10-12-2020, 11:24 PM
Allan was disgusted, and he had every right to be. Perhaps it was the forty years to think about it, but Nikolai derived greater amusement in the shock of others than other horrific contemplations. War was always savage. What would their descendants say of nuclear bombs? What would they say of the weapons currently woven beneath Kola peninsula? Dreyken were amateurish experiments in comparison. A more harrowing question was where the gods of old found the flesh to experiment upon in the first place.
Allan’s gauzy whisper and blood-drained cheeks curdled intimately of fear, though Nikolai was certain that fear was not directed at him. He waved him closer. “Sit here,” he gestured nearer himself. He wanted to see the fire reflecting in the blacks of those eyes.
He answered plainly. The weight of it decayed in an old grave, but the stench of betrayal still lingered on his voice. “Yes I was, a long time ago. Tomorrow, I’ll show you the weave that incinerated three Dreyken where they stood,” he said, laying his hand across his arm, their screams terrorizing his memory. Soon after, he tugged the sleeve back to the wrist.
“You may read the book if you still desire, but it may not leave this room,” he said with all the promise of punishment for any breech of Nikolai’s trust, but they knew the threat was little more than idle chat. Allan wouldn’t betray him. Not now. “Well?”
Allan’s gauzy whisper and blood-drained cheeks curdled intimately of fear, though Nikolai was certain that fear was not directed at him. He waved him closer. “Sit here,” he gestured nearer himself. He wanted to see the fire reflecting in the blacks of those eyes.
He answered plainly. The weight of it decayed in an old grave, but the stench of betrayal still lingered on his voice. “Yes I was, a long time ago. Tomorrow, I’ll show you the weave that incinerated three Dreyken where they stood,” he said, laying his hand across his arm, their screams terrorizing his memory. Soon after, he tugged the sleeve back to the wrist.
“You may read the book if you still desire, but it may not leave this room,” he said with all the promise of punishment for any breech of Nikolai’s trust, but they knew the threat was little more than idle chat. Allan wouldn’t betray him. Not now. “Well?”