Black Flames
March 21st, 2007 at 9:32 pm (Fantasy)
Thirteenth-Jaguar-Sun did not like the smell that lingered in the air.
It was like the smell of the great temple fires that burned at the foot of the temples to Child-of-the-Bloody-Moons when the winds shifted and blew their black smoke down over the city: it was the charnel smell of flesh taken by flame, the smell of sacrifice, of bodies given over to the eternal fires by the priests.
