part 24
Jay woke up. It took him time to realize he had woken up in pieces, many eyes staring off in many different directions, as it had been quite a long time since he’d been able to fall apart. His many crows squabbled in confusion, but nevertheless, as his flickering mind willed them, they hopped towards … Read moreAn End For Crows (Part 23)
In the beginning, I was desperation. I was a spark, cast from rocks, dancing in the air with potential, going cold against unwilling tender. I was a spark, cast from rocks, dancing in the air with potential, going cold against unwilling tender. I was a spark, cast from rocks, dancing in the air with potential, … Read moreAn End for Crows (Part 22)
The chamber sat at the heart of the beast. I could see this because we moved past great organs that my mind saw and some distant part of my brain unlocked, scanned, rearranged, and told me their function. Gas synthesis, transportation, the hands of great old architects arranged in quiet prayer that their methods and … Read moreAn End for Crows (Part 21)
She sat, gossamer, a flickering mess of lights and sounds, a cacophony of lovely sights interspersed with one another. It had been a long time since I had stopped to stare at my reflection, longer still since I had ever thought of myself as pretty, but here, in the heart of a great beast, flickering … Read moreAn End For Crows Part 20
We needn’t’ve worried about getting in so much. As the edge of the Fey army arrived it opened up like the maw of the void. I tried not to notice that it seemed to synchronize with the exact moment I crossed the edge of the camp, and ignore how the air felt moist but lacked, … Read moreAn End For Crows (Part 19)
The worms came the next day. Isaac took a look at our crowd, his gaze lingering on Jay, and shook his head. “We should split up. If we’re attacked…” He trailed off. “You’re the important one,” I said. “You know how to do the rite.” Isaac laughed. “Hearing that from you would mean a lot … Read moreAn End for Crows (Part 18)