Phase
A/N: this is not in chronological order. You have been warned. --- I heard him singing and suddenly knew intimately from where seraphs received inspiration. He was standing at the precipice of the building we had climbed, positioned to project,...
Empty the Sieve
"You live in the world, Damien. Spirit-child." "What does that _mea-!"_ "in the world" "in the the world" "in the" "world in" "in the world world" "in in the world" "world" "in the world" "the world" "in the world, Damien" "in the" "Damien" ...
Survival, Chapter 1: Acorn Paste, Honey, and an Egg
"Of course I kept my name. I won't forget the way we live. So many of us die that they just number us," said Shalai's Fifth. The Sighing Hex sighed. "I know." Fifth glowered at him. "Does it annoy you, that the way your people slaughter and eat mine...
Empty and Pouring In: Third Movement
Unseen, unfelt, the cavern still breathes. Wind rushes whispering giggles through its maw, then pushes itself back out. Somewhere in the depths of it, water drips and then pools, sucked from the very air into the stone and then into the lichens...
Empty, and Rippling - an Interlude
How can it be constant? When Damien breathes, he can feel the pauses too clearly. Breathing _isn't_ constant, when you think about it. It's full of starts and stops, and shuddering gasps, and sighs, and increases and decreases in tempo... he can hear...
A man with a stag's head (part 5/?)
El started calling me “woof paws” because I couldn’t convince her black wolves are super rare and usually have white spots around their lips. Also because she took sadistic glee in calling me by a name that made sense to no one else, because they...
Skyscrapers
This is written mostly for me, partially for Laine, and entirely for the sake of the characters and philosophies contained herein. It probably will not make sense on the first reading. Laine is © Laine\_Mathis Siber is © me Quixar is --- ...
Symphonium
Here it is, the full post of Chamber Music, slightly edited from the original series to "perfect" the symbols and motifs and technique in general. This is one of the only stories I have legitimately finished and I feel that it properly conveys the...
A man with a stag's head (part 2/?)
“Why name a rat Mufasa?" “Because he Mufasa than you think." The pun apparently hit an exposed funny bone, because the sales associate shocked herself with the noise that burst out of her mouth, which then triggered a cascading volley of laughs and...
A man with a stag's head (part 4/?)
I could almost hear Harry, in the back of my mind, helpfully explaining that sleeping with the light on was bound to worsen my condition, and of course my fingers were swollen from exertion – circulation in the extremities was frequently affected by...
Scene III: To Introduce (Mabovna)
As always - open to requests, bonus points (that don't mean anything) if you get the nickname before the characters do. This time, though, the explanation won't happen until next chapter! I know all of you are just on the edge of your seats waiting to...
Scene VII: To Silence (-)
(edit: I apologize sincerely for the copy flood of this story. It was a problem with my browser not telling me it had submitted and me trying different ways to make it submit after a similar problem had in fact \_not\_ resulted in a tremendous number...