When The Lights Go Out
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Last published Sat, Nov 28, 2015
The last stars have burned out. Galaxies remain as little more than memory and dust. The oceans have all dried up, life is scarce, Earth is baron ball of rock floating through space. Humanity clings to the edge of extinction. Countless wars have reduced the most technologically advanced race in the universe, to little more than lawless animals, scrabbling in the dust for the smallest scrap of food. However, they are not alone. Just as they are adapting to their new Earth, something stirs in the darkness. For it is not what happens in the light you must be afraid of, it's what happens when the lights go out.
The story follows Kale Dratis, adopted son of the last Vault Lord, Master swordsman and champion of the hunt 3 times over. He, along with his childhood friend (and princess of the Denann province) Elaree Hetai, are thrown into an epic quest to find, and destroy the driving force of an infinite horde of ravenous creatures, before everything they hold dear is torn apart.
Will the last remnants of two dying races be saved, or is it time for humanity to face what they have done, and pay the ultimate price?
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