5/11/2023 0 Comments Blue smoke by nora roberts![]() ![]() He took a beer, savored its sharp coolness in his throat as his skin streamed with the heat. The light flickered over his face, danced in his fascinated eyes. More powerful than the flames, more canny than the heat, more stunning than the smoke. With such ardor.Įverything fell before it, kneeling supplicants that worshipped even as they were consumed.īut he had made it, created it. And it took what it wanted without remorse, without mercy. He saw it as a kind of entity, a gilded, crimson god that existed only to destroy. It had eyes, red and all seeing, and a mind so brilliant, so complete, it memorized everything in its orbit. ![]() Like that beast, it slithered, snaked its way over wood, and scored what had been clean and bright with its black and powerful fingers. ![]() Like some preternatural beast clawing its way from the womb, it burst to life with a cackle that rose to a roar.Īnd changed everything in one magnificent instant. ![]()
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