Closer and Closer to Wings

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Closer and Closer to Wings

Closer and closer, and Wings of the Butterfly will be flying free. Here’s a little flash fiction teaser to whet your appetite for the Threads of Magic Universe.

Footsteps echoed down the corridor, the slap of leather shoes against stone pavers. Sana ran blindly, her thin legs burning, her breath rasping in and out of her lungs.

Voices chased her, yelling for her to stop.

Never. Her body sang to be free, to feel the fresh air on her face. She laughed to finally escape the awful dungeons for good.

The voices drew closer, and with them the thud of boots. Dungeon guards, who would drag her back to her little cell. Despite how much they feared her. Her, a skinny girl-child. Sana bared her teeth in a wicked grin at the terror in their eyes whenever she raised her hand.

No time to remind them of why they feared her. She needed to get away while she had the chance.

“Sana.” A familiar voice, but that was not why it frightened her. It came from in front of her.

A tall, heavily muscled man appeared around the corner ahead. Several guards skidded to a stop behind him, and one grabbed his shoulder to hold him back.

Master Ienoz shrugged the hand away, and walked toward Sana, no hint of fear on his face. It always fascinated her that he was not afraid. He’d seen what she could do.

Sana stopped running, and stared at the man who scared her almost as much as her cell, and the chains that once held her.

He knelt before her. “Do you understand what you’ve done? Those men may as well be dead.”

“They wouldn’t let me leave.” Sana smiled at the memory of the deadness in the eyes of the guards who’d been charged to watch her. New to her section of the dungeons. No one had warned them not to get too close. “I won’t go back.”

“You have amazing power.” Ienoz reached out a large, calloused hand to her. “And you’ve proven today that it’s getting stronger. You don’t need to go back there. Come with me, and I can make everything better.”

Sana frowned at the offered hand. Two years held captive, chained and tortured. It could not be so easy to gain her freedom.

Ienoz did not smile. “I’m not offering you freedom, or the life you once had. Something must be done for one as powerful as you.”

Sana considered his words. If he had smiled, she might have hurt him. But he remained impassive, and unafraid. For that she respected him. She trusted him.

She took his hand.

Learn more about Sana and her unfortunate fate in Wings of the Butterfly, set to be released in less than 10 days.

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