1. Garrod Arlette

    Private Lantern Flowers [M]

    Knocked the wind out of him with a cough. Loosed. Hunched over in a wreck. He laughed. Bitter and dark. "I don't have a fucking clue," watched the blood and tears trail down his chin. Wiped it off. It didn't matter what he did. What he said. He had thrown her away. He went after power. He had...
  2. Garrod Arlette

    Dare Chewed up and Mangled

    Dragged the kid behind him in the sling stretcher he had cobbled together all rough shod and wild craft. Wool blanket that wrapped the kid and held her, still filthy with the mess he and Daniyah had made, and all the filthier for the ceaseless march he had taken up from the Widow's river. If...
  3. Garrod Arlette

    Private It Only Gets Darker

    "There!" A snap of bone white fingers, beyondmetal claws sounding like the break of femurs. A spark, all green chispa and hiss in the darkness. Spiraled. Spat. Detonated into itself before it blew out all violent green bloom. A score of the takers blown away in the new dead star of cosmic...
  4. Garrod Arlette

    Dare Hunter of Hunters

    "Don't suppose you can make more of the green fire?" Garrod's eye cut to Fray. The threat of a grin crept across his lips. Showed hint of his sharp teeth. "If the needs must," A dart. Felt more on the hairs across his skin than anywhere else. Splat. The sound and the wet feeling of it...
  5. Garrod Arlette

    Private Lantern Flowers [M]

    Slipped right out of his hands. Blood dripping from his lips mixed with salt and sweat and all the dust of ruin. His eye still there on where the warmth of her had just been. You threw me away. Move on. Hunt your Monsters. Stay out of my path. Clutched at it. That ghost of her. Old memories...
  6. Garrod Arlette

    Private Lantern Flowers [M]

    She kissed him. Rough. Hard. Teeth biting at his lips. Fingers puling and scratching through the the old cotton shirt. No love in it. He could have been anyone. Did not matter that he knew he was not just anyone. Twisted as it was. How he hated himself for knowing. She bled for him. If she...
  7. Garrod Arlette

    Private Lantern Flowers [M]

    Wriggle and writhe between his grip. He didn't let go. Didn't wrench. Didn't drive. Let her twist. Let her thump against him. Heads knocked. Clumsy. But they settled. Smelled it on her. Sour and bitter and full of sickly sweet numbing poison. "I don't have anything left to say to you."...
  8. Garrod Arlette

    Private Lantern Flowers [M]

    A snatch with the left, all quick and easy with the gust of wind. "Wait," came with the clap of fingers that squeezed sure over the heel of her palm. "Fuck that day," he hissed into the breeze. "I'm done with it," his eye wouldn't let go. And he wouldn't let it be that easy. Not again. "Say...
  9. Garrod Arlette

    Private Lantern Flowers [M]

    Eye wide and bleary. "You mean after I told you to stay away from me." Eye narrowed. He ground his teeth. Jaw clenched tight as a vice amidst the smell of ruined iron and rot. Stepped after each step. "I thought you were going to fucking die Daniyah." Voice growing colder as she retreat...
  10. Garrod Arlette

    Private Lantern Flowers [M]

    The house rumbled with a laugh, all clatter of bricks and straining wood. "Shit pit!" Sinns shout. Almost joyful. "And this old shit pit has the Silver Hooks welp on the run," too happy in the evil roll of his multitudinal voice. Garrod scowled. Dust covered. Debris laden. Stepped out and...
  11. Garrod Arlette

    Private Lantern Flowers [M]

    "You knew I'd take the contract, knew I'd come..." "What?" he choked on it. Words stung all the way down to his gut. Brow furrowed, arms fell to his side as he shook his head. Half a step toward her before he remembered. Stopped. Not that he could ever forget. That look in her eyes. The way...
  12. Garrod Arlette

    Private Lantern Flowers [M]

    A laugh from the bricks that shook the dust out of the rafters. A spill of debris and silt let out all hiss and rattle from the overhead crossbeams and onto Garrod's white mane with a thump turned swirling puffs that coated him. A blink and the eye went shut. Garrod shook his head, and fanned...
  13. Garrod Arlette

    Private Lantern Flowers [M]

    "And who in the eight mirrored hells is that come knock on my door?!" Came a shout all gravel dragged and road crunched. The hack of a phlegmy cough there after that set the bricks to to shudder. Loose gravel plinked down bricks like the Grit of teeth. The windows creaked. Angles almost seemed...
  14. Garrod Arlette

    Private Lantern Flowers [M]

    How they stood in their proudest blooms. Woven like so many coins of molten gold, into round wreaths, braids, and crowns. Bright and orange and bold as any dashed ribbon across the sky. Hues of the sun’s burning glow caught against the errant curl of light traced scut. Cempaxochitl. Artorias...
  15. Garrod Arlette

    Private It Only Gets Darker

    A heartless huff fell from the One Eye. "Fancy that," something darker than humor. Cruel. Nobody is in it for the money. The cave opened up to a chamber. Low ceiling. Stone spiked. Jagged and merciless stalactites hung down from the ceiling, whilst their stalagmite counterparts rose up to...
  16. Garrod Arlette

    Dare Chewed up and Mangled

    A red elk. Horrid creatures, Oh Bearer Mine. Belephus hissed within the miasmal darkness of Garrod's mind. Horns that catch the very winds of the shroud betwixt their tines, an fur, so laden by the mornings dew, no demon can touch them. A cruel laughter. How I hate them. "Just get us to the...
  17. Garrod Arlette

    Private Legends in Waiting

    Garrod's brow softened. Lips pursing with promise born from the mere memory of such golden whipped spuds. That Anira barbed him and his claws had him snap out of the warm and buttery haze of mashed taters past. Boiled, and stuck into stews as the spudly apparitions were. "I've had, mash...
  18. Garrod Arlette

    Dare Hunter of Hunters

    A ripple of bones, tendons and flesh saw the fingers of his left hand ball into a fist. The mote of fire diffused, there with all the shroudlamps buzzing and humming, he felt the strain of such a small spell magnify. Like a hungry crowd had come to sup from the offering of shroud he had offered...
  19. Garrod Arlette

    Private Legends in Waiting

    Garrod laughed at the belly aching. "What happened to observe, and take notes?" But then she went quiet for what, in the short time he had come to know her, be a long while. He let his teasing smile turn lopsided. Eye drift away. "Just a bright shadow, cast behind my dark heart," he...
  20. Garrod Arlette

    Dare Chewed up and Mangled

    Garrod wrapped up the Widow's Heart. "All yours," he croaked, bones still popping in smoky sounds that churned like the roll of ash in a fire storm. "After I turn in the prize," he wouldn't give credit for their kill to anyone else. "You just have to make sure we make it there," worked himself...
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