1. Zalan

    Private Ride or Die

    "Nine lives told me all the flame keepers were dead..." "More than one way to kill a thing," Zalan said, voice lined with a hurt that echoed through the ages. Time remembered in his spine. Through the coil spun about his fingertips. "Not that I went and did much to keep it alive," he chuffed...
  2. Zalan

    Dare pigs unslaughtered

    A nasty grin split across Lihark's scarred and wrinkled features. Eyes that measured the mettle of many a man, and had got it right enough times to still be standing, daggered through Trevor. Wasted no time on pleasantry. Sword drawn. "Get in my way then," he promised. Stepped toward Trevor...
  3. Zalan

    Dare pigs unslaughtered

    Heart thump, thumped between the cage of his ribs. Breath dragged through his lungs ragged. Could hear the fire hissing. Singing. Felt it in his bones. Crackling and smoldering around the embers in his marrow. Up the lines of the Fire Keeper's ink. His eyes could see them. How their veins...
  4. Zalan

    Dare pigs unslaughtered

    Came a time in every man's life where enough was enough. Die here. Die in Hestio. If it wasn't for the Salamanders, he would say it didn't fucking matter. If it wasn't for Silk, he would say better to just get it all over with. Old dog had gone and lived his days. More than most sellswords...
  5. Zalan

    Dare pigs unslaughtered

    "Oh," she sounded almost relieved to hear Trevor's voice. A gentle smile working itself through the lines of worry that pulled at the corners of her face. "You boys just, have a seat up here at the little table with Jip and I," Zalan nod. Shuffled over. Eyes trailing back to spy Lihark...
  6. Zalan

    Dare pigs unslaughtered

    "Hope against the pigeon," he groaned as he worked himself up. "And you are like to get shit on," he laughed. Gave a little salute of his own to the young man. "Though they say that's more luck, than bad," grinned. "So maybe you are onto something, potato sergeant," Down was up, and up was...
  7. Zalan

    Private Ride or Die

    "Well shit, there goes that fancy," he played to. Noticed how she kept all tight. Nudged her some with the side of his brow. "I don't need to do nothin," he said, easy as his his hands worked at some of the tension in her chords. Light, and careful not to grab too hard. But with weight. "And all...
  8. Zalan

    Dare pigs unslaughtered

    Took a moment to mull it over. Eyes used to seeing things burn brighter than most people saw the stars, looking at an inchworm crawling through the potato trench. "Don't doubt the creek would be a better way to go," he put to it. Eyed the potato soldier. Gearing himself up for whatever part he...
  9. Zalan

    Dare pigs unslaughtered

    The others were easy as the grin that cut across his face. All bristly wildness and red madness in his eyes. "We'll always have Hestio,"
  10. Zalan

    Dare pigs unslaughtered

    Sucked on the point of his tooth. Eyes on the dirt. The potatoes. "What's the message?" he thought out loud. Writing was never his forte. Too much to say, never find the right words say it. Looked out at the field. Saw the round swell of bright fruit. The green leaves, like so many little...
  11. Zalan

    Dare pigs unslaughtered

    Zalan quirked a brow. Lip scrunched up. "You never want someone to just, know you're still around?" Didn't right know if she would even care. If his going off had burned away whatever little roots had started grasping at each other's heart. Time. Distance. Made people more like clouds. At...
  12. Zalan

    Dare pigs unslaughtered

    A nod. "Aye," laughed at it all. At them. Laying about as they were. Shook his head. "Just sit a while," cast his eyes up to the clouds that sailed on over their heads. Gold traced, and red bellied. Skinks of their own really. Grabbed the hot rock off his belly and felt its warmth in his hands...
  13. Zalan

    Dare pigs unslaughtered

    A click of the teeth. Rock still flat against hairy plane of gut. "Of course they fucking will," he said with the confidence of man who knew what he was worth. "Look at us!" he flared out with his right hand. His left, still busy holding the rock. "We fucking rock!" he said with no doubt...
  14. Zalan

    Dare pigs unslaughtered

    Zalan eyed about. Let go of spade, and snatched up a nearby rock, baking in the sun, and stuffed it up his shirt with the dumbest grin. "Not gonna tell me about fuckin, belly ups, Trevor," squat there, with rock hot against his hair covered belly skin.
  15. Zalan

    Private Scuttlebutt

    "Eyes up, Six!" Zalan barked a laugh. The Breaker man fell to his knees a charred and smoldering cookfire. Hands still swatted at the last thing nerves felt before searing to white nothing. Jagan smashed his fist into the flame chewed wall of deck planks that had turned his shield. Sections...
  16. Zalan

    Dare pigs unslaughtered

    A nod. "I'll put spuds in the ground, long as I can," Moving dirt. Bout as honest a thing a man could do. Soil hard and heavy against the shovel head. Needed busting up, with all the clay in it. Bit harder, that kind of work. Dusty and all crack and break. But the sunbaked patch would grow the...
  17. Zalan

    Dare pigs unslaughtered

    A chuff. "Dancer," smiled a bit wider. Greasier. Familiar. "and I are business associates," fucker knew how good he was. Knew the Salamanders were a point apart from the Cabal proper. Would have to know he had been hung out to dry, good and proper like some piece of salted meat. Zalan knew he...
  18. Zalan

    Dare pigs unslaughtered

    Used to be, he would grin to hear such conviction. Men like this. They died for you, if you just gave them reason enough. Coin made for a mighty fine reason, more often than not. This one though, seemed to smell the fire. All moth to the flame. Hadn't he just said, there were worse things...
  19. Zalan

    Dare pigs unslaughtered

    Sharp. A suck through teeth. A flick of the fingers, and a suck of the digit where the beak had pecked down to the bone. Moma hen all puffed up and noisy. He laughed at that. Still sucked on the side of his finger some more. Shook it off. "Turned tail and ran when it got too ugly," he...
  20. Zalan

    Dare pigs unslaughtered

    "Time and place," he said without much pause, save what it took to not get pecked. Put to basket the eggs. Shut the door. Slipped another one open. "Direction," Didn't know if they would act on it. Didn't know if there would be anyone there to take it. Hoped. But that was the damned thing...
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