Next Town Over is on a semi-hiatus due to my first kid and my eroded buffer. I didn’t want to leave the place sit idle during this indeterminate span, though, so I asked you what you wanted to see in the interim, and you overwhelmingly voted for a visually simpler short story I could keep up with updating while I square away motherhood and the first NTO collection. This is it.
Black and Hunter will eventually return in Next Town Over Book 5: Wayward.
Ooooh. I take it this is some of that dark hoodoo that Hunter learnt so he could do his crazy-ass pyromancy? And judging by his lack of grey, his a few years younger.
Don’t take the amulet, author man I can’t remember the name of! Bad things will happen!
Oh man, nothing good ever comes to someone who says “I would have sold my soul.” this guy is doooooooomed!
Wuy would you ever buy something like that?! It screams evil in your face!
Hunter: Don’t mind me, I’m dark and charming and sinister. And probably a cameo only.
Furthermore, yeahhh… you take that thing with you, Mr. Author, you get what you asked for.
The real question is: How do you feel about branding? :3
Say it with me: “YIKES!!!!!!!!!!”
Hmmm…
Skulls, bones, held together by the sinew of some kind of creature.
Seems legit. I’ll take two!
Oh my, Faust would be proud.
What is it? It’s trouble…that’s what it is. Run, Arthur, run!