Brim's Bane

<p><strong>Under the full moon's gaze the beast hunts its prey.</strong></p><p>Winter has come to Lake Marryat and the forests on its shores. Samomsyl Holgata toils in a small printshop under the watchful eye of a bitter old man and his burly assistant yearning for the day he can run the printing press. Sam trudges through bleak mundanity-pining after the local stable girl isolated from his estranged mother and uncle not a friend in sight. Desperate for change for courage for anything Sam waits to be given a chance to prove himself worthy of printing books.</p><p>When the parchment runs low Sam is tasked with securing more from a nearby town-despite the warnings of an impending blizzard. Through forest and snow he journeys into the darkness. The storm strikes forcing the young apprentice to seek shelter.</p><p>With death creeping into the threshold he would make his grave Sam shudders at the winter's embrace. Then it came. Growling scratching gnawing. In the blizzard's shadows it's there-stalking biting gnashing. With infernal claw and fang with blood-soaked fur the ravenous wolf arrives.</p>