ECHO     Chapter 1 - Run                

Chapter 1

RUN

“Run!” the guard bellowed as he threw me over the side of the boat, careening into the frigid waters of the Lorien Sea.

I landed just shy of the assailing islanders clamoring to board the prisoner transport I had just been ever so tactfully removed from.  They screamed with a terrifying bloodlust, and death was in their eyes.  With one look at them, I knew they had each earned. . .