court of gallows

The cathedral gargoyle stared at her, water vomiting from its mouth and eyes, the rest spilling down the sides of its horns. The rain overflowed every spout and caused a cascade of water to flood the streets below. Pneria could see it. She perched near on height with the rusty sabre of the moon...

Outer City, Alliria, Forger's Alley Xeraphine rubbed the coin between her gloved fingers. She turned it, appraising its two sides. On one side, a hempen rope encircled a skull, its teeth clamping down gaily on said hemp. One eye held a tiny fragment from some red gem. Perhaps a flawed ruby...