Lone Wolf, written by A.C. Pritchard, taken from MORTAL DESCENT, Book One of the Arkae Chronicles.
From the perspective of "Little Beltan Girl" from "A Memory of Mortality"
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Thumbnail sketches from “A Memory of Mortality” Graphic Novel (in progress), written, inked, and colored by A.C. Pritchard, pencils by Mark Hatherley
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LONE WOLF
His visage was marred scarred a deep hue
One eye a void where no light could break through
Yet deep inside him there still flickered a fight
within that hollow shell unnaturally filled with life
Through the carnage we fled as the world came undone
His wounds told me a story of battles he’d won
But beneath every scar I sensed growing grief
each memory buried longing for release
He felt the weight of a past he could not recall
Yet I saw in his eye that shadows would fall
For each life he had taken for each heart that he’d torn
gifted a ghost of their sorrow a new scar he adorned
In the clamor of war
a child’s lament
my cry in the darkness
his Mortal Descent
Defying his brothers with wrath held in his chest
He sought to protect me so he can finally rest
(just rest)
scorched country fields where shadows now creep
Forgotten faces and the dreams that they keep
A fallen youth in silence now sleeps
a photograph found a new family weeps
At Boyat’s grim theater despair wove a tale
when Furkten unleashed their frigid blue gale
survivors were slaughtered their voices now lost
Each heartbeat extinguished then Reclaimed at no cost
In war's cold embrace I clung to his side
As chaos closed in his wrath was my guide
Through the cries of the fallen the orcish horns blared
Beltan abolished but a tiny spark flared
my Lone Wolf was here with a promise to save
and my stoic protector was never afraid
(never afraid)
Against his own kind he spilled blood and broke bones
To keep me secret safe and warm
He turned on his kin a defiance untold
as Knights of Ash loomed with blades glowing cold
within walls of Eshmic beneath the church’s light
when the heavens wept blood on the last Beltan night
I clung to his side my spirit unbent
While the chaos above sang a song of lament
To save a dear child a promise was made
for Eshmic was lost forgotten to flame
I watched as he faltered yet rose from the pain
His spirit ignited he was fire in rain
(fire in rain)
In a moment of chaos when all hope seemed lost
He stood as my savior despite the great cost
To unite mankind from shadows we rise
In the name of the wolf
beneath Arkae's skies
(Arkae's skies)
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