Beyond The Pale Book の小説・ストーリー

"A writer, how inspiring! What do you write?" "Books." I deadpanned from behind mom, earning an annoyed cluck of her tongue. Blondie smiled awkwardly. "Ah, yes, I see. A- anything you'd recommend?" "Actually, yes. I think my latest work, From Beyond The Grave, would be the perfect read for you. Tons of bloodshed and cannibalism, there's even a chapter where the protagonist has to disembowel her own friend to-" "Uh, could we trouble you for some waters, dear?" Mom cut in, her voice on the edge between friendly and collected and right about to lose her shit.

“To the north, to be among the army of Pictdom that gathers beyond night. To the north even farther lies the end of the world.” “Yeah?” “Many more miles away is the northern sea that lies between here and the land of Thule, the great realm of ice and snow, home of my lover-man in ages past, Thule, the land that goes on, forever.” He heard the crash of branches and the howls of beastmen. Porcius stared into her eyes for a long time. *** August trudged through the tunnel, his mind on fire with all he’d seen down below. He couldn’t let himself get caught up in the terror that such things implied, though. August simply wanted to taste the open air again.