Rachael Surles
Stories (3/0)
Shadows in the Valley
There weren't always dragons in the valley. The last dragons had perished in The Great Divide more than 1,000 years ago. But the beasts that now roamed the Valley and North Wilds were not like the Dragons of old; they were unnatural, created by science and chaos. Resurrected from ancient remains, then somehow manipulated into obedient killing machines with a singular purpose. No one outside the Torren family knew how they did it or how to stop them. The old stories sometimes briefly mentioned that only the strongest of Senti's could temporarily reanimate a life that had recently passed over. Still, there had never been anything remotely close to what lay before them now.
By Rachael Surles2 years ago in Fiction
Across the River
The Torchbearer will come today, He’ll make the same deal he always makes. He will bring some vital piece of knowledge, claiming he wants to help us with it, knowledge that we need to rebuild our society. The price of this knowledge remains fixed, as it always has. He will take one of us with him when he goes. No one knows what happens to them. He always claims he will bring them back one day, but no one has ever returned. There aren’t many of us left. Even with the progress we’ve made there is still hardly enough food or supplies to go around. No one has stepped outside the walls of The Neighborhood in almost 10 years because we are not allowed to leave. Whatever we don’t grow or make is brought in by a group known as The Enders. We are told that the last person who stepped outside these walls was consumed by the untamed and unhealed land that lives beyond our tiny civilization.
By Rachael Surles3 years ago in Fiction