Canticle of the Winged Sisters
For Demacia
Graham McNeill
The monster’s form exploded into black dust with a shriek of anguish.
Garen spun his sword up and pulled back in an oblique turn.
Rules of Survival
The Noxians scrambled upright, blinking as they scanned the edge of the forest. They fumbled to draw their swords and Quinn almost laughed at their surprised ineptitude.
At The Edge Of The World
Ian St Martin
Progress Day
Graham McNeill
When they open a moment later, it has gone.
“I always go with the other one,” says a man appearing beside her. He is handsome, dark-haired, and smooth-skinned, which means he is rich.
K’Sante
The Garden of Forgetting
Rayla Heide
As they walked through the moonlit garden, flowers turned to face the old woman as if she were the sun itself, warming their leaves and helping them grow. Or perhaps the flowers did not wish to turn their backs to her.
The Black Powder Plot
David Slagle
Elise
Though no evidence was ever found of the warlord’s skull, the Pale Woman saw Elise’s dangerous new gift for what it was—a means to come and go safely between Noxus and the Shadow Isles. An accord was struck, wherein the Black Rose would provide Elise with endless unwitting sacrifices to offer up to the spider-god, and in return she would recover any artifacts of power she could from those benighted, forbidding shores.
With Hell Before Them
Jared Rosen
Through the tunnel I fled, up the winding paths of the Black Canyon toward my steed and open prairie. Pursued by the legions of hell, and the blackened heart of that wicked, brutal man.
Lullaby
“We have a treat for you.” She set the brown parcel down on the table. They pulled their chairs close to watch as Ekko reached over and untied the knotted twine, straightened both strings, and laid them next to him.
The Whispering Doodad
Graham McNeill
Monsters
She felt its jaw clench, ready to bite and rip her limb off. She didn’t give it the chance.
Vayne twisted her arm, dragging her wristbolt launcher across the inside of the creature’s gob until the silver tip of her final arrow pointed directly at the roof of the beast’s mouth.
Bloodline
Graham McNeill
“For me to find you again,” said Nasus, turning away.
He left Sivir and Taliyah before he could change his mind, knowing their best chance of survival was to draw Xerath’s warriors to him.
The Shuttered Manse
Graham McNeill
Like the others, Elise would draw him to her before devouring him alive.
Waning moon in a coal-dark sky.
Cassiopeia
The Biggest Catch
Rayla Heide
“I got you!”
The yordle’s fate and mine intertwine as I land on its shoulder, with Book right behind.
The Faceless God
Graham McNeill
I watch the worm wriggling its way up from the sand.
Its fronded head sways this way and that as it tastes the air, sensing the ewer of water I keep by my bedside amid the pile of scrolls, bone styluses, and ink pots.
A Piece of Shadow Cake
Odin Austin Shafer
“We can rest there. But we must pass through the town without being spotted by the black-and-red-clad ones.