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THE OBSIDIAN MARCH
"Get behind that boulder, Valis," I growled, my hand whitening on the leather grip of my shortsword as we crouched in the shadow of a cracked granite ridge."Dad, look at them," Valis whimpered, her voice trembling with a mixture of raw horror and rising fury as she watched a line of exhausted nomadic prisoners shuffling through the purple dust. "They have iron collars chained around their necks! They're forcing them to mine the glass by hand!""They're using them as living batteries for the core," Miller muttered, leaning his shoulder heavily against the rock, his splinted leg propped out at a awkward angle. "The glass drains their breath while they work. Two months of that, and there won't be anything left of those people but dry skin and hollow eyes."A sharp, metallic click rang out directly behind my ear."Don't move, northern dogs," a harsh, raspy voice hissed from the dark brush behind us. "One twitch, and my bone bow sends an arrow straight through your spine."I slowly raised
THE MAW OF THE CANYON
"Don't move," I breathed, my voice barely a thread of sound as I shoved Valis behind my back and braced my boots against the wet river stones. "Neither of you breathe.""Harrison, that thing is forty feet long," Miller whispered, his teeth chattering uncontrollably as he dragged his shattered leg inch by painful inch behind a granite boulder. "It's corrupted by the core. It smells the kinetic light on the kid.""I can hide it!" Valis gasped, pulling her cloak tight around her chest, her violet eyes wide with absolute horror as the water bulged upward. "Dad, it's looking right at us!"The river erupted.A colossal, snake-like beast crested the black water, its scales jagged plates of fused purple glass, its maw opening wide to reveal rows of translucent, razor-sharp fangs. A sickening, metallic screech tore from its throat, shaking the canyon walls so violently that loose shale rained down on our heads."Run!" I roared, drawing my sword and stepping directly into the freezing surf. "Va
UNCHARTED WATERS
"He's breathing, Miller! He's breathing!" Valis's frantic voice cracked through the dark, cold fog clinging to the riverbank."Get his head up!" Miller panted, the wet gravel crunching violently as he dragged his useless, shattered leg across the sharp river stones. "Turn him on his side before he chokes on the river water!"I coughed hard, a terrifying surge of freezing water and black blood erupting from my lungs as I rolled onto my stomach. My chest flared with a blinding, white-hot agony that ripped a raw, ragged scream straight out of my throat."Dad! Stay still! Please, Dad, stay still!" Valis sobbed, her freezing hands cupping my face, her tears splashing hot against my mud-caked cheeks."Valis..." I rasped, my vision swimming in dark purple spots as I tried to force my eyes open. "Miller... did you... are you safe?""We're down in the canyon floor, you idiot," Miller wept openly, his broad shoulders shaking as he collapsed onto the stones beside my head, his fingers digging in
THE SHATTERED BRIDGE
"I have you!" I roared, my hands frantically tearing through the thick soot until my fingers locked around Valis's wrist, pulling her close into my chest as we crashed through the rotting timber floor into the muddy drainage tunnel below."Harrison! Down here!" Miller's voice echoed through the choking smoke, his heavy frame landing with a sickening, wet thud against the wet stone floor."Are you hit?" I gasped, coughing up black ash as I scrambled to my feet, shielding Valis with my body while the ceiling above us caved in, burying Corvus's safehouse in a mountain of burning rubble and purple sparks."My knee is torqued," Miller groaned, spitting blood into the muck as he forced his bad leg beneath him, his face twisted in a silent, horrific grimace. "We have to move! They're coming down the street!""Dad, look out!" Valis screamed, her hands glowing with a soft, urgent burst of white light that illuminated the tunnel exit ahead.Hoofbeats thundered against the cobblestones directly
SHADOWS OF THE SENATE
"Close the door, Miller," I whispered, my thumb tracing the sharp, cold edges of the dragon signet ring as the carriage rattled into the muddy outskirts of Oakhaven. "Close it now.""Harrison, your hands are shaking," Miller said quietly, leaning his heavy forearms against his knees as he watched me. "If Marcus turned on us, if he gave your old journals to Vane...""Marcus didn't turn," I cut him off, though the words tasted like iron and ash in my mouth. "He couldn't have. He bled right beside us in the trenches, Miller! He watched Valerie die! He wouldn't sell out everything we built just for a silver crown!""Then explain the ring!" Miller shouted, his voice cracking with a fierce, terrified anger that made the horses outside nickering in distress. "That ring didn't drop out of the sky, Harrison! It came straight off the finger of a cult leader who had your exact tactical notes!""I can't explain it!" I yelled back, slamming my fist against the wooden carriage wall so hard the timb
THE BLOOD GLASS CULT
"Stay under the axle!" I roared, dragging Valis deeper beneath the heavy wooden carriage frame as razor-sharp glass splinters rained down around us like frozen hail."Harrison, three o'clock!" Miller yelled, his voice strained as he rolled behind a flat granite boulder, his iron-tipped walking stick striking the dirt hard as he drew his sidearm. "They're moving through the pine scrub! Fast!"A dark, hooded figure erupted from the brush, his face covered in jagged purple war paint, a curved glass sickle flashing under the pale moonlight as he lunged straight for Miller's blind side."Get off him!" I screamed, lunging out from under the wagon and driving my iron shortsword straight into the fanatic's ribs before his blade could touch Miller's neck.The cultist didn't even scream. He spat a mouthful of black, glass-tainted blood onto my forearm, his eyes burning with an unhinged, milky-purple glare as he collapsed onto the dry pine needles."Dad, behind you!" Valis shrieked from beneath
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