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Shadow of the Empress


Chapter 3



“I wonder,” Demogar asked as she stood up to go wash her face. “Do you know what it’s like to kill someone whose name you know?” She glanced at the body of the angel. “He wasn’t my friend, but I know who he was, how many kids he had, how many grand and great-grandkids. I know what his wife will say when she hears he did not return.”


“Was he part of the Empress’s guard then?” I asked, re-holstering my gun at the small of my back.
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Shadow of the Empress


Chapter 2


“This is a nice room. Is this what they call ‘Japanese style’?” Demogar dropped her only bag in the chair by the beds. Vaguely, I wondered if she was just saying that to be nice and was disappointed by the what I’m sure by her standards were modest accommodations. She made her way around the room, taking in the bamboo blinds and legless chairs at the low dining table. “What’s this for? To rest your arm on?”


I smiled as she inspected t… Continue

Shadow of the Empress
Chapter 1

“Touch me and I will explode your insides like an over-ripe tomato.”

I glanced up from the worn book in my lap, my finger automatically slipping under the page, ready to turn it in a moment. I’d been here most of the day, waiting for someone I had never met before. Lucifer rarely asked for favours, and this one seemed more important than usual. Not that he ever asked for trivial things, but it was obvious that this girl he wanted me to look after was dear to him… Continue