Nieunoftz

Dying Would have been easy. 
          	
          	A death bravely sought with bared teeth and no fear. 
          	
          	There was no bravery left, with the hard fingers wrapped around his mind.
          	
          	Only that pitifully numb desire to live, 
          	
          	to suck in air again and again. 
          	
          	To exist in chains for the sake of a breath. 
          	
          	Evil tainted his hands, 
          	
          	gunmetal coating his fingerprints, 
          	
          	but only the warm lick of fire revealed to him, 
          	
          	that he still wanted.
          	
          	---
          	
          	War In Embers Chapter 39: Broken Man
          	
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Nieunoftz

Dying Would have been easy. 
          
          A death bravely sought with bared teeth and no fear. 
          
          There was no bravery left, with the hard fingers wrapped around his mind.
          
          Only that pitifully numb desire to live, 
          
          to suck in air again and again. 
          
          To exist in chains for the sake of a breath. 
          
          Evil tainted his hands, 
          
          gunmetal coating his fingerprints, 
          
          but only the warm lick of fire revealed to him, 
          
          that he still wanted.
          
          ---
          
          War In Embers Chapter 39: Broken Man
          
          AVAILABLE NOW!
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/316754514-war-in-embers-a-lycans-story

Nieunoftz

Forgotten beasts twirl and grow in the ink abyss beneath her floating feet
          
          Shink. Thud. 
          
          A roaring inside. A will. A fight. 
          
          Shink. Thud. 
          
          Grave ice like his fingertips against broken flesh. 
          
          Shink. Thud. 
          
          Her throat bleeds. Her tongue tastes like dirt and her own clotted blood. 
          
          Shink. Thud. 
          
          For a reason. For a reason. 
          
          Shink. 
          
          Thud. 
          
          Live. 
          
          ---
          TOMORROW 12PM MST
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/316754514-war-in-embers-a-lycans-story

Nieunoftz

Comfortable death. 
          
          Her muscles uncoiled like wires off a spool. 
          
          The beast within bares her own, 
          
          different eyes, different horrors, but horror all the same. 
          
          "Death is never peaceful, death is never easy," it snarls through the water in her ears. 
          
          She kicks the surface of a forgotten sea, 
          
          clasps the hands of beasts to breathe, 
          
          and commands with the eldest's raised chin. 
          
          ---
          
          War In Embers Chapter 26: Nightmares 
          TOMORROW 12PM MST
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/316754514-war-in-embers-a-lycans-story

Nieunoftz

Ink beast, cloaked in blood amongst bodies.
          
          Smoking blood pours from torn wounds, 
          
          burns the ones who made them,
          
          burns the self- charring blackened skin. 
          
          A scream ripped from a decades silent mouth, 
          
          A command, a plea. 
          
          He prepared for death on those dripping teeth, 
          
          and instead found history repeated. 
          
          ---
          
          War In Embers Chapter 25: Grief
          
          TOMORROW 12PM MST
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/316754514-war-in-embers-a-lycans-story

Nieunoftz

I've been working a lot on Peace In Ashes lately, and it's got me thinking about covers. PIA's isn't ready to tease just yet, but it put me down the path of War In Embers' cover history. After so many years, it's time for something new. 
          
          New is here, and it takes the form of Three Bloody Brothers. 
          
          I hope you all enjoy looking at the striking white teeth of the Morozov brothers as much as I have enjoyed drawing them these past few days. 
          
          Proudly Yours, 
          - N

Nieunoftz

- On the Development of Future Projects - 
          
          As many of you may know, War In Embers has been fully completed as of May 23rd, 2024, and is projected to be fully released by April 18th, 2025. However I have not been idle with these past few months, nor do I intend to be for the rest of WIE's posting period. 
          
          It is with great excitement that I would like to announce progress towards two upcoming novels. 
          
          Peace In Ash, is the second and final book to the Lycans Story duology, of which War In Embers is the first novel. As of the 25th of August, the initial outline for Peace In Ash has been completed, and the novel is projected to be finished completely by June of 2025. It will provide a follow-up to the events of WIE, and without giving too many spoilers, will show that the intensity of the war within that we all fight can match that of the war without. 
          
          To fill the gap between the end of War In Embers being posted and the start of Peace In Ash being posted, I have a second project that I am equally excited to announce. 
          
          Seed of the Second Son is a historical fantasy taking place in the same universe War In Embers is based out of, and details the royal lineage of a lycan family and their complex history of birth, legacy, fertility, family, and war, near 500 years prior to the events of War In Embers. Seed of the Second Son is set to be my NaNoWriMo project this year, and is projected to be fully completed by early April, just in time to take over as WIE ends. 
          
          Further updates on major milestones concerning both projects (such as drafts, major revisions, updated outlines, and final editing) will be made as they occur, as well as the release of certain promotional and teaser materials. 
          
          I can't wait to show you all what I've been working on, and hopefully you all are just as excited to read it. 
          
          Productively yours, 
          - N

Nieunoftz

A mouth empty and aching with desire.
          
          A desire to fill with glorious red guilt.
          
          Teeth clamp down on tongue, 
          
          fills the chasm with yawning silence. 
          
          She signed away the bareness of her neck. 
          
          In return, an aching heart and allegiance she could never abide 
          
          writ large across her skin. 
          
          ---
          
          War In Embers Chapter 18: The Mark 
          
          TOMORROW 12PM MST
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/316754514-war-in-embers-a-lycans-story