Divine Curse

A Maguire
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7 min readOct 26, 2017

“Burning” by Boris Vallejo

Endless winds, perfumed with carrion and sulphur, whispered through pocked cavern walls. The heart of this realm beat arrhythmically, pulsing dark carnelian light and a staggering, dissonant tempo against the construct he wore.

Once an angel, he had always been energy: soulless, deranged and scarred by a thousand years under the tender ministrations of his brother, but the Morningstar’s crude attempts to create abomination from their…

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