Tag: fantasy
Could it be?
A place far, far away Is there a place, somewhere far beyond our power to understand, where someone finally got it right? Did eons of trial and error, defeat and disappointment in the end bear fruit? Maybe we’re not alone, but one of many elegant failures, teeming with lessons to be learned, subject to inquiry; no blame, […]
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Chapter 37: The Great Annex
Last Chapter of the Light-Father; the last battle where the Azrael takes physical form and Schimrian receives the immortality he had always craved but at a terrible price… Harold retreated through the entrance to the Great Annex and was almost blinded by the brilliant illumination within. He could not pause to appreciate the stark contrast between the Gothic nave […]
» Read moreChapter 36: Four Battles
Chapter 36 of the Light-Father: The three-pronged assault upon the Great Cathedral is in full swing and Harold’s Army get the upper hand at first in the Four Battles remembered in saga and in song for many generations… Camus emerged from the dormitory along with two Fathers and thirty Brothers at the sound of the explosions. He saw […]
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Chapter 35 of the Light-Father: Harold’s Army launch their suicidal attack and Harold finally confronts Schimrian and Pious in the Great Cathedral itself… “Fern, what the hell is Ivy doing?” Harold whispered urgently as the four Ferals slowly ascended the ivy that smothered the ancient stonework of the tower. There were no trees at the base and the Wiccan was […]
» Read moreChapter 34: Convergence
Chapter 34 of The Light-Father – The Phoenix halts near the Great Abbey as Fern and the Mothers fend off Pious and the Angels with their illusion magic. Harold reluctantly plans their attack on the Stronghold of an Order that has wiped out humanity… “Ow-uh! The sun is burning my face,” Fierce grumbled as the Phoenix rattled on through the […]
» Read moreChapter 33: Angels and Illusions
Chapter 33 of the Light-Father: Pious and his Angels close in for the kill as the Phoenix reaches the centre of sprawling Beorminghas; the City of Towers. Shield finally releases her full power and fears losing the love that Saul reveals for her. “Bede Angel Two, this is Bede Angel Six: we’ve sighted the train on the main line […]
» Read moreChapter 32: Ambush
Chapter 32 of The Light-Father: the Phoenix leaves the railyard to take to rails neglected during six years of ceaseless rain. Luck is with them as fogs form but as they reach Beorminghas, the City of Towers, their luck runs out… “Damn, I forgot to test the release,” Harold muttered as he reset the brake control. “Without a vacuum in […]
» Read moreChapter 31: Pious Returns
Chapter 31 of the Light Father: Abbot Pious, the cruellest of Schimrian’s many Inquisitors returns to Britannia to hunt down Harold and the Scatterlings Blazing sunshine raked the tarmac and the concrete runways at Bede Airport as the storm-line moved away slowly northwards. Wisps of steam rose up from the super-saturated ground as it was heated directly by the sun […]
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