trigger warnings for mentions of death and violence

oathbreakers are often seen as necromancers.
evil soldiers where coin is the only promise, but
i’ve often seen the most noble of promises tear
people apart in the most profane ways. so do
you truly believe that i will unwaveringly act
as you presume i do now? no, i respect the
promises i made, but i do not hold my worth
to them. loyalty is my worst flaw, but hindsight
is the...

My heart is full of complex dialecticals. A web of ideas from two worlds, and I'm caught tangled in the sticky silk. The corpses of old identities are littered about, wrapped up and cold.

"Be faithful"

I struggle against the bands of expectation, legs kicking and arms flailing. Probabilistic reasoning deems that I should, in theory, end up like the others around me. Doomed to perish and become anew. Because I don't change. I die and someone new takes my...

My heart is full of complex dialecticals. A web of ideas from two worlds, and I'm caught tangled in the sticky silk. The corpses of old identities are littered about, wrapped up and cold.

"Be faithful"

I struggle against the bands of expectation, legs kicking and arms flailing. Probabilistic reasoning deems that I should, in theory, end up like the others around me. Doomed to perish and become anew. Because I don't change. I die and someone new takes my...

stinging lactic acid build-up / injuries prove fatal when the soul is given away

sold their soul for thirteen cents when they wanted to give a tootsie-roll to their junior-high sweetheart. because what is money when you’re thirteen? every cent spent on another person’s future spouse is another silver dollar running down the donation bin to a man you’ll never meet.
or perhaps, as the capitalists would appreciate, a dollar down the donation bin to a corporation that makes processed...

Morgaelis Red, leader of the orden city of Obsilheim, filed down her silver fingernails with a rod of black iron. Her quartz skin reflected the light of the white sky as she looked at the black sun.
Preservation lingered not far away, the seven calls of their kind rotating above his head like a crown. It was still a strange feeling to know that her god was a mostly human man. She always imagined him as some fabled dragon of...