About "The Three Feathers"

I thought I would just start with a summary of "The Three Feathers", my journey as I remember it. I had someone write it for me so it will not be in the first person. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask at the end where it says: comments. By the way, the picture above, is a quick drawing of my good friend Grey and myself after we survived the labyrinth of mirrors and as we travel toward the city of light ruins. What an amazing place that was... You should have been there. Well, hopefully while reading the book you will. But now, without any further ado, here is the synopsis of "The Three Feathers" for you.

"Propelled by a powerful dream, Joshua Aylong, a rooster, sets out on a quest to search for three feathers deep inside a mountain. On his journey he meets others – strangers at first but soon to be friends: Grey, the wolf who had lost his companion to hunters in the Ice Forests; and Krieg, a war horse and last of its kind who desires peace more than anything. Together, they face dangers beyond what they could have imagined as they enter a world of unparalleled menace and beauty. For in order to get to the mountain, they must first pass through Hollow’s Gate, a 50 mile wide, five thousand foot deep gorge where time flows differently and where the laws of nature, as they know them, are suspended. There are labyrinths where friends become foes; lakes so deep they have no bottom; and mythical creatures that have lived down there for a millennium and that are now slowly awakening. The world they enter has its own laws and will try their friendship and endurance to the utmost breaking point.

As they travel deep down at the bottom of Hollow’s Gate, entering an ancient city from which now only ruins are left, they inadvertently trigger the reactivation of a beacon that has been destroyed a thousand years passed. This “beacon” is only called that in the indigenous language of the world they are in. In truth it is one end of a singularity, a wormhole, connecting this world with another. Activating it brings a whole civilization on the other side of the galaxy back to life.  But that is not all.

As legend tells us, there are light dreamers—individuals who stand at the very tip of the pendulum of each civilization to change its direction back toward the balance point. Joshua is one of them even though he doesn’t know it at first. He just follows his dream and in doing so triggers a series of events that could either save or bring complete destruction to not only this world but all the worlds beyond. For each dreamer, by the very dream he has, awakens his dark counterpart—in this case a dead and already partially decomposed Griffon Vulture who, brought back to ‘life’, assembles an army of her own to oppose Joshua, to kill him and to eventually use the beacon to bring death and destruction to all the worlds that lie beyond it.

But there is more, as the true purpose of the dream still lies hidden from Joshua. For he has yet to meet the one he has avoided all his life—the one he is utterly afraid to find. He thought he searched for three feathers on a blackened stone. But buried deep inside him lays a power he has yet to accept as his own. It is the power of the lioness. On their quest, the three friends stumble upon evidence of her existence on several occasions. And just before they enter the final stage of their journey which leads them deep into the mountain, she tells Joshua in no uncertain terms that in order for him to survive this, in order for him to save his friends, this world and many worlds beyond this one, he must summon her; he must reach deep down and bring her to the surface. He must set her free within him—or die…"

Yours always,

Joshua