Escanor Dies Novels & Stories

Just certainty. “No,” he said. “It’s someone who can access sealed orders. Someone who knows the coded supply routes. Someone who hears the council strategy.” Ethan didn’t look at anyone when he said it. Everyone felt accused all the same. General Tamer leaned forward. “We found one of the scouts dead three nights ago. Not killed in battle. Silenced.” His fingers pressed into the table. “Someone did not want him returning with what he saw.” A chill ran up my spine.

After Ian finished speaking, he suddenly felt a tug on his sleeve. Joy tugged at his sleeve. "Beautiful scenery is meant to be captured with your eyes. Sit down and let’s enjoy it together." Ian's ears turned red again. While waiting for the northern lights, neither of them spoke. Joy stuffed snacks into her mouth while feeling the warmth of the bonfire. Just then, a news article popped up on her phone. [Former business tycoon Leon Scott passed away this morning. His company declared bankruptcy before his death, signaling the end of an era...]

“Then there are four.” “There were.” The word made her stop. “What happened to 003?” Marcus continued walking. “She escaped.” “How?” “No one knows.” They reached a massive steel door. There was no handle. Only a biometric scanner. Marcus placed his palm against it. The scanner flashed red. ACCESS DENIED. He tried again. Still red. Lucien stepped forward. “Move.” He placed his hand against the scanner. The machine immediately turned green. Marcus’s face went pale. Seraphina stared at Lucien.

I’d not noticed her sat at the table, for she had shrunk down in her seat to avoid the glares of the other werewolves. ‘Luna?’ I mindlinked to Ares. ‘Scillian died.’ His throat bobbed. ‘Nazte killed him.’ I was still reeling from that revelation as disgruntled mumbles broke out around the table. “A Greyhide wolf?” someone muttered, too loudly to be intended to go unheard.

A mechanical cylinder, almost the size of a surgical tray and glowing with a faint, eerie blue ultraviolet light, dropped through a rusted iron street grate above. It suspended itself in mid-air and began to rotate slowly. A scanning beam of blue light swept across the concrete walls of the tunnel, searching for the infrared signature of living flesh. Kael pulled me hard against his chest, wrapping his frame around mine to shield me from the line of sight. I pressed my face into the rough leather of his jacket, shutting my eyes tightly and holding what little breath I had left in my lungs. The scanner hummed, electronic whine that seemed to vibrate directly inside my teeth as the blue light

AXEL'S POV "You want one of us to die," I said slowly, making sure I understood correctly. "So you can steal information from the enforcer that kills us." "Not steal but absorb and not permanently die. Just temporarily." Marcus's hands were shaking but his voice was steady. "In that moment between death and erasure, the system is still processing and still connected. I can tap into that connection, pull data directly from the enforcer through the dying person." "That's the stupidest plan I've ever heard," Brady said. "And I've heard a lot of stupid plans."

reaching out across the wasteland like the fingers of a starving man. Ethan Hawke stood on the cliffs above the village, his "Strong Frame" braced against a wind that tasted of sleet and ozone. In his hand, he held an "Analog" brass telescope, but beside it on the stone parapet lay a "Zero-Point" scanner—a relic he had sworn never to use again. The Signal in the Dark The scanner's screen was cracked, but the "Data-Points" were unmistakable. A high-frequency "Audit" pulse was radiating from the south, originating from the ruins of Portland.

Just as she had promised. Mikael eyes widen staring down at his now dead cousin on the ground from the second floor he stood. He would have cried for him or rush to his side seeing blood pools under him with spears penetrate his torso yet he felt nothing. He knew his eyes has darkened the moment he steps into the mansion and heard Zara's cry for help.

He used the tone that no one can resist and would dare to oppose him. " I arrived late and then found police at the house but luckily, they all planned to escape into one of our safe houses again. There are more than twenty deaths and wounded men of ours are growing in number. And those dead members of Scorpion are found in our house." I tell him an update that fits my knowledge.

I drink in the exact moment her world cracks open. “She had one of her henchmen, the one Scar recently killed...bite him when he was just a newborn…” “Wait…” Emerald’s voice slices through, shaking violently. Tears stream freely now from her eyes. “A henchman Scar recently killed? What do you mean?” “Oh, nothing much,” I say, almost bored. “He means Rattle. Scar killed him days ago. Along with a few others. The police were kind enough to inform us their bodies were taken to the morgue… courtesy of Scar and Luke Denvers.”