chapter ONE

chapter ONE

Writer Dave Roman Artist L. Frank Weber Colorist eve Lettering Scott O. Brown title and book design zachary a. Pennington CREATED BY Scott Mitchell Rosenberg

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did you NO, WE'RE IF WE LEAVE OUR hear that? that BEing paiD TO POST, WE COULD GET woman is crying, STAND HERE. fired agaiN. we should check and see--

besides, FATHER KNOWS WHAT he's doing.

About twelve years later COME ON! on the planet Balthous. PUT DOWN THE TEACH HiM FREAK! A LESSON!

URK!

RIIING OOF! RIIIING

UM, YEAH... Sign ups Right, BEFORE begin for infantry ENROLLMENT I'LL enrollment. TOMORROW. SEE YA THEN.

Sign uP Sigh... that boy TO BE USED won't last three FOR TARGET days as a Balthan PRActice. Guard.

later that night.

DOOTAFD A DOOTAFD A DOOTA DOOT, DOOTA DOOT, GOODBYYYE GOODBYE SCHOOL. FENCE.

Doot a YiKES, Doota Doot-- ALMOST FORGOT Goodbye front ABOUT THEM. guards--AFD

I SHOULDN'T ASSUME THEY'LL JUST LET ME WALK OUT THE front door.

This is Tymm. He looks like one But let's hope He was a stowaway, of your kind, so I figure he doesn't slack so we're going to put who better to show him off nearly as much him to work until we Show him the ropes. as you two. reach the Desvair how to feed System. the animals and clean up around here.

Blah! Like Yeah, Myridia? What's Myridia? That's a Ha! we should listen we'd show her What's that? good one…like you don't even Imagine to you. On Myridia that no Balthan know what planet you that. you'd be serving tells us what come from! us! to do!

Come on kid, we'll show you how it works around here.

It's the next solar day, and the circus ship lands on the planet Desvair.

Alright, let's move, people. I want to see all the spheres of the tent assembled You heard by mid-day. the boss. Ten- hut, and all that stuff!

They're here. Oh, sweet They're up to Can you keep an eye Teirogg, it seems something. Wripp and on everything till I come to rely on Taare are counting on me I get back? you more than to spy on them. I'd better OF COURSE. ever. follow that Balthan YOU KNOW YOU con-spir-a-tor. CAN COUNT I just want this ON ME. mission to go off without a hitch.

mission?

Oh and Teirogg, HEH OF COURSE! watch out for that HEH... myridians are good stowaway. He seems at everything. Keep up these kind of nosey. Umm wait… antics, and you'll what do you think be as good as your we're good at exactly? OOPS. Myridian pals. Because I'm not sure if you mean the same stuff as I do.

Maybe it's a trap! look, Could they have followed the show is me here? Maybe Dira ratted beginning. me out! She is a Balthan… I should have known better!

OOOH!

Long ago…before time …trapped in darkness… was documented…there lived those who existed only in shadows… The light of the …their only solace planets fire being in the flame from which their life's blood. they were created.

until something came that took of the fire.

as the flames were consumed, the shadows began to disappear.

GRAB MY tendrils, I'LL TRY AND PULL YOU OUT. CHUNK

ARRGGH, IF I can just use the force of the column to pull you free...

GASP!

HUH?

AS Will I.

GENERAL RAiNG!

to be continued. . . chapter one

Tymm, an orphan raised in an alien circus, discovers that he is the rightful heir to an intergalactic kingdom. In this chapter, Tymm struggles to find his place in the circus, as some of the performers warm up to him, while others question where he came from.

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