Seeking a Different Future
Taral looked at the food they had handed him. It smelled like dry earth. It looked like a lump of pale wood, and was almost as hard. He wasn’t sure if it really was food. He gingerly tore off a Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Seven, p5
Marcus winced as the druid gingerly applied the poultice to his eye. The old man wasn’t nearly as wrinkly as Jae-lagh, but he was plenty rounder. Like one of those hairless boars they had in the wagons. Lyara stifled a Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Seven, p4
“Manhunters?” Marcus stared at the little girl fluttering back and forth in the air in front of him, her dragonfly wings beating rapidly and her eerily purple eyes staring back. She was looking at him like he was an idiot. Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Six, p12
“It’s a terrible plan!” “It is the best plan we have.” “It’ll get you killed!” “The alternative is getting everyone killed.” Jaeworl let out a long sigh. It was a good thing the combined herd had left already, for their Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Four, p14
Taral absently watched the child rush ahead of the group, almost disappearing in the undergrowth. She had mostly stuck to Lyara since he dropped her off in the camp, but kept clinging to him whenever she got frightened. Or hungry. Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Four, p7
Taral was crouching amidst the underbrush, his gaze darting from tree to bush to shadow as he listened to the forest. He was trying to pick out the noise of his quarry from the myriads background sounds of the woods. Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Three, p5
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
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