by Scott Kaelen
As Demelza sat up, Jalis’s spare shift hung loose on her thin frame. “When do we go to the cosy, ah, I mean the Brancosi Bay?”
Jalis reached out and stroked Demelza’s hair, clean from the previous day’s hot bath. “We can leave whenever you feel ready. But remember, Dee, Brancosi Bay is only the first step in a long journey.”
Demelza nodded. “I know.”
Jalis placed her arm around the girl’s shoulder and drew her closer. Oh, you don’t know, little siosi. You really don’t know at all.
A NOTE TO THE READER
Thank you for reading The Blighted City. I do hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. If so, please consider leaving a review on Amazon, Goodreads or elsewhere. A reader’s best present to an author is not just the buying and reading of a book (we don’t know you’ve done that), it’s in the sharing of the reader’s experience. With that in mind, if your experience was a good one, please spare a couple of minutes to let everyone else know about it. This is the driving force that propels authors forward and gives them the determination to get their next book out there.
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Thank you again.
Scott Kaelen
NIGHT OF THE TAKING
Night of the Taking is a short entry tale into the world of Verragos and the Fractured Tapestry series.
The Volami opened the walls of their shining city of Midhallow and invited the surrounding tribesfolk to venture within. Decades later, the two races dwelt together inside the city, not quite as equals, and guarded by the ever-present Retainers.
A treaty, offered by the tribes to the Volami, was to seal their tenuous union during a long-held ritual. But it was a ruse. The celebrations became the bloodiest treachery the Volami would ever know, setting in motion events that would echo down the ages.
Short story available free on Amazon
http://mybook.to/nighttaking