Outlaw Ballad

Leylines and Loaded Hands

He rode the rails through factory smoke A drifter's coat, a common folk But when the mana currents turned The air itself would twist and burn His eyes could read what others missed The threads that weave, the sparks that hiss A gunslinger's draw, a gambler's guile Hiding truths behind that smile
Leylines bend where he has been The spark stitched deep beneath his skin An Auralith with loaded hands He walks between the shifting sands Of what is real and what is felt Where iron rusts and magic melts
In smoky halls where outlaws duel He'd tip his hat and play the fool But watch their spark unravel slow As mana streams began to flow The Totem's breath runs through his veins Though branded cursed by church and chains He siphons light from zealot's prayer And leaves them grasping empty air
No scripture written for his kind The Aberrant the laws maligned To judgment cast by those who fear The power flowing crystal-clear Through bone and blood and steel and stone A resonance he calls his own
Leylines sing where he once stood The current's pull misunderstood An Auralith with loaded hands Who dealt his fate to shifting sands The gunslinger who played it true And fired with mana bleeding through
Still whispered low in factory towns Where smoke and starlight tumble down The ghost who read the hidden streams And vanished into steel and dreams