Book of Seth: Exiled: A Fallen Chronicles Book by O'Brien Dan

Author:O'Brien, Dan [O'Brien, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

THE OPEN ICE PLAINS were called the Barren Maiden by our people. Our father had spoken to us of the day when the ice would melt away––when we could live among the lands and not be trapped deep within the dank caverns of the earth. It would be a time when we would not cower from the echoing thunder of the scout ships that hovered above. We would not have to hide like vermin as they passed overhead, burying ourselves deep in the ice to evade their thermal scanners.

My feet moved without thought or direction. The thin, metallic spikes on the bottom of my boots gripped the ice as I continued on across the sea of blinding white snowdrifts. My brother and I had not spoken a word since the incident atop the cliffs. He and Summer had remained at the back of our progression. They volunteered, but I knew that he was still angry with me. His feelings were hurt from my callous train of thought. I knew what had to be done and I did it. I would not waver in my duties, for my duties were the survival of our people.

I looked out ahead of us and saw only limitless tundra. The entrance to our village was a secret that the Umordoc had not yet cracked. The mouth of the cave was hidden beneath a massive snowdrift that resembled all of the other mounds along the tundra. Its exact location was given only to select members of the Fallen. The wind was not nearly as cold on the plains. Exposure would still destroy your skin cells and disfigure you for life, something that was common among the chiefs and elders of the Fallen.

A thin, long scar traced along the swirling drifts, an almost unnoticeable crack in the reflective ice: this was the entrance to the weaving caverns of the Fallen. I stopped amidst the flaring winds and drew my sword. The blood of the hybrid beast still coated the blade. I slammed it into the ground, the point penetrating the invisible fault. A panel slid away, the snow atop it falling inward into the darkness.

Shadows led deep into the earth.

I sheathed my sword, my eyes falling back upon the sullen party that trudged along without sound. Their eyes were sunken into their skulls and their bodies were pushed by the relentless winds. They crowded around me as they made their way down into the shadows. Ryan and Summer were the last to bow their heads from the gales and disappear into the darkness below. I took one last look at the faded tundra and the unchanging skies above me––and then swirled my wraps around me. Making my way into the darkness, I sealed the entrance from the dim light of the world.

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