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The Eagles flew over the lands, but slowly descended closer to the treetops. Once distant shrubs, they were now bustling, swaying bodies of leafed wooden limbs.  From below the leafed green masses were bodies of grey and red poking through the green and rustling the undergrowth, tumbling through it.  They scant seemed distant from theContinue reading “2200 Blues Chapter 45 (Early Draft)”

For the majority of the flight, Father Hawk was in a half-awake daze. A helpless stupor of immobility and half open eyes that always threatened to close. But as his eye-lids closed, he’d always be jolted awake by the strain and motion of dangling in flight.  The grey light with flickers of red fire shoneContinue reading “2200 Blues Chapter 44 (Early Draft)”

Upon leaving the roars and hissings of the water, Father Hawk was assailed by the raucous howlings of wolves. They growled, grated, barked and haunted the world with their eerie, high pitched cackling howlings. It was a sea of unrelenting, booming cries for death, ringing in booming blood curling tones.  Father Hawk was still engulfedContinue reading “2200 Blues Chapter 43 (Early Draft)”

Tears seeped from Father Hawk’s stinging eyes, befuddling his vision  as they splayed out, merging into the volumes of the Shadowlake. The sight of Mother Hawk’s burning grew blurrier and distant.  It was then at the welling of further anguished tears, trembling at the brink of the wavering scene of Mother Hawk that Father HawkContinue reading “2200 Blues Chapter 42 (Early Draft)”