Thursday, February 26, 2009

No Longer

Dakshana’s scream caught in her throat, and she drove her spear forward. Chadstone sidestepped her neatly, and then everything -- dissolved. Minka’s scream cut off, and she began to waver before Dakshana’s eyes, like heat off a dry rock. The other villagers began to waver and fade, like dying flames. The world around Dakshana dissolved, and she was left standing, spear in hand, in a massive stone cavern. Chadstone tossed his head, and he was dressed in soft leather breaches, a metal blade at his side.

“What happened?” Dakshsana demanded.

Chadstone stepped closer to her. “We’re no longer playing my game.”

1 comment:

grburbank said...

Where are you? I've been on tenterhooks waiting for the next installment. So maybe you've been writing some ridiculously long law school thingamajigger...