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|main character = [[Jezebella]] | |main character = [[Jezebella]] | ||
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|enemy = [[Vermis Superior]] | |enemy = [[Vermis Superior]] | ||
|setting = [[Kent]] | |setting = [[Kent]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = Grant Springford | ||
|anthology = | |anthology = The Book of the Enemy (anthology) | ||
|release date = | |release date = 25 January 2018 | ||
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|series = ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' | |series = ''[[Faction Paradox (series)|Faction Paradox]]'' | ||
|prev = A Bloody And Public Domaine (short story) | |prev = A Bloody (And Public) Domaine (short story){{!}}A Bloody (And Public) Domaine | ||
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== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
=== Pre-Narrative Briefing === | |||
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[[Fen]], [[Cousin (rank)|Cousin]] [[Darius (Life Cycle)|Darius]], and [[Cousin (rank)|Cousin]] [[Jezebella]] traipse through a post apocalyptic [[Kent]], seeing a misshapen figure in the distance. They move towards it, through ghosts of the long dead, ghosts of a [[TARDIS|timeship]] graveyard. Within the graveyard they find scatterings of eggshells, humanoid figures, twisted and malformed, with pale pink faces. The gestalt speaks into the mind of Fen, that they are [[Vermis Superior]], "merely part of a whole". They drag Fen and her companions to a [[timeship]], a higher dimensional entity, a cube as large as a field, but as thin as paper, and inside were corpses sandwiched between layers of dirt, with worms burrowing through the dead. "They feast on the soldiers of time, and given time they become us. And we become them." Then, were-crows descended from the sky, eating the Vermis, as Fen ran. When they consumed the last ones, they took back to the sky, forming backwards words in the air, and her eyes saw an aspect of [[the Enemy]], feeding off of fiction. Reality flicks to the left and Fen vanishes. | |||
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== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
* Cousin [[Jezebella]] | * [[Cousin (rank)|Cousin]] [[Jezebella]] | ||
* Cousin [[Darius (Life Cycle)|Darius]] | * [[Cousin (rank)|Cousin]] [[Darius (Life Cycle)|Darius]] | ||
* [[Fen]] | * [[Fen]] | ||
* [[Vermis Superior]] | * [[Vermis Superior]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* The [[Seventh Son of the Seventh Sun]] are an army. | * The [[Seventh Son of the Seventh Sun]] are an army. | ||
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Latest revision as of 21:30, 8 September 2024
Life-Cycle was the seventh story in The Book of the Enemy.
Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Pre-Narrative Briefing[[edit] | [edit source]]
Story[[edit] | [edit source]]
Fen, Cousin Darius, and Cousin Jezebella traipse through a post apocalyptic Kent, seeing a misshapen figure in the distance. They move towards it, through ghosts of the long dead, ghosts of a timeship graveyard. Within the graveyard they find scatterings of eggshells, humanoid figures, twisted and malformed, with pale pink faces. The gestalt speaks into the mind of Fen, that they are Vermis Superior, "merely part of a whole". They drag Fen and her companions to a timeship, a higher dimensional entity, a cube as large as a field, but as thin as paper, and inside were corpses sandwiched between layers of dirt, with worms burrowing through the dead. "They feast on the soldiers of time, and given time they become us. And we become them." Then, were-crows descended from the sky, eating the Vermis, as Fen ran. When they consumed the last ones, they took back to the sky, forming backwards words in the air, and her eyes saw an aspect of the Enemy, feeding off of fiction. Reality flicks to the left and Fen vanishes.
Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Seventh Son of the Seventh Sun are an army.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
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