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We are herd animals; only in the herd are we happy. But also only then are we vulnerable. Because there are those in the heart who have learned to take, and twist that taking. To turn people against themselves. To bend wishes and desires and needs into other shapes and forms. Energy vampires look like regular people, most of the time. But they feed, and change, and grow strong with that change. 

Few understand they are one, and few hold the power long enough to truly become. Those that do are changed, for those with eyes to see such things. Not all are bad. Not all are good. For all they take and drain, they are no worse than many others. Some are good at eating sins. Others eat sorrow or loss, and others twist and change others and create stories that give energy vampires a poor name indeed. 

But regardless of their skill and power, an energy vampire is a predator. 

A sequel already? Impressive.

 More planning and ideas than anything else. The story barely touched the world, and the end of it forces the characters out of the six kingdoms. No clue when I’ll get around TO working on it - I have a handful of books to read as research and figure out what will happen. 

A sequel to Wings.

Meldak is dead, but Prince Leos of New Dakesh  is no longer welcome in the six kingdoms because few great deeds come without prices. A prince still, though his title has no sway in the vastness of the Niand Empire he has travelled into. With him are Sia and Cel. Sia out of a misplaced sense of duty. Cel out of the desire to try and forgive Leos for what he did to her family and to remain with her beloved.

They carry silence instead of secrets, and silence can be worse by far.

Leos is nominally looking for his older sister who is the ambassador to the empire. But mostly he is trying to understand what has happened to him, find out what paths he might be on and what he is meant to do with his life now that he has been  touched by both the Providence and the Blight

He succeeded. Ten years of planning and effort, of learning and gathering knowledge and skill culminated in the death of Meldak, the man who would have brought ruin to the six kingdoms and perhaps caused a new Blight War.

This is what comes after.

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This is what came into my head today. I won’t be writing this novel for some time; I have a pile of research and planning to do, an entire empire to map out and explore - but the core is here. Leos gained Wings he did not want, he succeeded in destroying a great evil. He did hs deed of heroism and valour, and all remains is to find out what he is after he is free to just be Leos.