I stumbled blindly in the woods, lost. I was tired and I was so unsure of where I was, and where I was going. It had been days since I left our village, burned to the ground. I remembered it well. Villagers were running and screaming frantically. I watched from a distance, lost in the chaos. The raiders rushing about at insane speed, with war dogs, larger than ones I had ever seen! Some of the raiders mounted, on horseback, others running on foot. Houses burning, children screaming, corpses littering the ground ...
I wouldn't remember. I couldn't remember.
My parents, in our cabin, made of wood... Burning, trapped inside ... Ashes falling and smoke everywhere. I urged myself to run away, to look away, but I couldn't. I watched my parents burning, my mother screaming frantically. The raider mounted on horseback, the howling wolf tattoo on his arm, just as the rest of the Raiders. I wanted to run and fight, but I couldn't. It was no use, they were already dead.
I touched my mother's silver dragon necklace. I took it from her, after she died. Fighting back tears, I tripped over a tree root, and fell to the ground. I was lost, and hopelessly so.
Meet Autumn Rose, a lost girl and the only survivor escaping not only her burning town, but also the mysterious attackers and her past. Leaving with nothing but her clothes and necklace, Autumn finds herself lost in the woods - a dangerous place to be late at night. But there's more to just a mysterious raid going on here.. The attack was not random, it was deliberate. The raiders wanted something...
Read Falling Feathers and discover who Autumn is, if she survives the woods, who the raiders are, what they were looking for, and why...
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#4 in Teen Fiction oli joskus parhaimmillaan (13.8.2017)