Black Glass
Volume 1 of the Sideon Myst trilogy
- 1-Black Glass
- 2-Soul Garden
- 3-Bone Dancer
Status: In Progress
Working Title: Black Glass
Word Count: 48,000 (Chapter 23/40)
Plot Summary: Sideon would give anything to be more like his brother. Adam, war hero and the pride of the republic, has gone forth to defend Gallorium against the barbarous Oltek, savages who decorate themselves with the remains of their dead. The only thing preventing Sideon from joining his brother’s side is the fact that, unlike Adam, Sideon is still alive, trapped in his boring flesh-and-blood body.
He just can’t seem to convince his parents to let him shift to his beautiful golem body either. They’re clinging desperately to the sad and out-dated notion that life is somehow ‘sacred’ – that shifting into a stone and metal work of art before your time is a slap in the faces of the gods who blessed him with life.
Even worse is the fact that Adam appears to agree with them. Of course, he might only be saying that out of deference to his parents.
Or, maybe Adam’s saying that because he’s just come back from the front lines, under cover of darkness, in utter agony, ravaged and brutalized in a way that should be impossible for a well-constructed, magically reinforced golem like himself.
The Oltek have found something new in their war against their civilized neighbors, and the implications of this development are staggering. Death, once considered a paltry nuisance, is suddenly something to be feared once more.
Now, Sideon, brother of a now reviled ex-hero, begins to learn first hand what ‘civilized’ people are capable of when angry and afraid, and that sometimes ‘barbaric’ can be a matter of perspective.
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