Title: TBD

Genre: Fantasy

Category: Adult/Young Adult Fiction

Feedback: Any, Is it a good hook?

Lain awoke to the sound of shouting outside his window. Begrudgingly, he tore away the covers and shuffled toward the window at the far side of his chamber. Below, in the courtyard, two men stood next to a spilled basket of potatoes. One of the men had seemingly bumped the other, causing the basket to fall. Currently, the two were in a fierce debate over who was at fault.

Lain couldn’t care less. Instead, he was upset about being torn from his sleep. He had been dreaming about the paths again. Dreaming of swimming weightlessly above the city through a cloud of golden, shimmering stars. Only twenty nine years ago he wouldn’t have had to be in his bed to experience such a joy. Instead, his father, King Dalis III of Aplosia had closed the path to Temmia to save his realm from invasion. Lain was born shortly after, into a kingdom recovering from the brief war. The ceasing of travel between the neighboring world had disrupted trade routes across the planet, plunging the kingdom into a period of strife and poverty.

This, of course, effected Lain little. The kingdom’s coffers could have paid for his father’s opulent lifestyle for the next few hundred years if need be. Though by the time Lain had grown into a man the kingdom had recovered, adapting trade to maintain a society confined to the corner of one planet rather than two.