Seeking a Different Future
The Inner City spread out around Rima in neatly ordered sections, just like the garden below them. She had always found the Inner City confusing, but from up here in the palace tower it was less like a maze and Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Seven, p3
The bright hall below their balcony had fallen silent as guards led Ared away, though it had taken much entreatment and bargaining to persuade the spirit to allow him his life – for now. It was broken only by the Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Six, p8
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
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
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
Rima cursed under her breath. That was the third pick she’d broken trying to get the stupid cabinet open. She glanced about the room, looking for something else she could purloin, or perhaps even use to pry open the infernal Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Four, p12
“There is something I need to show you,” Katrina had said. Kyrion looked at Safira and Shadow sparring without really seeing them. He was supposed to meet Katrina in front of the Royal Halls at dusk, and the question was Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Four, p9
Cat, the wild-haired girl from the sewers, peered into the dark alley and waved at him to follow before slipping silently around the corner. He darted after then followed her onto the main street leading up to the Gilded Gate, Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Three, p14
The muck and sewage did not overly bother Gethak as they plodded their way through the sewers of the city center (not much worse than the streets outside the Guild; except the stench). Those parts which lay within the old Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Three, p10