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FRAGMENT OF THE LEOPARD & THE WOLF
An Interlude in UNDYING: A YOUTHFUL HEART
Synopsis
Rome, 204 BCE. A disgraced sellsword, wandering from tavern brawls, caravan escorts, village watch, territory disputes, smuggling runs and debt collections—finds himself fleeing the catastrophic fallout from a botched contract. Along the weary and arduous flight, he finds himself entwined with a fugitive bandit—a morose and vengeful woman unrivalled with the bow, who employs his sordid trade in search of the man who killed her father, and robbed her of half of her life.
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ON THE STORY STRUCTURE
The Fragment, and more so the Violent Fragmentation exists as it does because I possess neither the time nor the capital to complete the epic romance of the Leopard & the Wolf. And I cannot perceive myself alive or capable in the next 10 years. This is my death anxiety! Five to ten years, because it’s a long story. Or rather, it is a secondary story in A YOUTHFUL HEART— which follows another pair of paramours. Volume 1 should conclude in a year; Volume 2 perhaps by 2032; Volume 3 perhaps… Ah! If God allows it! But let the Lord be generous with me! And with you as well! So that we may die accomplished, or die in the act of accomplishing!
PART 2 — VIOLENT FRAGMENTATION
The kindly faced prophet in the marketplace; the dirty handed children collected about him; an ambush of a slave caravan; a stolen kiss under the pale moon; the mournful beast bearing its fangs; the lover who melted overjoyed, and sleepless embracing. Now these are the events which took place in the time of their lives, in the year before the beginning of the end. Where will destiny take them?
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A YOUTHFUL HEART
This is the present story, which follows a friend of Solomaeus, straw haired Helios of Lance. Disgraced knight, breaker of vows, unrepentant murderer, and a man who revels in base desires, as a way of letting time slip away. Where will destiny take him!
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