My name is Alexander Madigan. I inherited a mansion that�s so old it might have been built before the thirteen colonies existed. I live all alone so I talk to myself and the twelve suits of armor standing in the mansion�s upstairs great hallway. In fact I had just said goodnight to them when right in front of me, so close it touched my toes, popped a thirteenth one. I swallowed down fear before I talked to it.
–I�m not really seeing you, am I? You�re nothing, only a case of loneliness tremors, or something akin to that. So do me a favor, just go away and right now.”
Of course it didn�t. It stayed and began changing colors, slowly at first, until it became a dark violet that radiated heat. Its helmet visor moved upward and two fiery eyes did things to my mind while staring through my skull and out its back end. A knife edge voice electrified the mansion�s air and raked my spine.
–At last we meet face to face.”
That was the beginning of my adventure that took me from modern day Earth and sent me through a dimension door to a medieval Earth.
Science fiction & fantasy