Seeking a Different Future
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
“How goes it?” Her voice drew his attention away from the cards spread on the table before him and he looked up. She was stretching lazily in the bed, one side was illuminated by the pale light of the heavens Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Five, p4
He hummed a tune to the beat of drops falling from the dismembered beasts as He wiped His hands on a now-ruined handkerchief. Combat was not His kind of jazz; had never been. It felt out of tune, like a Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Five, p3
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
Ethnila stared at the pale body of the elf, who lay in the sparsely furnished room’s only bed. She herself sat in the most comfortable chair they had been able to snatch from the common room. A strained silence hung Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Five, p1
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
“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
“Ah, yes. That’s the one,” Marnius said as the innkeeper heaved the massive morningstar onto the bar. Ethnila watched the half-ogre lift the weapon up to examine it. Despite the heavy rain falling outside, he had insisted they take a Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Four, p13
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
He was a ray of sunshine, carrying the Light from the Sun above to the faithful below. His radiance cascaded off the gilded domes of Brighthill Cathedral to dance over its marble spires and illuminate the lands of his duchy Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Four, p11