Wages: Chapter Twelve
Chapter Twelve - Breaking Point Louis was a lot of things. Distraught, confused, scared-- all of these emotions blending together to put the man into an utterly glum state. In the days following his encounter with the two dragons he had gone from...
Wages: Chapter Ten
"Nimbus... are you in there?" The voice disturbed me from my slumber-- the first one in three days that had been without Kiven. Three days of pure solitude. Three days of nirvana. Three days without the being of hypocrisy that had masqueraded as a...
Wages: Chapter Fourteen
Celsko lay in the water, head barely breaking the surface, just enough to allow her nostrils to reach the air. She had wedged herself between two boulders, wings spread like great water lilies, and had fallen asleep. On the opposite side of the...
Wages: Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Thirteen - Awakening Sleep upon that wretched night evaded me. As the blackness befell the outside world, I wept and Celsko fell unconscious, head and body resting gently against mine. It seemed out of place, having her peacefully sleep....
Wages: Chapter Eleven
**Chapter Eleven - Society** The shadow exploded, and the crowd erupted in an utter orgy of shouts. Some cried for death unto our leader, for others, praise was but the battle cry. In the middle of it all stood I, an inept husk of a being, unable to...
Wages: Chapter Two
**Chapter Two: **** _Louis, Collin, and Mike_** "Yesterday, at 10:47 AM, May twelfth, 1974, three men walked into the Bank Of New York on fifty-first street in Manhattan. They were in the bank for seven minutes, killed three people, and made off with...
Wages: Chapter Eight
Even as conformist I was at the time, I knew what we had witnessed that day needed to be kept a secret. Celsko reminded me of this many a time on our slow walk back. The whole time she spoke of nothing except how wonderfully interesting the little man...
Wages: Chapter Five
**Chapter Five -** **A Gentleman's Game** Louis sat under the tarp listening to the radio, idly whittling a stick, and periodically slapping one of the seemingly millions of mosquitoes that surrounded him. Five days ago the men had torched the van,...
The Cosmos Dethroned (I)
**Phase I** "Káev... ar-are you alright?" He winced. The words, no matter how softly spoken, seemed jarring in the cold silence of night. They stung his ears, causing them to ring, and made his stomach contract into a tight, heavy ball that rested...