Blood of the Falcon
Blood is currently undergoing thorough revision & expansion. I'm being brave and offering a sneak-peak at a tentative new Chapter 1. The same things happen, but in 99.5% new text. Disclaimer: the following is a pre-edited/proofread copy: there are probably errors and oddities. Chapter 1 The storm awakened something in Kieryn. Excitement, like an electric charge racing down his arms and settling in his fingertips. Anticipation, like long-sleeping hope tipping on the verge of fulfilment. His skin tingled, telling him within a heartbeat or two when the next bolt of lightning would strike. As a child, he’d thought everyone experienced storms this way. But his brother told him it wasn’t so, and warned him to stop saying such things in front of their father. Da would stop frowning at Kieryn if he kept his mouth shut. So Kieryn learned to keep his strangeness to himself. Rain slapped the windowpanes. Thunder shook the slates on the roof. Wind hissed through crevices in the castle’s an...
