A character saga
Read 3 complete PicWar fantasy battle stories featuring Haplo across different rivals and endings.
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Each short stands alone, but together they trace how this character changes when the rival and circumstances shift.
The labyrinth of gray stone drank the morning light without returning a single ray. Cacticorn pressed a leather-wrapped knee against a fractured pillar, the barrel of her sniper rifle steady as a rooted stem, and let the…
Read the storyThe stone beneath Haplo's bare feet breathed cold, and the labyrinth's shadows breathed with it. Grotesque forms writhed at the edge of his vision—things with too many joints, mouths that opened sideways—but he gave them…
Read the storyThe labyrinth breathed. That much, Haplo understood before he understood anything else—the slow exhalation of ancient stone, the faint tremor of a living maze drawing its nightly breath around him. His bare feet found…
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