Spirit Bound: Chapter Ninety-Six
I've seen many paintings in that style when i visited japan and a few when i visited some old monasteries in southern china. he...would compare favourably to them. they actually reminded me of some paintings attributed to a legendary smith, song xun."
Snowlit Dawn - Book 2 Chapter 4
"if i'm lucky, have me executed as an 'irredeemable degenerate'," lana meweled, "but more likely they'd shove me on the next transport back to the homeworld, where i'd be sent to a monastery for 'purification.'
A Trainer's Tale - Chapter 25
"do you have to go back to the monastery?" i asked. she shook her head. "the monks understood well enough that you were in danger from my brief explanation." she said with a smile.
Worlds Apart - Chapter Twenty Four
A month ago he’d been given teacher’s robes and asked to return to earth to teach at the main kenzine monastery. all this he’d been given, and now it was time that he repaid that debt. clay was waiting patiently for his answer.
Burning for you - Wild Fyre
Walking through the permanently open double doors and into the monastery. if the outside was beautiful the interior of the building was simply magnificent. stained glass windows lined the walls casting a range of colors onto the floor.
A Wolf in King Arturius's Court (WIP)
Behind him in the picture was saint benedictus, who founded many monasteries in the teutonic mountains, and saint greggorius who led the first crusade which caused the disruption of the crown but brought the archaians to the true religion.
Worlds Apart - Chapter Eleven
The slender volume of zen poetry had been a purchase from the gift store of a monastery many light years away. all of them received the same gentle care, until he finally reached the last one. “a thousand and one ways to cook rabbit.”
The Black Goddess, Chapter 4
It wasn't anything special, and holding it reminded me of the fine blade i'd lost at the monastery. i gritted my teeth and suppressed the memory quickly. "just in case. keep below, barricade the door if you hear fighting going on."
4 - Contemplations on Divinity [Incomplete]
"the nights feel hollow at the monastery. the prayers that used to sooth my anguish in my younger years now seem to just feed it. at every ceremony, the rituals' repetition echo within me a growing dread.
Spirit Bound: Chapter 123
The other statue was a model of a mountain fortress, likely his monastery, built on a bluff into the mountain itself. the detail of the carving was unbelievable, every leaf on each tree painstakingly rendered to scale.
A Biography of a Human: Desolation
I turned away from this feeling and focused on the others and it was in this moment, seeing everyone like this working to translate the wisdom of lord muni, that i decided to make gernan’s gift to me, his manor, a monastery.
The Battle for Azure Part 4: Clash
He had no desire to go back to his old life at the monastery - isolated, training, working to better himself, but to what end beyond pleasing master zheng? he lifted his hand to look at it.