( Not the official cover. Just a picture I made on Photoshop 7.0)
“And a child will be born to the land, blessed by the goddess herself, and there will be peace in the lands for seven hundred years”
Prophecy 29774 of the Drak’ka
Miriam is an orphan, and the oldest student living at Bronwyn, Academy for Young Mages.
After giving up hope on ever being chosen for an apprenticeship in the land, she begins
working at the schools massive library, and stumbles upon an unusual book of enchantments.
With nothing better to do, she begins to practice the complicated spells, including the
enchantment to create a Crow out of Magick.
Leon is an orphan, working in the Water Temple, in the beautiful snow covered city of Syuk.
After discovering a secret passage to an ancient library, he spends his free time exploring its
odd passages and inscriptions.
After a chance meeting between the two of them, they end up on an adventure that will take
them around the world, to the lands where they were born, and where an unseen danger
awaits.
She closed her eyes and found the spark of her magick once again, a green blaze of fire. She shaped it in to the shape of the moth, and tried to recall every detail of that specific moth. This was called creating a vessel, the magick would recognize the vessel as the body of the creature and return life to it. She remembered It's color and shape, the pattern on its wings and even the its eyes and feelers. She imagined the magick vessel of the moth becoming one with the dead one. Afterwards she mentally drew the six symbols of life, and added them to ball of blazing light, that was the moth. With that done, Miriam added the final key symbol, the symbol of awakening. The ball of light shifted from white to a dark purple, and eventually black. Suddenly the light disappeared and the table shuddered violently, almost knocking her plants off, which were quivering and reaching out to hold on to something. Miriam opened her at eyes and peered down at the moth which was still dead, one of its wings on fire.
( Exerpt from Prelude to Destiny)
Shane Maddon’s “Prelude to Destiny” not only captured my attention from the first chapter, but compelled me to read it to the end. Now that I am done, I will miss my friends Miriam and Leon. Mr. Maddon has a grand imagination for fantasy. Keep writing, I’m waiting.
-Ann Halstead- Author of "The Compound"
Residence of Darkness.
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Book Two of The Enchanted Series.
(Coming Soon)
