THE FLAMES IN THE SHADOW

y part of Agron with its light, or possibly the night was one of those numberless times when the moon was utte

est one amongst them was powerful enough to go against the grimness

to come, howled round the hills, fields, habitations and mor

tory weather, for the night was fast going pitch-black, frigid and more bizarre, moreover, outside th

ills, mountains and woodlands, but the habitations wer

ragon that was standing on the ground, narrowed his grey eyes as he contorted his hirs

ver the back of his suit of golden armour whose breastplate had a grisly emblem which was a serpent in

. A broadsword, which was reposing in a golden scabbard and seeking for blood, wa

in a brazen ring that hung down on either side of the leather seat through which he was sitting on the

zombies, dragons and griffins that stood before him. The villainous forces

was moonless and devoid of stars. The serried forces, in corps and c

to cut down countless people and wreck habitations. They had

leaxes, quivers that were full of poisonous arrows, sledgehammers, spears, shields, lo

gargantuan catapults and scores of heavy stones, for they wer

and emit great flames that would consume manifold prop

hrough grossly dark magic were the foes of Lord Golrus' foes, f

same emblem which was on Lord Golrus' breastplate. They had helmeted heads, a

heads with obeisance to the would-be supreme ruler of Agron, from whom they would gladly accept commands; hereupon, with their

stroyers to the islanders who were avid for everlasting easement, they hankered to be

cockcrow through sunset, and from sunset through cockcrow, hitherto the moment when the

the rulers, annex all the provinces of Agron and make every living being, wheth

s in ruins, bring the spoils to him, render numberless people captive, and instigate

orders of the provinces, storming every habitation and battering down walls

sentinels were falling mid the defence of their homeland, and the doom s