He was the first murderer. He was never allowed to die.The blood went into the earth, and the earth accepted it without judgement.Cain kills his brother in a field, and God does not kill him back. He is marked instead, made unkillable, and sent east to live with what he has done.Exile teaches him three things. His wounds close. His years stop counting. And there is a hunger in him now that bread cannot touch.So he builds the first city. He fathers a line. He watches the thing inside him pass into his children's blood, and he understands at last that the mark was never protection. It was a sentence with no end.Then the rain begins, and the world he made is taken back.Book I of The First Exile Trilogy, a mythic dark fantasy for readers of literary vampire fiction and biblical retellings. The story continues in The Kingdoms of Dust.
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