Excerpt
from The Children of Lubrochius
Across
from Ambrisia, Coragan placed his hands on the table and got right down to
business. “Your note said someone’s life is in danger?” he asked.
“Possibly,”
Regecon answered, leaning back in his chair. “We have another missing person
issue. At this point, we don’t know if she is alive or dead or what.”
“Who
is it?” Coragan asked.
“My
student, Marissa,” Ambrisia interjected. “She disappeared a little over three
weeks ago.”
Coragan
lifted both eyebrows. “Three weeks?”
“The
vampire …” Galladrin offered.
“She
disappeared during the day,” Ambrisia said. “Our best diviners are working on
the problem—”
“Your
diviners are always working on the problem,” Coragan said. “Why is it that your
magic never seems to solve the missing person issues. All it does is create
questions, and I’m the one who has to sort out the knots.”
“In
this case, the vampire, although most probably not the cause of the
disappearance is definitely a culprit in a number of complications,” Ambrisia
explained. “As you know, a vampire generates an aura of black time that
interferes with divination. This aura surrounds the vampire as it moves and
disrupts attempts to access the temporal continuum in which it operates
creating pockets of inaccessible time as far as divination is concerned. The
stronger the vampire, the stronger the aura. Lucian spent nearly a week
besieging our guild house. And, as we feared, there is a great deal of temporal
distortion caused by his aura.”
“So,
once again your magic is rendered useless and you must fall back on more
mundane methods. Namely, me,” Coragan said.
BLURB:
We vampires
do not make easy prey. Our weaknesses are few, our strengths many. Fear is
something we do not know, and death but a distant memory. So tread softly, pray
to your god, and gird yourself with silver when the moons arise and night’s
dark prince awakens. We fear not the wizard, nor the warrior, neither rogue,
nor priest; our strength is timeless, drawn from darkness and we know no master
save the hot lust of our unending hunger. We long for blood, your blood and no
blade, nor spell, nor clever artifice, can keep us long from our prize. Feel
our teeth at your throat, your life ebb from you, and know as darkness comes to
claim you that the price of your folly is your everlasting soul.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Matthew D. Ryan lives in
northeastern New York on the shores of Lake Champlain. He has been deeply
involved in the fantasy genre for most of his life as a reader, writer, and
game designer. His writing has been featured at Aphelion.com and
YesteryearFiction.com. He is the operator of the web-site matthewdryan.com
which features his blog, “A Toast to Dragons,” (http://matthewdryan.com/a-toast-to-dragons-the-blog/)
a blog dedicated to fantasy literature, and, to a lesser extent, sci-fi. He is
the author of the dark fantasy novels “Drasmyr,” “The Children of Lubrochius,”
and “The Sceptre of Morgulan,” as well as a growing number of fantasy short
stories including: “Haladryn and the Minotaur,” “The River’s Eye,” and
“Escape.”
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