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An Arrow Piercing the Heart’s Eye - Prologue

The shadows loom deep and thick over the forest of Mircea, heavy with history and dark with blood. On their way home after claiming the Great Bridge of Myrddin, Marianne and Linhardt are separated from the rest of the convoy during a raid and become lost in Mircea. But even with Maurice gone, something still waits in the dark heart of the forest…

The prologue is up on this beast!

“Hey.” There was a hand on her arm, shaking her gently. “What’s the matter?”

Marianne felt her fingers picking at her sleeve cuffs, and eventually, she managed to make herself stop. “Umm…” This was silly. She was being silly. She should just make her excuses and leave. Eventually, those thoughts were put away as well, and Marianne asked in a low voice, though, as far as she knew, there was no one close enough nearby to hear her or Hilda speaking, “When your father gave you Freikugel, did you notice anything…”

An Arrow Piercing the Heart’s Eye - Chapter One

The shadows loom deep and thick over the forest of Mircea, heavy with history and dark with blood. On their way home after claiming the Great Bridge of Myrddin, Marianne and Linhardt are separated from the rest of the convoy during a raid and become lost in Mircea. But even with Maurice gone, something still waits in the dark heart of the forest…

Chapter One is now up!

Marianne sighed heavily, her head heavy on her shoulders as they trudged through the misty woods. A fortnight prior, she had come to this forest, and here, she had met a monster. She had met a monster with a reasoning mind like a man’s, with a mouth that could form words like a man’s, and even if bottomless hunger could take all that away from him, she had met a monster whose bones were weary with the burden of ages and whose eyes were dull with the twinned burdens of blood and guilt, and she and her companions had taken it upon themselves to relieve him of all burdens, for all time.

Once, there had been a shadow as great as a mountain looming over her past. Its reach had been so vast that it burst the bounds of the past and lapped at her feet wherever she went in the present day, whenever that day happened to be. It had blackened the sun, and darkened her heart.