After holding council with the Head Abbot, Michael spent the rest of the morning observing services in the chapel. Things were progressing as they should; the time was drawing very near now when he and the Host would seal the isle from all, rendering it a bastion against which evil would crash. His brothers were arriving; he would soon be giving ( Read more... )

Once Guriel is certain that Ben and Janni are settled in and has checked on Razas (who is holed up in the library, looking actually happy for once), he takes himself out to the wide-open spaces at the center of the island and takes to the air.

Guriel loves it here. He hasn't been back to the island in ages (1943 was the last time, if memory ( Read more... )

"For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together." The voice came from a place above, but no body yet in sight. "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken ( Read more... )