Chapter 1 Preview
It's starting to get real...
Hello friends!
Thank you so much for your early support of my passion project. I am happy to say that the first three chapters of Forsaken by Shadows have been produced and are ready for publishing! Yay!
However, I want to have a nice cushy backlog of episodes so once they start coming, they can be posted regularly. So, it’ll still be a few more weeks until I start sharing this story which has become so very dear to my heart.
In the meantime! I wanted to share with you a preview of chapter 1! I hope it gets you excited to hear more. So without further adieu, here is the beginning of Forsaken by Shadows!
You can choose to read or listen to the recorded version on YouTube! (Eventually, it’ll be on podcasting platforms too, but it’s almost 11 o’clock and I really should be in bed right now…)
Chapter 1: Capture
Kitty, age 8
Kitty was not always called Kitty. It was the name given to her by her captor, Prince Toloruel, Elderboy of House Tear, fifth house of Menzoberranzan. The wicked drow warrior had thought it was amusing. He never asked what her true name was, never cared to find out. He simply, on a whim, decided he wanted a pet. So he murdered her family and abducted her from her home.
That was why she was called Kitty. She was, in effect, of no more value to the drow family than a stray cat. Except, as she thought to herself often, a cat would’ve been treated better. A cat was higher on the spectrum of life than she. For she was what the drow hated most: a “faerie”.
She wasn’t a real “faerie”, of course, and wasn’t even pure “faerie”. She had been born to an elven mother and a half-elven father, both of them minstrels in a traveling band of performers. Music brought her family together and the first eight years of the young half-elf’s life were bliss. She had no idea that monsters stalked in the night, nor that darkness could be so oppressive that it stole the air from your very lungs.
She knew nothing of the evils of the world until the raid.