The Fourth Seal
Book 1: Oathbreaker 
Epilogue: Together
“Two broken fingers, three broken ribs, a sprained tailbone, more cuts and scrapes than I could count—the largest being seven inches long and one inch deep, which is going to scar, sorry—five puncture wounds, second degree burns on your wrists and hands, amplified by mild to severe acid burns all over your body, a ruptured artery in your leg, and a severe concussion. ”
“Also note that I pulled an inch of w

The Fourth Seal
Chapter 9: Requited
Six days earlier
“C’mon. You dragged us out of bed two hours early for this. What’s the holdup?”
“Shut up and let the woman work,” Dahlan shot back.
Mag pushed the complaints of the veteran guardsman out of her mind. She reach out with her senses, tracking Keziah. She had dropped down into the hideout as planned, but she hadn’t relocated since. There were brief sparkles of hostility and panic—probably from some i

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The Fourth Seal
Chapter 8: Morose Seclusion
When Keziah awoke from the rabid nightmare, she found herself propped up against a tree. She was hyper-ventilating. Her legs were numb and bare, the bite marks of a dreadful night still evident. She reached forward to rub them but yelped in pain.
A crossbow bolt had impaled itself in her shoulder, a pa

The Fourth Seal
Chapter 7: Oaths Broken
The air feels... changed. Whatever Keziah’s doing to distract the entire bar, it’s working, Mag thought. Something about the paladin’s presence had suddenly become much sharper and essential. Magaera felt lost in a sea of distracted bodies, Keziah and herself had become islands with their own volition, with Ferra shuttling around like a lost schooner.
She watched the sly man. He moved only when the crowd cheered, as though shrouded by dis

The Fourth Seal
Chapter 6: Black Daggers
"She exploded! Holy crap!" Keziah lay on the floor, legs kicking with laughter. Mag rested on her back, astonished, in a puddle of gore where the mummy queen had been standing only moments before. Smears of goop and slop spread out from where the girls lay. Nihluembra’s crown had been blown away with such force that it had become impaled in the ceiling above.
"I did it," Mag gasped, staring at her twitching hands, brilliant light slowly fading from

The Fourth Seal
Chapter 5: Cradle of Bones
An archway of moonlit iridescent masonry, all blues and greens, stood erect in the far corner of Nightingale's estate. It was a bold, ancient thing, littered with delicate masonic inlays depicting horned animals and enchanting forests. Some of the runes Keziah recognized, others were too archaic. One in particular caught her eye.
"Palos..." She mused aloud. "This glyph here, it's extremely similar to Ilgera's iconography. That's odd though, I thought th

The Fourth Seal
Chapter 4: Fatal Illusion
“There’s something you need to know,” Keziah had said last night. The girls wandered through the alleyways of Whitehaven under the moonlight, dodging between drunks, vagrants, and delinquents ignorantly inhabiting the roads after dusk, not knowing what horrors teemed at the edge of crawling shadows. Outside the disused rear entrance to Magen’s temple a salty chill lingered in the air. Magaera shivered in the dark despite the disap

The Fourth Seal
Chapter 3: Chained
“Queensbite.”
Keziah paused at the name. “Gods be damned...” She knew that name, hearing it again sent shivers down her spine. She tugged on her tunic nervously, mind racing.
“Could yeh keep the blasphemies to yerself? I triple checked it meself because I didn’t think yeh’d believe me otherwise,” the old dwarf rasped. Keziah looked to his brother for confirmation. Ethaniel nodded silently, returning to his stool a

The Fourth Seal
Chapter 2: Stonesong
Magaera's dreams were full of beautiful, naked, daemon-eating angels with golden hair, glowing green eyes, and perfect breasts. They brandished giant flaming swords, slicing gracefully through the miasma of the Eight Hells. After engorging on the damned the seraphic host flew back to Elysium on gloriously pure-white feathered wings, passionately kissing each other, bodily bulges and curves rubbing in heavenly ecstasy.
Magaera awoke abruptly. There was no heav

The Fourth Seal
Book 1: Oathbreaker
Chapter 1: Smitten
I've been down here for hours and I haven't sensed a single hint of evil, devilry or malice. No sight, nor sound, nor sense of impending doom. The only thing I feel is the dry, dusty air. This'll be terrible for my skin.
A lone woman wandered the dilapidated ash-covered halls. She moved from room to room, brandishing a radiant sword of considerable length. It illuminated the forgotten halls as a blazing torch would. Keziah Sorell was proud o