The Devil's Broken Doll
The bands sang faintly as they held, a high, restrained whine like a hymn being forced through a throat that didn’t believe in God.
Above, aerial units took position.
Black-winged devils lifted from battlements in synchronised arcs, their ascent disciplined rather than chaotic. They did not circle wildly. They climbed to calculated heights and held there, wings beating in a measured rhythm, forming layered air cover in vertical tiers. Their wingbeats made a steady, oppressive percussion, like a thousand doors closing one after another. Some carried hooked chains coiled at their waists. Others bore curved blades that glowed faintly along their edges, the metal reacting to the proximity of for
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