Aethosphere Chronicles: Storm of Chains
“What will the morning bring? He’d be expected to report to work in the morning, but if Domaire was right, an arrest squad would be there waiting for him. However, if he failed to go to work at all, he would receive a truancy mark and probably lose his position; and how would it be viewed? Running might only prove his guilt to those that would condemn him. With hopeless dread, Drish realized he was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t, and wrestling over that dilemma stole any sleep that might have come.
He left his bed early on and took to pacing his flat instead, until song birds chirped and the rising sun painted the sky outside his bay windows in shades of pink. Drish was surprised that the elemental fury of the blizzard had abated to a lingering squall of flakes whirling over a still city, but the damage it had wrought was done, and the world laid smothered beneath a blanket of ice and snow.
Drish thought about his father, how he had been so concerned about all the others on t...he list, but had ignored his own son’s plight.MoreLess
He left his bed early on and took to pacing his flat instead, until song birds chirped and the rising sun painted the sky outside his bay windows in shades of pink. Drish was surprised that the elemental fury of the blizzard had abated to a lingering squall of flakes whirling over a still city, but the damage it had wrought was done, and the world laid smothered beneath a blanket of ice and snow.
Drish thought about his father, how he had been so concerned about all the others on t...he list, but had ignored his own son’s plight.MoreLess
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