GHOST IN THE STORM – an excerpt

The rough draft of GHOST IN THE STORM passed 60,000 words today – I’m on chapter 18 of 29.

To celebrate, here is a brief excerpt from today’s writing.

Ark kept his face impassive as he watched Korbulus and Tarver confer with their scouts. He wanted to run over and demand their reports. But the men were watching him, and Ark had to look calm, controlled, in command of the situation. If the Legionaries saw him panic, or even hesitate, this entire thing would fall apart. He had taken command of these men, but his command was based on nothing more than a bluff and a show of confidence.

He suppressed the absurd urge to laugh. This kind of mad audacity was the sort of thing Caina would have done. How she would laugh when he told her the story.

If he lived long enough to tell it, and she lived long enough to hear it.

-JM