I was fast asleep when the world shook under me.

It had been festering below the earth, building up power and might.

My heart raced as I leaped from the bed and sprang into the hallway.

My vision was blurred and the walls cracked around me and covered the floor with chasms.

Pulling me down into the rocky abyss.

...

The clinking of glass mugs, filled to the brim with bubbly amber liquid, echoed throughout the dim lighted room. Hordes of blackened, soot covered men, lined the bar and surrounded the circular tables. A heavy layer of smoke hung in the air following the incoming draft from the shattered window.

The lively atmosphere was interrupted by the “squeaky” “creak” of the batwing doors as they were swung...