Gate: A Broken Heart I entered the vision gate and found myself moving to tribalistic music in the center of a crowd of dancers just like me. The spirits of men and women were dressed in brightly colored feathers and sported orange bands around their arms and legs. All of a sudden, Shadow appeared in […]
Read more "Chapter 86: Changing the War Against Heartbreak"Gate: Nimue’s Grotto I stepped through the vision gate and stood on a barren plain. Steel escalators exploded from the ground and wound their way into the air in a suddenly chaotic scene of noise and motion. A set of stairs came into being under my feet and propelled me upwards into the sky. At […]
Read more "Chapter 66: Returning Nimue’s Sun to the Cave of Madness"Gate: The High Priestess I stepped through the vision gate into a world that had been devastated by the Eternal War between the light and shadow. The sky was red, emblematic of all of the blood that had been spilled in the war throughout time and stained the ground upon which I stood. The wind […]
Read more "Chapter 60: Discovering a Shadow of the Collective Nightmare and Why the Hanging Woman Hangs"Gate: The Hierophant I stepped through the vision gate and found myself on the back of a giant, black raven. She was flying high and fast through the mists and I clung to the bird’s back. “Heidi,” she croaked. “You’re here. He has been waiting.” “Who has been waiting?” I asked. The raven didn’t answer, […]
Read more "Chapter 57: A War Game of the Ancients and Reclaiming the Dice of Impossibility"Gate: The Lovers I stepped through the vision gate and found myself standing on some unfinished timber floating down a fast moving stream. I was in the midst of many other cut tree trunks and they bumped and pushed against each other as we slipped down the waterway. Then, quite suddenly, the stream reached a […]
Read more "Chapter 56: The Battle of the Seaward Wall and the Inner Child’s Legion"