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The light streamed in through the window like shafts of pure gold. Illuminating the room with an almost too intense light, cascading over everything within it like waves from a yellow ocean, the sunlight brought hints of burnished orange and golden honey to everything that it touched. Light and airy already, with only one large bed, a bedside cabinet and a full length wooden-framed mirror to fill its space, the room had a sense of calm tranquillity about it. Motes of dust floated languidly in...

… before he realised what it was that he was actually doing, his finger squeezed. [ONE HOUR AGO] The bell above the door chimed out its ringing welcome, announcing to all that heard it that the shop had a customer. The noise from the busy street outside did its best to submerge the bell under its own cacophony of sounds … the March wind, sounding like a thousand asthmatics at a convention, blustering between the narrow buildings that tried to contain it; the rumble of diesel engines as they p...

Yesterday I could fly, I could soar, I could touch the sky. Today, though, is a different thing, I see no feathers, I have no wings. I am left with just sore arms.

Xxx Epilogue xxX A hand reached out through the darkness, the rest of the body shrouded in shadows that seemed to cling and surround the figure like a lover’s embrace. It was dry and cracked in places, the exposed skin covered in brown liver spots while the nails on each finger were jagged and broken with dirt visible underneath the yellowed keratin. A ring, the metal mottled with corruption so that what once may have been gold looked more like verdigris covered brass, rested on the index fin...

Xxx Chapter Seven xxX He should have been getting used to regaining consciousness by now, after getting so much experience over the last few days, but Nathaniel found it hard to open his eyes and focus. After a moments struggle he managed to lift his head up, slightly, and open his eyes. “Welcome back, lad,” Kel said, his face filling Nathaniel’s vision. “You had us worried there.” “We are Goran and k’Tasha?” Nathaniel asked, his thoughts clouded. “Did we win?” “Yes, we won,” Kel acknowledged...