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Justicar Chapter 28: Aftermath

Lucien stared down at Constantine’s corpse with a kind of muted horror. He could feel a part of himself wanting to scream, both in rage and in pain, at having taken a life. Constantine had been evil, yes. He had been a creature of pure and undiluted villainy, but he had not had to die. He could have surrendered. There were a dozen different things Lucien could have done to stop his attack. He could have used his ocular lasers to destroy the guns, or used his speed to stop the bullets and sw...

2022-10-26 05:21:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Justicar Chapter 27: Requiem

Get up.

Lucien drifted in darkness, the agony of his body a distant thing. Time, reality, existence — everything seemed muted and dismissed from his awareness. He knew that he was injured and in imminent danger, and yet he didn’t want to move. He didn’t want to leave the momentary peace of his unconscious mind. The waking world held the indelible stain of his failure to stop Constantine, and it was more than he could handle in that moment.

You have to get past t...

2022-10-26 05:20:47 +0000 UTC View Post