Seeking a Different Future
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
Taral wasn’t sure where the others were; this wasn’t his forest, at least not the part he knew. He knew they were near, caught glimpses and heard them, but he hadn’t the same awareness he was used to when hunting Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Five, p6
“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
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
Taral was crouching amidst the underbrush, his gaze darting from tree to bush to shadow as he listened to the forest. He was trying to pick out the noise of his quarry from the myriads background sounds of the woods. Continue reading Voidwalker: Chapter Three, p5
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