Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Teaser of "Strawberry - A Chronicle of the Black Coffin Short Story"

 I don't think I will be able to finish this short story for Halloween, but hear is a small teaser and I'm really trying to finish... but time and work is holding me down...  -


     "Can you look around?"   Crim asked with almost a hurried expression.
     Nox shrugged as wings started to pull away from his face and a quarter of his head turned into four winged creatures and flew into the air.  After a few moments, and they disappeared into the dark, Nox closed his remaining eye and said,  "Village nearby, like an hour or two away.  And a nice looking river even closer.  Hey!  I see Gia picking some nuts or something... " 
     "Any ghouls?"  Crim interrupted.
     "Looks surprising clear.  Been a while since that's happened." 
     "Good."  And with that said, Crim leaned near a tree and collapsed to the ground.
      Nox, with a sudden realization and a pain of fear, rushed over to his fallen brother.  "Crim!  What's wrong?  You feeling the urge, you injured, or what?'
     Crim looked at his brother with tired eyes.  "I'm tired."
     Nox gave a puzzled expression.  "Oh... that's unusual for you.  You spent a whole week once carrying the coffin with me in it, fighting ghouls, and you didn't even break a sweat.  It's just been a day since we last rest, so what's different?"
     "Hey guys!" , came the sound of a familiar female voice from behind Nox. 
     Crim looked at Nox with a straight face.  "That's what's different."

     Gia appeared from the bushed with a smile.  "Hey Nox, you want some... " she started to say, but gave out a scream when she saw that the upper left side of Nox's head was gone.
     "What?!  Oh... sorry."  Nox gave a quick whistle as wings came down from the sky and landed on his head, folding and morphing back into Nox's face, until his head was full again.
     "I swear I will never get use to seeing that." she said.
     "You'll be surprised."  Crim responded.

- Later
Will

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