Chapter the Fifth: Youth
Riadne sat cross cross-legged on a chair sipping water from a cup as the sun burned oppressively overhead. Her freedoms to run the property with her sisters had yet to be restored, and she pouted constantly that she was confined to the fenced in yard...
Chapter the Fourth: Ghosts
"Derek!" The small kit sat somberly staring at his father. Riadne called his name again, but he didn't even acknowledge hearing her. By now, she would have assumed her voice would become hoarse, but it didn't. It just swam hauntingly through the...
Chapter the Third: Different Stripes
Couric watched excitedly as the soldier men of his village, and their slaves marched solemnly into the city. He stood arm to arm with many other children of the community as they and their mothers looked anxiously on for their lovers, fathers, masters...
Chapter the Second: Swords of our Fathers
Laughter rang out across the village as children cavorted near the vacancy at the edge of the market. Young fox boys ran circles around each other, whooping and swinging sticks, or tiny wooden swords. Some wrestled and fought the way children often do...
Chapter the First: Wheels
The sky burned crimson in bright tapers with the setting of the amber colored sun, and Adrian stared absently out across the oddly hued grass and trees. Below him at the base of the hills, trees swam in gentle breezes and grass rolled across the...