pain-piercing

Updated: July 19, 2025

The sound came first, smothered and pain-piercing; then the old frontiersman had uttered something between a curse and a groan. She sprang from shelter and looked over the edge. Jumbled at the foot of the pinnacled red rocks heaved a writhing mass, a weltering maimed horror.

Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut - The Freebooters of the Wilderness