Civil War on Kalkovac

This began our civil war.

Plasma rifleman with an unidentified House of Lesser Nobility, near the West Gate. Arbutus, 956.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks: Whispers

Eventually the whispering turned, and was a storm. It doesn't matter if the words made sense or not.

In 956 His Majesty Delvar II left Kalkovac by chartered shuttle and went to exile. After just over sixteen hundred years safeguarding the royal house, the Domestice Family was unavailable for further judgement.

The throne is empty.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks: XXVIII

Advocates/Hunchbacks: Language

Perhaps the worst betrayal of all

is language.

Advocates/Hunchbacks: Words (d*)

We say, "Drasenk nabb culat." And then, "Buzade ko-kaym."

And the king

sags in our memory.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks: Words (c*)

We say, "All Hail, Tok-Fugaeth! All Hail the Zillion!"

But these are not our words. Utterances.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks: Words (b*)

They say "Ha syzykeo" and the television flickers. They say 

"Ha syzykeo kaseve, kaseve syzykeo"-

and we say "Yi-kaseve, yi-syzykeo".

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks: Words

They make a certain sense anyway.

 

Advocates/Hunchbacks: Stars

The Advocates appeared on the picture-vision too

but they don't talk.

Advocates/Hunchbacks XXI