The Wildwose

By Gerard A Whitfield

Childhood nightmares, myths and tales abound throughout the Urionverse. No-one believes them, but there is one place where fable and reality walk hand-in-hand.

The Church Guard have come to Wose IV with all their arrogance, ego and bigotry. They have been warned...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gerard A Whitfield
• Release date: Dec 5, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452372020

Gerard A Whitfield

Englishman, traveller, who was captivated by Spain, via Australia. Work took me around the globe, taught me a new language and opened my eyes.Proud father who finally listened to his wife and children.Big thanks to Diggory Steele-Perkins for the cover for Sudden Dearth.

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The Wildwose

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G.A. Whitfield

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The Wildwose

Copyright © 2010 by G. A. Whitfield

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This work is 100% fiction. All scenes and events within these pages have been an invention of the author's imagination, and to his knowledge never occurred in reality. Any resemblance to the reader's own experiences is purely coincidental. All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental.

The Wildwose

Part I

A strange madness came upon him. He crept away and fled to the woods, unwilling that any should see his going. Into the forest he went, glad to lie hidden beneath the ash trees. He watched the wild creatures grazing on the pasture of the glades. Sometimes he would follow them, sometimes pass them in his course. He made use of the roots of plants and of grasses, of fruit from trees and of the blackberries in the thicket. He became a Man of the Woods, as if dedicated to the woods. So for a whole summer he stayed hidden in the woods, discovered by none, forgetful of himself and of his own, lurking like a wild thing. Vita Merlini, Geoffrey of Monmouth, 1150

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A soft rain fell gently from the sky, dimming the half-light of early morning and dribbling almost resentfully from the signs which swung creaking in the wind. These chained articles were a part