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

I related Caedrus’ and my tale to Captain Taron, who nodded, repeated things, and had no visible reaction when I told him about the villagers attacking each other. When I concluded my story with our meeting with Klovit, he looked at Rone.


“The dispatch that came in from the Carrowind,” he said. “Does anyone else know about it? Is there anyone I can ask, other than this man Fellius?”


“I don’t know. I don’t think so. I don’t even know where he went afterwards. He may have gone back into the Carrowind, or he may have gone somewhere else,” I said.


“Hmmm,” said Captain Taron, staring at his knuckles. “I can’t tell you how much it irks me that someone was in the Carrowind, and that I don’t know who they were or why they were there.”


I stared at him. If he didn’t know, and he was in charge of quite a few more men, who was the sergeant in South Hall? Why did he know?


“There’s nothing else?” said Captain Taron.


Chapter 19: Into the House of Civius