Stories tagged “spirits”
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Challenge
He appeared in the mist. Nothing was to be seen, only gray liquid-like mist. A first real challenge, huh? He felt a spirit about fifty meters behind him, but he did not feel good enough in this new realm yet. He was not used to hovering in the real wor...
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The March of the Dead
It was midnight, and the moon was a pale disc in the clear night sky. From the edge of the forest a funeral procession appeared, led by an ashen-faced cleric of some long-forgotten order of faith. Iwata crouched behind a stump on the top of a nearby hi...
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Spirits of remorse
A chime. A sharp, unfettered sound coursing through the speckled leaves of autumn trees made him pause. Warily he turned. Watched. A chime. A second, deeper sound cut through the first, slicing deep into soil and undergrowth like a new honed plow. A ch...
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Nothing for Nothing
That stopped me in my tracks. My Sword? The blade I carried, I had earned, but it wasn’t anything special. It was a sword, a tool of violence. A specialized tool, and one I used as well as any craftsman but a tool non-the-less. Still it was mine ...
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I See You.
I can see them in the mirrors. They hover behind me. Their faces are smeared with blood, they weep blood with their empty holes for eyes. They tear their hair out, pulling out their scalp and leaving tracks of it on the floor. I can’t sleep, I se...