An Angel of Darkness E-Book

James Gerard

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Gillian awaits his fate high in the tower dungeon of a castle. Slated to be a sacrifice to the Evil Skylight, he cannot but think about the day the entity visited him. The visit ran contrary to the Ancients' teachings. The entity brought light and warmth and comfort to the freezing cell. And if Gillian did not know better, the visit was one of mercy. But could it be the freezing cold that is causing Gillian to hallucinate? Well, that depends on how he perceives the difference between light and dark.

Leseprobe

James Gerard

An Angel of Darkness

Dedicated to those who are so blinded by the darkness that they cannot see the light.BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

Darkness or Light?

Gillian stared at the streaks of light falling from the sky.  Eyes locked onto the far horizon in amazement of the skylight’s ability to defend itself among the numerous and mighty skylights shooting their flaming arrows at the supposed evil creature.  But Gillian was not afraid.  The vision of its visit to the prison fortress burned in his consciousness every waking moment.

The entity had come to him unannounced, at a time when the prison’s frayed and tattered woolen blanket scarcely enveloped his whole body in an effort to escape the bitter cold.

The memory of awakening to the jailer’s clanking keys, the sight of the stone cell bathed in brilliant light, was an event he could never forget.

With the memories playing out the scenes of those precious moments, he had suddenly noticed the shivers that had tortured his body for so long were gone.  The constant discomfort of aches and pains caused by the constant cold had melted away in the stony, frigid cell that had amazingly become warm and toasty.  And closing his eyes, a smile formed as the vision of the jailer inserting the key to open the door to deliver one of the two daily meals was as clear as can be.

That is when Gillian realized that the so-called evil entity had enabled him to soundly sleep from just after eating the prior meal to the one that the jailer had been delivering.  But as he thought about the last scene the eyes were cast down to the freezing floor.  For as soon as the door opened the entity streaked away and the light and the warmth vanished.