Brutality of the Goddess

Let’s get straight to the point.  Here’s a little excerpt from a book I’ve started writing over the holidays.  A title is still in progress and so is a cover and a synopsis.  This is just one of those things that make life worth living.  The setting is heavily inspired from the Achaemenid period of the Persian Empire BUT is not exactly such.  Many of the elements are based from the above-mentioned era, as wel as the names.  however, a lot of elements still, were created straight from this writer’s mind.

The glint of the sword caught her eye, and she stared at it for a moment.  Its curved blade was smooth and perfect like still moonlight.  The hilt was a tarnished gold but still beautiful.  It melded with the pommel wrapped in a strip of waxed, brown leather.  The sword was fastened horizontally against the wall with a couple of steel brackets right beside several other blades.

          Yala Maryam’s eyes twinkled.  She has always been fascinated with swords more than she was with fragrant cloths and lavish jewelry.  However, the women in the seraglio were not permitted to wield swords save for the times they were asked to polish them in the armory—a chance that Maryam grabbed greedily and cherished like a lifelong dream.

          The armory was dimly lit, but the light was enough to make the elements in the room visible.  Swords, scimitars, and scythes were fastened against the wall according to their kind and size; spears were neatly arranged inside tall, wooden cylinders kept in a corner of the room.  Round shields and boeotians were stacked on cedar crates while full-length shields leaned against the wall.  Quivers of arrows were kept in a box near the cedar crates.

          “ What are you doing?” came a voice that made Maryam clutch the rug she was holding, tighter.

* hehe…just wait till the book’s finished.  i hope you will have fun reading it as much as i had and still am having fun writing it. 

P.S the book won’t be published so only a few people will be able to read through it

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