“The Temple of Duma Veil” appears in Birdy #97, January 2022, with art by Ali Hoff. A pandemic story if ever there was.
When the mages finished, Haverna was a blazing ruin. It had been the greatest city on the continent, home to a million souls. In the bazaar, merchants had hawked everything from steel spearheads to aromatic spices, women in bright silk dresses walked with baskets full of fish and fruit, child beggars pulled at your tunic as you sampled chewy candies. It was a place to overwhelm the senses, full of riotous life and color.
Now it was an inferno, the flames hundreds of feet high, the smoke blacking out the sun. It was, we were told, the only option, and this was hard to argue, considering the trouble we had containing the infected.
THE FELL AND THE FAE 