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Fors’d by Fate

  • Post category:Fast Fiction/FFXXII - No Limits

Asper doubted. His sweet Thusia, thin, trembling, ecstatic, who always had to wear a headscarf so no one would see stripes on her head. She stood next to him, pressing…

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Bond of Fire

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Matthias woke to the hum of alien machinery, his body aching with pain, and realised, in that moment, he had fallen into enemy hands. Bound by plastic cord against a…

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They Hunger

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‘No one thinks about the grades of corpse starch.’ A small, elderly man by the name of Esurian Semper told a group of trainees hoping to become Mortis Keepers, the…

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Peace in Hell

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Farseer Baranduin awoke to great unease, his soul feeling encompassed within a smothering shroud, burying any glimpses of the future he tried to manifest.'You’ll find your witchery ineffective,' came a…

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Monkeigh’s Best Friend

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The ground trembled underfoot, as long clawing shadows stalked his flight through the labyrinth of rubble and shattered bodies. The last of his craftworld kin, Eldrenniel, moved cautiously, driven by…

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Mining Accident

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‘May the Ancestors forgive me,’ Voidmaster Khar Drindal muttered as he watched his ship burn silently in the cold vacuum of space. The Dhalaz Marka’s kilometre-long prow was a colossal drill…

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Reborn

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Eplasseal stepped with lithe strides—with silent tact—moving to the accordance of a hunting predator. He was within a spined suit of white power armour. A crimson tunic hung from the…

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Byzantium

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‘…I already explained that I don’t have that.’ Said Mazrodros through clenched teeth. ‘I’m sorry, Incubi, um…’ replied the slave behind the desk.‘Mazrodros.’‘I’m sorry, Incubi Mazrodros,’ continued the slave, ‘as I’ve…

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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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