Tag: blood

Her hands went up to the doors, ready to throw them open, but there they stayed. She felt the grooves of the old wood, running a finger along one divot—half…

Some new distraction was wanted, she decided as she descended back into the crumbling keep. Down the spiral stair, she mused, her frown deepening with every step. Finally, lost in…

The last of the sun's light was gone now, and the brilliant colors were all subsumed into darkness. She sighed, her gaze traveling far away toward the black silhouettes of…

She tried to remember, as her eye followed one of the ant-like forms below, whether it was the foolish tinker who'd taken a wrong turn one stormy night, or perhaps…

Yes, she realized. In some sense, she longed for Death. The revelation struck her like a blow upon that windy turret, and the vampiress froze where she stood as the…

The grey and darkening skies, still bleeding in vivid velvet above the hills which stood like megalithic sentinels over the once bright sun, like grave-stones over the dead light, stretched…