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    The Fall of Ys
    The Fall of Ys
    The Fall of Ys
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    The Fall of Ys

    By Jon Jacks

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    Ys rules a city named after her. A city that takes after her too, in its debauchery and callousness.
    Built on rocks stretching far out to sea, with towering walls keeping even the fiercest storms at bay, the city prides itself on being invincible.
    Until, that is, the first of what become many, regular petrifying screams rents the air, causing trees, then animals, then even people to wither...and slowly die...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJon Jacks
    Release dateJul 6, 2022
    ISBN9781005853600
    The Fall of Ys
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    Jon Jacks

    While working in London as, first, an advertising Creative Director (the title in the U.S. is wildly different; the role involves both creating and overseeing all the creative work in an agency, meaning you're second only to the Chairman/President) and then a screenwriter for Hollywood and TV, I moved out to an incredibly ancient house in the countryside. On the day we moved out, my then three-year-old daughter (my son was yet to be born) was entranced by the new house, but also upset that we had left behind all that was familiar to her. So, very quickly, my wife Julie and I laid out rugs and comfortable chairs around the huge fireplace so that it looked and felt more like our London home. We then left my daughter quietly reading a book while we went to the kitchen to prepare something to eat. Around fifteen minutes later, my daughter came into the kitchen, saying that she felt much better now 'after talking to the boy'. 'Boy?' we asked. 'What boy?' 'The little boy; he's been talking to me on the sofa while you were in here.' We rushed into the room, looking around. There wasn't any boy there of course. 'There isn't any little boy here,' we said. 'Of course,' my daughter replied. 'He told me he wasn't alive anymore. He lived here a long time ago.' A child's wild imagination? Well, that's what we thought at the time; but there were other strange things, other strange presences (but not really frightening ones) that happened over the years that made me think otherwise. And so I began to write the kind of stories that, well, are just a little unbelievable.

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      The Fall of Ys - Jon Jacks

      The Fall of Ys

      Jon Jacks

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      Chapter 1

      ‘A treasure chest that no man can ever empty? Could such a thing really exist?’

      It was just a drunken conversation. Overheard in a raucously crowded public house in the seaport of Quimper.

      Yet it would commit a nation to war; as, indeed, had been its intention all along.

      *

      Chapter 2

      King Cradllaun of Cornouaille, ruler of the sea-going Veneti, could make good use of a treasure chest that never emptied.

      It would fund the wars he enjoyed inflicting on other countries. Fund eventually, too, the war he would have to wage on the Korrigan to obtain the chest in the first place.

      He knew little about the Korrigan, other than that their lands were farther north. And, of course, that they were the current owners of this fabulous chest.

      The ships of his fleet were ingeniously and reliably built. They were constructed of the finest, hardiest oak. Transoms were fixed by iron nails of a thumb’s thickness. And the sails were of leather, impervious to the fire arrows of their many enemies.

      Sturdy and structurally sound, these ships could withstand the harshest conditions, even the fierce storms they regular encountered when plying the surrounding seas. The Veneti jealously maintained a firm control over the lucrative trading in the tin flowing from the mines in Cornwall and Devon that had to be brought across the waters to be landed on the shores of the continent.

      Not that the vast income from this essential and therefore highly profitable enterprise ever satisfied King Cradllaun. Wars are expensive to finance, even when you ultimately emerge from them victorious. And the Veneti were almost endlessly at war because they’d become somewhat blithely accustomed to emerging triumphant.

      Strange, then, that their name, Veneti, means ‘the kinsmen’, or ‘the friendly ones’.

      *

      Across the sea, and to the north of Cornwall, another king ruled far more peacefully.

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