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