The Shivered Sky: The Complete Series Boxset: A Tale of the War in Heaven by Matt Dinniman

Author:Matt Dinniman [Dinniman, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
Publisher: Dandy House
Published: 2021-09-18T22:00:00+00:00

“Do you not remember me?” said the wolf. Her face was right up against Dave's, and her breath was foul with the stench of meat, hot like a hairdryer. “We walked together. Hunted together. Shared each other in the black pools of shadows of the northern forests.”

“No,” Dave pleaded, on his back, dragging his dying body through the leaves. His house was so close. But she had already rent his chest, and his innards spilled upon the forest floor, steaming, leaving a path in his flight. He prayed for unconsciousness, but he knew it wouldn't come. How can I pass out when I'm already asleep?

“Please, I don't know what you're talking about. I just want you to go away, leave me alone.”

“You left me,” the wolf said, keeping pace with his slow retreat. “To starve and die, while you prospered on another world. I promised you then your actions would have a consequence.” She licked her lips. The stench of his own pungent gore flared razor sharp. Something deep down within himself awakened then, craving the smell of his own flesh. The new presence alarmed him, like jumping at his own reflection while stumbling through the dark.

What's happening?

“Leave me alone,” he repeated, his voice a shriek.

“It's coming back to you,” she said, blood dripping off her muzzle. She reached down and nipped up a red length of intestine and yanked it free, like pulling an earthworm too quickly from its hole. “It's in your eyes.”

She reached forward with her enormous paw, pushing against his chest. It made the sound of a bag of potato chips being crushed.

“I sense your presence now. You're in the broken city,” the wolf said.

“Please,” Dave shouted, the pain absolute. His mind bent against the full capacity of sensation, and he willed for it to crack. Perhaps he could be free.

Something, then, did break, though it wasn't his sanity.

“Please, Vila, I can take no more. Please.” She stopped at that, a wolven grin.

“We will meet again,” the wolf said. “Outside of your mind, where you are no longer safe. You will remember, then.”

He turned to look for his house, but it was gone. Standing in its place was a mighty stag, its antlers boasting a hundred points, reaching high into the forest's darkness. A sadness filled him, then.

I am too injured to hunt.

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