My name is Taylark, and I enjoy sharing the wisdom garnered during my journey called life. I consider myself ageless, for time is irrelevant to those that can see beyond the veil that shields mortal eyes from the mysteries of the cosmos. Welcome all!
Shadows Of Humanity: Chapter One
(In an attempt to jump start my imagination so that I can finish the first book of a six book series, I’ve decided to write a short (LOL) story for this site. Please enjoy, and hopefully I wont bore the pants off you!!)
Standing on the battlements of my village, I look out on the barren landscape that divides the fortress I guard, and the forest that hides all manner of evil. Fingers of light from the rising sun, stretch across the dry land, heralding another day that we have survived the war that consumes us nightly.
I, Taylark of Doonlock, have watched many similar sunrises with hope and relief flooding my heart. But this day I feel only grief and rage. For, I have lost someone dear to me during the night. A man I grew up with and had come to love deeply. Though an expert slayer himself, Endre was overwhelmed by the enemy and I knew that he would die.
Yet, despite this knowledge, I fought to get to him, unwilling to surrender him to the demons that would destroy him. But my path was impeded as my other comrades grabbed at me, yelling that it was to late. All of us knew that, even if we managed to get to him, he would not remain the Endre we knew. He would be vampire, a soul damn to walk the night and dine on the blood of others.
So, here I stand, with the wind howling and echoing my anguish. It tears at my hair and rips at my clothes, but I feel nothing, my sorrow is too deep, my pain to near. And as I stare at the woods that harbor the fiends that claimed my beloved Endre, I vow I will destroy them all!