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“Do they ever stop aching?” It had been a week, putting up with the ever-present chill and throbbing where metal met flesh, dulled over and over by a constant diet of anticoagulants, anti-inflammatories and painkillers. He’d told her several times now that the pain would fade given enough time, but the chances of that were looking slimmer by the day. The same with everything else, of course - the anti-inflammatories would stop the moment her immune system stopped throwing up swelling around the injuries, their effects already telling and fading fast. The anticoagulants too would be removed, supposedly once the organic membra

There is no black and white, Only multitudinous shades of grey, In which we all reside. Knights alike, and dragons. For 'tis not the body which defines, Determines the right and wrong, But the mind and the will, And the cause and creed. For no angel or devil, No demon nor saint, Nor monster of any kind, May claim to hold the first stone. We, our purpose, is not chiselled, Not set in that same stone, Carved by the blade That only sees two sides of a coin. So I speak. To the dragon who sees the knight as a hero, The knight who sees the dragon's might, The princess who holds the sword, The trinity most unlikey, say the legends. They tell o

“So, any ideas what stopped the flow?” “Scouts have been coming back empty-handed – far as they can tell it’s just wasteland out there now.” All the sprawling slum and temporary shelters that stood beyond the gates of Tulis Mahk had just disappeared, packed up and left without warning. But it was nonsensical.  The city and its gates stood at the edge of the material world, the hub city where all souls had to come through before their life began. Countless descriptions of mortality brought countless souls through the gates on their way to the world as a whole, but the overwhelming numbers had necessitated a

[Automated Situation Report – Log 15783.234 : Response to request received. Prepared for transit to Tau Empire. Report logged by ‘Paper Moon’ Taskforce analysis drone 16. Numerous report modifications detected.] Military Command: Commander Farsight. Shas’o. Presiding Ethereal: Aun’Shi Campaign Classification: Twin Souls, D’Tol. Campaign Subdivision: Blind Hunt, Ol’Yeth. Operation: Phase 1. Combat units deployed: 50’000. Current Casualties: Approx. 20’000 (exact number still being calculated.) Progress: 67% Total Enemy Forces: Unknown. Total Enemy Landmass: Approx 90% total planetary land