TGCP Chapter 7: The Endless Cycle
Name: Paradox
Species: Snake, Ouroboros
Major Title: [The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail]
Name: Paradox
Species: Snake, Ouroboros
Major Title: [The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail]
I found myself stuck, unable to slither away. The mother Aridae continued to drift down on her shimmering thread, its arrival as inevitable as the Great Core’s victory.
Or at lea...
2021-02-21 03:35:32 +0000 UTC View PostI thrashed, doing my best to dislodge the bad-thing that had ambushed me. Its fangs loosened, and it skittered to the side. I could feel a cool sensation spreading through me, starting f...
2021-02-21 00:42:56 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a scream that I hadn’t expected to hear. Of all of the mercenaries, Katrina had seemed the most indomitable. She had seemed that way because she simply was. The woman c...
2021-02-20 20:40:19 +0000 UTC View PostWhat did it mean?
My discarded scale-flesh glowed with the same light as the Great Core. I remembered vividly, despite the distraction of the fire-pain, the feeling of the...
2021-02-19 05:11:50 +0000 UTC View PostRoy puffed, his desperate breaths feeling as if they were cutting into his inflamed throat. The High Market was somewhere he was rather unfamiliar with before the day’s start. He had a...
2021-02-18 20:13:35 +0000 UTC View PostStill working on the current chapter for Risen, have been given a bit of trouble by the recent weather. I should be able to finish it late tonight or sometime tomorrow, depending on how qui...
2021-02-18 01:29:50 +0000 UTC View Post“Looks like you were worried for nothing, huh?” Roy teased as the sun fell. Despite his words, he had been notably concerned throughout the day. Part of that had been my fault; I had...
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I was surprised - and more than a little concerned - to see that Roy was going to join us in the High Market guard detail. I supposed that it shouldn’t h...
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I leapt from my hiding place, uncoiling my length and springing into the air. My mouth opened wide in a defiant hiss just as I hit a sacred fast-spot that ...
2021-02-10 04:36:16 +0000 UTC View PostI curled upon myself, idly chewing the tip of my tail. The Great Core - even smaller than myself - rested upon its nearby pedestal. Gleaming light shone down upon me like a divine benedi...
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It took some time for me to find myself. I don’t mean that in some sort of philosophical sense. Rather, it was more difficult than I had expected to find...
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“Well, Alexander?” the masked woman asked impatiently. Her voice was heavily distorted, giving the words a sort of aberrant quality. It was a shame; I ...
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My enthusiasm was dampened slightly by my current dilemma: I was still ‘dead’ on the warehouse floor. Though I could leave any time I wanted, I’d pre...
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The blurry vision of my orthopt-self painted a rather dire scene. I say ‘painted’ because of the resemblance it held to a work of art that I once saw i...
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“Please, just stop,” Mel begged. “You’re only hurting yourself more.”
I knew that she was right. She always was. Always so sma...
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“Every idiot out there thinks it would be great to directly control a big bad monster like the Axtail you saw Markus fight - but I’m sure you saw its c...
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It took only a moment’s thought.
It rarely took more than that, really. It was, after all, the thought of only a moment that recommended the guilty...
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I was worried. Something was wrong.
Roy had arrived, at long last, but he looked far different than before. The former thief’s eyes were sunken, un...
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I had found myself surprisingly intrigued. While the powers that Katrina and Jack had displayed - Katrina in particular - would have made them rather effec...
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I leaned against the alley’s wall, one hand braced against it while the other directed the stream of fluid. It dripped down, forming a small puddle on th...
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I was a bit shaken.
Though I knew that it wasn’t actually me, that I was only a mind piloting the limbs of the spider, dying had not been comfortab...
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There, in the empty shop, I learned far more about the soul I had replaced than I might have wished.
“I failed Sylv,” Gil lamented. “I lost her...
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“I love you, Eran.”
The words repeated ad nauseam, spilling into themselves again and again, forming a droning buzz that ...
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A thousand, thousand legs crawled across my skin; they spilled from my bleeding wounds, poured from my gaping throat, dripped from my open mouth....
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