It would take so little to slaughter them all… The great mechanical machines, so far advanced to anything that Astoria had been able to bring to bear in her defense, stood round the great square, guns brought to bear on the fragile humanity, the remnants of Astoria’s once great army. The conquerors, the victors, stood guard over the prisoners, the defeated soldiers of a defeated capital, the final blow in the war that would see the country of Astoria kneel to her new overlord, the Emperor of Tranaden…
Smoke hung like a pall over the ruined city and Jaden wanted to weep for the destruction that surrounded them all, a morbid reminder of their failure, of their defeat. This is all back story with it ending as the book begins… Fortunately, when I republished with Etopia Press, they rectified the issue and the new edition contains a version of this prologue. I believe that this explains much better why Jaden was so afraid of the Emperor in the beginning and more about the demon itself, which was sadly lacking in the book when it was first published so long ago. It was cut out during editing, which I think takes away from the story as a whole, so I have included it here for anyone who is interested. This is the original prologue to Emperor’s Wolf.
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