I waited for you. You said you would return and that I should wait. I sat through the rains and the snows; through countless years and centuries. Even when the pain of waiting became unbearable, I waited. You promised you would return and that we would be together again. I promised to wait. I still wait. When are you coming?...
Closed mouths don't get fed
Or, maybe, they don't want what you're feeding them
Maybe closed mouths and closed minds are a symptom
Maybe you're the problem
Closed mouths don't get fed?
Mine is closed because I can't feed on the powerless
My cup's already overfilled
Compared to history, I'm rich beyond the dreams of avarice
Closed mouths don't get fed?
Maybe you should close yours
And see what it's...
It was the same every day, standing there on the wall, shoulder to shoulder with thousands of others just like him, pushing his bladed spear into the mass of dead things climbing to overwhelm them. He did this two hours each day until his arms burned and his back ached and someone came to relieve him.
The siege had been going on so long no one even remembered when it began. In the distance, beyon...
When did it all start? It was long before I was born. Long before my grandfather’s grandfather was born. So long ago, maybe it had always been this way.
I started fighting when I was 14, young by most standards. My parents apprenticed me to a craftsman, but after two years of constant abuse and slave labor, I ran away and enlisted in the Cleanup Corps.
Cleanup duty was easy. It meant hunting dow...