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Beholden to the Restless Dead (1)
Nov. 24th, 2023 09:05 pmSummary: Rana-kez lived a violent life and ended up in the realm reserved only for the most restless of the dead. It is not in his nature to yield, and especially not to the god who rules this place--but circumstances conspire to make him something more than dead and not quite alive, and the Lord of the Restless Dead is willing to make a place for him.
(Eventual M/M, on-going)
Rating: M (violence, eventual sexual content)
(Eventual M/M, on-going)
Rating: M (violence, eventual sexual content)
Part One: Evening Ambivalence
Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Rana-kez knew where he would end up long before he opened his eyes next to the churning red river.
Out of all possible afterlives, where would he end up if not in the realm of the restless dead, the final stop of the infamous, the inglorious, the failed conquerors of the living world? He'd never feared this place, for all the people who condemned him to it.
Yet when he woke, it was with a vicious start, and a snarl on his face. At first, it was only the remnant fighting instinct lingering from the violent clash in which he died--of course he'd go down fighting. How else to end up in such a place, if not fighting?
But then, after looking around, after setting his feet into the black ash of the riverbank and rising to look off into the teal twilight color of a half-dark sky, his fury shifted into something colder; it was not the battle gorge that propelled him like animal instinct anymore. It was the cold, intellectual admission that there was nothing else left for him but the realms of the dead.( Read more... )
