THE DARK ONE
Daylight is almost here.
Soon the sun would rise and with it they would be forced to stop a work that had barely even begun.
He turns to the Hunter beside him.
“Dig faster”
The Hunter does not respond but they start to dig faster as commanded.
They do not respond not out of disrespect or fear but because they cannot.
They no longer have a mind of their own and since he does not wish for them to speak, they would not speak.
It had been difficult, even for a man of his talents to master such magic, magic that allowed one not just to alter the free will of another but to take it away completely, leaving behind an emotionless husk that would stop at nothing to do his biddings.
He had almost given up on the idea, let it go.
But then 18 years ago, his plans, his life’s sol
