Callisto

By TraversingtheDark

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The Deadlands - dry, arid, and merciless. A place where only the scent of death hangs loosely on the scorchin... More

Prologue
The Harrowing
Crimson Sands
Chosen
Words wreathed in flame
Dune-Runner
Fear to Tread
A Word most Useful
For My Gods and People
Canyon Crawling
Jespar
The Swamp
Voices in the Void (pt. 1)
Voices in the Void (pt. 2)
Dreams of the Changeling (pt. 1)
Dreams of the Changeling (pt. 2)
Dreams of the Changeling (pt. 3)
Awakening
Light
Pursuer
Iron and Rain
Old World Blues
The Chainmen (pt. 1)
The Chainmen (pt. 2)
The Chainmen (pt. 3)
Bond
The Wicked (pt. 1)
The Wicked (pt. 2)
Pursuer
Bad Wind Rising
Sandtrap
Pressure
Let Me
Jespar Alone (pt. 1)
Jespar Alone (pt. 2)
Jespar Alone (pt. 3)
Path of Light (pt. 1)
Path of Light (pt. 2)
Pursuer
May My Hands Forget
The Harvester
Revelation
The Snake and the Dragon (pt.1)
The Snake and the Dragon (pt. 2)
For you (pt. 1)
For you (pt. 2)
Pursuer
Callisto
To the death
A Kiss to Build a Dream On
Ours
Paths

Pursuer

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By TraversingtheDark

Calmly, he surveys the dead and the dying men and women around him.

As expected, these 'Guthra' Tribals had not offered much in the way of resistance.

Smoke billows from the crumbling straw huts of their outpost. He sniffs the air. He smells the fresh corpses riddled with lead. He beckons the other man to approach him.

"The dog?" he asks.

The man shakes his head. "But," he says. "We've got some bodies down in the canyon floor. Might be worth looking at."

He nods. He steps over the charred body of a mother clinging to her child, her face twisted in a scream that was never heard. 

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