The Unborn

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

[Jalan]
We should run,” I said, having not the least idea why I was not already
doing so. The word quarry repeated over and again behind my eyes. “What’s happening down there?” Perhaps a sick fascination kept me there, or the immobility of the rabbit beneath hawk’s claws.
“Something is being built,” Snorri said. “When the unborn return, they take what they need.”
“Return?” I sometimes ask even when I really don’t want to hear the answer. Bad habit.
“It’s hard for the unborn to return. They are not like fallen that rise from the deaths of men.” Snorri began to swing his sword left-handed, blurring it around him in fire-glow glimmers, making the air sigh. “They are uncommon things.
The world must be cracked open to admit them, and their strength is surpassing.
The Dead King must want us very badly indeed."

This work was born of my first and only attempt at using coffee stains to draw. I saw the shape of a face and a cloak at the beginning, and immediately thought of the Nazgul. Yet, somewhere along the way, it evolved into this. The Unborn is a fantastical creature from The Red Queen's War series by Mark Lawrence.
(It was a quite unique story, but more of that in the Reading Threads.)

 

[Andromadus the Invictus]

[Jalan]
We should run,” I said, having not the least idea why I was not already
doing so. The word quarry repeated over and again behind my eyes. “What’s happening down there?” Perhaps a sick fascination kept me there, or the immobility of the rabbit beneath hawk’s claws.
“Something is being built,” Snorri said. “When the unborn return, they take what they need.”
“Return?” I sometimes ask even when I really don’t want to hear the answer. Bad habit.
“It’s hard for the unborn to return. They are not like fallen that rise from the deaths of men.” Snorri began to swing his sword left-handed, blurring it around him in fire-glow glimmers, making the air sigh. “They are uncommon things.
The world must be cracked open to admit them, and their strength is surpassing.
The Dead King must want us very badly indeed."

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This work was born of my first and only attempt at using coffee stains to draw. I saw the shape of a face and a cloak at the beginning, and immediately thought of the Nazgul. Yet, somewhere along the way, it evolved into this. The Unborn is a fantastical creature from The Red Queen's War series by Mark Lawrence.
(It was a quite unique story, but more of that in the Reading Threads.)

This is an interesting and fantastic medium! Nice work!

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

This is an interesting and fantastic medium! Nice work!

Thanks!

 

[Ent]

We should run,” I said, having not the least idea why I was not already
doing so. The word quarry repeated over and again behind my eyes. “What’s happening down there?” Perhaps a sick fascination kept me there, or the immobility of the rabbit beneath hawk’s claws.
“Something is being built,” Snorri said. “When the unborn return, they take what they need.”
“Return?” I sometimes ask even when I really don’t want to hear the answer. Bad habit.
“It’s hard for the unborn to return. They are not like fallen that rise from the deaths of men.” Snorri began to swing his sword left-handed, blurring it around him in fire-glow glimmers, making the air sigh. “They are uncommon things.
The world must be cracked open to admit them, and their strength is surpassing.
The Dead King must want us very badly indeed."

Where are you coming from, and where are you taking me?
And why the urge to run?
and where or what is 'down there'??
and, and.... and....

You've introduced a great deal here in a very few sentences. A great deal of Questions. Away with the questions, a plague upon them. Answers. I need answers..!

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

Where are you coming from, and where are you taking me?
And why the urge to run?
and where or what is 'down there'??
and, and.... and....

You've introduced a great deal here in a very few sentences. A great deal of Questions. Away with the questions, a plague upon them. Answers. I need answers..!

Worth the read, as it is very different from your typical YA fantasy.

 

[Ent]

Worth the read, as it is very different from your typical YA fantasy.

So is this something that exists somewhere already?

 

[Ent]

Oh I see. it would help if I read the caption below the picture..!!

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

So is this something that exists somewhere already?

It does. It's a paragraph from the first book of The Red Queen's War series: Prince of Fools. It's a relatively easy read, as I went through it in a couple of days.

Oh I see. it would help if I read the caption below the picture..!!

It does.🤣

 

[Ent]

The Red Queen's War series: Prince of Fools.

OK. I shall add this (without guarantees) to my list of books to read. The opening is intriguing indeed..! And in all those words, only one useless 'that'. Tolerable...
(I must be getting older.)