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[Charloft Winter Bingo] Mass
Hector never missed an opportunity to attend a Catholic mass on Good Friday; it was a grim celebration of the death of a king - a giant crucifix on display, a god adorned with a crown of thorns, blood dripping in rivulets from his forehead. Thick nail wounds punctured the wrists and ankles, a ragged gouge in the ribs from the sharp end of a spear. ( Read more... ) -
[Charloft Winter Bingo] Icy Roads
Hector crouched in an alleyway near his home, his apprentice by his side. The ground beneath them was a sheet of ice; the alley didn’t receive enough foot traffic to have melted quite yet ( Read more... ) -
[Charloft Winter Bingo] Windy
Hector stood in place on a certain infamous corner in Greenwich Village, the scene of a recent death of a woman who’d been struck by a falling piece of plywood. The harsh wind had ripped the piece of wood free from a construction site, and it had in turn smacked into the victim, causing major head trauma and later, death. Hector turned his ( Read more... ) -
[Charloft Winter Bingo] Powder
Hector carefully arranged the tiny glass jars on the dining room table in front of Lacroix, a crumbled powder of bone dust in each one. The people that these bones had came from were long dead - save one, who’d merely had his arm amputated but was still alive to this day. The latter was meant as a bit of a challenge for Lacroix; the younger mage ( Read more... ) -
[Charloft Winter Bingo] Snowed In
Hector placed his cell phone down on his desk after ending his phone call - another real estate appointment cancelled. His apologetic agent was snowed in his house in one of the quieter suburbs outside the city. With the constant foot traffic outside his own home, Hector took for granted that some people were physically incapable of leaving their ( Read more... ) -
[Charloft Winter Bingo] Gift Exchange
[Sometime around Christmas 2014]"I’ve been working on this for quite some time," Hector explained, fetching the item from his library’s desk nearby, then holding out the shiny new camcorder for Corbin to take. The size was small enough to grasp with one hand, but large enough to carry with it an air of professionalism and quality; the base camera ( Read more... )