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With the Mistborn adaptation, pewter took hold of me and I had no choice but to stamp out an illustration of Vin.

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Lund took a step forward. The color advanced with him.

Dawn conquers the night, step by step.

Above him floated two twisted figures. One mocked in silence, with a still, sharp smile. The other turned slowly, deliberately; fingers curling like claws, muscles coiling with tension. The light licked their skin, painting their waxen pallor with a sickly hue, igniting the hunger in their pupils.

His boots left dark imprints on the cold stone. Blood from the last one who dared to stand in his way.

A warm, golden radiance emanated from him. A halo of summer that gnawed at the gloom, wrenching from the tiles their secrets, their history, their true color.

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Dawnwalker Lund

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Mina / Elisabeta / Wynona 🥀

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Cheonyeo Gwishin (처녀귀신)

원한의 맛이 쓰다는들, 내 입맛엔 딱 좋다

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The Rat Queen

From Castle Rat

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... a mess of nerves and scorched flesh, groping for a god who wasn't coming. Only she was here.

The little fortress on the hill burned like a matchstick, and in her guts burned an even fiercer truth: faith wasn't in books, or in the stars.

It was right here.

... Her throat burned from screaming with voices that weren't her own. Each charred hand rising from the earth was a silent applause; every spark that bit her skin, a little kiss of approval. At her feet, something still twitched:

... In her right hand, the knife still dripped stolen life. On her tongue, the taste of sweat, salt, and iron; and beneath it, the sweet, dizzying rush of power that was hers alone now.

She wasn't praying. She was choking on the space between ecstasy and lack of air.
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The warmth of the blood was gentle against her skin, the only caress worth a damn.

Fie de Gar arched her back and raised her arms toward the sky, not toward the stars, but toward that filthy black smoke that smelled of burning fat and rotten flowers.
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"This... this burn in the throat... this is prayer."

—Fie of Gar, Confessor of the Inner Fire

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...So, he straightened his shoulders.
Raised his head.
He let the low light from the navigation crystals cast an enormous, twisted shadow against the wall. Let them see the silhouette, imposing and dark.

Not the weakness.

...Young eyes followed him.
There was no reverence in those gazes, only assessment. They measured the slowness of his walk, calculating how much real power remained beneath the veil and ceremony.
Malen could feel it on the nape of his neck.
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...It was not the stride of a knight, but the irregular cadence of a body giving up and a will refusing to do so.

It was the sound of Zenith, his sword too elegant for that function, serving as a cane. It plunged into the ground to drag his left leg, which was now little more than dead weight.
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Clang. Clang. Clang.

That rhythm of metal striking stone was the only insignia he had left. He had almost lost the right to bear the blazon of his Constellation. The yellow veil with emblems of dying moons was merely an ornament, a curtain for his face.

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Malen Vadma, Custodian of the Waning Moons.

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... —Behold the price of truth, torn one —she whispered, her gaze a pity so cold it burned. The Inquisition offers the rest your severed thread denied you. Do you not yearn, at last, to cease choosing?

... The light of nebulae danced on the bare steel as her right hand, necrosed in black ice, closed her fist around the edge.

Blood welled slowly, freezing instantly and weaving crystals of violet frost along the steel. The sword ceased to be a weapon, transformed into a Seal of Destiny.

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A map of white scars tells the dogma of the Inquisition on her exposed back. Her eyes, cold as eternal ice, do not judge an enemy: they examine a lost soul.

Isuna Qis raised Certitude —a blade never sheathed, for truth must not be hidden— with the solemnity of a ritual.

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Isuna Qis, High Sutress of the Glacial Seal.

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—Your future has an owner. And it's not you —he murmured, slowly running his twisted fingers along the edge of the sword, as if weighing the exact value of the destiny he had just claimed.

Orr'Vojarr, Intervoid Smuggler.

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... With infinite tenderness, and with tears still falling, she released the thread, letting it follow its entangled course.

... A tear traced a path through the dust on her cheek. She wasn't crying out of sorrow; she was crying because she knew she could undo it.
She knew that with one pull, she could rip the pain out by the roots. But that knot was not bad luck; it was tangled by her brother's poor choices.

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... The Matrix revealed itself before her eyes, and the Threads of Destiny shone, banishing her fatigue instantly.

Within the silver glow, one called to her: a familiar thread, strangled by a complex knot.

It was her brother's thread.

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She wore the dream she only dared to use in private: a sapphire-blue silk bodice whose embroideries, unbeknownst to her, wove runes of solace. Beneath it, reality: a dirty, patched skirt of coarse wool.

Exhausted after her day at the loom, the universe granted her a moment of clarity.
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Talhi, the promising weaver of Alebor.

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"And that Silence was made flesh, and dwelt among us, full of disgrace and deceit; and we beheld its horror, the horror as of the only begotten of Sin."

🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃

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