X is for Xenocide

          For a great deal of time the way yielded nothing but the pale stone walls and dust covered path until he reaches a snake-like curve.

          There lay two skeletons, one of them angel and the other demon. Zacharius tilted forward giving the skeleton’s closer scrutiny. The bones were thicker and looking at the jaw Zacharius managed to discern where the bone of the teeth would lengthen from the excess bone lying beside the eye sockets. Judging from the position of the elongation this demon was  older with its teeth positioned third from the middle where as younger demons usually had elongating teeth coming from the fourth. The bones on its spine appeared normal but the unusual bone growth on either side, yes it was what angelkind had begun to call Vrastez (oppressor), those demons born of the demon version of Visus.

          Zacharius crouched down studying the skeletons further as he thought about that, Vrastez in the Labyrinth. The demons sent out ahead of an army to bring down as many as possible before the main army arrived. Big, dominating and difficult to bring down. The demons had been ready to take this place then.

          The demon was over the angel and, if he looked closely, the angel’s neck and top of the spine was cracked. For another angel to have left its kin under the body of an enemy there must have been more to consider and the angel would have been dead already.


Zacharius, nephili, found in Enfractu.