WINDWEEPER
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Not that it mattered anymore.
He huddled down into the ragged covers, for the night was black and still. It was late. There was no moon and he was thankful.
He tried to focus on a single beam of white light in his mind's eye, a trick he had been taught many years ago. Sleep would be a long time in coming, otherwise.
He sighed. His fingers hurt. Four were broken on his right hand. They ached, throbbed, inside the tight constriction of the bandage that hold them together.
Not that his injuries mattered. What were broken fingers, anyway?
Five years, he thought. More than five years since it all began. He tried not to think about that part of it, but it leapt across his mind, unraveling like an uncoiling serpent, and he watched the story unfold. He tried to stop the images from forming.
"Let me die," he pleaded, his hoarse voice unaccustomed to speech, for it was not allowed. He mumbled the same prayer he had whispered for years. "Merciful Alel, let me die in my sleep."
With his uninjured fingers gripping the tattered remnants of the bedding to his chest, Conar McGregor buried his face in the stench of the material and wept.
Charlotte Boyett-Compo
Charlotte Boyett-Compo is the author of more than two dozen novels, the first ten of which are the WindLegends Saga. For nearly three full years, Charlee has remained—first with Dark Star Publications, and now with Amber Quill Press—the company's most popular and best-selling author. She is a member of the Romance Writers of America, the HTML Writer's Guild, and Beta Sigma Phi Sorority. Married thirty-two years to her high school sweetheart, Tom, she is the mother of two grown sons, Pete and Mike, and the proud grandmother of Preston Alexander and Victoria Ashlee. A native of Sarasota, Florida, she grew up in Colquitt and Albany, Georgia, and now lives in the Midwest.
Most any fan of electronic books—or fans of dark fantasy and suspense—has at least heard her name mentioned, if not purchased at least one of her many offerings. This prolific author has not only managed to gain multiple nominations and awards for her work, but better still, has built a fan base whose members border on the "fanatical."
Currently, Charlee is at work on at least several books in her various series and trilogies.
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