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    A Fire In The East: DragonTide, #5
    A Fire In The East: DragonTide, #5
    A Fire In The East: DragonTide, #5
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    A Fire In The East: DragonTide, #5

    By Colin Taber

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    Welcome to a drowning world.

    Long ago, the world offered prosperity and hope for all, but not now. In a new age, after the end of the Dragon Wars, the world is instead scarred and slowly dying. The storms above roll with greater fury, the forests wither, and the seas are ever-rising. 

    Where once great ports sat by the sea, waves now wash over their submerged towers and walls. Once green farms that reliably delivered bounty are now more and more swamped and stolen away year after year by the flooding waters.

    Trade is fading, kingdoms are falling, and people are dying as the ties that have bound their societies together fray and unravel, all under the pressures unleashed by the rising waters of the Dragon Tide. 

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    In this release, Kalia and Spader find themselves entangled in a brutal conflict atop the enigmatic Dragon's Mountain while their father, Ruck, embarks on a perilous journey on the open road. All Ruck knows is that his children have been ensnared in a web of slavery. He will venture into a struggling world where tumultuous rivers feed rising seas, all fed by the Dragon Tide curse.       
     

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    Dragon Tide is an ebook serial of monthly short fiction releases.

    The first instalment, The Rising, is a short intro of 1500 words or 5-6 pages. This and following instalments will be between 6500-10000 words or 25-40 pages.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThought Stream Creative Services
    Release dateOct 1, 2024
    ISBN9798227087065
    A Fire In The East: DragonTide, #5
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    Colin Taber

      Colin Taber was born in Australia in 1970 and announced his intention to be a writer at the innocent age of 6. His father, an accountant, provided some cautious advice, suggesting that life might be easier if his son pursued a more predictable vocation. Colin didn't listen. Over the past twenty years Colin's had over a hundred magazine articles published, notably in Australian Realms Magazine. In 2009 his first novel, The Fall of Ossard, was released to open his coming of age dark fantasy series, The Ossard Trilogy. The second installment, Ossard's Hope, followed in 2011 and was supported by a national book signing tour. Currently Colin is working on the final book in that trilogy, Lae Ossard, and his new series The United States of Vinland. Colin has done many things over the years, from working in bookshops to event management, small press publishing, landscape design and even tree farming. All he really wants to do, though, is to get back to his oak grove and be left to write. Thankfully, with an enthusiastic and growing readership, that day is coming. He currently haunts the west coast city of Perth.

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      A Fire In The East - Colin Taber

      Chapter 19

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      An Empty Road

      Along Newshore of the Young Sea

      Lucia and Dela sat out the front of the farmhouse as the sun set in the west, colouring the scattered clouds streaked across the sky. They were both quiet as they contemplated the empty road in front of them, and that their husbands had gone and followed. As they did, each with a mug of herbal tea in hand, they could see the last signs of the day’s work ending on the other farms that sided the road and covered the slope, carpeting the subtle rise with their terraced fields.

      Dela said, They should reach The Crossroads tomorrow night.

      Yes, and then Risdon in three days.

      Dela did not say anything for a moment, but then spoke with a tremor in her voice, Thank you so much for sharing your home.

      Lucia turned to her. You would do the same for us. She then took a sip of her tea and added, Besides, let us put all our hopes and thanks into Ruck and Tanner keeping safe and returning with Kalia and Spader.

      Dela briskly nodded, her worries showing.

      *

      On the other side of the farmhouse, down the slope at the bottom of the two terraced fields, Mara and Tark sat with Calo and Fae. They were lined up along the top of the wall above the new beach the storm had left. The two sets of siblings, a pair of thirteen years olds and younger tens, looked out to sea. They all had hand lines cast out into the water, seeing if they could catch anything in the slowly fading daylight.

      Quietly, they talked as they fished.

      Tark pointed at the shallows, where low waves rolled in. That was where we found it. A gold wire studded with tiny diamonds, and it all woven through silk. The silk broke up in the water as Father pulled it free. He said it came from an old drowned merchant’s townhouse.

      Mara quietly chuckled. Tark, he said it might have. We can’t really know, especially when some of the neighbouring farms fell into the sea during the storm. It’s more likely it came from around here than a three-hundred-year-old merchant’s home.

      Tark shrugged but was annoyed to be corrected.

      Fae sat next to Tark, listening while she watched her line. The sun sunk behind the farmhouse at their backs while the moon rose out to sea in front of them.

      Calo checked his line as he said, Our father pulled a small chest from the shallows once. It held a little gold, and had washed up after a storm.

      Fae grinned at the memory.

      Mara asked, What happened to it? Did you lose it when the farmhouse collapsed?

      We don’t have the chest, but I know they have the coins that were there. We will use it to help claim new land and set up a new farm.

      Tark sighed, I don’t like the talk about the Highlands. It’s supposed to be cold up there.

      Mara said, "Yes,

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