Here's a snippet for chapter one of my new revision of Dragon Soul: Entwining Flames. Let me know what you all think.
Sunlight danced across his eyes and he opened them to a dimly lit, bare, cold room, devoid of any life or joy. He sat up and stared bleakly at the empty hearth before him. He climbed out of the bed, groaning softly at the sharp arrows of pain lancing across his back. Three days after that beating and he could still feel it. Ignacio must have struck him harder this time. He didn’t know why that surprised him. It was typically of Ignacio to do this sort of thing. If he didn’t, he would be living in a completely different world. He allowed himself to briefly imagine a world where people cared about him. But it was short-lived, like every bit of happiness in his life. Today would be no different because it would be the day that he threw everything away.