Desert earth cracks at her feet as she appears, at the base of a high outcropping of stone; all around her are pillars and heaps of barren rock, uninhabited by anything but lizards and scorpions, desolate under a pale moon.

Liar!She wheels around and slams one fist into the standing stone, crying out in a rage so hot and corrosive it feels like ( Read more... )

O come they told me...
It's hard to say just how news can travel this fast, among a widely scattered people who barely ever speak to one another.

Do you hear what I hear? Do you hear what I hear?Gods in this land live uneasily, cautious of each other's boundaries, wary of human sight. Some choose uninhabited regions to live in; there are still ( Read more... )

It's been ridiculously, maddeningly hot for the past two weeks, and even Loki's tricks can only do so much to cool down the shabby little apartment where they've been sleeping ( Read more... )

Kali wakes to sunlight on her closed eyelids. She stretches luxuriously without opening them, taking a moment to savor the pleasant lingering ache of last night's exertions -- both the battle, and what came almost immediately after.

That was, she has to admit, pretty unexpected. But there's some satisfaction -- all right, a lot of satisfaction ( Read more... )