Dark Symphony
Chapter One
Fog, thick and dense, blanketed the sky, muffling every sound. Muffling the
sound of conspiracy. Of murder stalking the night. Of dark, ugly intentions
hidden within the white, swirling mists and the deeper shadows. The fog was
the perfect cover for the predator as he moved silently across the sky,
searching for prey. He had been alone too long, far from his own kind,
fighting the insidious call of power, of evil, that whispered to him every
waking minute of his existence.
Far below him were the humans, his prey. His enemies. He knew what they would
do to one of his kind, should they discover him. He still woke choking from
his slumber, trapped for those first waking moments in his past. His body
would always bear the scars of torture, though it was nearly impossible to
scar his kind. He was Carpathian, a species as old as time, with tremendous
gifts to hold dominion over the weather, the land, even animals. He could
shift shape and soar high, run with the wolves, yet without the light to his
darkness, he could so easily give in to the whispers of temptation, the call
for power, and turn wholly evil. He had the ... read full excerpt from: Dark Symphony ebook
