Arc 4: Grow Close

I watched Nell assist in putting out the fires on the roof of the building by creating ladders out of the trees that grew on the side of the building. The Gamblers had created a line to ferry buckets of water along from a nearby rainwater basin. Trails of smoke curled up into the sky […]

I waited for the world to stop spinning before I attempted to get up, planting my armored palms on the rooftop that emanated heat like we were inside an oven. Everything hurt. Bits of my armour fell away as I stood and dared to test my neck. Good, nothing broken. The Goblin watched me patiently

The Goblin stared at me expectantly, the rumbling noise filling the room like I was staring down a territorial lion. I glanced over to Flux’s crumpled form. There was a compulsion inside me not to make any sudden moves, lest I set him off somehow. I wet my lips and spoke, “I’ve never met you,

I could make out that it was a man and a woman that were standing near a concessions counter and there were line dividers between us, metal poles connected by ropes. The nasally voice laughed. “Damn, Feint. You knocked her out clean. Guess Witches aren’t so tough after all.” The woman who had just spoken

The impaled man’s eyes rolled back into his head and he went limp. Dead. “Ger,” Jessie said in disbelief. “Sniper!” Graham shouted, his voice jerking everyone back to the present danger. The Gambler’s Ring sprung into action, moving to take on their assailants. I grabbed Nell roughly and moved her out of the way as

The next day we met just outside of Old Town in a rarely used parking lot. The uneven asphalt now had cars parked haphazardly on it, seemingly with utter disregard for the faded lines. The group of people around the cars eyed us distrustfully as we approached. They were prepared for a fight. Some had

Graham listened as we filled him in on what we knew about Helen. That she had been Alek’s girlfriend and a Witch with the power to impersonate people and now she had gone missing, according to Alek. “It seems we need to have a chat with Alek,” he said. “His behaviour is getting more and

The gang climbed the stairs to the second floor of Henry’s barber shop. I spotted Graham’s wide frame out on the balcony, talking on the phone. Vanessa was lounging on the couch. The T.V. had something on but Vanessa was ignoring it in favor of her phone. “We’re back,” Terry said as he opened the

There’s a feeling I sometimes get when I forget that I’m choosing the lesser of two evils and I just think, I’ve made a terrible mistake. That thought played on repeat as I watched my silhouette fall in tandem with me in the reflection of the building I’d just leapt from. Silver walls and reflective

“What do you mean the jig is up? We just got in here,” I said, looking nervously out of the window. We were too high up for me to see the front entrance. I pulsed my sense of impending danger to Nell and immediately felt her respond in kind. “It could be nothing,” Terry said,