Aetheric Elements: The Rise of a Steampunk Reality
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by Travis I. Sivart
Hours later Suykimo reappeared to his anxious friends, and when they asked him what had happened, because they could see smoke rising from the city all the way from Shirewood, the Duke’s estate, Suykimo told them what he could.
“The mist covered ten square blocks of the city, and fires broke out as the madness spread. By the time the sun had set, buildings had been leveled, and hundreds of people had disappeared or been killed. Something dark had returned to our world, something that has not been seen for hundreds of years. I fear for our future and am ignorant of their intentions, but I doubt it is to the benefit of mankind.”
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