Spindelle

ENDLE Escalation Chapter 1 “Embers of Memory” There was light rain – a cold rain that caused a haunting chill as droplets slithered down warm young skin. The rain was alien to the young woman who stood at the edge of a grassy cliff overlooking a vast dark sea with a thick foggy veil atop its rolling waves. The sea foam gathered at the shore below with a sensational sound bellowing against the vertical wall of weathered stone and roots of ancient oak trees. Trees bent and swayed with the wind sailing across the rocky heights which then surrounded the woman. Long golden hair and a loose blue linen dress were lifted by the cool winds and pulled towards the sea as if to entice her over the edge and into its embrace. She was a lovely woman with an exotic dark complexion and fierce emerald eyes. Below her eyes were six dark birthmarks, three under each eye of varying sizes. A sheer silken white veil of flowers and swirls covered her head to protect her from the spring showers, but it did