Here is an excerpt from the prologue of my second book in the Tales from the Helderbergs. The book is titled "Sandie, The Search at Vultures' Peak"
...The weary traveler
lumbered slowly up to the cliffs, knowing this would be a difficult journey,
and his last.
The path to Vulture’s peak
is so well hidden, it could easily be missed by even the keenest of eyes. He knew that if he came to the great
waterfall, he would have gone too far. The traveler stopped to catch his
breath, one of many stops he would make this day.
As he slowly made his
way up the side of the mountain, his eyes kept veering to the left, searching
for the small opening that would lead him straight up the vertical to vulture’s
peak. These same eyes, he knew, would
soon darken never to look upon anything again.
He could fly to the
top, he supposed, but he wanted this time, this last time, to be special; to be
with the mountain, with the world, one last time. He leaned against a large boulder, thinking
of the things he would miss, and he let his mind wander.
His name was Aengus. Long ago, he was once tall and handsome; light
haired, with a big smiling face and his light blue eyes full of laughter. His great bright black and green wings had stood
out proudly at his back...
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