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Sub Divo

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/Fast Fiction XX - Blind

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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Winds of Blood

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A sun, like burning embers, rose on this day of fate, a blood-red sky to spell the end. With the wind in her back, Torindreth stood upon the cliff’s edge,…

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To Travel is to Heal

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'Why did you leave?' It is always the same question. Why would one leave the safety of a Craftworld? A place with no strife, no scarcity? Why would one risk…

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Echoes of Guilt

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I had not returned to the gardens of Craftworld Alaitoc for a long time. Pink and blue petals drifted from hundreds of pale trees, dancing in an artificial wind whilst…

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The Last Hope

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From the flames, a single ship darts out into the void. A single golden shard lost to the darkness, as the last Craftworld falls.  Alone at the helm, Arhanas fights…

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Path of the Ghost

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 One hundred years ago, I died upon the petal strewn fields of fair Myiathra where I felt no sorrow. For that century I was at one with the abiding spirits…

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Examination

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Farseer Cailenn Ilain faced her student, they sat on the bare floor of the chamber, deep with the craftworld Ai’belcanoic. The white wraithbone walls were veined with psychoactive crystals and…

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Extinction’s Welcome

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While the stars died, fires stifled by the cold one by one, their attendant planets spiralled to their own dooms, and void-vessels screamed as the Warp imploded, daemon and mortal…

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A Wolf in Sheepskin

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Auldinwë stood valiantly atop the mangled corpse of a greater daemon of Slaanesh–its desirable pink flesh marred and ruined. The Howling Banshee raised her power sword into the air, wailed…

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Agtrill, The Counterfeit Blade

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