Welcome to the Wattpad Block Party - Winter Edition III!
Round FIVE of this popular event is coming your way the entire month of February 2017 and it's going to be epic! The invites have started to roll out and everyone from your all time favo...
Hi everyone, I'm MB, and I am so excited to be participating in this Winter Edition of the Wattpad Block Party. A HUGE thanks to @KellyAnneBlount for putting together another great event and I hope you're all enjoying it as much as I am being a part of it!
So, before we go any further, let me tell you a little bit about myself:
. I love potatoes, especially those that are French fried, covered in gravy and cheese curds.
. My favorite vegetable is cucumbers.
. If I was a cookie, I would probably be an Oreo – hard on the outside, sweet in the middle.
. I also love cookies.
Now that we have that out of the way...
Believe me when I say that only good things can happen when you believe they can, so don't ever doubt yourself!
February marks my one-year anniversary on Wattpad, and my story, TWO THOUSAND YEARS, has become my pride and joy since I wrote it during 2014's NaNoWriMo. Since posting it to Wattpad a year ago, it has won a Watty award and is now a featured story...
But why stop there?
It is the predecessor to the second book of the Empire Saga series, MARK OF THE EMPRESS, and three novellas - REYLOR'S LAMENT, TREYAN'S PROMISE, and SARAYNA'S FATE.
And now, this brings us to BEGINNING'S END, Book Three of the Empire Saga.
As with my other novels, this was drafted during NaNoWriMo this past November, and I've been very excited to start sharing it on Wattpad, and I thought the Block Party would give me – and you – the perfect opportunity to get a preview of what's to come!
Now, seeing as it is Book Three, it can be assumed there may be some spoilers within this chapter – consider this your warning, and continuing on is completely up to you! Maybe you don't mind spoilers. Maybe it might incite you to want to go back and read the other two books and three novellas to what brought everything to this point, and if that's the case—rock on!
So, that all being said, please enjoy Chapter One of the upcoming third book of the Empire Saga, BEGINNING'S END!
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Chapter One
The palace grounds near the crypts and tombs of the Empire's departed seemed almost immaculate compared to the destruction that surrounded them. Even after the Empress' return, the efforts in rebuilding the palace itself had been slow-going - so many people had evacuated towards the outskirts of the Empire's boundary lines out of fear of an attack from the Borderlands and its banished Lord Steward.
The same Lord Steward who now inhabited the Empire's palace once again.
Alexstrayna carefully walked between the tombs and graves until she came upon one of the more-recent markers, closest to the garden wall and surrounded by rose bushes from an Empress long gone.
