1. Kla Verun

    Open A Break in The Road

    The knife didn’t just tear into his shoulder, it gutted the last thread of adrenaline that had kept him moving, fighting, surviving. Verun’s groan rattled out of him, raw and broken, as every wound he’d been ignoring roared back to life at once. Even the Shroud stuttered and dimmed, its phantom...
  2. Kla Verun

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    His words fell on deaf ears, it seemed. The dwarves weren't in the mood for negotiations, and Verun wasn't inclined to let them brandish their weapons towards him for much longer. Would the hardy little bastards put him in the ground? It was likely, he'd admit, but not without losing more of...
  3. Kla Verun

    Open A Break in The Road

    Whatever progress the others made with the ore, Kla paid no mind. He could claim it was because his focus had to stay locked on the shrieking volleys of arrows and the iron blades lunging for his flesh, and it was true enough. Verun might not have been a strategist, but he was a master of...
  4. Kla Verun

    Open A Break in The Road

    Kla didn’t need to look to know Matvi was pulled his weight: the icy hiss behind him, the panicked screeches of elves skating out of position, the crack of the wagon’s wheel snapping, those told him enough. The Medicant was doing his part. That meant it was his turn to do his own kind of...
  5. Kla Verun

    Open A Break in The Road

    That his single-minded march would only result in his own foolish and gruesome death was a fact that Kla seemed blind to. His eyes looked forward, but they did not see, boots dragging across the dusty road driven by the intangible force of arrogance and anger that had sent far better men to an...
  6. Kla Verun

    Open A Break in The Road

    Verun didn’t look back to see if the others still followed. He wouldn’t blame them if they’d turned away from this misbegotten attempt to save a city few would truly mourn. Kla would have ordinarily called this fiasco a loss himself, and yet something secret steered him now, like the unseen...
  7. Kla Verun

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    Kla froze as the blade speared the ground between his feet, muscles tensing like a drawn bow. The shroud burned beneath his skin, yearning to unfurl, wings of havoc waiting to fly. Instead, he exhaled slowly, a sigh laced with disappointment and the faintest flicker of relief, as the dwarves...
  8. Kla Verun

    Open A Break in The Road

    Kla felt every bit of that extra weight, both on his body and soul. He'd been so full of confidence over his ability to save this town, and yet so far he'd barely been able to save himself, and the jury was still out on Trevor. Verun couldn't see him, and wasn't in much state to look as Matvi's...
  9. Kla Verun

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    By the time the three men, far too large for the meager tunnel to properly accommodate, reached the wideneng end which emptied out into the Bloodvein, only Kla was keeping his composure with any success. Josef and Rudol were both pale, drenched in sweat both from the heat of the earth's embrace...
  10. Kla Verun

    Open A Break in The Road

    "Get up, Horns. Get up and throw it." Teeth ground against teeth as Verun eyes the arrow buried in Trevor's wrist. That had been meant for him, and this idiot had taken it, simply because he'd been where Kla told him to be. Human or not, the Deva felt a pang of guilt as the scarlet flow began...
  11. Kla Verun

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    As they emerged out into the wider, far more welcoming chamber which housed the ruined loading platform, Kla heard his men as they released the breaths that had been sucked into their guts, felt the thud of bags and knees hitting the dirt as they mistook this landmark for some beacon of...
  12. Kla Verun

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    If the dark, dank, foreboding environment of the narrow passageways and crumbling tunnels had any effect on Kla, it didn't show through his expression. If the will of the earth was to swallow him whole and entomb him beneath the frosted ruins above, then so be it. Death, though, had eluded him...
  13. Kla Verun

    Open A Break in The Road

    Even the jaded mind of the young Devahni was now implored to admit that many of his prejudices towards these men had been too hasty. Human though they were, and unremarkable in appearance, they each had their own spark within them. What exactly the group he'd discarded as helpless drunkards were...
  14. Kla Verun

    Open A Break in The Road

    And Six they were. None of the men particularly stood out to Kla as the picture of valor, strength or bravery, but he was beginning to get the notion that perhaps he shouldn't be so quick to judge. Those nagging preconceptions, the prejudices of his father spoke so loudly into his ears that he...
  15. Kla Verun

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    Kla had already begun to ascend the staircase as the last of Lysanne's words left her, but what she said was far from lost on him. Indeed, though she would not see it, the Devahni's eyes would flitter back in her direction with an introspective cant of his head to the side. For the briefest of...
  16. Kla Verun

    Open A Break in The Road

    Verun had been hoping for more time before he had to put things into motion, but that explosion marked the end of his alloted preparation period. The reaction from the surrounding townsfolk was less panic and more confusion; bystanders milling about as if expecting someone to come and explain...
  17. Kla Verun

    Private Granite

    Kla felt the corners of his mouth twitch at his client's response. It was a rather levelheaded retort to what had been a thinly veiled attempt to gauge her temperament. He'd not given her enough credit, it seemed. With a small shrug of his shoulders, the Deva turned his head toward the dwindling...
  18. Kla Verun

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    The entire time they'd sat at this table, with every drop of wine that passed his lips, Kla could feel the weight of her gaze. When she spoke, he could hear the razor-sharp edge behind her smooth, velvet voice. Somebody hadn't told her exactly who it was she sought to employ. He was no...
  19. Kla Verun

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    He'd given them five minutes in the hopes that whatever rabble he could cobble together could at the very least wipe the stupor from their eyes before stumbling out the front door. The brawny locals that rode the tail of his coat almost immediately looked to be at least partially inebriated, and...
  20. Kla Verun

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    "I’ve heard your reputation as well, Verun the Red. Half of it sounds like lies." Kla shrugged, his eyes travelling down to the wine as it fell into the cup. Foul tasting stuff, in his opinion. Still, he picked up the goblet with a gloved hand and swirled the contents about as he spoke. "I...
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