Way of the Messenger – Part Two
Jana’s journey to the Inner Sphere with the future of Clan Wolf finds danger from ghosts lurking in the void.
Stories I’ve written that don’t have a published home, so I put them here for…well, I don’t know why. Maybe for you to enjoy them?
Jana’s journey to the Inner Sphere with the future of Clan Wolf finds danger from ghosts lurking in the void.
Part 1 of the (unofficial) sequel to “Way of the Warrior” in the Wars of Reaving plot book for BattleTech.
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” -Oscar Wilde
A modern fable for a failing republic. How this ends depends on we, the people.
Day passes to night. Box still on the stoop. Rains all day.
The box is, naturally, wet.
This year, a large swath of IAMTW members (me included) decided we’d like to showcase our non-media tie-in writing chops and introduce all of our various fanbases to a wealth of new worlds, settings, and stories.
One emotion ran through him with a bitter sting, an emotion he had not felt in decades, if not centuries.
Fear.
“Or hadn’t you noticed the lack of people in the streets after the firebombing the enemy did last night? You do realize that most of the city is blackened rubble above our heads?”
He exhaled slowly, releasing the tension he’d stored for the last thirty-six hours. They weren’t in the clear yet—far from it, actually—but any moment of respite was one to cultivate.
Demi-Precentor Alex Emory resisted the urge to reach out and clear his cockpit screen. The gray sky was smudgy with fog—really just low-altitude clouds, this high in the mountains—and gave the viewable landscape a blurry quality that the weary MechWarrior kept trying to blink away.