Seeking a Different Future
“Dangerous?!” The queen swung around to face him, her eyes filled with anger and she stalked toward him. “Of course it’s dangerous, or I wouldn’t be in this position. Where were your objections five years ago, Lord Merrinath? You were Continue reading Voidwalker: Prologue, p1
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
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
“Aren’t you an invoker?” Lor had taken to avoiding her, preferring the company of the giantkin or even just walking on her own. “Well, yes.” Marnius peered sideways at her. “Then can’t you just… invoke one of the saints? Call Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Seven, p2
The dark tendrils coiled around his arm. Slowly the writhing mass was crawling over him, engulfing him while recoiling whenever they touched the faded lines of his tattoo. Aziz knew he should be frightened. Panicked. He knew he should feel Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Seven, p1
The lizard stared at the Djinni, craning its long neck to move its head this way and that. All around them the darkness loomed thick, yet no shadows were cast upon them. Even the lightning flashes of deep yellow and Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Six, p13
“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
The opulent hallway stretching from the throne room to the palace gates was inordinately tall, especially given how short it was. At either end a pair of guards were standing with their halberds crossed to bar passage, their silent vigil Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Six, p11
Safira looked up the stairs with a certain satisfaction. The walls remained bare and the wooden steps looked a bit rickety, but at least it was no longer so gloomy. Gethak had helped her cut out some small, circular windows Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Six, p10
Ethnila pulled her cloak around here to ward off the night air, still heavy from the afternoon’s rain. She could still see the lights from the inn where they had rested last night. A washed out bridge had forced them Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Six, p9