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Ibai pulled Asad through the hole in space and, with a great crack, relocated the man inside the northern wall.
The tattooed man and the wall competed for existence. And the wall lost.
Asad’s tattoos burned fiercely golden, enhancing the surly look in his similarly yellow eyes and illuminating Ibai’s gaping face as he fled into another teleport.
Ibai reappeared next to his father. “Okay,” he said, watching the Lord Najir step from the crumbling wall unscathed, “I may have miscalculated that one.”
Ismael grabbed his son’s arm. “How did you--?! Agh, it doesn’t matter! Just leave! These people will kill you!”
“Eh, I don’t know, Papa. I’m pretty tough to kill.”
“Ibai!”
Asad interjected with two voices as well. “Did that aberration just call you ‘Papa’?”
Ismael placed himself in front of Ibai. “Stay away from him!”
And even though Ibai was interested in their conversation, he couldn’t help noticing the thunderous clash between Xuan and Melchor on the other side of the room. He stared with wide eyes and a wider grin as each attack made the castle shiver. “So this was where the quakes were coming from!”
A glass prison brought Ibai’s attention back to his father and Asad. Ismael was already bashing it down with burning fists. Ibai figured he should just teleport everyone out, but then he noticed that Emiliana was missing.
The girl was with Asad and Hector now. And she was yelling something at them that Ibai couldn’t hear over all the mayhem. He could, however, hear Chergoa speaking up, as the reaper still remained in Ibai’s grasp.
‘If you are Ibai’s father,’ she said, ‘then you must be an important member of House Blackburn.’
Ismael merely ignored her and pulled Ibai toward the door, but the reaper wasn’t done.
‘If I promise to support you in protecting Ibai, will you agree to a temporary ceasefire?’
That made Ismael acknowledge her, at least. “Why would you possibly do that?!”
‘I doubt I can make you understand right now,’ said Chergoa. ‘But I am a member of House Elroy, and I am giving you my word. If you are still a true Rainlord, like I believe you are, then you know that I will honor my promise.’
Her words stopped the Lord of House Blackburn in his tracks. The man stared at her hard, then at Asad, whose attacks had noticeably stopped.
‘Please,’ said Chergoa. ‘I’m only asking for a ceasefire. Not your surrender.’
A dark serial novel. Set in a modern fantasy world called Eleg. Mature language. Updates every night at midnight PST by ~400 words.
please accept it, oh god please.....
ReplyDeleteWHY MR. FROST WHY? OH GOD THE CLIFFHANGERS.
ReplyDeleteI want Ibai, Hector, and Colt to become poor-mental-health best friends now.
Who's perspective is this from?
ReplyDeleteI dun think they would know hector's name.
Ibai i think, i believe that is a mistake that he knows hector's name.
ReplyDeleteHe also doesn't know Asad's name, either. But there are so many characters present that I think it'd be needlessly confusing to suddenly stop using their names. The readers already know them all, anyway.
ReplyDeleteThird person omniscient, presented as shifting third person limited with some liberties taken.
ReplyDeleteEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. I'M GONNA HYPERVENTILATE.
ReplyDeleteIt would be better if you use a nickname to them giving by Ibai, like 'The man with a tattoo for Asad, and the man in an armor for Hector'.
ReplyDeleteAlso, this line is really cool:
ReplyDeleteThe tattooed man and the wall competed for existence. And the wall lost.
SO cool.
I wonder if its possible that a mutation user can actually extract a aberrations power to turn it into a reaper.
ReplyDeleteNo way, I knew you were going to say that.
ReplyDeleteThen get a ice cream sandwich.
ReplyDeleteI really want the next page.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the hard work so far.
Ibai may be invaluable to the good guys, because not only is he a (mostly) good aberration, he also has the ability, as so far revealed completely unique to him, to see the void. With his power to help them, Vanguard may be able to understand and perhaps even affect the void, maybe giving them a way to rob evil aberrations of their power.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I think that the personality of aberrations may somehow relate to the lack of physical desires the reaper felt before being implanted. Notice how except for their curiosity about pain, which is likely just because of the sheer novelty of things that can pierce their shadow, their interests have very little to do with the physical. I think they may develop the shadow because the reaper's soul isn't properly attached to the body, which probably also relates to the way that they aren't influenced by brain chemistry like normal people are. I think cognitive functions are performed largely by the brain, but the personality works from the shadow, and without the lifetime habits (like compassion) that a reaper would build up, they have no anchor to their personality.
A perfectly acceptable and time-honoured necessary weasel, that. :)
ReplyDeletereminds me of the Chuck Norris jokes
ReplyDeleteIf Ibai wants an Adventure, GO WITH HECTOR!!!
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