by C L Carr
Everything had been as Alexi had described. The tunnel was easy enough to navigate for Artirius and Balic. A few hours passed and they found themselves in the cavern. The waterway was easy enough to follow. It took them several minutes to traverse the heavy overgrowth at the mouth of the cavern, but, it served well to hide the place. Before them had been a small dale in the woods, the waterway curving westward, down to the coast.
They moved quickly and quietly through the woods, wishing that fall had not already begun to remove leaves from the trees, making their cover more sparse then they liked. A few hours passed before they found the abbey road. It was not heavily traveled, which relieved them. There would be no one to worry about spotting them.
As dusk set its hand on the day, the road in the woods crested at the top of a hill. Below them the wonderfully peaceful sight of the abbey came into view. Safety and sanctuary for the night. As if on cue the peaceful silence of the setting sun was interrupted by crashing in the woods from the direction they had come.
A heavily cloaked and hooded figure crashed into the road in front of them. Lifting his head and removing his hood Alexi revealed his face. It was marked with vicious burns.
Seeming out of breath the vampire looked at them with concern, “They know, and they are coming.”
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About Chris Carr
Hello, I am Christopher Carr, and I hope you enjoyed meeting Artirius in my debut novel The Lone Wolf. I was not sure if I should take the time to talk about myself when I first decided to publish my work, but after consideration I felt it really should be done. If someone had given me the chance, and read this far, then they deserve to hear a little more about where this story came from.
I was born on March, 15th, 1988, and grew up in the Northeastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania region. I currently reside in Austintown, Ohio (Youngstown, Ohio if you are looking on a map). I have a darling wife, Brittany, and a wonderful son, Joshua. I come from a decent sized family, who spent lots of time together. When I was young, I found an interest in two things, telling/hearing good stories and the science fiction/fantasy genre. My childhood saw a boom in the electronic gaming market. I also grew up at a time when a wealth of fiction was easily at my desposal. I found myself immersed in fantasy and role playing games of all sorts. If I was not playing games, I was watching fantasy or science fiction on television, or reading it.
By the time I was in middle school, I was writing. I still have some of those stories lying about. I dabbled a bit in most fiction, but really found fantasy to my liking. It just seems to offer a chance to step out of the norm, and think completely freely.
Now, to what got me writing about Artirius. One thing I had noticed about most fantasy, was that this character type, the barbarian, could be a bit cliché. They were not generally intelligent, but had a certain degree of wisdom. Most were nomadic and simply had something stumble upon them or were thrown into a peril of some sort. I wanted to create a slightly different barbarian, one that just did not fit the mold. One that realized early on he was different and from the beginning realized he wanted more, needed more.
So over the course of several years I wrote this story. At first I was not really sure if I wanted to publish it, but as time went on, kind of like Artirius, I decided to do things a little different, to go beyond what I thought I might do and dream a little. Again, I hope you enjoyed reading this story, as much as I did writing it. In the end, this work is about entertaining people with a good fantasy story. If you did enjoy this story, its sequel Homecoming, is currently in the works.
Thank You,
Christopher L Carr Jr.
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