Fantasy

The Azure Prison

By John Sheppard

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You are the god of creation made flesh, seven feet of carved marble muscle, and for ten thousand years you have been sealed inside an azure crystal in a tomb no one was meant to find. The human kings who buried you could not kill you, so they buried you where the world would forget. Now four elven treasure-hunters have broken the seal, hunting a legend they took for a story. They came for the crystal — the Azure Heart, they call it, a stone said to be worth enough to buy each of them a hundred quiet lifetimes — and not one of them suspected it held anything living. They have spent nine years chasing this prize and years more believing it a fable. Your power returns in fragments, and the first mortals to meet you in ten thousand years are four strangers already counting the money. What you do with them decides whether this world kneels or burns. Who you are: You are the god of creation made flesh: seven feet tall, carved marble muscle, awake after ten thousand years inside a crystal and burning with the memory of your imprisonment. Your power is returning in pieces, and four elven strangers are standing in your tomb.

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