Power and Pride III: In Our Blood
The plains, alight by nature's fiery ball, by columns of flame and towers of lighting crafted by mages on both sides, sounded with impending violence: the trample of hundreds of feet against dead grass, the dissonant song of metals (armor, against their fur
Chapter Nineteen
The music changed from dissonance to a melody like the songs of birds in the morning. as the last raindrop fell, the stage was lit anew. the wind and water settled and the light of the dragoness warmed the world in a healthy glow.
Marathon
A wave of dissonance crashed over the formerly svelte cheetah. understanding the message entirely, even though he'd never used discord before, nor been in a "scrim".
First Fatality And Funeral
All the wolves threw back their heads, and howled, not the usual dissonant sound of the hunting wolf, but a harmonic sound, as if from one voice. fleetstrike was silent. riverwood's body burst into flame.
Ketos and the Leviathan
Though i recall hearing once the erotic poetry of dolphins, of porpoises, and even the caesural verse of sharks... all of these are dissonant muddles now, to me mere noise, and the same to all of us. they were not then.
The Fractal Paw
It was a subtle buzzing at first that went along with the speed of the fractal, but was now growing quickly into a painful cacophony of noises, clicks, harmonies and dissonance. "what's happening?! what the hell is this thing!?"
Micro Rights
The dissonance between the lan i knew as my friend and the squirrel who looked down on his two pets as so far below him that they were things to be 'broken' sometimes left me listless and afraid for my own safety. what would happen if lan ever found out?
Surface (Chapter 13)
Boko had exchanged friendly greetings with his new co-workers, and by then klein had begun making a semi-conscious effort to keep his own cognitive dissonance mechanisms running well enough not to have been asking himself too many questions about why they'd
The Pillow Book of Sethira: Prologue and Translator's Note
She continued, "the difference between the translations should be dissonant. i'd adore anything that would cause discourse and argument." "so people can disagree about the true message of sethira and fight each other over it?"
The Dragon's Bard - Chapter 5
As it hit the floor, it played a very dissonant sound. not only was the whole crowd laughing and booing at him, but more rotten food was coming at him. ildarg did the only logical thing: exit, leaving the lute behind, abandoned. "ildarg!"
Floraverse Fic: Silent Rabbat
There in that world, bale had heard nothing, but the occasional dissonant sound of static that seemed to interrupt the steady silence.
Rumination
In a world of seven billion-some humans, let alone all the hungry bugs and pathogens feasting for your flesh, it's nice to remember that there's that many entities working with dissonant values, against your immediate interests--the house, as it were.