Category: Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage
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Dance, Monkey
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “We are all of us questions, and the world fashions more of us every moment. I implore you to answer a question with another question whenever it’s within your power. Why? Because sapience is about progression, and while growth can occur without ambition or drive, it’s no comparison to…
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Sovereigns Make Gold
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “The last and most deplorable betrayal is to face a person you call friend for a final time, bearing a hard and caustic truth – then tell them a comforting lie instead.” -Inscription on the front of the Scule building, at the Kinsmen College of Information-Integrity Preservation The suns…
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Abrupt Familiarity
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “Don’t despair, little one! My hand, it is very keen – and I shall cut you from the beast’s belly. However… I will need your foot as payment.” -GedGetKroDra the Sword Hand, in The Child Twice Lost Poking a drunk with a stick was asking for trouble. Walking the…
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Skin Under Words
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “Proximal penitents you adore / distal denizens we do implore. / Now let us dig deep to find once more / what once wide our war asunder tore.” -Leigh Coriban, All Fallen Laws of Seeking Siren Pyres The inherent concept of “wonder” has always been a bit challenging to…
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Intermission: Ships in the Night
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage The art of comedy. Within a restaurant of middling quality, one woman rhythmically rocked her leg in an out-of-the-way seating, keeping time with the drums. Lights spritzed the mossy dark walls around her with a dreamy cozy air. Socially acceptable scents sliced the place up into cliques, while the…
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Saddle the Steeds
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “When you have the luxury of enemies, the second wisest thing is to be in constant preparation for conflict. Saddle the steeds so a moment’s notice is sufficient to depart for a battlefield. The wisest thing, of course, is to soundly trounce your foes immediately after you arrive.” -Yrdkish…
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D’artagnan
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “Guns are toys which don’t surprise you when they prove to be dangerous.” -Ord fregnost proverb She measured the distance between the little holes in the flat surface of scrap wood. A pretty consistent level of accuracy, all told. With how far she was shooting, that was both extremely…
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The Ground Will Be Waiting
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “Why bother learning the history of a nation, when one can see how it will grow by looking at the land on which it is seeded?” -Imhaín Scunesagh, We All Know Someone Who Is a King The sound of a beautifully made cup filling up yet again jabbed at…
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Futures Minus Comeuppance
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage “I hate the obligation to be mature.” “Well, I hate hearing other people gripe about what ails them, and yet here we are.” -Tol and Absalom Greeph, The Mind’s Doors Use Bodies As Locks, Act II The smells were sharp, the sounds felt like they could cause an echo…
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Intermission: Heisting a Soldier
<< Revenant Faith and Foreign Pilgrimage Sginer asked his ancestors to watch over him, then donned the necklace. There were deeds to do. He had help in the form of four assistants. This was good, because it wasn’t such a great number that their gathering might draw attention, and it wasn’t so small that he…