Here's another sample chapter from my book. I wanted to share one more representative of the entire story as the other one I posted does not involve major characters. To set the scene a bit, Caroline is a girl of about fifteen who is in pursuit of her father - who has been kidnapped. (As an aside, the word kidnap strikes me as a weird way to describe an adult being, well, "napped" but it is the correct usage of the term.) Anyway, she has found herself in a cave and afraid of an unusual species of "cave creatures" that dwell therein. Hope you like it! And the drawing is of course by Shawn Leader! Let me know what you think.
Chapter
Seven- Blinded By The Light
The
candle light from Caroline's hand played on the low-hanging ceilings
and walls of the cave, and the shadows therein created a thousand
terrors in her mind. With every step she imagined In-Betweeners
lurking in each shadow, made worse by the knowledge that she really had no
idea what a Tweener looked like, which filled her head with awful
ideas. For all she knew they were already standing all around her, as
the narrow light cast by the candle hardly illuminated enough space
to feel secure.
Again
and again she desperately fought the urge to turn back and run, and
only the thought of her father out there with those Barbarians drove
her forward. But she made the mistake of looking behind her, causing
her heart to cry out as she was still able to faintly make out the
soft glow of sunlight from the cave entrance. Caroline could not help
but shudder at the thought of this being the last time she would ever
see the light of the sun, and before she was done shuddering she went
around a bend of the tunnel. Just like that the sunlight was lost to
view.
