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Stolen Sight

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Everything was void. There was nothing. No time passed. No process active.++Initializing Reanimation Protocols.++++Physical reconstitution.... Complete.++++Cognitive Matrix... Re-established.++There was nothing, but there was thought. The flash of the weapon that…

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Embalmed

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Warden Ugresh stiffened his neck and pretended not to hear as another round of hoarse sobs started up from behind the door; it had been nearly a decan since they’d…

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Eye of the Storm

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When the madness came, it consumed Xiophe's world all at once.The Plunger groaned around her. The void vessel's superstructure twisted impossibly as a torrent of unreality washed over its metal…

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Read more about the article Lament for the Archon’s Seventeenth Child

Lament for the Archon’s Seventeenth Child

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There is no room for sentiment in my position. I have always known this. Emotions – fear, wrath, boredom, affection – colour reality. One is blinded by them. My eyes…

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Leviathan

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Warden Deborah watched the runic wards along the door begin to fade. The old portal of dark basalt began to slide slowly, noiselessly aside. The stark lights of the ancient…

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Stray

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'So, Alai Therin Fallstar, ai'elethra of the Eshairr, what say you?'He looked up at the sightless face, the sockets where its eyes should have been puckered, bloody holes. Behind it,…

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Sub Divo

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https://youtu.be/SwbjpGWjuRY?si=oGkG5jV4qiSiwFD5 I can no longer see the future, Idroelle thought, which means there must be no future. Blood surged through her body as she whipped the Nightwing into a mind-numbing…

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The Debate

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It was the beginning of the third round of the fourth bout, the penultimate discourse being held that day in the packed nave of the Cathedral of the Inevitable Sacrifice,…

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Read more about the article Through the Eyes of the Machine-God

Through the Eyes of the Machine-God

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Princeps Mulkaran Vosh was going to have his sight restored, and that knowledge filled his heart with sorrow. In the ever-present sheet of grey that filled his vision, Vosh was…

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Read more about the article Traitor’s Sight

Traitor’s Sight

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Dogma once blinded Kyser Tremon, and now fate was intent on doing the same, though in this case more physically than spiritually. He knew not what had detonated, and frankly,…

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