“Put the gun down,” I said. “All of you.” If the Crows thought I had authority, then I’d use it. Irri’s gun twitched, her finger slipping away from the trigger. “I can explain, I really can.” But she’d been the one to put me in the hell of that military base, so my patience with … Read moreA Court For Crows (Part 48)
True to Boss’s word, the fey were dead outside. Not a flicker in their minds, not a single broadcasted though in the heads. If it wasn’t for the slow movement of their lungs and the quiet hiss of air through their many varied teeth, I’d’ve thought they were statues. Boss swept her way through them, … Read moreA Court For Crows (Part 47)
Minutes trickled by like hourglass sand. Tumbled head over heels, again, again, as the fog slowly unfurled from the edges of my thoughts. Left behind only the aches and pains I was starting to associate with the dead world. My fingers ached from squeezing the trigger on the pistol, and blood drooled across the other, … Read moreA Court For Crows (Part 46)
My brother was on the couch, legs crossed, balancing a bowl of popcorn. Tv played meaningless noise, a rerun from a half decade ago about a man and his crackshot team of investigators solving crimes in rural Ontario. Outside the window the city played hopscotch with cars, weaving in and out of veins as heavily … Read moreA Court For Crows (Part 45)
Japan’s civil war started the next day. JSDF filled the news, mounting assaults on burgeoning cult activity. The anomaly force moved in shortly after, reducing a towering building filled with hostiles into a steaming crater. The civilian casualties were acceptable to everyone except the public. The gleaming eye of the watcher fell upon them in … Read moreA Court For Crows (Part 44)
The Watchers invaded North Korea that morning. A long stretch of silence in the cafeteria. Some scientists were able to ignore the sense of doom in the air as the newscasters showed off videos of censored anomalous footage of clawed humans tearing through tanks. Filled with so many holes that blood no longer poured out … Read moreA Court For Crows (Part 43)
And the world was such a lovely place, hanging in the cosmos, revolving around a strangely calm sun. A thousand thousand thousand thousand years since life touched it and it smiled upon it, a gleam in the eye of the great watching. Hear the directive, lingering remnants of humanity; your time has come. The world … Read moreA Court For Crows (Part 42)
Third floor was well kept. Ambient lights soaked it in the glow of the old world. Made it almost seem like the military base was alive and rolling. The sun would emerge behind the clouds, and we’d be free to frolic. I hadn’t just killed with my own two hands. I could believe that if … Read moreA Court For Crows (Part 41)
“There,” Boss finished. Her eyes closed. Her ears twitched. I strained, struggling to hear much of anything, but my heart drowned out it all. The gun sluggishly cradled in my fingers seemed even more pathetic than before. Would it even get through the creature’s eldritch empowered skull? Then Boss took a few steps to the … Read moreA Court For Crows (Part 40)
“FUCK YOU AND DIE!” Boss howled, throwing the door. “MOVE!” A blast of lighting touched the door in mid air, thunder booming as red hot metal rimmed the entire frame. Even from the other end of the hall I could feel the heat and taste the ozone rising from the heated walls like a stinking … Read moreA Court For Crows (Part 39)