The Bloody and the Damned

The Bloody and the Damned

Author: Becca Coffindaffer Listening Length: 11h 41m
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An assassin with outlawed, magical abilities will do anything to get their kidnapped sisters back in this dystopic-fantasy standalone, perfect for fans of Arcane and Iron Widow. Mercy has no place here. On Trinity, where the privileged live in the skies and the rest fight for water below, you do what you can to survive...

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Chapter Thirty-Two

“THE GATE OF HEAVEN IS NOT FOR MORTAL EYES OR MINDS. IT IS BEYOND OUR COMPREHENSION, AND WE ARE ONLY PREPARED TO EXPERIENCE IT IN DEATH, AFTER HAVING SPENT OUR LIVES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE HERALDS’ LAW. TO LOOK UPON IT BEFORE THEN WOULD BE TO ENDANGER OUR VERY SOULS.”

The blue of the sky is starting to darken again into a brilliant red-orange sunset when we reach a cluster of rundown shacks and small buildings, rusted and weathered by wind and dust, slouched together a few steps away from another rift of the Elysian Depths, although the span between the two alloy continents is narrower here.

Maybe half a mile across at most, and there’s a rough metal bridge arcing across it.

More than anything, the place looks like it serves as an intersection; water and naphtha aqueducts meet in a knotted cluster and shoot off in several different directions.