Here is an early, unedited look at part 23 of the Wolf Head Series.
The warmth of sleep slowly eviscerates, as Richard drearily drifts into consciousness. From pleasant dreams of home he’s drawn away, and wakes to the darkness of the cave. The strap of his crossbow cuts deeply into his skin, raw sores underneath sticking to the material with a slimy puss. He pulls the band from off his shoulder, opening the wound. Laying the weapon by his side, he falls back onto the hard rock of the cave-floor.
Upon his back, he lets his mind drift, staring up into the massless void of death, the shadows of this accursed cavern. Groggy images play like echoes in his mind, wakeful dreams leftover from his slumbers. Letting the pictures play over his consciousness, the hunter enters his own mind. The dissassortment of chaotic thoughts drains in a whirlpool about one point.
Under a blue sky with no sun or moon, where only stars, their soft light, shine, upon a sloping grassy field with green blades reaching up to your knees, Richard descends a little hill, coming toward the crystalline purple pool below.
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Wolf Head
Part 1: The Job
Part 2: Foreboding
Part 3: Aftermath
Part 4: Into the Night
Part 5: The Struggle
Part 6: Expelled
Part 7: Out From the Bones
Part 8: Respite
Part 9: Sunset
Part 10: Transformation
Part 11: The Shepherd
Part 12: The Party
Part 13: The Wolf
Part 14: Partners
Part 15: Foreshadows
Part 16: Freedom
Part 17: Eavesdropping
Part 18: Resolve
Part 19: Men and Boys
Part 20: Caught
Part 21: Rescue
Part 22. Rescue
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