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Momentarily stunned by the unexpected fall you fight to regain your footing. In the quagmire the earth has become you struggle to your feet and peer into the storm that lashes at you like an unrestrained monster. Unprotected and disoriented you stand before the full power of the tempest. About you it tears and rips at the grasslands, showering debris and stinging hail upon you. Caught without cover the icy rain hammers at your body, knocking you to the ground as forking blasts of lightning light the sky.
In the actinic glare of the storm you recover your senses and begin a quick search of your surroundings. Pallenten is not with you. Somehow the great horse has been lost to you in the fury of the storm, and it is a grievous loss. Subduing a moment of panic you call out to her but the tempest takes your cries and carries them away upon the howling winds.
Staggering back to your feet you are assailed by a tremendous roll of thunder, one that splits the sky and sends tremors running through the ground beneath you. But as you try and keep your footing you notice that the tremoring is more than just the echoes of the storm's fury. Too late you realise that you have been toppled into the remains of an old, silted river bed. Before you have the opportunity to clamber up its eroded bank you are hit by a wall of rushing water that sweeps you away. Unable to remain afloat in this swirling mass of mud, plant life and water you struggle for your life, tightly bound equipment and fatigue conspiring to make any chance of survival impossible.
Within the dark, surging waters you fight for breath, but it is a battle you cannot win. Overwhelmed by the power of the surging waters you drown, your body lost to the storm. Here, in the raging surge of a flash flood your quest ends. It is now to a latter life that you must look for the wisdom to complete this adventure.
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This book, and its associated books and other documents in the Chronicles of Arborell series are the intellectual property of the author, Wayne F Densley, and all rights are reserved by him. Windhammer is best viewed at 1024 x 768 resolution. Any questions regarding the Chronicles of Arborell can be answered by emailing the author at densleyw@shoal.net.au
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Windhammer, Copyright Wayne Densley 2008 All Rights Reserved
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