Title: The Kraken
Completed: April 2009
Extra Notes: Response to the Goldenlake drabble prompt, "Hauntings".
Soldiers had spoken of it for years.
Sometimes it was the terror of stormwings picking over the dead. For some it was the sight of nearly-dead mean hanging from conquered city walls. The fear of death.
For Wyldon, it would always be the raking of claws over his body as he heard the very real screams of very royal children. When he worried most, his fingers would run over the long scar beginning at his temple, and he would hear those terrified shrieks – and wonder if his own daughters had ever cried in terror as he defended someone else's home.