Harbingers of Blood

Pandi’s Ponderings

The Writings of the Expositor of the Serpent, Pandi Silverpaw

  • The Chaos Drum

    The Chaos Drum Let the chaos run.Not as noise, but as prophecy—a living thing that seeps through cracked stoneand coils in the marrow of the forgotten. Let all the shenanigans wake the nation—not laughter, no…but the kind of madness that smiles too wide,that dances in graveyards beneath a moon that never blinks. For this is…

  • The Choice That Held

    The Choice That Held The door loomed before her, ancient and breathing with a silence that felt almost alive. She had sworn—on blood, on bone, on the remnants of a soul long scarred—that she would never step through a threshold like this again. Never answer the call. Never pick up the blade. And yet… time…

  • Forged by Flame

    Forged by Flame A lost soul wandered—searching, prayingfor somewhere safe. Often overlooked,labeled a problem,a headache,a waste. The soul slowly withered.A once fiery flameburned low,flickering in the dark. But the fates were not finished. Slowly, pieces were added. First came a woman—gentle, welcoming—who gave me the title of daughter.She looked at me and sawnot what had…

  • Expositor of the Serpent

    Expositor of the Serpent by Pandi Silverpaw I walked away from two bloodlines.I chose death over the poison of mistrust.There was a dream once—fragile, sacred—and I watched it wither in my hands. I entered my rest believing that was the end. But the dead do not always sleep forever. She returned to me—one once lost—and…

  • I Am Not the Lies

    I Am Not the Lies by Pandi Silverpaw I am not the lies you whispered into my bones. I am not the weight you tried to hang around my name. I am not worthless. I was never worthless. I deserve to be loved — not conditionally, not cautiously, not only when I am convenient. I…

  • Litany of Ash and Ascension

    Litany of Ash and Ascension At the hour when night loosens its gripand dawn bleeds slowly across the horizon,I sit before dying embers —and I remember.I remember the child.Wild.Unbroken.Untamed by the cruelty of lesser tongues.A spirit that ran without chainsand laughed without fear.Where did that child go?Who forged the iron around her heart?Who whispered poison…