However, now I am extraordinarily bored, so I think I'll write more of the novel. I'll have more than the first chapter up sometime soon.


Heralds - Chapter 2Chapter 2: The Stronghold Later, Karen awoke in a cold, dark room lit only by dying candles in rickety sconces, cast shadows dancing eerily on the rough stone walls. As she surveyed her surroundings, she noted that the only furnishings in the room was a battered desk and the low stone pallet on which she lay, cushioned only by a threadbare blanket. A rasping scrape came from the far end of the room from the pallet, and light flooded in through a lopsided guard slit in the wooden door. The light, however, was quickly dampened by the sudden appearanceHeralds - Chapter 2


Heralds - Chapter 1Chapter 1: The Fall of House CardossaHeralds - Chapter 1
An air of eerie silence hung over the Duke Cardossas manse as two shadowy figures crept across the still gardens. Gate guards lay in a crumpled heap of flesh and armor, once watchful eyes glazed with death, still staring in shock, dagger wounds below on their exposed throats. As the two shadows reached the outer walls of the manor house proper, the shorter and thinner of the two, clothing hanging loosely over an almost frail form pulled a hook from a satchel within his billowing cloak and tying to it a lengthy coil of rope. He deftly whirled the h