Seeking a Different Future
The sharp smell from Ethnila’s stew filled the air of the small shelter, bringing with it memories of home. It had been a long time since she’d last cooked, and she didn’t really have the right ingredients available this far Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Six, p3
The forest rushed past all around her as Loriana pushed ahead. Her limbs burned from scrapes and cuts. Her heart pounded in her chest. And her lungs screamed for more air. Yet she could not, dared not, stop running. If Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter 3, p9
Imaerla stood atop a small outcropping with one hand against the trunk of a nearby tree for balance. Her gaze was sweeping along the distant horizon, where the disc of the day moon was all but done going into hiding Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Three, p3
Lyara was staring at the prisoner. She looked kind of fat, even for a human. Not that Lyara had seen all that many humans, but they had all looked much thinner than this one did. The girl, in turn, was Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Two, p11
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
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
“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
She woke to the soft chirping of birds only to have her senses overwhelmed by the forest’s sounds and smells a moment later. Her muscles were stiff and ached with a need to move, but when she attempted to flex Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter One, p6
“What is it?”“Is it human?”“I think it’s an ogre!”“Ogres are bigger.”“And a little uglier.”“Wait! Did it move?”“I don’t think so.” Loriana could tell the voices around her were high and child-like. There were a lot of them, hidden in the Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter One, p3
Slowly the heavy double doors at the end of the dilapidated hallway swung open, revealing a great chamber beyond. The fine white marble floor was crisscrossed with elaborate patterns of colorful ceramic tiles, and resting on the heavy grey slabs Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter One, p1