Prologue: Fog & Vine
The night was cold, bitter, pungent, and alive with danger- Aesop was enjoying it thoroughly. The lake was in turmoil. Aesop looked out...
Chapter 1- Part 1 : Smoldering Wreckage of A Plan
His boat trudged into the lakeside town of Ripple hours later. Aesop’s arms burned pleasantly from working the oars as the light from...
Chapter 1 -Part 2: Renfield the Interrogator
Renfield was awoken from a deep sleep by a persistent itch. The spiderweb scarring on his jaw was flaring up and making his slumber...
Chapter 1- Part 3: Wreckage of a Plan, Continued
The surface of the streets shifted suddenly from Low to Mid Ripple. Walkways and thoroughfares in the section of town closest to the...
Wreckage, Continued.
It was a simple gambit. Tilk & Tilum were both necessary cogs in a machine of Ripple’s magnitude. Tilum worked as a custodian of the...
Chapter 2: Execution
Renfield was contemplating his fate. He sat outside the cell waiting for word that the prisoners were regaining consciousness, as he...
Execution, Part 2
Finn had been awake for a while. Her hearing returned to her first. Her ears exploded into life with a high pitched squeal that quickly...
Execution, Part 3
Mist clung in the air in tight little beads, teeming with kinetic life. A notable absence of a breeze committed the night’s temperance to...
Execution, Part 4
Renfield reached into his bag for a needle and thread. He pulled out a thin fishbone that was pre-threaded to a spherical spool of...
Execution, Part 4 continued.
~~~ Author's insert- In light of things now, the events that unfolded afterward have become more evident, more coherent. At the time the...
