A Long, Dark road (part 2)
I've never been a fan of the living; I much prefer the company of the dead. - Fenris Skjoll Varg sat at the edge of their camp, working a needle and thread through the bloodied flesh of his left forearm, working to close the wound with the...
A Long, Dark Road (Part 6)
Friends? Friends are for fools too weak to stand on their own. I have no friends, only servants and slaves. -Morgana La Fey The two travellers stood underneath the midnight shade of the graveyard, the church of long forgotten gods standing guard...
A Long, Dark Road (Part 8)
Skjoll is a rare variety of man: he has more power than any mortal could dream to have, and doesn't wish for more; he could enslave all the world with nothing more than his fingertips, yet he wants nothing more than to live peacefully. It is admirable,...
A Long, Dark Road (Part 7)
I have no disillusions as to my station. I am neither god nor devil, not good or evil; I am merely a man, and a pitiful one at that. -Fenris Skjoll The pair where silent as they ascended the mountain trail, only the crunch of snow and ice beneath...
A Long, Dark Road 14
I never believed in the crusade. I never believed in the very 'freedom' I helped them preach. I believed in him. -Fenris Skjoll Varg's cell was far from the nicest accommodations in the fortress. He knew from occasional deployments to the fortress...
Vagabond (Part 5)
Piro IV was an odd duck to be sure. It was a small planetoid, several degrees smaller than the moon we had just left, named for being the fourth orbiting body discovered in the system. It was the only real place of note in the system, with the rest...
A Long, Dark Road (Part 12)
Morgana will turn on us one day, of that I have no doubt. When that time comes, we shall either confront her, and wipe her away like dust before the sea, or have the same done to us. I would deserve it. But who can blame a madwoman for their madness? ...
A Long, Dark Road (Part 11)
Fenris? I don't fear him, not in the slightest. He may be powerful, but he is as weak willed as they come, and when the time for my revolution comes, he will either bow before me, or burn beneath my heel. -Morgana La Fey Aric never departed from his...
A Long, Dark Road (Part 10)
To break a man is easy. One only needs the time and the will. Fixing a broken man... now that is another thing entirely. -Damien Malcus They ran for hours, stopping only to lay false trails and fight through what few guards thought to stop them....
A Long, Dark Road (Part 9)
I spoke to Fenris of his demons, once. He said little of it, and seemed glad I was willing to drop the subject. He may hide it well, but he is afraid of the things beyond the veil. His fear alone scares me more than anything else in this world. ...