Seeking a Different Future
Loriana lay on her back, staring up at the ‘ceiling’ and trying to figure out what the shapes in the bark resembled. There was one knot that looked a bit like a horse’s head, while another reminded her of a Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Two, p8
Sethian closed his eyes and let out a long, slow sigh. He had read the same set of glyphs a half-dozen times now, yet they refused to stick. His mind kept wandering back to the encounter with the Collector. The Continue reading Voidwalker Chapter Two, p7
Ky was slouching in a chair by the fireplace, absently twisting that precious ring of his around its finger while staring into the flames. The boy was bothered by something, and to most he probably looked despondent about it. Aziz Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Two, p6
It was a lavishly furnished room. The walls were adorned with tapestries and paintings, all aligned perfectly not just to hang level but also for proper symmetry with each other. Ornaments were lined up according to height on top of Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Two, p5
Gerald let out a long sigh. He hated being outside at night. The woods looming beyond the fields, home to all manner of beasts looking to sink their teeth into his flesh. The eerie quiet around the village. The wind Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Two, p4
The tiny creature stared at her with its lone eye. Loriana stared back. The creature, if that was even the right word for it, was perhaps as tall as a hand was long. It was kind of hard to be Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Two, p3
Aziz scowled. Ky was trying to convince Ared that he had acted on instinct with the intent of helping to capture the criminal, and that the death had been an accident. Moreth, meanwhile, was ignoring all of it to discuss Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Two, p2
The unchanging static of the astral was beginning to grate on his sanity. Sethian gazed at his broken soul, torn to shreds by magic unlike anything he had ever seen. But he was alive, unlike the two companions he knew Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Two, p1
While Aziz and Gethak had been engaging the two Royals, Ky had been pondering how he was to get out from under the table. Then the waitress had arrived with a new mug of ale for Aziz. Not one to Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter One, p13
“So… Thou art the interloper?” He tried his best to speak the language humans called Karth, though it had been many decades since the last time he had found need to use it and suspected that his pronunciation would be Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter One, p12