a second WRAITHSHARD: SWORD & FLAME excerpt

Let’s have a second excerpt from WRAITHSHARD: SWORD & FLAME!

This time it’s from the second main character, Lucan Mandragon.

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“Then you admit it,” said the voice. “Would you change it, if you could?”

“Yes,” said Lucan.

“What is done is done,” said the dry voice, “but it is not too late to keep worse things from happening. If you truly regret your deeds, perhaps you can yet avert a worse fate.”

“I don’t understand,” said Lucan.

For the first time confusion started to worm its way through the unending guilt and horror and regret that choked his thoughts, and his mind started to work again. He was dead and this was his punishment. So why was he hearing voices? Was this some sort of new punishment?

“Oh, don’t worry,” said the dry voice, a hint of amusement in the words. “Your punishments, like every other misfortune in your life, will be entirely self-inflicted.”

-JM