Caution this story depicts images of torture and murder

She stopped the car at the top of the hill and grabbed the bottle of vodka. She took a deep drink and then worh a towel proceed to wipe the car clean of any trace. Her short hair held tight in a hairnet under her hat left little chance of leaving amy clues. She opened the trunk and pulled an unconscious man dropping him bodily into the dirt....

Big and gray

I eat all day

I slurp up grass

For my fat ass

I swim and sleep

In river deep

A king reveared

By all I’m feared

The lion, bull and crocodile

Any drinking on the Nile...

Disclaimer this story contains depictions of human trafficking, rape and drug abuse

She stood, her strength waning, as blood seeped through her many wounds onto the floor. The pain was biting, searing. Slumping against the wall, She hastily rigged an IV and bound her wounds but her strength failed. Darkness enveloped her.

The light was dim. She recognized the murky haze of morphine, time blurred...

We go in search of haunted lands

To places deep unseen by man

Escape escape we are set free

By our own strength by our own hand

From the east, the shadow rose,

Side by side we vanquished foes

Together, evil we dispelled

In unity our friendship swelled

But time decays the deepest trust

Like strongest iron lost to rust

Betrayed by men we once died for

Enslaved these years some fifty score

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So you’re here to fight the hakaa huh? What in the gods’ many names spurred you to do that?

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Yeah well you’ll find no riches here. Dwarves are too stingy to carry gold unless they’re carrying it off the bodies of their victims. And if we capture any we have to return it to the families.

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Whats that? No you fool we dont attack their stronghold. Have you ever read anything?

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Whats that you cant ...

This will do.

Thraask gave the order in his gruff voice. The word went quickly and quietly, and they set up camp with little ceremony. He worked methodically but his mind was elsewhere. Each stride carried the weight of decisions made, the lives altered. He paused, allowing himself a rare moment of reflection, feeling the gravity of their newfound freedom yet the heavy cost it demanded.

Here i...