Crossroads Lyrics Bone Novels & Stories

Setting: The Bone Orchard --- The field stretched endlessly under a starless sky, its earth cracked and pale as old scars. White trees clawed upward in jagged silhouettes, their bark not wood but bone—calcified remnants of the First Brood who defied Vaelros Seraxa. Each tree leaned as if in pain, branches frozen mid-scream, their roots burrowed deep into the soil where ancient blood still seeped. No Elder dared walk here, for the Orchard remembered betrayal. It remembered the Crown That Bleeds.

If I saw you in heaven Would you help me stand? If I saw you in heaven I'll find my way Through night and day 'Cause I know I just can't stay Here in heaven Time can bring you down Time can bend your knees Time can break your heart Have you begging please Begging please Beyond the door There's peace, I'm sure And I know there'll be no more Tears in heaven Would you know my name? If I saw you in heaven Would you be the same? If I saw you in heaven I must be strong

He is walking in my direction, while looking at my eyes, still singing. /Ah... Your skin, oh yeah, your skin and bones Ohh... Turn into something beautiful Aah... You know, you know I love you so You know I love you so/ I locked my eyes at him while he is walking towards me. I did not expect this surprised from him. I'm totally fluttered right now. Tears also start to well in my eyes. /I swam across I jumped across for you Oh, what a thing to do 'Cause you were all yellow

“Wren isn’t the only vessel I made. She was just the first to survive.” The ground shakes. Not from the tanks. From below. Duskbane’s courtyard stone cracks. Not one line. Dozens. Like the nursery. Like the path to the Tree. And from the cracks, gold light pours. Love’s voice hits my head. She’s still at the Tree with Sorrow, but I hear her like she’s here. *Mother. Wake up.* Wake up. The bone knife burns. I look down. The blade is changing. Growing. Forming into a crown. A circle of bone, sharp and wrong.

‘I met fear back when I was 16’ ‘Left me crying on the concrete’ ‘So sincere when I told him I'd leave’ ‘Somehow he still taunts me’ Raine brushed up against my mind, trying to give me comfort. ‘It’ll be okay. This isn’t the end.’ I nodded but only replied with the chorus of the song. ‘Oh, take me to that haunted place I know’ ‘Where I used to run these streets alone’ ‘Where all the roads were paved in bones’ ‘No, even in the darkest days I won’t’

I unfold it, and to my surprise, it’s a drawing of a bride and groom, like a wedding. The tears that rim my eyes now are hard to control. Did she draw this? Does Laura want us to really get married? The night stretches on while I hold her bag to my chest, looking over the bridge and river in the distance as I smoke my sorrows away. The sound of her laughter and moans fills my ears, stretching my heart in pain. Sometime before dawn, one of my gurus approaches Bones and me. “Shark.” I turn to him instantly, cocking my head. “Found anything?”

Her hollow self shrieked, split apart, and vanished in a storm of bone dust. Morwenna slumped into me, trembling, gasping. “You—idiot.” “Had to remind you,” I rasped, my blood staining her shoulder. “You’re still mine.” Her eyes met mine, wide, wet, furious, and alive. For a moment—just one moment—we weren’t soldiers, weren’t pawns. We were just two broken souls clinging to each other in the wreckage. And then the Bone Seer moved. He had not fallen. He had not even lifted a finger. He simply raised his hand, and from the altar, something began to rise.

Then they resumed their leaps from one tree to another as they inspected the area for any hint of the missing girl. "O what a tender, compassionate friend, He met the need of my heart; Shadows dispelling, With joy I am telling, He made all the darkness depart. Heaven came down and glory filled my soul, When at the cross the Saviour made me whole;" With Ryley continuing singing, they made their way further and further.

Fabien panics and confronts the now flustered Lucia behind him. "B-bo-bones...There are bones! What will we do?" Lucia starts shedding tears. Her loaded anxiety and worry for her little sister are pouring through her eyes. "C-calm down..."Fabien explores his eyes to the ground and sees a mountain of broken bones. At the end of those piles, a small circle of light is visible. "Lucia, it must be the way out! Come on, we must save your sister."

I stay in her embrace for a long time and drift off in a gentle sleep. ******************A blissful dream******************** 'I'm in a garden with beautiful flowers and few trees, standing barefoot in a long, white flowing gown. My little bump seems to fit well with my outfit. Birds are chirping soft melodies up in the trees and a cool breeze sways the bottom of my dress in a pattern.' "Lia, Lia, Lia" the breeze carries a masculine voice which calls out to me. I turn around but see no one and fear sets in. "Don't be afraid child, it's me....." the voice sounds closer and my body feels goose bumps rising.