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The God Who Forgets
He dies. He forgets. He returns. A monster who can't remember the lives he's worn. A child who can't survive without him. A world too far gone to deserve either. He doesn't know what he is yet. The world is about to remind him.
CHAPTER ONE - CRIMSON HARVEST FIELD
**Bluuuurgh.** Commander Luvo glanced first at the young soldier on his knees, hands braced on his thighs as he emptied his stomach into the…
CHAPTER TWO - A WARRIOR'S HANDS
Blood. Rusted iron. And a sharp, chemical reek that bit at the back of the throat. As his mind slowly surfaced from dark water, his first co…
CHAPTER THREE - SHADOWS OF THE CAPITAL
In the slaughter valley, nothing disturbed the crows' feast but the rain. The disappointment he'd found in that dim infirmary tent, and the…
CHAPTER FOUR - THE REAL THREAT
Luvo drew a deep breath and walked toward his own tent. Twenty-six years of military service had taught him something far more dangerous tha…
CHAPTER FIVE - UNTIL YOU SEE THE SAND
The world was a crack the size of a thumb in a wooden plank. The boy had been sitting for days with his knees drawn to his chest, hidden in…
CHAPTER SIX - MUD AND WINGS
Darkness. The heavy smell of rotting wood. And the deafening rhythm a horse leaves behind in the mind, galloping until its heart bursts... T…
CHAPTER SEVEN - VOLUNTARY PRISONER
As Garrick and his squad pushed deeper into the forest, following the trail Elara had blazed, the undergrowth began to change. The withered,…
CHAPTER EIGHT - ROTTEN ORDER
The wagon's wheels creaked slowly along the muddy dirt road, softened by rain that had fallen days before. Krazoc sat in the wagon with his…
CHAPTER NINE - FIRST SMILE
The wagon slowed and came to a stop at a dead forest's fork, where the trees had thickened and the daylight had dimmed into a green murk. "H…
CHAPTER TEN - SILINCE AND SHATTERING
The world was rotting away with a plague. And yet the sun still beat down with all its vitality, filtering through the dense branches of the…
CHAPTER ELEVEN - OUT OF REACH
Thunder. That colossal crack, like a peal of it, swallowed every breath of the forest in a single second. When the centuries-old juniper cam…
CHAPTER TWELVE - LESSONS IN DEATH
When Krazoc fell to the other side of the tree, the battle suddenly seemed to come from very far away. The sounds were muffled. The clatter…
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - EMPTY GRAVE
The rain falling on the old cemetery on the outskirts of the Capital was merciless, as if it meant to wipe the names from the stones. The ma…
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - GOLD IN A CAGE
The office of Vael, the Director of the Royal Intelligence, was like a gilded cage, set apart from the Capital's corrupt mud and blood. As t…
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - A LOYAL SERVANT
As he climbed the long white marble steps before the Inquisition building, Luvo handed his horse's reins to an Acolyte waiting in silence. T…
CHAPTER SIXTEEN - IMPREGNABLE CLIFFS
The grating screech of rusted iron tore Krazoc from the heavy darkness of the sleep he had sunk into. When he opened his eyes, the world was…
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - EYES
How long had it been? An hour, a day, a whole week? His sense of time had unraveled and scattered in the pitch dark of the dungeon, losing a…
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - THE BUTCHER
Alister's condition kept worsening. Still, Eyes' intervention had brought the child some relief. It had led Krazoc to decide the threat woul…
CHAPTER NINETEEN - HELP
In the freezing, bone-aching cold of the cell, the rhythm of a small breath changed. Krazoc lifted his head slightly from the damp wall at h…
CHAPTER TWENTY - THE SUMMIT
The leaders' chamber deep within the Brothers' Pass looked nothing like the gilded council halls of the Capital. This was the very heart of…
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE - MASTERPIECE
To an ordinary butcher, flesh is merely a heap to be hacked apart; to an ordinary healer, a burden to be mended. But to Morrow, flesh was no…
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO - LAST JOB
Birek woke to the pale morning sun filtering through his window and savored that familiar, heavy silence in his mind. For years, hearing oth…