Strange and Ominous Tidings (Len's Song, 2022 edition, Snippet 14)

A story fragment from the Dustsong Cycle

(Read Len’s Song, 2022 edition, Snippet 13.)

Some hundreds of years later—

Len cried out in dismay at the fiery glow of the great-sword in his eyes, which shut them again straightaway.

But he didn’t die. Better yet, half a dozen heartbeats later, he resumed breathing, if only in ragged gulps.