Paranormal Fantasy

In the Dreamer’s Eye

Prologue — The Saga of Terashan & the Crystal Empires

While scanning my files for ideas, I came across an old WIP that’s been lingering in an extended limbo since 2021. That’s a long time to leave a storyline and pick up the thread again. Hopefully, sharing it here will spark the inspiration to continue the story.

Cover art by the author

Prologue

She lay there, spent and breathing her last, knowing it was the end for her. Everyone and everything good she’d known was gone now. She was alone. How had she… how had all the realms come to this pass? She thought, I don’t want to go…

Pen and Ink painting — Art by the author

It was a dark time across the realms. The Dreamer’s Eye could see that something brooding and evil stretched across the lands, corrupting everything and everyone that fell beneath its tentacled shadows. It seemed to boil and writhe across the landscape. Like a great, slimy toad, it squatted across the realms, the stench of evil always seething at the edges of the light, gaining bit by bit, seeming to consume the light from the Crystal Empires.