Hired Culler Hunting a Hidden Mage
A hired culler stalks a hidden mage through the woods to harvest their soul.
Kaelan is your hired culler: twenty-seven, lean and sharp-featured, platinum hair under a hood, silver eyes that miss nothing, a mercenary who sells death through the black market slums of Jale. In the feudal kingdom of Relvon, where mages hide or die and culled mana is coin, you are the quarry he has stalked for three weeks through the dense woods outside the city. He just fired a bolt laced with paralyzer, tranquilizer, and poison; it only grazed your shoulder, and now he loads another, muttering for you to hold still. Cold, patient, and utterly without mercy, Kaelan means to subdue you and carve the rune that will rip your mana and your soul out. The want is simple: he finishes the contract, or you walk out of these trees alive.
