There are no windows in his private chambers, the sunlight of the hall traveling no further than the doorstop but he does not hesitate as he steps into the awaiting dark. He lets the heavy oak door swing shut under its own weight, groaning softly on its hinges before the lock clicks quietly home, his smile a honey tinted glinting as his teeth catch ( Read more... )

Time ( Read more... )

Benedict wakes from dreamless sleep ( Read more... )

The Crypt King's cold halls echo with betrayal.
He sees it now - all of it; the roads and crossings and turn backs that had brought him to this ending. The signs he had ignored, the ones that had been hidden from him, and the ones he had misinterpreted as a result.

And at the heart of it all, Cressida's mocking smile burned bright.
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Abbadon recoiled, startled fingers tracing the razor fine slices that had shredded the flesh of his cheek nearly to the bone. It had been dumb luck that kept his single remaining eye intact, the rusty copper organ held wide now in shock with realization. Cressida had been waiting for him; this whole time, that golden eyed cur had been waiting, ( Read more... )

( Cressida to Ko )

“What is this impertinence?!”Had silence not already fallen in the ballroom, Abbadon’s snarl would have brought a quick end to whatever merriment had been in progress. As it was, every demon and spirit currently in the softly glittering room had fallen into startled and bristling silence the moment the four harbingers had stepped through the ( Read more... )

Benedict frowned as he felt the first stirrings of a very familiar blood lust, the sensation like cinnamon on the back of his tongue - spiced, sweet, and itchy. There was only one creature in all of the eons to have passed or to come whose violence had ever tasted so delicious to him.

( Cressida. )

"What schemes are rattling around in that head of yours now? I have never seen you so careless ( Read more... )

Entwild
Nocturne!AU - Benedict, Cressida, Hati & Skoll, Aubrey (Method)
Summary - Aubrey, the Chandric Fire Mage, hooks up with the mercenary twins, Hati and Skoll, by chance, and realize all that they can accomplish as a team, including putting the once and forever King Benedict on the throne and giving Entwild back its teeth.

Everything ( Read more... )