10-05-2020, 09:55 AM
The words were horrifying. Why would anyone want to create these creatures as weapons? Whatever possessed them to turn humans into things like this must have been a horrific war. But the history of man wasn't ever pretty. We were barbarians.
But it wasn't the words in the book that had Allan's jaw on the floor. The puckered and slashed scar, the same insignia faded on the Ascendancy's skin. A secret organization marked by the snake eating its own tail -- and the Ascendancy... Allan's voice came out a raspy whisper, "You were one of them?" But he wasn't now.
Allan's eyes moved up to meet the Ascendancy's gaze. "What happened? I don't expect they just let you go." Was it a case of his being able to channel or was there something more? Allan knew the Ascendancy had many secrets but to be part of the very cult that was hunting him, and others like him.. That he had not expected.
But it wasn't the words in the book that had Allan's jaw on the floor. The puckered and slashed scar, the same insignia faded on the Ascendancy's skin. A secret organization marked by the snake eating its own tail -- and the Ascendancy... Allan's voice came out a raspy whisper, "You were one of them?" But he wasn't now.
Allan's eyes moved up to meet the Ascendancy's gaze. "What happened? I don't expect they just let you go." Was it a case of his being able to channel or was there something more? Allan knew the Ascendancy had many secrets but to be part of the very cult that was hunting him, and others like him.. That he had not expected.