Silver's Edge
Chapter One
Then
Down dusty roads the child fled, heart drumming in her thin chest like the gallop of a thousand
horses, chased from sleep by hulking hordes of goblins who grabbed at her with gleaming teeth
and outstretched claws. She startled awake, the echoes of her dream screams dying in her ears,
crying aloud at the sight of the banked grate, where the coals glowed like red eyes in the dark
room. A cold wind was howling in the trees, and the window rattled in its frame. A gusty draft
stirred the curtains just as something crashed onto the roof above her head. She cried again,
louder now, and yanked her thick woolen blanket higher, the rest of her small body stiffening
with dread, the whole house, it seemed, shuddering under the impact.
"Nessie? You all right?" Her father's broad face loomed out of the shadows of the doorway, his
white nightshirt luminous in the gray light. He came closer, feet bare, the black hair on his chest
curling out of the open collar of his night-shirt. A dark haze of beard shadowed his chin.
Disheveled and bleary-eyed as he was, the sight of him relaxed her instantl ... read full excerpt from: Silver's Edge ebook
