Adventures in Time, Space, Life and Death
No matter how many times my brothers tell me otherwise, I always feel that, deep down, today will be a bad day. I should probably start from the beginning. I am a K-Class Ksa, a member of an elite winged team of Threan-type Rethans designed and trained from birth to do one thing – protect … Read more
Tenuk stood by the water’s edge, watching as souls drifted down the shallow, glittering river. The sky was slowly turning from a light pink to a deep, dark navy blue, but there were no stars in the sky. “Hiya, Tenypoo!” Death leaped out of a nearby bush riding on the back of one of her … Read more
This was supposedly the afterlife. Heaven. The shores of Kinigi, to go by its proper name. It didn’t look like anything Tenuk expected. No fluffy clouds or little angelic thropes… humans with wings, nothing like that. He was standing in about 20cm of water, in a lake or ocean that stretched on forever to his … Read more
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“I’m going to find him.” Retvik glared at Tenuk. The Ethran-type had been gone for five hours, and now he’d reappeared in an insane getup, spouting nonsense. “You’re going to do what?” “I will find Arkay and bring him back.” Tenuk stood in the doorway, wearing a really bad-ass set of armour and carrying a … Read more
For some reason, Arkay was still alive. He’d managed to free himself from the collapsing rubble, the remains of the golden islands and black floating platforms. It was all now just floating in an endless sea of space and stars. There was just enough air for Arkay to breathe. A thin, slightly sticky air, but … Read more
I watch as the Cassids all skitter around, gathering everyone up, applying medical aid where needed, overall just being little busy bodies. The Rethans around here are much calmer, but still rushing around and getting things done. There’s been nothing but bad news. Most of us are critically injured. Cuts, bruises, broken bones, stab wounds. … Read more
I regain consciousness only to find that I am upside down. I panic slightly but quickly calm down when I realise that Galazin is carrying me. “Move!” Beings are shouting and screaming everywhere. I blink a couple of times and try and work out what is going on. Everything is shaking and falling. The ground … Read more
Tears are dripping on me. Galazin is weeping. To my side lies the severed arm of his little brother Kitrin. Where the rest of Kitrin is, we do not know. Galazin’s whimpering isn’t the only sound we can hear though. Outside, a battle is raging. Everyone must have seen what happened, or at least worked … Read more
We’ve been hanging here for hours. Galazin is unwilling to do anything. He won’t touch me in any way. I don’t blame him. He’s kept his tail tucked away and out of my sight. “Maybe you are more mortal than I believed? Or perhaps more Deitic?” Stasis’s voice comes from everywhere and nowhere at the … Read more
The local Thanatians seem uncertain of my presence. My very being here is scaring them, for reasons I do not understand. But my quest has been long in spite of my new powers. Thankfully, it is coming to an end. “Where is Psivee-En?” I ask as calmly as possible. My voice lingers in the air … Read more
Galazin and I are chained up in perhaps the most awkward way possible. I’m chained to the ground, with both my arms and my legs apart, and my neck held in place so I can only look directly at Galazin. The poor Tavran is in a much harsher position, his arms chained behind his back … Read more
Stasis is observing everyone, but he is mostly watching me. When he pulled the four of us away, he wasn’t interested in Elksia or Arkay at all. Even Retvik and his unborn kid seemed to do nothing to pique his curiosity. He measured every part of me. Was sizing me up. Stasis has something in … Read more
I watch as my friends mingle with the other races, being all friendly despite the fact that none of them want to be here. The feeling is mutual, the other beings don’t seem to like it in this cold, desolate place either. The Tavrans seem to live similar to us Rethans, but the Thropes are … Read more
“That’s the being who challenged us to come here, but what are they?” Steve Copakon, the leader of the Mech Slayers, a team of elite, mechanically and psionically enhanced humans dedicated to destroying both religious cults and the false gods they worship, was being overly cautious. The being that had asked them to come to … Read more