Crow and the Mouse

By Albert Oon

After losing his family, Harkan overthrows the corrupt kingdom that he served and destroys his enemies to fill the hole left by his loss, however, nothing makes him feel better. A group of people under him who helped him gain people attempts to assassinate him and though they fail, Harkan is critically injured and only survives thanks to a sympathetic citizen who takes him to a cursed region where he hopefully won't be found, but at the same time, he comes across a little girl who gives him a new reason to live.
This book includes a story called Building a Legacy that's based on a dream that inspired this story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Albert Oon
• Release date: Jul 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005853266

Albert Oon

A Catholic, self-published writer who writes for fun and to help others out. I write in the genres of horror, fantasy, romance, and sci-fi. I hope to be a successful writer who will be successful by helping you through life and possibly even help save your soul by leading you to God.

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Crow and the Mouse

Copyright 2021 Albert Oon

Published by Albert Oon at Smashwords

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Chapter 1 – A Second Chance

There was once a famous general whose name is Harkan. He fought for his kingdom with honor and though he knew that his superiors weren’t the most virtuous of people, he still loyally served. Harkan was well respected by those who knew of him to the point where a custom helmet in the image of a crow was made for him because he was a divine instrument that signified death on the battlefield. Though he didn’t like the thought of him signifying death, he accepted his gift with gratitude and became a reaper of sorts on the battlefield for those he protected. That was until Harkan’s family along with a troop of his friends were killed by an ambush by an enemy kingdom’s forces.

His family, friends, and their small escort were moving from their destroyed homes to a safer location and were given little help despite Harkan’s advice. He was already on the edge of despair since he lost his home and many of his soldiers due to his mistakes and the bad choices of his superiors, and now that he lost his friends and family, he feels that he’s lost everything. With nothing left to lose, he staged a coup against his former masters and took his kingdom for himself much to the joy of his allies and his fellow citizens, and yet, he didn’t feel any better. Even after destroying the other enemy kingdoms and establishing a relative sense of peace in the land, he still wasn’t satisfied with himself. In his spare time, he prayed and practiced with his two-handed mace to relieve himself of his seemingly unending supply of sadness and feeling of emptiness.

Since he was such in a sorry and useless state, his allies tried to convince him to conquer more lands or at least marry a new wife so that he would be doing something other than making minor political decisions here and there. He did none of these and because they thought a useless king who does nothing is a detriment to their kingdom, they tried to assassinate him to remove him from the throne so they could put a better king in his place since there was no other way or law that could remove him.

Harken tried to fight back, but in his depressed condition