“God, shit, my hand’s really cramping up. What is this?” Down in the square, Vickie Beckett looked away from the commotion just beyond the balcony and to her limb again, turning it over. She picked at the black spot staining her thumb, and though it felt like fire being pulled away from fresh flesh, the […]
069. the picture was cruel
Kasse nodded to his mentor when all the locks had fallen away, ready to go in on his count.
068. they came from the north
Brint and his rabble of rowdy hooligans came from the north. It took an extra two hours to make their way around the city, but with the intel from the girl on the phone and all the work their 18Fs put into organizing their approach, this was arguably the better way. Lasandet spread out before […]
067. a faraway place to lay your dead
Kasse imagined it would be easy for the Lieutenant to find a new favorite soldier and simply forget the ghost he’d raised. Sure, he would think fondly of him from time to time, but the memory would fade until Kasse was nothing but an old man’s wartime fairy tale and a handful of ancient redbit […]
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The first person Eoran sought out when he returned to camp was Adrien. After changing back into his uniform, he searched around their conglomeration of trucks until he found the other engineering sergeant. “Hey,” he announced, “I… uh… kinda bled on your shirt, sorry. But I brought you back a rice ball to make up […]
065. cobra & mongoose
“I need help,” Eoran announced to the room, black eyes quickly rolling over the features of each face present—Dev, Locke, and St. Croix—softening, lingering when he landed last on Kasse. “I’m trying to get me and him out of here, but my contact wants to meet with me in the afternoon in Ara Veson and […]
064. coyote
The outside felt strange on him. Kasse had grown accustomed to the dark. He’d grown pale, grey eyes widened to tarpit pools trapping dim filaments, errant fireflies, dying embers. His fever still ran him hot but Losi’s midnight shroud had all but evaporated the coldsweat chill from his skin, leaving him with a quake in […]
063. everything hurts
“Do you think the squad would cover for me if I met up with this girl?” Eoran watched the way the light was distorted through their drab curtains, the way a thin line broke the hemmed edge of the hung blanket and danced on a far wall like a tease. Hours ago the hallway was […]
062. a halo of disgrace
ophidian Today at 10:23 AM Hey Is this really Riki?
061. unstrung [NSFW]
“—i-i love you,” he whispered into his hazy kiss, heady and agonized and distracted and feral, already trembling from the too-much in eo’s slow take. he ached from the pressure pent and stuck in all that want, buckled to the shyest perusal, crumbled under such gentle assault. he tilted his head back, sharp angle jaw […]