Lester and Marguex whirled around to see the Man of the Shadows without his fiery feathered companion. It was more tolerable to not be standing on the same g...

All they heard was the sound of the battle, burrowing new unfamiliar holes inside their ears. Unsettling, horrifying, unmanageable. Lester and Marguex contin...

“Lester!” Margues exclaimed as she reached him, “what are you doing here?” “Oh, the usual,” Lester remarked, “following my sister into the belly of the beast...

“Margeux!” Was the cry heard from below. Marguex peered over the edge of the rock to see her brother from a distance just emerging from the forest of black tw...

The source of the booming voice, Marguex was unsure about, because the jolt in which it gave the vulture gave her time to loosen herself from it’s grip, not ...

“Look!” Copper let out a muted shout. On top of the highest mountain all the men could see a giant red bird and what appeared to be his lunch, landing at the...

They both landed in a heap behind a large bolder, the cawing of the huge monster bird resounded all around them with cathedral resonance, but they were unsur...

If the rest of this dark island was dry, barren, and black with ash, Marguex and Lester emerged in it’s one and only swamp. A strange place. Okay, all of it...

Yes, there was a large dark tower in the middle of this forsaken island, and yet somehow there seemed something about it, misleading. The strength and mass o...

With a battle roar of the most disconcerting sort and a unifying of the armed forces, Bayern watched helplessly from his tiny canoe as the mob of zombies cli...

After all of the seamen climbed or tumbled off the ship, as it were, Marguex and Lester were left abandoned on the deck. From below they heard the questionin...

“Apparently they DO see us,” remarked Marguex adding “thanks Ol’ Debbie” with sarcasm barely detectable. “What do we do?” Copper questioned. “The only thing...

They stayed in their hidden position just behind the rails of the “Ol Deborah” gasping heavily with fear, or just simple solidarity, and why not? There was l...

Marguex suddenly found her mindset had changed as her helplessness gave way to purpose and she was aware that their rescue mission was preeminent. Nothing el...

Marguex knew what needed to be done, and something confirmed in her that Bayern was right. She sighed deeply, “Lift the sails, boys,” she turned the wheel ba...

“Dawn has broke, Cap,” Bayern bellowed the sleeping teens right out of their hollow dreams like a huge crashing wave, “and trouble is upon the horizon, look!...

“You’ve been there before, Marg, uh, Capin’ Maggie,” Lester brushed the crumbs off his hoodie and placed his elbows on his lifted knees, “and you’ve made it...

“Good! What better thin’ to do than to send a gir...” he coughed to disrupt himself “woman to rescue our women!” Made sense to Lester, who continued eating t...

So, setting the women free, long captured by the Man of the Shadows, was not going to be any kind of an easy task, Marguex realized, as she climbed aboard th...

With this, Marguex stepped out onto the water, looked behind her and beckoned the others to follow. “Lester!” she called behind her, “we don’t need a boat, o...