The Last Cavalier, Part 1

Hanry Ta Jihn, one of the greatest men to live after the Great Dying, was the son of James (Jim) Henry, often referred to as The Last Cavalier. Hanry Ta Jihn, or Jack Henry as we would call him, led a bloody but ultimately successful revolution against the Erklirte. The key Battle of Chicago was documented in The Ark Lords as was a bit more of that time period.

But what of Jim Henry? We don't learn much about him in The Ark Lords and he is not mentioned at all in Rome's Revolution or Rome's Evolution.

The fact is, I had originally planned on writing an entire trilogy about him and Jack and their encounter with the Ark Lords and call the series The Last Cavalier. I started the book in 2009 and it was going to be told in the first person. It was the intimate details about how Jim Henry stumbled across the Ark Lords. At that point in time, I had the name Brody instead of James for the father but after I watched Homeland (a great show), I decided to change it. Also, Jack Henry's nickname was Jake, not Jack but that is a minor detail. Jake's (or Jack's) mother was always named Helen, that never changed.

Here is the first part and in the next few posts, I'll give you the rest. The narrator is Hanry Ta Jihn, himself.

     Chapter 1
     I wish I could promise you a happy ending. But I can’t. My Dad is dead. He left the mantle of the Cavaliers with me but Mom says I’m too young to wear it. The people from the stars sent us home and told us it was over. Mom said we just have to bide our time until… She never told me until when. My name is Jake Henry. My dad was James Henry. He was The Last Cavalier.

Dramatic? Maybe. But I never really got too far with it. Tomorrow, the only coherent chapter I wrote. You can see elements from it have been folded into the modern version of the flashback in The Ark Lords.