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
When Aziz had left, the forest had been untamed but friendly. Now it loomed around him like a predator waiting for a moment’s weakness, the opportunity to pounce. It felt as though even the animals were keeping quiet for fear Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Four, p10
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
On the outskirts of the colony of Wyrm’s Edge, just inside the fencing separating settlement from forest, a crowd had gathered by a small trail leading from the well to a dwelling a ways into the woods. At the center Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Three, p1
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