The Ascenders: A Red Wraith Prequel (The Red Wraith)

Description

On a summer day atop the Messippi pyramid of Saint’s Summit, an original man known to some as Naysin and many more as the Red Wraith fulfilled a vision by summoning four lesser shamans to meet him in one moon’s time. When they arrived, he froze them in midstride and peered into their memories.

The vision hadn’t specified why he needed the other shamans there, but Naysin knew that, if he were to remake the world before he died, he had to find the answers hidden in the shamans’ pasts.

This is what he saw.

An excerpt from The Ascenders won an Honorable Mention from the Writers of the Future Contest in 2015.

Please Note: This story doesn’t fully resolve on its own—it’s meant as a lead-in to The Red Wraith.