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All that has been, will be again.
Brant, Warrior of the Sunset People. Sworn to protect.
Skala, Wise One of the Sunset People. Sworn to wait, watch, and guide.
Two elderly companions face the return of a menace from before the time of stories.
This time, only Brant stands between the shadows and the Light.
Can strength and loyalty prevail against primordial hate?
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Jason A. Adams
Jason A. Adams grew up in various Air Force towns, but Southwest Virginia has always been his homeplace. His military brat childhood exposed him to exotic locales, fascinating people from around the world, and a lifetime curiosity that informs his fiction.Jason is the author of many short stories based in and around the Virginia coalfields he lives in and loves. He currently lives on a forest mountain with assorted beasties, and his beautiful and talented wife, Kari Kilgore, also a writer of many wonderful stories.Find out more at www.jasonadams.info, where you can sign up for information on upcoming releases, and the occasional update from The Brain Squirrels.For all works released by Spiral Publishing, including Kari's many fantastic stories and non-fiction by Frank Kilgore, check out www.spiralpublishing.net.
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Birth of the Makmorn - Jason A. Adams
Birth of the Makmorn
For the Protectors of the world
Birth of the Makmorn
Jason A. Adams
Spiral Publishing, Ltd.Chapter 1
All that has been, will be again.
Thus had Brant of the Makmorni, the Sunset People, always believed. The idea was not new; it had been passed from grandfather to grandson since time out of mind.
Now Brant was the grandfather, only he had no grandsons to teach.
He sat on the still-frozen earth outside the hut of the Wise One, watching the clouds change into reddish-amber shapes as the sun went below the burial field’s sacred mound on the shortest day of winter. The cold crept into his bones as he waited on Skala the Wise to summon him inside.
Overhead, the sacred oak tree spread its gigantic limbs protectively over Brant. Acrid smoke from the peat fires in the surrounding huts stung his eyes, but smelled of home and safety. All was peaceful and quiet, but he knew how quickly that could change.
Brant went over his weapons as he waited, an automatic habit. One he tried to
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