Flying just above the ground in the dark of night, Shax crossed back into Daruth on his way to the fort. Not satiated, but glad he had this outlet and that none had seen him.
Elias Black deftly jumped between rooftops as Daruth was being destroyed beneath him. An inexorable tide of the undead roiled throughout the city, driven by an unknown force. There seemed to be no end to the creatures, or the bedlam that...
The giant, green beam striking the earth gave the twilight a sickly, emerald pall. Its green glow bathed everyone, even the living, in a maladous, cancerous aura. Elias imagined he could feel that aura slowly draining his life away. He...
At a nearby table, three merchants, of Imperial stock, sat blankly staring into their untouched mugs of beer. They were alive, but they had the look of men who had lost everything.
Bored. So bored. Bored beyond hope. Bored to death. By the gods, Elias was bored.
He, the crazed knight Bastille, and the dragon-man Shax had been holed up in a safe-house for weeks. They were laying low...