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Premonition – Hunted The capital was besieged, there was no doubt about that. The Seraphim came under the cover of darkness, and they were ruthless in their conquest. They set everything they saw ablaze. Homes, shops, barracks, it didn't matter to them. They slaughtered anyone they thought stood in their way. Women, children and all. All were considered enemies and were dealt with accordingly. Aion could hardly look at the horizon from the castle. The flames from the homes of the innocent painted the otherwise black night a bright red. He heard the screams of the innocent as if they were right next to him. He barely kept his composu

“Praise be to King Aion.” Eliwood offered his respect to the king. “Or, rather, to my ancestors who made my ascension possible.” Eliwood was taken aback by Aion's response. Was he not a lord, like Uther of his own home? “I understand you are a foreigner, therefore I can excuse your lack of knowledge of our culture.” Aion continued to subtly chastise his guest. “But understand that here, in Skovas, all men and women, even those who appear before a king, are asked not to kneel, but to stand when addressing others, especially their superiors. You are human, much like I. Address me as your equal.”

The Girl in White, she came to me, On a cold and dreary day, My eyes were stained with tears, Alone on the ground I lay My wounds were all but mortal, My spirit, flayed and reaved, I was thrown into this darkness, And was left here to bleed. I was plotted against and betrayed, By those I once called “friend”, They were satisfied with their work, And hoped I'd meet my end. I was certain that I'd die there, Alone and left for dead, Into pain I had been tricked, Into darkness I had been led. But in front of me stood a light, The likes of which I hadn't yet seen, And I was certain that it wasn't real, It seemed to be a dream. The

What does it mean to live by chance? Does it mean to live in complete recklessness, putting survival second on your priority list in the heat of the moment? In some instances, yes. But we don't mind. We are not bound by your laws and boundaries that keep you safe. Ha. Safety. That's a funny word. Tell me, what is safety to a gambler? We're not necessarily the gamblers that you know best, the ones that piss away their coin at a house of ill repute only to come back and do it again the next night. No, we gamble with a more precious resource. Our lives, our safety... they matter not to us. We live by the sides of a coin, and we let that dete

He won't survive the night, they said. He is surely a dead man. To be plagued with a mind like his, Endure it, no man can. They thought me a walking corpse, A tormented soul aching to leave This wretched form that entraps me, This mind that can only reave. But did they also see a warrior, Standing triumphantly, Against the demons that plagued my soul And dared to challenge me? Did they think that I would find A way to rise again? Or did they think that when the morning came, I would be gone by then? Those bastards counted me dead, before I had a chance to fight, And they were relieved at the notion, Their backs feeling light. But here I

They told her she'd never amount to anything. Every day, she would battle with herself, trying to convince herself that she was better than what these demons were telling her she was. After all, what the hell were they to her? Little does she know, the power of the God she serves so fervently far outmatches everything these creatures can do to her. Perhaps they are strong. Perhaps they'll leave their marks on her. But she is so much stronger than they are. She is a harbinger of better things beyond the depths of darkness. She is a living message to all those engulfed by the black: that there's hope, a light at the end of the tunnel that isn

Zagara never enjoyed the fact that her headquarters was so far away from any sort of border of influence. It made sense to her, yes; if Osiris, Vermithrax or Atrenu were to attack, she could react quickly to the threat without the capital being put at too much risk. But she never liked safety. As a child, she craved adrenaline. Her recklessness almost took her life from her much too soon. That mattered not to her. In spite of that, she continued her thrill-seeking, no matter the cost.  Even now, she wanted nothing more than to jump into the heat of battle with her soldiers, fighting against the tyranny of the other guilds of Au'Tur. She could

The Guard omitted such terms as “discreet” and “subtlety”, didn’t they? Many soldiers of the Aetherian Guard were asking themselves that very question today. Expedition Force Phoenix-6 was a legendary force, the best in their class, if not the entirety of the Aetherian Guard. They had accomplished several feats in the inevitable conflict between themselves and the New Templar. Seventy-five raids, it was said, as well as ten enemy outposts crushed, and another five started for the AG. And yet, they'd been ambushed and completely destroyed. This news brought great distress to every several Guardsman. No, more th