Windseeker
“It was the dawn of the twelfth day Liza had been in Galen’s possession. A steady, light rain was falling, making the damp earth smell musty as the sand darkened to a quagmire beyond the keep’s crumbling walls. It splattered in the sluggish, green, scum-shot moat and sent a putrefying smell to assault the nostrils of the keep’s defenders as they ringed the crenellations and hovered in the chilly turrets. The wind was slight, but heavy storm clouds brewed in the west and promised a turbulent turn... in the weather. The turret’s stones were rain-slick and oozing slime down the cracked sides, and the men inside felt chilled to the bone, despite the day’s heat.
As Galen reached the high observation tower to view his brother’s forces, lightning began to flash with increasing vengeance in the distance. He looked to the cromlech that marked the southern passage into Norus’ lands and chuckled. A dust cloud hovered just beyond the rise, for it was not raining to the south where the Serenian and Diabolusian borders met.MoreLess
As Galen reached the high observation tower to view his brother’s forces, lightning began to flash with increasing vengeance in the distance. He looked to the cromlech that marked the southern passage into Norus’ lands and chuckled. A dust cloud hovered just beyond the rise, for it was not raining to the south where the Serenian and Diabolusian borders met.MoreLess
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