A character saga
Read 6 complete PicWar fantasy battle stories featuring Clarice across different rivals and endings.
The saga shelf
Each short stands alone, but together they trace how this character changes when the rival and circumstances shift.
The dust of the arena floor was the color of old parchment, and Clarice walked across it as though reading a document she had already memorized. Her red hair climbed the air behind her like a struck flame. The rune-ring…
Read the storyThe stone plaza of the old bridge-city smelled of rain and iron, and Clarice decided within three heartbeats that she liked it. Her red hair swung high behind her as she paced a slow half-circle around the man in the…
Read the storyThe chain-lattice was still hissing where Sif's fists had torn it apart in the last fight, and Clarice remembered the sound the links made when they died—like glass under a boot. She had rebuilt her kit around that…
Read the storyThe fog came off the river like a slow tide, and Clarice walked into it alone. She had chosen the place deliberately—a derelict freight yard where rails rusted into the weeds and the only structure tall enough to matter…
Read the storyThe dark clearing smelled of cold iron and old smoke, and Clarice let it fill her lungs as she circled wide, giving ground she had no intention of surrendering. She had learned her lesson the first time. The lattice had…
Read the storyThe arena was a collapsed observatory, its shattered dome open to a bruised violet sky, and Clarice liked it immediately. Confined space, broken sightlines, debris to chain off of—everything a woman with a rune-ring and…
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