Bloodletting Part 1: The Affinities Cycle Book 1 - Plot & Excerpts
Forty paces around the small area, stepping carefully over the knobs and divots in the ground. He had tried sleeping, but the ground was too uneven. Nothing like the soft bed of his home. The murmur of the oroc camp was a stark contrast. He was used to the comforting sounds of his parents in the other room, opposite their small Heart room. What sleep he got was fitful, sundered by nightmares.He paced to keep the memories at bay. If he thought too long about them, he would cry—just like the younger children. He looked down at one as he stepped carefully over them. They had wailed past the point of exhaustion. Their pitiful sobs had enraged the guard oroc until he had bashed his club against the sides of their cage, leering at them with its face full of sharp white teeth. Before tonight, he had never seen an oroc, never particularly feared them. Everyone knew the orocs were a peaceful race that lived deep in the forested green of the Rocmire. The king had a treaty with them, didn’t’ he?
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