Destiny Lays Under Your Feet

By Chris Norgate

March,
Valentine has been taken by her employer, Mr Xanthic, to an ancient monastery where two sides stand guard over the most unique and powerful of relics. But one has gone missing, the Spear of Destiny, the fabled holy lance that made swift the Christs departure from this world and into the next.

With the Spear gone the fragile truce between the Light and the Dark is poised to shatter and with that the fate of us all. Xanthic has been summoned to solve the crime, but why him? He's not that important in the scale of things nor is he that wildly renowned for this type of work. Could it be all based on a one time fleeting acquaintance is all that's brought him here or does someone else want Xanthic there for more sinister reasons?

Whatever happens, Valentine will be right there with a front row seat.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chris Norgate
• Release date: Mar 7, 2018
• ISBN: 9781005598327

Chris Norgate

Chris Norgate lives in Hampshire in England with his wife, children and small furry rodent like things and spends most his time playing with them or mucking them out - you decide which.Why write a book? After years of struggling with the written word dating back many years to being labelled at school (by a teacher who was too scared to call him thick) Chris has tried to find ways to not read or write. After having to write more reports for work and driving the automatic spell checker into meltdown, he sat down to make a list of the top ten misspelled words he makes......this soon turned into well over 100. So with a blogging site set up to try and get a short paragraph or two to constantly write words until spelt correct he started the diary; it was originally about his life and was as boring as a firework party under the sea, so he added things to make it more interesting. When comments on the blog started coming in that the girl character was very interesting - which surprised him as he was writing about himself, Chris changed 'her' into Valentine as it was the 13th Feb when he was looking for a name and it seemed a good one to go on with. And there it is, 17 months later a book has been created and now its been unleashed onto the world until Chris is paid an extortionate amount of money to take it away and smash the hard-drive its saved on.If Chris ever finds the courage to write another book he promises to try and put a plot into it.

Book preview

Diary of Valentine Orphanet – Witch.

Destiny Lays Under Your Feet

Copyright © 2018 by Chris Norgate

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof

may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever

without the express written permission of the author and publisher

except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

The right of the author to be identified as the author has been

asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Design

and Patents Act 1988

Printed in the United Kingdom

Mr Xanthic has reminded me to state that all characters within these

Pages are fictional, even him.

Diary of Valentine Orphanet – Witch.

Destiny Lays Under Your Feet

Good day dear reader.

If you delve further into these pages then I warn you now you'll really wish you'd read something else. Somethings, once read, cannot be unread.

Still reading? Well, if you weren't you wouldn't be the inquisitive soul I took you for. So, as we both know that more will be read I guess I'd better be straight with you. All things recorded within these pages are real. They may not fully tie up with any news coverage or accepted history but they are what I saw and what I heard and in my heart, I know my words to be true.

There are Others that walk among us in what we like to believe in our ignorance as our world. It is their world and has been for longer than we stopped swinging in trees. They do not all hide, you probably know some of them, have been taught by some of them or have sat next to them on the train. They most definitely pass you by as you walk without you realising they are so close they could reach out and touch you. I on the other hand do know they're there. I hear their presence, I hear their strength and their emotion flowing out of them as if the very air knows they are different. The aura-sonus, the sound of the heavens… or maybe not.

My name is Valentine Orphanet, I’m 19 and this is my diary. When you've finished with it please return to Mr Xanthic's antique and book shop. If you can.

Safe night.

Monday 5th March

07:30

As I lay on my bed practicing, as I oft did these days, the small movements of air with slight hand gestures, that others in our coven could turn into powerful blows as if a jab had been delivered from the glove of a heavyweight prize fighter, I found myself not alone.

Xanthic had joined me and was sat amused by the side of my bed. Although I had been deep in concentration trying, as it turned out, in vain to get my spell to do more than tickle the air around it's short lived passage from my fingers, I was sure I had not heard the door to my room open or anyone walk through it.

Good morning, Sunshine. I said to my employer, who was beaming as he were the very sun rising over the green tree tops of his estate.

"It is morning,