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    Assailant -- Year 226

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    "But the dream, the echo, slips from him as quickly as he had found it and as consciousness comes to him (a slap and not the gentle waves of oceanic tides), it dissolves entirely. His muscles relax as the cold claims him again, as the numbness sets in, and when his grey eyes open, there’s nothing but the faint after burn of a dream often trod and never remembered." --Brigade, written by Laura


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        Thread: She swirls and sings - any
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    She has loved too many dangerous things. (The most dangerous thing, he once told her, in an effort to make her feel protected. And it did. He always did.) She has been between too many worlds; she...
    Nyxia Forest 3 3,404 02-22-2018, 02:47 PM
        Thread: She swirls and sings - any
    Post: She swirls and sings - any

    Reality comes back to her in fits and starts. It comes and wrests her from her sleep, an unwanted and unwelcome bed-guest. It is cold and clear – like ice water or a bitter lover’s silence. (Lik...
    Nyxia Forest 3 3,404 02-17-2018, 01:23 PM
        Thread: She swirls and sings - any
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    Here, indeed. Home, indeed! Here and home, where father browbeat tawny whitetails into letting her suckle by their fawn’s sides; from whom she had learned the high and careful step that makes her ...
    Nyxia Forest 3 3,234 07-18-2017, 09:23 PM
        Thread: She swirls and sings - any
    Post: She swirls and sings - any

    ‘Where am I?’ so much more often than not, because the places she has been and the places she is going have no names. They are old stale worlds with low, red moons; or they are new, brilliant ones wit...
    Nyxia Forest 3 3,234 07-04-2017, 08:48 PM
        Thread: i'm a wreck. didn't you know?; nyxia
    Post: RE: i'm a wreck. didn't you know?; nyxia

    my friend makes rings, she swirls and sings she’s a mystic in the sense that she’s still mystified by thingsShe wanders as if in a dream. With an idle look in her eye; with slow, slumberous steps tha...
    Nyxia Plain 1 2,626 04-09-2017, 08:18 PM
        Thread: the witch is in [any]
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    my friend makes rings, she swirls and sings she’s a mystic in the sense that she’s still mystified by thingsShe is as attuned to rifts as any.  She has walked through many of them – through time a...
    Nyxia Plain 3 3,039 03-31-2017, 03:19 PM
        Thread: drunk and driven by a devil's hunger; any
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    my friend makes rings, she swirls and sings she’s a mystic in the sense that she’s still mystified by thingsHe holds her in a way that she cannot unbind from. She has felt this kind of fast fix be...
    Nyxia Forest 5 3,010 03-19-2017, 03:55 PM
        Thread: drunk and driven by a devil's hunger; any
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    my friend makes rings, she swirls and sings she’s a mystic in the sense that she’s still mystified by things“No no no,” she whispers, her pulse thudding loudly in her ears. She reels back a step, slo...
    Nyxia Forest 5 3,010 03-13-2017, 07:14 PM
        Thread: drunk and driven by a devil's hunger; any
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    my friend makes rings, she swirls and sings she’s a mystic in the sense that she’s still mystified by thingsTo most, it would be terrifying.  It is scary to her, too, but not in the same way and not f...
    Nyxia Forest 5 3,010 03-05-2017, 03:16 AM
        Thread: endings and beginnings
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    my friend makes rings, she swirls and sings she’s a mystic in the sense that she’s still mystified by thingsTime comes back around. Sometimes. Sometimes, it is linear, like the paths between st...
    Nyxia Quests 6 7,469 01-12-2017, 04:47 AM
        Thread: The shorter path is not easier
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    my friend makes rings, she swirls and sings she’s a mystic in the sense that she’s still mystified by thingsTime offers no way back. Not this time, anyway, She must trust, instead, that which d...
    Nyxia Quests 9 8,037 01-05-2017, 04:44 PM
        Thread: And so you choose
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    my friend makes rings, she swirls and sings she’s a mystic in the sense that she’s still mystified by thingsTimes is here. He comes to her on two legs, and he is strange.  Nyxia takes care not ...
    Nyxia Quests 12 10,490 12-31-2016, 05:27 AM
        Thread: The adventure begins
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    my friend makes rings, she swirls and sings she’s a mystic in the sense that she’s still mystified by thingsTimes is strange. It stretches, without end, in every direction. (—it ends when She (...
    Nyxia Quests 16 13,343 12-25-2016, 02:49 AM
        Thread: sweet dreams are made of these; nyxia
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    my friend makes rings, she swirls and sings she’s a mystic in the sense that she’s still mystified by thingsShe feels the pull back into that darkness. —the pull back to father – (the pull back to wo...
    Nyxia Meadow 1 2,038 08-24-2016, 08:14 PM
        Thread: Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, Heartworm/Irisa
    Post: RE: Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world,...

    my friend makes rings, she swirls and sings she’s a mystic in the sense that she’s still mystified by thingsShe feels it, like a hook behind her navel, yanking; the muscles of this place are trying t...
    Nyxia Afterlife 8 7,165 08-11-2016, 11:47 PM
        Thread: Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, Heartworm/Irisa
    Post: RE: Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world,...

    my friend makes rings, she swirls and sings she’s a mystic in the sense that she’s still mystified by thingsHer skeletons shift. (where should I be? … where do I go?) They’ve not been buried yet....
    Nyxia Afterlife 8 7,165 03-08-2016, 04:17 PM
        Thread: Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, Heartworm/Irisa
    Post: RE: Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world,...

    my friend makes rings, she swirls and sings she’s a mystic in the sense that she’s still mystified by thingsShe is not made of this fabric (stained pretty, bright colours; bejeweled and dripping with...
    Nyxia Afterlife 8 7,165 03-07-2016, 02:16 PM
        Thread: Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, Heartworm/Irisa
    Post: RE: Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world,...

    my friend makes rings, she swirls and sings she’s a mystic in the sense that she’s still mystified by thingsThe darkness is weighty. It feels like wet blankets over her eyes. (Nyxia blinks – darkn...
    Nyxia Afterlife 8 7,165 02-29-2016, 08:35 PM
        Thread: Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, Heartworm/Irisa
    Post: Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, Hea...

    my friend makes rings, she swirls and sings she’s a mystic in the sense that she’s still mystified by thingsTumbling or Floating. Falling or rising. Constellations whirl past (a collection curv...
    Nyxia Afterlife 8 7,165 02-28-2016, 05:45 PM
        Thread: and I pray to blades of grass
    Post: and I pray to blades of grass

    my friend makes rings, she swirls and sings she’s a mystic in the sense that she’s still mystified by thingsA vicious peel, the sudden rending of air – a sharp, single crack; a bright cleft in the sk...
    Nyxia The Deserts 1 1,321 02-28-2016, 02:45 PM