Crossing The Gulf Expanse
Volume 2: Chapter 1 ~ Neither Icarus, Nor Jonah | Grotesque ~ A Gothic Epic | G.E. Graven
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~2: The Last Griffin
"And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he
Was tyrannous and strong:
He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
And chased us south along."
~S. T. Coleridge
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