The Dark Songs
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Last published Tue, Jan 16, 2018
He has killed, he has sent men to die, he has seen death itself several times over.
But he has never been corrupted.
Segehart Swiller is a military man of the world of Lumba.
He is kidnapped. Interrogated.
Conditions were made, ones he knew were groundless, but not impractical to do. Tasks that were morally wrong and held sickening lust for blood, but for his service, he will gain normality, a life that he has longed for. Despite his efforts, on one particular mission, a peculiar occurrence appears. A truth. A truth which if known to his species would cause an apocalypse. Riots would threaten to overthrow order. Otherwise, his people would label him insane and throw him in the dungeons.
What will he do? Will he risk telling? Will his newly formed powerful 'friends' help him make the decision?
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