He watched the sun slip over the sands, leaving the world in a blanket of night and inviting the suffocating cold. He didn’t turn to spy the rising moon…the sliver that remained, heralding the coming of the new moon. The blindness was coming and yet, and yet he had not seen hide nor hair of Set ( Read more... )

She felt abandoned. She felt cooped up. She felt forgotten ( Read more... )

Ruina looked up at her mother, casually setting her shotgun (she decided to name him BILL!...it fit....the BILL!)... and toeing the ground ( Read more... )

Seth had an ice pack against the front of his head.

He felt like shit.

But the kind of shit you felt like when you'd just had the best fucking time of your life. Where everything had gone wonderfully, and insanely, and there it was.

The kind of shit you talked about for years, starting every story about it with "This one time, I was really ( Read more... )

Stone crackled first. Like an eggshell being pecked by the determination of the new life it could no longer contain. Puffs of dust began to steam out of the cracks as if forced. The stone began to regress, to become something lighter, wetter. It fell, like a slough of mud and there on pedestals, two of the manaie stood; less grim perhaps than when ( Read more... )

Ruina hadn't fired a gun before. In fact, it was very unlikely that she'd even seen one before, given her fascination over the one Holler was holding. That was...understandable, in some ways, considering how unlikely it was that an immortal born of two ancient deities should encounter much of the real world. However, the girl was destruction, and ( Read more... )

Holler wandered through the alien pantheon he'd arrived at. So, this was the home of the mighty Egyptian deities, hmm? How interesting, although he was surprised that none of the were around. He'd passed no other Gods on his travels around this place. Were they all in hiding? Perhaps ( Read more... )

After having commiserated in front of the Temple of War, two of Discord's daughters set about finding their brotherHope's determination was evident in her stride and the set of her jaw - a determination that masked a few misgivings about traipsing into unknown territory and looking for answers about Strife. It wasn't so much that she was worried ( Read more... )

After offering brief farewells to the crazy little Greek girl and the Northern white folks, Re put the still-paralyzed Ruina under his arm, gave Seth and Nephythys a look that dictated they should most definitely follow him, and stepped out the door, creating a direct portal to his own temple ( Read more... )

Re ran a hand over his bald head, looking hard at Nephythys. She'd just informed him that the Egyptian Underworld was currently being overrun with Greek souls. This was not to his liking. Not to his liking at all ( Read more... )