Seeking a Different Future
Loriana stared hard at her companion. “What do you mean ‘faeries don’t look like that’? I saw them with my own eyes!” Imaerla giggled, ducking under a low branch as they continued through the peaceful forest. “Even I do not Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Four, p3
“Greetings, great Ghaba, oh glorious goblin!” Ghaba felt his grip tighten around the staff as he gazed at his distorted reflection in the simmering stew. Slowly lifting his gaze from the great cauldron, he peered at the girl across the Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Four, p1
The forest rushed past all around her as Loriana pushed ahead. Her limbs burned from scrapes and cuts. Her heart pounded in her chest. And her lungs screamed for more air. Yet she could not, dared not, stop running. If Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Three, p9
Imaerla stood atop a small outcropping with one hand against the trunk of a nearby tree for balance. Her gaze was sweeping along the distant horizon, where the disc of the day moon was all but done going into hiding Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Three, p3
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
Loriana lay on her back, staring up at the ‘ceiling’ and trying to figure out what the shapes in the bark resembled. There was one knot that looked a bit like a horse’s head, while another reminded her of a Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Two, p8
The tiny creature stared at her with its lone eye. Loriana stared back. The creature, if that was even the right word for it, was perhaps as tall as a hand was long. It was kind of hard to be Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Two, p3
She sat quietly and gazed at the collection of creatures before her. They were the various leaders of the forestfolk in Wyrm’s Wood, as the humans called this part of the forest, and had gathered around the underground pond serving Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter One, p9
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