Seeking a Different Future
Ssrathep-Iln hobbled along the path winding past the rocks. The stony ground offered some comfort with each step, the warmth of twin suns stored within. He paused to inspect the guards before making his way around the outcropping into the Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Five, p9
They pushed their way through the crowded market. Their voices drowned out by merchants hawking their wares and customers attempting to bargain, they didn’t bother to speak until they finally escaped the throng into a relatively empty side street. “I Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Five, p8
Imaerla’s world was confused, warped by her fever. One moment she was dimly aware of blurry figures towering over her, silhouetted against a bright square of light, and the next she was alone in the darkness of her dreams. Occasionally, Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Five, p7
Taral wasn’t sure where the others were; this wasn’t his forest, at least not the part he knew. He knew they were near, caught glimpses and heard them, but he hadn’t the same awareness he was used to when hunting Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Five, p6
Aytaq looked out across the still waters of Lake Seren. Morning mist lingered across it, protected from the sun’s searing light by the shadows of the surrounding hills as well as those of that ugly wall that was being built Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Five, p5
“How goes it?” Her voice drew his attention away from the cards spread on the table before him and he looked up. She was stretching lazily in the bed, one side was illuminated by the pale light of the heavens Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Five, p4
He hummed a tune to the beat of drops falling from the dismembered beasts as He wiped His hands on a now-ruined handkerchief. Combat was not His kind of jazz; had never been. It felt out of tune, like a Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Five, p3
Ky, the Locksmith, had spent what seemed like an eternity trying to build some kind of rapport with the prisoner, yet the Chancellor’s speech was as incoherent as anything Rima had ever heard. Most of it didn’t even seem to Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Five, p2
Ethnila stared at the pale body of the elf, who lay in the sparsely furnished room’s only bed. She herself sat in the most comfortable chair they had been able to snatch from the common room. A strained silence hung Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Five, p1
Rima was pressed up against the dirty wall of the underground passage, as close to those up ahead as she dared go. She couldn’t see much, with the only light-source having disappeared around the bend, but she could feel that Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Four, p15