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  «We could call this poetic justice», she said as she looked for something to clean her hand onto.

  Suddenly they stopped moving, with no apparent reason.

  Wherever they were, they stood still for a second, as if frozen in the last pose they had taken. Then they simply dropped to the ground, again and forever lifeless.

  At the police headquarters, Rupert was in the middle of the common room, surrounded by policemen who were seeking shelter behind any possible hindrance to his relentless advance, trying with scarce success to keep him at bay with their best weapons.

  In front of him, standing behind an upturned desk, was Celendlinis Delmenar, completely deaf to the calls of the officers shouting him to stand down and not attract attention.

  The elf waved his hands in the air, uttering some arcane words, then stretched them toward the undead, with his fingers spread wide. Bolts of light sprang forth from his fingertips, directed toward Rupert. An instant before they hit him, he stopped living – given his could be called life at all – and fell to the floor as the magic raged uselessly on what was now but a common corpse. But from Celen's point of view, things were quite different.

  When Shim opened his eyes again, he found himself looking Vivienne's face as if in a dream, much closer than it should have logically been. He barely felt the movement that showed how she was carrying him in her arms, with no apparent strain although his weight was anything but negligible. He knew he was hurt quite seriously, knew he should have been in pain, but there was something in her eyes which seemed to anesthetize him, something that seemed to tell him that there was nothing to worry about, that everything was going to be fine.

  Vivienne smiled an enigmatic smile.

  Wilton Grange was dead, and along with him the secret for the creation of the heartless was gone.

  THE AUTHOR

  Carmelo Massimo Tidona, employee, writer and translator in his spare time, has been reading and writing since as long as he can remember. Some of his short stories have been published in various anthologies.

  For 0111edizioni Carmelo Massimo Tidona published:

  “Trittico Oscuro”, collection of urban fantasy tales (2009, Italian).

  “Riflessi d’Ombra”, urban fantasy novel (2009, Italian)

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  Table of Contents

  CHAPTER 1

  CHAPTER 2

  CHAPTER 3

  CHAPTER 4

  CHAPTER 5

  CHAPTER 6

  CHAPTER 7

  CHAPTER 8

  CHAPTER 9

  CHAPTER 10

  CHAPTER 11

  THE AUTHOR