02 A Massacre in Marienburg

Author:David Bishop
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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FRAU VINK SHIVERED as she listened to the alderman’s screams for mercy, hands trembling beneath the shawl, her toes cold as ice. But the fear got worse when Haan’s voice was silenced, cut off by Manann knew what horror. At least she was safe inside, the door bolted and barred, sturdy wooden shutters closed across the windows. She’d enough food to last a week if needs be, plenty of water and wine to drink, candles for light.

The widow closed her eyes, but couldn’t stop the images of skeletons and ghouls lurching along the alleyway that burned inside her memory. None of the monsters could get into the house, of that she was certain - this was sanctuary. But the halfling woman had not noticed the spirit hosts outside, their ghostly presence lost amid the melee of bones and blood and flesh-eating horrors. She had not reckoned with the ability of these lost souls to walk through walls and doors as if such barriers were insubstantial as them.

The spirit hosts glided into her sanctuary, floating above the flagstone floor as if wafted in on a spring breeze. They shimmered with unnatural lights, no word escaping their silent lips, their presence both incorporeal and terrifying. Frau Vink’s eyes widened as the monsters came, her last thoughts of poor, dead Titus as the ghosts reached out for her. One touch and her heart stopped, frozen by fear and terror. The blood in her veins and arteries ceased to move, and her frail body crumpled to the floor. One last breath escaped those wizened lips to whisper a final prayer: ‘Forgive me…’

The spirit hosts drifted onwards, seeking out other souls to consume, fresh life to steal away for their master. Behind them the corpse of Frau Vink cooled, awaiting the command to arise and take its place among the ranks of Farrak’s grisly army of death.

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