Christopher Jackson
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The Lady’s Cathedral was changed, but some things did not change. There was a lot more white now, of course, and a holy air of peace and serenity that was not shot through with lies and sanctimonious men preaching about the folly of sins they indulged in shamelessly. Still, there were pews, and there was an altar (although the ancient one he knew was not in this chapel any more) and could that be the same pipe organ after all these years? He looked about, and approved of the changes even as he…-
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“Ye little scamp, ye just want me to take ye t’ town so’s ye can ogle the new dresses at Cannock’s...” He touched the edge of her jawbone, cracked by heat and time and final screams. “Och, of course Tommy O’Reilly pulled yer pigtails. They be made fer pullin’, no?” “Ice cream! Do I be made of money for ye?” “Manure be the food of the land. If ye think it stinks, don’t eat from the garden!” He paused as a footbone caressed his fingers, and another red tear joined the ones…
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His hands creaked on the wheel, and he didn’t know how long he sat there, feeling the emotions roiling through him, remembering the voices he’d never hear again, and the screams that were the last of them. Amaretta sat next to him, feeling the waves rising off him, old and primal. They set off half-shadows of memories of her own, the sudden face of her mother rising in front of her so clearly she caught her breath to see it, and all the fear and despair of those years of running and fleeing. Unlike…
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============== “You look like you’ve been smacked in the face with a big mackerel, Uncle,” I offered cordially. Ireland’s favored redheaded son, Sean Highsun, The Sun of Ireland, looked up at me up there on my distinctly non-orthodox horned flaming skeletal monstrosity of a Mount, trying to keep the odd look off his face and failing. “Did ye put him up to that?” he had to ask me, knowing I knew The Mick after I had come riding here in his pimpmobile. “Came right out of left field,” I…
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“” The Hag gawked as Sama slammed full into her, just as my full Sama had noticed that extreme display of My The malformed Hag screamed in rage as her way out evaporated, whatever she was trying to do. Four serrated tentacles whipped out like steel cables, and sent Sama flying. Sama’s feet promptly glowed, inertia vented in This time it was a full load-out of Thunder Sang with us. The Heavens lit up in three spectrums, and for a moment, you couldn’t even see the Haze above. 23 And…
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The cry didn’t come through my Mark, it came through my Allegiance /tell, and I shifted into high gear the instant I heard it. -Location!- and it came as I was gesturing, VERY high-speed, high-end thoughts from Sama... Her Marklink wasn’t working! THERE... a hundred miles from my nearest Lived-Line, all the way around the world in India. Something was attacking her with terrific speed and force, coming out of nowhere. Her Soak was already gone, and it was shredding her flesh... Pop,…
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“Give it a spine.” They all turned as Traveler descended from above calmly, and even the shoggoth was turning nine eyes on her. “You’ve given it organic structure, not a firm structure it can cling to, which can purify it and remove the unnaturalness of its origin. The vivus is soothing it, the Life Spiral in the blood is giving it guidance. Give it something firm to hold onto, as Briggs considered that, and raised an eyebrow as a narrow grey tendril extended tentatively, and touched the head…
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It surprised me, given his personality, and yet it didn’t. He was without any doubt the single most formidable Blooded on the planet. His whole life had been about defying his elders, their unclean ‘immortality’ as undead, and now he was going to defy But he couldn’t do it in America. That wasn’t his land, the soil he’d been born of, the soil of his youth, where he had lost all that he loved. I’d read his file, of course. Heavenbound Hall had certainly investigated him, and even if most of…
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========== I had plenty of experience inherited and my own acting as a Support Caster. I was up in the sky, invisible, totally unconcerned that there’d be any flying parties at this point. I still had Briggs didn’t pause in his deployment orders, getting people into position, but his eyes narrowed as the creature flowing through the water, hidden by the presence of the krakens, suddenly popped up in my feed. There was a shoggoth here! It was doubtless being Dominated by the krakens via some unholy…
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The Mick smoothly dropped off Fire and Flame, who rapidly headed for the small church to Aru that serviced the community, where several dozen people with weapons ready had gathered to defend Labasheeda. There was also the small problems of the outsiders to scan, and probably to put down violently. The small hotel was going to get leveled, more than likely, but it could be rebuilt. I glanced off ahead of us, where Legion and Azaia were pulling onto ground in Foynes and Legion had popped up the The…
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