Original Fiction: Outlands - Sons of the Path, part 3

[maldoror_gw]

My sincerest apologies to anyone who was waiting for the next bit of Outlands. Life, as they say, happened. The toddler and the job are both very fun, frantic and fulfilling, and seem to have taken over that vein of creativity that used to drive me to write. I've not touched the word processor since I posted that last chapter, back in - ye gods,

Comments

[askerian]

Some of your italic tags are wonky. ^^;

Ryou also suspected that this notion of precise times of departures protected Passers from the hassle of impatient merchants and haughty nobles insisting they leave right now
XD I bet. Liked that explanation, how it's all shrouded in poetic "dawn this" but he can feel that's not the case and it's just common sense that they don't go at night. Bwee for Ryou developing his other sense. *__*

pronounced Periklan solemnly up ahead, a ritual many Passers skipped if they didn't have half-blood royalty traveling with them
*snerk*

Who the hell was pelting them with statues?!
This is halfway between suspicious and ridiculous...

Then the thing moved.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH D:

Darius ignored it as he crouched at Ryou's side.
XD he's so fucking badass. Just hammered a freaky stone creature into the ground and it's still moving, and here he goes, just being cool and unconcerned. Prrrt.

Ryou's steps slowed. He couldn't see anything, or feel anything ominous, but...Maybe he should have let Andrap take the lead after all.
"Go," said Darius calmly. He had his sword drawn, standing right next to Ryou, a rampart. Ryou took a deep breath as discreetly as he could, picking up the pace again.
... X3333 *shipship*

The ground crumbled beneath them, breaking apart as if the turf had been hiding a crevasse, and they dropped through it into a new landscape that was no longer Assyria.
-- OMG D;

yeah, that was a trap alright. Nnnngh. @__@ Oh man. Cue the scary music.

I liked Ryou taking over to lead the group there, and trying to feel what the other guy was doing to help (and not managing despite his potential. XD I liked that too.)