6/7/08 01:14 am - Ixion is come!    "The raging flame, whose lapping tongues but a moment ago had threatened to scorch the underbelly of the sky, had regressed to wisps of smoke unfurling hypnotically in the cool breeze. An elderly knight, a veteran of countless campaigns, lies half buried in smoldering debris with limbs entangled with those of fallen friends and foes, his pallid complexion masked in the grey and crimson of ash and caking blood. He stares with glazed eyes at clouds drifting lazily across the dusk sky, his head swimming in the mingled smell of rusted metal, burnt foliage, and death. The faint whistling of the wind is a soothing song compared to the horror-filled shrieks that accompanied the sickening sound of flesh and bone giving way to tempered steel." Awesome. This be a Final Fantasy? =D (you can read the rest of the Ixion introduction here. Link is to the official FF11 US site) I miss FF11 so much. Want to try out Wings of the Goddess. ;___; Tor's latest free ebook was Orphans of Chaos by John Wright. Unlike usually, I read it straight away. The cover looked interesting. :P Anyway, there are no words to describe the excellency of the beginning of that book. Everything in it was just right. It got a bit..weird, later on, but the concept is still very interesting. I'm tempted to go find out more of the series...  excited |