He leads the woman out of the gorge and past the hill where he found her. Firm under their feet, the dirt has already dried from the rains of Darkness. They carefully ascend another steep, scraggly hill. When they near the top, the tall Murkovin motions for the woman to stay a few feet below the ridge. After crawling to the crest, he spies through a crack between two large boulders on the labyrinth of narrow canyons directly below. With her back against the rocky ridge, the woman keeps watch on the terrain behind them.
All they can do now is patiently wait for the Hunter to make a move. Once she’s dead, the woman’s greatest obstacle will be removed. The Hunter’s body will decay until it’s nothing but the dust of the Barrens.
After the Delta has fallen, she thinks to herself, the army of Murkovin will learn who the Mür of my child really is—where he came from and what he once was. I’ll make certain of that. They’ll turn on him and end his life. If they don’t, I’ll carry out the task myself.
As I’ve always known would eventually happen, our time together will come to an end. Although the thought of his death saddens me, it’s the only way that I can see my vision for this world come to pass. Nothing and no one in will stand in my way. All of Krymzyn will look to me to guide them.
What was the word I once learned from the Mür of my child—the word he learned from stories of other worlds told by the Disciples to the children of the Delta?
Queen.
That’s the word, and that’s what I was born to be.
Queen of Krymzyn.
The Journals of Krymzyn
Krymzyn
The Infinite Expanse
A Traveler’s Fate
Barrens Rising (Release Date TBD)
War of The Beginning (Release Date TBD)
The 8th Purpose (Release Date TBD)
Light of Krymyzn (Release Date TBD)
