In the dim light of a storeroom, Vekaya wakes up, alone and with no memory of who she is, where she is, or how she got there. In an orphanage run by an arcane religious cabal, our first protagonist has no choice but to become an investigator, a rebel, and her very own hero. At nearly the same time and not far away, a mysterious and deadly force from an uncharted region causes the town of South Hall to destroy itself, leaving Gyrath and his little brother Caedrus equal parts baffled and horrified. Taken from a stable and easy life, they are now adrift in a world of wolf packs, shapeshifters, will-bending shamassons, and the death crawler: a worm made entirely of corpses, the size of a tower that breathes violent madness into those unlucky enough to be near it. The trio must learn to put aside their differences in the hopes that the three of them will survive their adventure and save Hammercleft - and possibly the world - from those who would dominate it. A Flash of Sparks is created by Emile Bienert, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

A Flash of Sparks

Shortly before South Hall descended into inconceivable brutality, Vekaya was walking toward the library, again. She had looked at her right knee many times that day before study hours. It was obvious what she had wanted herself to see: a scar, perhaps one that she had made, that pointed to the right. Something was hidden, something that that mark would direct her to see. But one thing she had learned about the House of Civius was that you had to wait.


She waited all through her first class. She waited all through her second. She waited through lunch. That day, she had a third class that she had to wait through. The day after she had found the note, she had walked as fast as she could without running to the library. There had been another child sitting at the table where she needed to sit.


Chapter 14: The Care of Dumb Beasts