Dagger 4 - The Tankar Dawn: A Dark Fantasy Adventure by Popester Walt

Author:Popester, Walt [Popester, Walt]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2017-09-07T04:00:00+00:00

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6. Noises in the Head

At the dawn of a new night, Dagger was spat out by the crab and rolled over on the sharp rocks, injuring himself.

He looked up at Hanoi, silhouetted against the stars under the amorphis arch. His claws were moving. “Did you…wake up?”

Does the noise in my head bother you? the anti-god said. I fear someone is trying to sedate me, infecting my mind and destroying my body.

Dagger heard a noise, now slimy, now dry as the creaking of a ship.

The crab moved eight steps back, walking on the faces of the dead. His eyes went out, his claws closed.

Are you dying? Dag thought, but soon he realized he was wrong. He feared the situation could escalate fast when something white and big began to come out from the posterior of the beast. He saw the eyes of Hanoi again. They were white and shone in the black sky, reflected on the perfect surface of the arch. Dag had to shield his face to keep looking. Soon the rest of the crab came out of the carapace.

Is he…shitting himself to the world?

Hanoi was being born to a new life. He stretched out his gelatinous claws, already covered by the fragments of what, with time, would become his new armor against the horrors of the world.

Now Dagger could hear his voice more clearly. I am forever immersed in darkness as I turn my eyes away from the sun. The white and shiny beast stood on his feet and slowly walked backward leaving behind the ghost village built on his back. I’m in this world to bring back a certain individual. Until I find him, I’m never going to stop searching.

“Where are you going?” Dag screamed as he ran. “Tell me! Can you save Kugar!?”

We all live for vengeance. From father to son, from the cradle to the grave. One day you’ll understand what it means. The voice of the anti-god was getting more and more distant. Find your destiny, and the river will get you there. The river, Dag. The place where you came to this world for the first time. That’s the end of the world. That’s the end of the road.

Hanoi disappeared along the drained course of water, as if the river was a memory living only in his ancient mind. Silence snaked into the river bed. It soaked the petrified wood and the debris under his feet, and soon it steeped in Dagger too, standing alone in the middle of nowhere.

Where I came to this world for the first time…he thought.

His own breath was suddenly unbearable to him. Something had changed inside his body and soul. He heard once again the harmonic motion of the stars, but took care not to go too far with his perception. He brought his gaze back on the comfortable ground under his feet. The helm of Ktisis lay there beside him. It was bruised and deformed as if it had just been pulled out of a furnace.

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