The North Wind

By Silas DeBoer

One of several free to read short stories for the upcoming "The Prometheus Cycle: The Star, the Sword and the Mirror", the North Wind is one of the possible beginnings to the novel for one of the characters in the novel. The North Wind is set many years before the events of the novel, and center on a young girl's life in a wilderness village that possesses a dark secret.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Silas DeBoer
• Release date: May 31, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311393050

Silas DeBoer

Born in 1980, Silas A. DeBoer is a graduate of Concordia University, Seward NE in 2003, and completed a Master of Arts in Communication Studies at the University of South Dakota in 2006. He has been an avid storyteller since picking up his first role playing game in the early 1990s, and continues to game with his spouse and their friends. His first novel is "The Prometheus Cycle: the Star, the Sword, and the Mirror" which tells the tale of three young persons flight across the Realm when they are branded as witches by Inquisitors of the Church of Elene.

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The North Wind

A short story set in the Prometheus Cycle Universe

By Silas A. DeBoer

THE NORTH WIND Copyright © 2014 by Silas A. DeBoer.

All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

For information contact; prometheuscycle.blogspot.com

Book and Cover design by Silas A. DeBoer

ISBN: 9781311393050

First Edition: July 2014

A Note from the Author

Like the other free short stories in this series, The North Wind predates the novel The Prometheus Cycle: The Star, the Sword, and the Mirror and focuses on a supporting character's life prior to involvement with the main characters. This story is centered on the rural northeast of Umbria, the first of several provinces conquered by the Western Realm after the High King disappeared in the Bleak East Campaign and the Council took stewardship of the kingdom, transforming it into an empire. This story takes place at least a century before the novel, but the main character is vital to the early chapters and is integral in spurring