sproker-originals

The Lantern Road · Ch. 1 - The First Night

The lantern was lit at dusk, as it had been for two hundred years, and Mara took it from the warden's hands without looking at the flame. You did not look at it. Looking made you count, and counting made you slow. "Three…

The Lantern Road · Ch. 2 - The Bridge

The river had moved since the map was drawn. Mara had heard of such things in the marsh, where the water went where it liked and the reeds followed, but the bridge was stone and the stone was where it had always been, an…

The Lantern Road · Ch. 3 - Arrival

The gate was open. That was the first thing that was wrong. Wenmere kept its gate shut from dusk to dawn and had done so since the war, and a courier arriving at first light was meant to stand in the snow and call up to …