The First King of Shannara
 

Here is an exerpt from the latest best selling novel First King of Shannara:

    A Skull Bearer gave orders and crooked-limbed monsters ascended the stairs in a knot of teeth, claws, and weapons.  The small band of Druid gaurd repulsed the rush.  The monsters came again, and again the gaurd threw them back.  But by then half of the defenders were dead or injured.  And no more had arrived to replace them.
    Caerid Lock looked around in despair.  Where were the Druids? Why didn't they respond?
    The monsters attacked a third time, a bristling mass of thrashing bodies and windmilling limbs, shrieks and cries rising out of gaping throats.  The Druid Gaurd counterattacked, beating them back down the stairway, leaving half their number sprawled lifeless on the blood-slicked steps.
    Grabbing a Gaurd by the tunic, Caerid wispered desperately, "Find the Druids and tell the Druids to flee while there is still time! Tell them Paranor is lost! Then flee yourself!"
    Seconds later, the creatures of the Warlock Lord surged up the stairway once more.  Caerid and his men braced to meet them.
    But this time the monsters were too many...

    Characters:
                Bremen--First of the Druid Protectors.
                Brona--The Warlock Lord.
 
 
 

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