SOUL OF SKULLS – a fifth excerpt

Let’s have one final SOUL OF SKULLS excerpt before Christmas. This one introduces Caraster, one of the new villains in the book:

He expected Gerald to react with anger at the insults, but Lord Malden’s youngest son remained icy calm. “And butchering people at random is better?”

“Not random!” shouted Caraster. “No, not random. I will find the nobles. I will find the merchants. I will find the lying, sniveling priests. I will find everyone who is rich, everyone who has more than his neighbor. Then I shall kill them all, and take their stolen wealth and give it to the poor. I will rear raise a new order on the ashes of the world, a world where there are no wealthy men, where no one shall go without bread.”

“A fine dream,” said Gerald. “But you seek to make the world clean by washing it in blood. That, in the end, will lead only to more blood.”

“You say that because you are corrupt,” said Caraster, “because you cannot see the purity of the new world I will fashion. I will cleanse the world of all evil – and I shall kill you and all your family.”

Needless to say, you would not want a Christmas card from Caraster.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

-JM