"Life... Flesh is a twisted mass of worn and tough muscle. Touched lightly with gristle, fat, and lines of nervous tissue. The bone is tough. Calcified stones that frame the broken wreck."

"Veins and arteries sit like plump snakes. Hiding in their caves. Full of precious, life giving cargo. Tiny capillaries winding out like spiderwebs. "

"Brain ( Read more... )

Judith is unique to me. Without a doubt, perhaps the most constant force in my long life. Loyal but not dogged. Generous and yet not sacrificial. Not cruel and impossible to call kind.

In her youth she was hardly a paragon of the Spear. And tonight, perhaps even less so. And yet she has always been a force to be reckoned with. A monk without piety. ( Read more... )

Smug. That is the best word I think to describe him. It encapsulates him. It summarizes and explains him.  It gives him the image of power. That he has the ability to be smug despite his faults. He carries his power with him on his sleeve.

He is oh so very very smug.

And jealous.

And foolish.

And aggravating.

And intelligent.

And blasphemous.

And ( Read more... )

He moves like a predator. Clearly exalted in his form and function. A lord indeed.

I think he would resent me, if he gave me a second thought. He tries to care little, but a sliver of my vitae swimming around his soul changes that. He cannot help but think well of me now, and I think that bothers him more than anything else. He loathes being servant ( Read more... )

Judith's voice was even and well practiced. And she read from the books before her with a crisp practice. Absorbing chunks of text at a time and speaking the words with a poetic pace that never broke stride or disrupted the pattern of the text ( Read more... )

Marius drew his fingers slowly down the soft, smooth surface. Drinking in the sensation as it translated to him its texture and the infinitesimal details of its surface to him. Tiny imperfections and thousands of minute cracks ( Read more... )

Marius rests peacefully enough. Creatures of his age never move unless spurred by an outside force ( Read more... )