The Last City (2012)
“He retreated into the shadows of his cage as far back as the shackles would allow. He’d worn the bindings for so long that skin and steel had fused into one. The torch flames, chained to the cave walls, quivered and flapped.
‘Show me what is to come.’ Ev’r Keets stood before him, not as herself, but as her ancestor, a dark-faced woman with glowing yellow-wolverine eyes and sharp carnivore teeth. She felt the child kicking inside her and she remembered her own baby’s kick, before the desert ...freaks had ripped the half-formed child from her body. The man extended a shaking chain-hand from the shadows and pointed behind Ev’r’s head. He whispered, ‘Imagine.’ Ev’r turned. The cave walls were no more. In their place stretched a land of darkness, of pitch-black silence, where nothing moved and nothing spoke. Where nothing lived. All was dust. Aquais was a corpse land battered by a howling wind. It swept along a symphony of screams, a chorus of cries from beneath the ground, from the pits of hell, where the chanting of demons trembled the foundations of earth itself.MoreLess
‘Show me what is to come.’ Ev’r Keets stood before him, not as herself, but as her ancestor, a dark-faced woman with glowing yellow-wolverine eyes and sharp carnivore teeth. She felt the child kicking inside her and she remembered her own baby’s kick, before the desert ...freaks had ripped the half-formed child from her body. The man extended a shaking chain-hand from the shadows and pointed behind Ev’r’s head. He whispered, ‘Imagine.’ Ev’r turned. The cave walls were no more. In their place stretched a land of darkness, of pitch-black silence, where nothing moved and nothing spoke. Where nothing lived. All was dust. Aquais was a corpse land battered by a howling wind. It swept along a symphony of screams, a chorus of cries from beneath the ground, from the pits of hell, where the chanting of demons trembled the foundations of earth itself.MoreLess
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