Lilith's Tears - Chapter One (after the Prologue)

The first chapter of my debut novel, Lilith's Tears.

How much time passed? Empty, meaningless time must have slid silently by as Trebane lay upon the beach beneath a scorching sun, watched over indifferently by the blue sky, free once more of clouds. Just a body, lying prone in the dry sand, its clothes tattered, its hair knotted and matted with salt, alone on the beach, with the bright, fertile green of a jungle growing densely ahead, away from the shore. Now the sea was calm, perhaps...