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Here is an excerpt of my new project. Chaos Lives in Everything. It is urban fantasy fiction. I hope you enjoy.

 

From where he stood on top of the mountain he could see the vast harsh icy landscape in every direction. In the distance was the ruins of a desecrated village: straw-roofed huts were engulfed by vicious blazes that sent spirals of smoke towards the sky, carrying with it the scent of blood, burning flesh and death. Corpses were strewn everywhere like forgotten dolls. Many had been slayed by his own sword, human and fae alike.

  He had stood at the top of this mountain many times in the past and would many more times in the future. Each time it was always the same, never different. He always had the feeling that something vital was missing, the answer to a riddle. A part of him that was forever lost. A realization danced at the edge of his mind, taunting him. He was close to realizing the one answer. If only he could just grasp it! Grasping the answer would be like discovering the greatest treasure. But already he knew that he would never find it and that was what made it a nightmare.

 In one hand he held his sword. Even with his armor on the wind seemed to pass right through him, slicing at his flesh like a thousand sharp knives. His skin was numb. Though he knew it was a dream it felt real-painfully real. The blade was covered in gore. He held it before him as if preparing for battle but there was no enemy in sight. There was nothing in this barren wasteland, nothing but snow and blood. A single drop of blood formed at the end of the dangerously sharp tip of the blade. Slowly it plummeted towards the ground and splashed across the snow.

  The elf jolted awake and grabbed the dagger that he kept on the bedside table. His teeth were clenched and his eyes gleamed a pale metallic grey, searching for a danger that wasn’t there. His knees sunk into the mattress. He looked like a feral animal, his muscles tense beneath his smooth milky skin. Cold sweat dripped down from in between his shoulder blades. It was the ringing of his cell phone that brought reality sliding back into place. Slowly his muscles relaxed and he realized that he was not on top of the mountain but the bedroom of his penthouse apartment.

  He aanswered the phone with a silky, “Hello?”

  He already knew that it was Sergeant Bryan Reynolds, chief of the Roc City Police Department, because he always wheezed when he talked on the phone.

  “What took you so long?” Reynolds barked. Skold had to pull the phone away from his extra-sensitive ears. “I’ve been trying to reach you for the last five minutes!”

   Skold sighed. “What do you want, Reynolds.”

   “I have a job for you.”

   “Reynolds, I’m a bounty hunter. I kill people, you know that.”

   “I have something for you to kill.”

   “You do?” Skold asked hopefully.

   “A troll,” said Reynold.

   Skold’s eyes narrowed. “A troll?”

   “Yes, it’s here in our city.”

   “Oh yeah. Look out the window. We’ve shut the whole city down.”

  Skold climbed out of bed. The darkness wrapped around him like a cloak as he moved with a cat-like grace.  He padded down the long hallway into the living room. He owned a large penthouse apartment on the southern outskirts of Downtown Roc City. The floor was tile, the walls the color of French Vanilla ice cream, the trim a coffee brown. In the living room was a large fireplace.

  The furniture was black and made of plush leather. The entertainment center was complete with a plasma screen TV, Blu Ray Player and six disc stereo set with Surround Sound Speakers hooked up to everything.        

   The best part of the apartment was the window that took  up one whole window. It overlooked the entire city so that Skold could see the entire city:  skyscrapers, office buildings, and the little maze-like network of streets. Normally the streets were overrun with pedestrians, and taxis, buses, and vehicles, their exhaust pipes seeping out with poisonous gases that were slowly killing the world, eating up the ozone layer.

  Tonight the moon hung high and full in the sky, looking pregnant and bright. The moonlight bathed Skold’s body, his skin seeming to reflect it like a glass surface. His hair was long and hung down to his shoulders, a natural white-blonde color. His cheek bones were high and his mouth was wide. His shoulders were small and the ridges of his ribs shown through his skin. For an elf he was short making him look nonthreatening. This was a misconception that often proved to be fatal.

 Rain pelted the window, followed by a wind that howled like a phantom, warning the world that autumn was about to come to an end and winter to begin. It rained nine months of the year in Roc City. In a few weeks the city would be under the wrath of heavy snowfalls, blizzards, and mountains of snow.

 Tonight, however the city was different. The streets were empty.  Barren. Not a car or a soul in sight. Several military helicopters hovered over the streets, their spotlights aglow.

  “And you want me to kill this troll?”

  “Not alone. I have a SWAT team of twenty-four of my best officers with me, including myself. The thing came from underground in the subway station. We have the it trapped in the subway systems. But my team isn’t qualified to take down a fucking troll. How the hell did it get in the city? I thought they stuck to the mountains.”

 We also don’t have the kind of silver that it takes to kill it. You do and you’re a hell of a lot more experienced than we are.”

  Troll skin was extremely thick. The only thing that could penetrate it and kill the troll, was Elven steel.

  Skold’s mouth split into a very wide grin. “Sounds like fun. There’s sure to be blood, death and mayhem. You know I am.”

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