Wheeler slammed the drained glass down on the table hard enough to rattle the ice within. He clutched it for a moment, long fingers turning white as they flexed tightly around the heavy glass. Oliver didn’t think he had pushed the man too far, but he tensed his muscles to dodge out of the way [...]
Continue Reading →The guard cleared his throat and pushed the wood back into the bag before tossing it back to Oliver. He nodded at the waiter, who turned and hurried away. “Go ahead.” The guard stepped aside to reveal Senator Wheeler sitting at the far end of a large table set for sixteen, sipping a glass of [...]
Continue Reading →“Blink your eyes. Option one, or option two.” Kyle looked at Oliver with undisguised hatred. He didn’t blink. “So you think there’s a third option do you? There isn’t.” Oliver stepped back, lowering his gun. Kyle continued to stare at him defiantly. The edge of his mouth quirked up in a smile, even as his [...]
Continue Reading →Oliver turned into another alcove and tripped, sprawling across the body of another of the black dog creatures. The chemical light flew out of his hand and skittered across the floor to stop wedged under the body of another of the creatures. He sprang to his feet and grabbed the light from where it had [...]
Continue Reading →Even as the world around him continued to slow, with the flames spurting out of a dog’s seeming to stand still in the air, Oliver saw the men rising to power as they summoned the magic of the staff to defeat their enemies. Then the world snapped back into action and Oliver charged up the [...]
Continue Reading →The fiend nearest Kyle jerked backwards and flopped over onto the floor, its body folded at an unnatural angle as a burst of bullets shattered its spine and ripped through its frayed muscles. The unholy fire that animated it blazed bright in the fiend’s eyes and it dragged itself across the floor towards Kyle on [...]
Continue Reading →Oliver couldn’t make out the details of the staff from this distance, but it appeared to be nothing more than a simple length of yellowish wood, one end blunted from pounding against thousands of miles of sand and rocks of the desert, the other polished to a dark sheen from years of being grasped the [...]
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